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The final day of HPE Discover ended with a clear message of unification and innovation, primarily focusing on Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.s GreenLake cloud platform.

SiliconANGLE Medias livestreaming studio theCUBEs industry analysts Dave Vellante(pictured, right) and Rob Strechay(left) presented a comprehensive final analysis of this weeks event, including an assessment of the significance of GreenLake in HPEs business model. While HPE boasts a strong server and compute business, GreenLake, powered by Aruba Central intellectual property, is currently the crown jewel of the companys portfolio.

HPE used the event to announce large language modelsas a service, a major offering under GreenLake.

HPE is using its supercomputer mojo [from] acquisitionsof Cray and SGI to really try to differentiate and move up the stack a little bit with a cloud-basedoffering, Vellante said.

During theCUBEs exclusive coverage of HPE Discover, Vellante and Strechay discussed how HPE aims to differentiate itself with its cloud-based offering and its emphasis on edge-centric, cloud-enabled, data-driven solutions. (* Disclosure below.)

HPE is simplifying its messaging and consolidating within GreenLake. The emphasis on services as a service, which are readily consumable rather than customizable, signifies a shift toward the cloud operating model. This move is an indication that HPE is adapting to a new era where consumers want an actual application, not just a blueprint, according to Strechay. LLMs as a service is not merely an infrastructure as a service; its designed to be a platform as a service, targeting specific use cases and workloads that require high-performance computing.

Theyre very strong in the knitting of infrastructure, the software they got from Cray and from the acquisitions of SGI, Strechay said. Theyre bringing that know-how of building all of these massive supercomputersthat theyve been building for governments and corporations for years to bear on this LLM space, which has been really key.

Sustainability was another significant theme during HPE Discover. HPE Chief ExecutiveAntonio Neri highlighted the companys efforts in working toward a true science-based net-zero posture. The companys sustainability commitments, unlike many companies greenwashing efforts, are science-certified, meaning theyre independently verified by a third-party scientific community.

One of the key moments of the event was when Neri shared the stage with Matt Wood from Amazon Web Services Inc. Wood, representing AWS viewpoint, said that in the fullness of time, all workloads will move to the cloud. In response, Neri reaffirmed his belief in the hybrid model, which is the core of HPEs strategy.

An intriguing development involved Equinix, with both Dell Technologies Inc. and HPE moving to prepopulate GreenLake inside Equinix. This strategy effectively reduces latency and eliminates the need for companies to build their own data centers and infrastructure, according to theCUBE analysts.

On the open-source front, HPE is doing significant business with Microsoft in the hybrid area. The Azure Stack from Microsoft has not been talked about much, but Azure Arc, its hybrid platform, has seen significant traction.

HPE has also been acquiring small software firms to support its cloud operating model, and according to Strechay, Its a very determined and specific way bringing back software that its really not trying to do everything and be generic software, but how do they support that cloud operating model.

Heres the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLEs and theCUBEs coverage of HPE Discover:

(* Disclosure: This is an unsponsored editorial segment. However, theCUBE is a paid media partner for HPE Discover. HPE, Intel Corp. and other sponsors of theCUBEs event coverage have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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