My paternal grandmother Joyce was probably one of my biggest influences. She was bold. She was tough. She was a strong advocate for equality and spoke up for what was right and fair. She was one of 14 children born into a Louisiana Creole family, and as one of its more fair-skinned members, she could have “passed”—meaning she could have assimilated into the white majority to avoid discrimination—but she chose to present herself as a strong black woman.
Grandmama (as we called her) was an educator, and she taught us the importance of education and being kind and respectful to all people. She demonstrated those values in her daily interactions with people at the grocery store, post office, and when she worked with students who were differently-abled. She challenged us at a young age to speak up, to not accept the status quo, and most importantly, to be respectful and learn from people who are different from yourself.
My grandmother reminded us that somebody worked incredibly hard for us to get where we were, and we better not forget that. I never have.
That’s what we do during Black History Month. Every February, we reflect, celebrate, and honor the vital contributions of African Americans who have come before us—in our families, our company, our nation, and our world. HP moves into Black History Month after recently wrapping up our 2nd Annual HP HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Business Challenge. It was a business case competition open to 80+ HBCU institutions, where teams propose solutions to a real-world HP business challenge. Twenty-two schools participated and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams were awarded prizes. It was a great event and serves to strengthen relationships with HBCUs, increase awareness of students about career and intern opportunities at HP, and increase HP’s diverse hiring pipeline. That’s just one of our many actions for impact.
So where does that leave you in February? This Black History Month honor the past by being present with each other. For this month and throughout the year, I want to challenge you—like my grandmother challenged me—to learn. Reach out to someone who’s different from you and learn more about their experiences. Invite them for coffee or tea, listen to a podcast during your daily commute or during lunch, learn more about great African American innovators and the impact they’ve made on society, or support or invest in a Black-owned business or start up. Make a choice to expand your perspective. And be proactive. You are empowered. If you want to get healthy, you don’t wait for someone to hand you vegetables—you get informed, you research nutrition, and you challenge yourself to start exercising!
Don’t wait for someone to hand you a broader worldview. Go get it.
HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) today announced the appointment of Yoky Matsuoka to its Board of Directors. Matsuoka is an accomplished executive and technologist who brings more than two decades of leadership experience to the HP Board. She currently serves as a Vice President at Google’s newly formed health care technology group.
“We are delighted to welcome Yoky to the HP Board of Directors,” said Dion Weisler, President and Chief Executive Officer, HP Inc. “Her pioneering work in fields such as robotics and artificial intelligence has consistently yielded breakthrough innovation across multiple industries. The breadth and diversity of her experience will be a valuable addition to our Board as we continue to execute our strategy for sustainable long-term growth.”
Throughout her career, Matsuoka has held innovation-centric roles in both Silicon Valley and in academia.
Matsuoka joined Google from Alphabet’s Nest business where she served as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to this she was head of innovation and co-founder of Google[X], the company’s innovative research and development lab. She has also served in a senior executive role at Apple and was Chief Executive Officer of Quanttus, a wearable health technology startup.
Matsuoka was an endowed professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington. While at the universities, she founded and directed the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering and served as Director of the Neurobotics Laboratory with a focus on developing robotic devices.
Matsuoka holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley, as well as master’s and doctorate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She is a MacArthur Fellow and has received the Excellence in Achievement Award from UC Berkeley and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
The HP Board of Directors is one of the most diverse of any technology company in the U.S. The full HP Board is listed at HP.com.
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Today at CES 2019, HP introduced a series of bold new product innovations thoughtfully designed for the changing ways people live, work, and play.
HP’s latest products provide powerful new ways for customers to connect, create, and compete – including a stunning new AMOLED display on its premium Spectre x360 15; a lineup of new Elite innovations featuring the next generation of the award-winning Sure View privacy screen; and, the jaw-dropping OMEN X Emperium 65 with Soundbar.
