Hello, and welcome to our day two highlights
show here at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Discover 2023 Las Vegas.
I'm Shibani Joshi
and we have a lot to share with you from a busy day two around HPE Discover.
First up, more exciting news out of Chief Technology Officer
Fidelma Russo's keynote.
We heard from HPE president and CEO Antonio Neri
yesterday sharing new offerings around supercomputing and
AI all available through the HPE GreenLake platform.
Well, day two had Fidelma Russo sharing much
more about the platform and where HPE is investing.
Let's take a listen.
We are playing a prominent role in AI,
leveraging our unique ability to build, supply, and support scalable AI native
architectures led by our long history
of supercomputing leadership and innovation.
So I'm here today to show you how we are doing all
of this and bringing it to you on the GreenLake platform.
Instead of having to buy a supercomputer, of which I'm
sure many of us do not have the budget,
you can now simply subscribe to HPE GreenLake
for Large Language Models as a Service.
And there, you will have access to one
of the most powerful supercomputers in the world
to train your data or leverage our model hub, where you will
have models that are developed and trained by yourself or other people.
Joining me now for more on what Fidelma shared and the
latest developments on HPE's platform and the new offerings available
is Sorin Cheran, Fellow and Vice President of Next Gen Technology Innovation for HPE.
- Good to be with you, Sorin. - Good to be here, Shibani.
I want to start off by talking about what we heard from Fidelma Russo this morning,
building on what Antonio Neri also shared.
There's some exciting new offerings related to HPE GreenLake's platform.
Give us your thoughts on the new capabilities and what
you think they mean for HPE and your customers.
So in her keynote today, Fidelma reinforced and double clicked on
the announcement that Antonio actually made yesterday.
She started by explaining a bit that we started being hybrid by accident.
Most of the enterprises they are generating data from,
from cloud to on-prem to edge.
And then basically, she showed how our platform,
the GreenLake platform is actually hybrid by design.
It's actually, some time back,
we looked and have seen what is actually going to happen.
So basically, she went through a couple of offers today
from the edge, to hybrid cloud, to AI. From the edge perspective,
she talked a bit about the recent acquisitions that they actually have done,
Axis and Athonet. But also the new graphical interface that actually
{inaudible} the CNX.
But then within the hybrid cloud, she basically introduced
our recent acquisition {inaudible}
that enables the GreenLake platform now to be vendor-neutral,
cloud-neutral, multi-tenant, multi-tier, and even more importantly, AI-driven.
So basically, it enables our customers to manage their entire estate
edge to hybrid cloud, no matter where actually they do have the devices sitting
in order to basically become, or be empowered to drive observability
and visibility to end-to-end from the device up to the application level.
So basically, the platform becomes
the platform to be on whenever you are thinking to operationalize your entire IT.
And finally, she also double clicked on the GreenLake
for Large Language Models, HPE GreenLake for Large Language Models
which Antonio announced because it was
about time for HPE to enter the cloud market.
And if you think about it, they actually have the intersection of three things.
We have supercomputing which, you know the acquisition of Cray.
But basically, we have also made a lot of steps within the edge of the platform.
So intersecting all of those things, they are meeting in the point where basically
large language models need these supercomputers to be able to function.
But it is a downside, basically, when you think about sustainability.
So at the end, she actually showed how we can actually empower our
customers to get in control about their carbon emissions,
their energy, their costs in order to make sure that they actually
you are able to keep in control
whatever you're spending to actually change to this large language model.
Great overview there. What do you see as the most important areas for business?
What are they, what should they be focused on in the next couple of years?
And how should they be positioning themselves to address those issues?
So, if you think about the announcement that they made today, I think
the world is hybrid. There is no question about that.
So because the world is hybrid, we let's start there.
It is time to empower your business,
if you're an executive, it is time to empower your business to be able
to see and to manage your entire estate.
You should be able to have private cloud,
you should be able to have edge devices that
can be your retail stores, that can be manufacturing plants,
it doesn't matter what they are.
And you should be able to get in control of your public cloud as well.
So having the right set of tools, it doesn't matter if it is upstream, if it is
other tools that basically allow you
to understand what is going on in your entire estate,
where are workloads failing, why are they failing?
How do I actually go out and
understand why do I have devices that are actually not working?
How do I monitor all my devices?
How do I actually go out and act upon the failures to be able to control them?
