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HPE’s Strategy for Battling Amazon and Google: Don’t

Antonio Neri, CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, says he’s betting on a hybrid model that will let him coexist with the public cloud barons.

Neri started in Hewlett Packard’s customer service department in 1995, and succeeded Meg Whitman as chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2018. He’s also on the boards of HPE and health insurer Anthem Inc.
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By Carol A Massar and Jason Kelly

July 16, 2019 at 11:00 AM UTC

Corrected

July 16, 2019 at 2:13 PM UTC

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This article is part of the July 22, 2019 issue of businessweek.

Since 2015, when HP split into HPE (networking and consulting) and HP Inc. (PCs and printers), Neri has helped define the enterprise business’s scope, leading key acquisitions and the development of advanced servers while shuttering underperforming product lines.

The cloud has to move closer and closer to where the data is being generated. It’s cheaper to move the cloud to where the data is, not the data where the cloud is, so we promised last year, at HPE Discover in Las Vegas, to invest $4 billion to develop that set of road maps and technologies.