Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Senior VP Indirect Sales Kerry Bailey is addressing Ingram Micro ONE attendees right now. Here's a minute-by-minute update for channel partners.
Bailey noted that General Electric is becoming a software-defined company, and Virgin Airlines is an airline with wings. He also reinforced that the world is going hybrid cloud -- not pure public cloud. "And our entire strategy is with you. We're in this together. And we're committed to the software to drive that opportunity."
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Partner Strategy
Within the newly formed Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, the direct sales team will only be paid for the top 500 accounts. Everything else is partner-centric, he asserted. "We're on the move. We fired tons of bullets. Now we're firing cannon balls," he said, in reference to Jim Collins' keynote earlier today.
Bailey assured partners that the Hewlett-Packard Co. company split -- creating Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and HP Inc. -- has gone really well. He pointed to the "idea economy" -- where the window of opportunity to get ideas to market is shrinking. "It's all about the speed at which the customer realizes value."
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's four strategic focus areas include hybrid cloud; protecting customers' digital assets; data-driven enterprises and enterprise mobility for productivity.
Pure Cloud? Nope
While Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is exiting the public cloud market, Bailey attempted to give the strategy context. Cloud adoption is at about 10 percent of the IT market, he asserted. "Everyone take a breath and relax," he says. "We certainly need to move fast, fire bullets and fire a cannonball -- and go after the market together. I don't care how small a company is, it's all about the outcomes created. Not just one time. But all the time."
Going forward, on-premises solutions have to feel like it's a service provider solution. While Amazon and Microsoft will be tier 1 clouds, large service providers could be tier 2, and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise sees channel partners -- the masses -- becoming service providers, he asserts. "When you're making money with us, that's when we success."
Overall, he assured partners that the Ingram relationship and the partner relationships "are family."
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