Despite ventures into services and solutions, some still see HPE struggling to find its bearings outside hardware. Will the legacy company always be playing catch-up with the trendy cloud and SaaS vendors? Or could its ambitious move into Internet of Things see them take the lead in that sphere?

Tom Bradicich, Ph.D., VP and GM, Server and IoT Systems, at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., said that IoT is an area where HPE is not simply following the crowd. He spoke to Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Paul Gillin (@pgillin), co-hosts of theCUBE*, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during HPE Discover EU about “the intelligent edge.” (*Disclosure below)

“The intelligent edge would be effectively a super set of the IoT. The IoT has edges, and edges are places,” he explained, adding that these places might be windmills, campuses, etc.

The three Cs

Bradicich said that HPE’s Edgeline IoT system brings computing or “intelligence” to the edge with the “three Cs.” First is connectivity of various types. “Edgeline system [includes] connectivity to things through data acquisition technology,” he said.

Second is computing, and he said that this is where HPE is a first mover. “We’re taking unprecedented levels of proven HPE enterprise technology in computing out to the edge,” he stated.

Third is control, which Bradicich said is overlooked by many in IoT. He added that it is essentially combining operations technology or OT (like factory control tech) with IT. “That control physically can reside at the edge in HPE offerings,” he explained.

A fourth C?

Bradich said if there were a fouth C, it would be convergence. He used the example of a smartphone, which is able to perform so many tasks through convergence of technologies. “What about convergence of all the disparate systems, data acquisition, control systems computing” and so on, Bradich said. “That’s the Edgeline converged edge system proposition.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of HPE Discover EU. (*Disclosure: HPE and other companies sponsor some HPE Discover EU segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE. Neither HPE nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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