So basically managing the entire entrance stack. So
in the past, we used to have either the public cloud, the data center,
where some edge devices in some retail stores, as I was saying,
manufacturing plants, hospitals, what have you,
it is time to bring all of this together
because unless you do so, you're always going
to spend a lot more time on licenses, you're going to spend a lot more
- personnel and IT people and so on so forth-- - Inefficient.
Exactly. So to solve for those inefficiencies, so
being able to solve for that, it's key.
And the second, obviously,
I think most of the businesses
need to start arming themselves, or understanding at
least how this new wave of AI is actually going to affect my business.
We've been talking about it for many years.
Right now, in the past couple of 6 to 9 months, we do have AI that works.
We have AI that actually, if you are using it properly, can basically boost
your efficiency because you actually said that anything
from chat bots or answering
customer support, up to delivering efficiency in your supply chain,
for example. You just need to understand first which use cases you want to use
and then find the right partner to be able to deliver on those. But the time is now.
Great insight, the time is certainly now.
Great insight, great information. Thank you so much, Sorin.
Thanks, Shibani.
The World Economic Forum Strategic
Intelligence platform helps business leaders make
sense of the global trends driving change across every industry.
Victoria Anderson visited the World Economic Forum's demo on
the show floor and spoke with Stephan Mergenthaler,
the Head of Strategic Intelligence, to find out
more about their global cyber security outlook.
Let's take a listen.
Stephan, there's so much going on in the world today.
But what's top of mind for business leaders?
Top of mind this week here at HPE Discover,
but also in our work with business leaders all over the world, right now
it's artificial intelligence.
Everybody is excited, the potential, the transformations.
What we are trying to do with strategic intelligence
is put these issues in a much bigger context.
So people talk about artificial intelligence opening their mind
about the many implications,
influences, interactions with a whole range of different topics,
thinking about AI for what purpose,
what are we trying to achieve with this amazing
technology that is coming to life as we speak?
Thinking about the political dimension,
this technology will have massive effects on how countries interact on
trade and investment. That's another top of mind issue when you talk
to business leaders. And so helping people appreciate this
interconnection of these issues and have an ability to
access knowledge from very different domains and communities,
that's what we're trying to do with this work on strategic intelligence.
You mentioned how all of these different areas
are interrelated or interconnected and they impact one another.
Regulation impacts this as well.
So what is the impact of cyber security regulation?
Well, we're going to talk about cyber security later on a panel.
But we've done a study on cyber security released earlier this year where
we found that actually the majority of cyber leaders,
business leaders, feel that regulation has a positive impact on the cyber posture
in their organization.
And you could say that's counter intuitive. Surely that's a burden to implement these
regulations and that will distract from the
core business of securing the organization?
Again, if you look at that
in that wider context and think about the importance of corporate governance,
the role of boards in actually raising cyber
security as an important priority in an organization,
here, the sense is that actually the fact that
there is much more visibility of these regulations has a
positive effect on how serious boards are treating the topic.
Now, you mentioned how leaders need to take cyber security more seriously.
And HPE sees cyber security as a shared responsibility. And as you know,
you're only as safe as your weakest link.
So how can World Economic Forum's Strategic Intelligence
help leaders mitigate risk, prepare for cyber security threats, and so on?
Yeah, shared responsibility and cyber security
often means operating in a complex ecosystem of partners, collaborators.
And so trust, transparency, and collaboration are key.
And that's really the core of what we are trying to achieve with
strategic intelligence has helped
a whole range of different leaders and executives and organizations
understand the complexity of these issues.
Wow, this is incredible, really insightful. Thank you so much.
There's another global challenge on the agenda at HPE Discover this year.
Here to tell us how data is playing a part in tackling malnutrition around the world
is Florencia Vasta, Program Officer for Food Policy and Finance
at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition.
Good to see you, Florencia.
Good to see you too.
I'm happy to talk to you today because I know this is a far-reaching issue,
an important issue as well.
What drew you to this?
Well, I've been interested in food and nutrition for a long time.
As long as I can remember.
I worked as a neurobiologist earlier in my career and I was researching a lot
about early life undernutrition and its effects on long term health and well being.
And so more and more of the research was telling us
that there's critical periods of rapid growth and development where nutrition,
adequate food and nutrition, are critical.
One of those is, for example, the first 1,000 days of life.
