HPE has picked up the pace on its innovation charge in the past several months with a major Nimble all-flash product refresh, advances in SimpliVity, and the recent acquisition of software-defined networking fabric provider Plexxi.
Stockholders opposed a plan that resulted in more than $36 million of stock awards being granted to Qualys' top five executives in 2017, with more than $22 million going to CEO Philippe Courtot alone.
"With this investment we are accelerating our ability to innovate even faster," said Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri in his first Discover keynote since taking the helm on Feb. 1.
The software giant is close to consolidating its full stack of services in its second-generation bare-metal data centers, and delivering voice interfaces to its Fusion portfolio of business solutions
Cylance said the money should help increase market share, extending its breadth of product offerings, and further expanding the company's footprint across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
Keerti Melkote, co-founder and president of HPE's Aruba networking business, says the next five years will be critical for solution providers as customers get serious about digital transformation.
"I don't think any of our competitors right now have an integrated solution that lets you use a very common look and feel dashboard that lets you manage wired, and wireless," said Trent Fierro, HPE Aruba director of software solutions marketing.
HPE Aruba is unveiling its SD-WAN solution this week at the company's annual Discover conference and Aruba co-founder Keerti Melkote said the company developed its solution not as a product, but as part of a broader, integrated platform.
"If they rationalize their midrange portfolio and truly commit their go-to-market with the channel – that's game over," said Michael Girouard, EVP of enterprise sales for Teklinks.
HPE is billing the new turnkey managed service as the "industry's only comprehensive cloud management service" with performance optimization, cost controls, security and compliance.
Jeff Sharritts has been Cisco senior vice president of U.S. sales for the last four years. His appointment to the top Americas sales job was made by global sales leader Gerri Elliott.
Executives and product leaders at Google, Cisco, Juniper, AT&T, Avnet, Cambium Networks and Comtech tell CRN where the next big opportunities are in the Internet of Things market.
HPE has unveiled an interactive digital marketing maturity assessment tool that measures the digital marketing proficiency of partners versus their peers.
Big data company also launches Hortonworks Data Platform 3.0, offering containerization for more easily moving applications and workloads to cloud platforms.
"With an appliance model you have to essentially repurchase that software license every time you refresh. With Maxta, you can refresh as many times as you want," said Matxa CMO Barry Phillips.
