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HPE chief exec Antonio Neri reckons what the corporate world really wants is to have a nice cloud "experience," which is an interesting way of saying "please, please, buy our cloud-as-a-service". In a mostly unremarkable keynote speech at this week's HPE Discover knees-up in Madrid, Neri informed attendees that his firm is " …

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  1. Mayday
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    "please, please, buy our cloud-as-a-service".

    Interesting trying to run such an event (albeit on different continents) the same time as the AWS show.

    Personally I'd go to neither, but that's just me.

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  2. Youngone Silver badge

    Customers

    "Customers really like consumption-based pricing," he said. "You can have a cloud experience in private cloud, public cloud. What our customers want is that cloud-like experience with consumption-based pricing, with security, with financial visibility and transparency.

    I'm not sure they do, but then I wouldn't expect anyone from HPO to really know what their customers want.

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    1. RollTide14
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      Re: Customers

      No, Wall Street really loves consumption models. If all customers loved consumption models then something like Reserved Instances wouldn’t exist

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      1. cs9
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        Re: Customers

        "Wall Street really loves consumption models. If all customers loved consumption models then something like Reserved Instances wouldn’t exist"

        A bit like responding to the statement of "consumers love shoes" with saying "No! Wall street loves shoes! If consumers loved shoes, something like gloves wouldn't exist!"

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    2. Stress-tester-of-IT
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      Re: Customers

      "Customers really like consumption-based pricing,"

      Customers "might" like it when it actually saves them money. HP likes it when it doesn't, and it likely won't. FTFY

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