Author: Connected World

Sometimes the hardest step toward digital transformation is getting started. What’s driving smarter factories? It’s a long list that includes drivers for specific business and “for the greater good” benefits, like better managing/addressing energy and materials consumption, carbon intensity, environmental sustainability, climate change, and public safety. But, in most cases, the economic benefit is the one that trumps all others. The ability for manufacturers to compete—to discover new revenue and market share opportunities while reducing costs and addressing regulation without adding cost—is king, and this is propelling manufacturers’ desire to pursue digital transformation. Jim Davis, vice provost IT for the…

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If it wasn’t clear before, it’s definitely clear now; businesses need to able to be agile in the face of change. HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) wants to help businesses achieve this agility with HPE GreenLake, its infrastructure-as-a-service offering for customers’ workloads—on premises, fully managed in a pay-per-use model at the edge, in colocations, and in customers’ data centers. “Customers are accelerating the digital transformation,” says Antonio Neri, president and CEO, HPE. “They need to be more data first in everything they do, and GreenLake is there as the platform that brings capabilities across edge to cloud in a data-first approach.”…

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