And that's conception to a child's second birthday.
And what the science is telling us is that adequate nutrition is critical.
So, malnutrition during this critical window of growth and development
can have long-term effects on health and well being,
can increase cardiovascular disease risk.
It can increase a child's risk of having cognitive issues later in
life that can impair their learning and school attainment later in life.
It can also reduce productivity. So
to me, this was really impactful and I wanted to do more.
Yeah, and it's a lifelong challenge and if not addressed earlier
can pose a whole slew of health challenges.
Give us a sense for what the scope of the challenge is, and how one tackles it.
So we have various different public
health interventions for addressing malnutrition.
We have made a lot of progress over
the past couple of decades in reducing malnutrition.
So chronic malnutrition and acute malnutrition.
But things like COVID-19, the climate crisis, the war in Ukraine,
this has all set us back in our progress.
It's actually reversed a lot of the good work that we've done.
So we have a lot of work to do still.
But we have different tools in our toolbox and I can tell you a bit about that.
Yeah, well, you gave a tech talk here at HPE Discover,
talking about a new pilot program to help address
those global challenges of malnutrition. Tell us about that program.
Yeah, so like I said, one of the tools that we have,
one of these interventions is called large-scale food fortification.
And large-scale food fortification is an intervention
that essentially adds small amounts of vitamins and
minerals to the food supply which reaches large
proportions of the population in the country.
So it adds vitamins and minerals to staple foods
like rice, wheat flour, maize flour, oil, salt, all commonly consumed foods.
And essentially the food producers are the ones who are
adding these vitamins and minerals directly to the food supply.
And over 140 countries right now have
different programs that fortify staple foods.
And this is meant to address the issue of micronutrient malnutrition,
which as I mentioned in my tech talk yesterday affects now,
we estimate, around three billion people worldwide.
Wow. That is staggering.
Associated with this is the aim to tackle the data along with this.
We know this is a data issue.
How are you leveraging it to address public health issues?
Right, well, in terms of this pilot specifically,
one of the main challenges actually in food fortification
is what we call fortification quality.
So in order to have a public health impact through this intervention,
which is scalable, it's cost effective, we know it works.
If we don't have the right quality of fortification,
meaning if producers aren't fortifying their foods to the standard
set based on the micro nutrient burden in the country,
you won't have the public health impact intended.
So you have to be adding to the right standard set in the nation.
And so one of the problems we have is,
we're seeing under-fortified or unfortified foods in the market.
And so how do we understand where exactly the pitfalls are happening?
Well, we rely on data. So we look for data all across the fortification value chain,
whether it's starting at the quality of the inputs,
which are the actual vitamins and minerals. We can look at that quality.
We can look at the process during food production
where they're adding the micro nutrients to the foods.
If it's lower than the standard, that's a quality issue.
And then we can also look at the market as well.
So the problem is that we know there are stakeholders
collecting data on quality across the entire value chain,
but they're not sharing that data.
And so we don't have a comprehensive view
of fortification quality across the value chain.
So with this pilot program,
we're working with the solution architects here at Hewlett-Packard Enterprises.
Basically, it's a multi sector partnership which is so important in this,
using our nutrition expertise with the expertise in technology
and really partnering here to really develop a system that enables us to
basically collect data on fortification quality
using a multi stakeholder data system.
So with such a large challenge ahead of you, three billion people affected,
and that value chain, as you mentioned,
how do you go about measuring progress and
reaching a goal when the goal is so large?
I think it's really about looking at smaller stepping stones along the way.
So if we can sort of measure our success in different ways,
so how many people are utilizing the data system?
What actions are they taking once they have that data? Are they course correcting?
That's the whole point of this.
We're hoping to increase transparency across the entire value chain using data,
creating more efficiencies in data collection.
If people are using the data
for action, if they're course correcting the quality
and then that leads to improved micro nutrients in the food supply,
then we know that we're having a success.
So measuring these points along our progress, or our sort of impact,
it will really help us understand.
Thanks, Florencia.
- I wish you great success on this important mission. - Thank you so much.
And thank you all for joining us for just a
few of the highlights from day two here at HPE Discover.
You can find much more on the HPE Discover More network,
including our show that goes in depth on
the HPE GreenLake announcement and all the new offerings,
plus day one highlights if you missed it, and much more to come on AI.
Thanks for watching.