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Addressing an audience of IT leaders at HPE Discover in June, HPECEO Antonio Neri said: &More and more of you tell me that you don&t want to spend resources managing your infrastructure, whether itat the Edge, in the cloud or in the data center, legacy or cloud-native. You just want to focus on your applications data and your business outcomes.&

Ita straightforward observation, and one that resonates with companies struggling with tight budgets, increasingly complex IT environments, and limited in-house skills.

But HPEresponse to this market need is truly momentous. It will reshape not only HPE itself, but the industry at large & and it may well transform how your company consumes IT. Antonio continued: &I am making this commitment to you: In the next three years, HPE will be a consumption-driven company, and everything we deliver to you will be available As a Service. We are defining the next chapter for the IT industry.& (See ourpress release to learn how HPE will offer its entire portfolio as a Service by 2022.)

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If thereone thing that midmarket companies pride themselves on & and rightly so & ittheir agility. Many mid-sized organizations remember the excitement of their start-up days and still foster the entrepreneurial spirit of those times. Looking forward, they see very real opportunities for expansion by pushing into new product lines and exploiting market opportunities that the bigger players may have overlooked.

But midmarket companies& IT departments can&t always provide the flexibility to cash in on those opportunities. Procurement of IT infrastructure is often a drawn-out process, installation is time-consuming, and management may balk at the upfront expense. Capacity planning is tricky. Letsay you launch a successful sales campaign in a new region, which results in a sudden surge in demand & but then you find that you&re pushing up against your capacity limits for compute and storage and running into performance issues. Or perhaps your workloads have grown over the years to the point where building a data center, or expanding your current one, makes sense. But then you&re likely looking at significant upfront costs, not only for the IT assets, but also for the facilities footprint.

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