“This is an exciting era of PC innovation, fueled by amazing new experiences across all aspects of our lives. HP is leading the category into the future with beautifully designed devices that reflect personal style, incredibly immersive displays that bring computing to life in vivid detail, and next-level performance, versatility and security that empowers people to connect with confidence from anywhere, anytime,” said Alex Cho, President, Personal Systems, HP Inc. “Whether it’s the beauty of our Spectre lineup and the world’s first 15-inch laptop with an AMOLED display, the industry-leading security features of our latest Elite innovations, or the game-changing additions to our OMEN ecosystem, HP’s CES 2019 lineup is reinventing possibilities for our customers.”
Technology Fueling Modern Lifestyles
As consumers demand devices that proudly express their personal style and offer greater flexibility and performance, HP debuted new design and display innovations within its award-winning Spectre lineup. With 97 percent of customers finding high resolution devices as the most appealing feature on a device7, the HP Spectre x360 15 will be the world’s first laptop with an AMOLED display1, delivering an exceptional display to a dramatically redesigned premium PC. In addition, the award-winning HP Spectre Folio continues to deliver a bold new design aesthetic for PCs in Bordeaux Burgundy and with an optional 4K display8, both options now available exclusively via HP.com.
HP also unveiled a new line of Pavilion displays that immerse users in whatever they are creating or watching. The HP Pavilion 27 Quantum Dot is the world’s first Quantum Dot on glass display2, offering over a billion viewable colors. The HP Pavilion 27 FHD offers a variety of unique features including built-in B&O audio and a pop-up privacy camera, and the HP Pavilion 32 QHD is a dynamic display with immersive QHD resolution and stunning vantage points from almost any angle.
In addition to its PC and display innovations, HP announced complementary accessories. A new, ultra-slim HP ENVY USB-C™ Hub enables pass-through charging to your notebook with two USB-A charging ports as well as an HDMI 2.0 port with 4K resolution support. The company also introduced HP 15.6 Odyssey Backpack, designed for carrying HP laptops in style and available in three geometric color patterns.
Creating the Workplace of the Future
The way people work is changing with more open environments and connections from more places outside the office. Security is more important than ever to protect devices, identity, and data.
As part of this changing landscape, HP unveiled a more secure vision for the workplace of the future with the introduction of the third generation of its immensely popular HP Sure View integrated privacy screen9. New Elite products featuring HP Sure View Gen3 allow new ways of working while protecting sensitive information on the go, at desks, and around the office.
New products include the HP EliteBook x360 830 G5, the world’s brightest business convertible3, bringing x360 versatility mainstream for on-the-go workers. The HP EliteDisplay E243p Sure View Monitor is the world’s first display with an integrated privacy screen4 and instantly creates privacy in open workspaces. The HP EliteOne 800 AiO G5 is the world’s first AiO with an integrated privacy screen5 and packs desktop discrete graphics performance into a space-saving, sleek design.
Enabling Immersive Gaming Experiences
Today’s competitive gamer demands the newest cutting-edge innovations, with 97 percent of performance gamers purchasing devices that are easily upgradeable10, and 71 percent of laptop gamers often connecting to a large screen11. Understanding these key customer insights is what drives OMEN by HP to deliver bold and exciting industry firsts that take gaming to new heights.
The OMEN X Emperium 65 Big Format Gaming Display with NVIDIA G-SYNC® HDR is the world’s first big format gaming display with a soundbar12, taking the living room gaming experience to new and incredible places with a whopping 144 Hz refresh rate13. The display also features the CES Innovation Award-winning OMEN X Emperium Soundbar, the world’s first big format gaming display with a soundbar14. This 120 W marvel of technology comes with LOFAR™ Low Frequency Array, VRT™ Vibration Reduction Technology, and a three-way stereo crossover system – which when combined, negate the need for a separate subwoofer.
HP is also updating two of its best-selling OMEN PCs to take advantage of newest technology available. The latest OMEN 15 Laptop now boasts the option for the world’s first gaming laptop with a 240 Hz display6, the addition of NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 20-series GPUs that delivers a whole new way to experience gaming on-the-go, and optional 802.11ax Wi-Fi15. The newest version of the OMEN Obelisk Desktop goes into overdrive with performance to handle the most rigorous games available. Now capable of up to 64GB of HyperX® Memory, up to NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™2080Ti graphics, up to a 9th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-9900K CPU16, Dual SSD w/ RAID0, and liquid cooling, the OMEN Obelisk is ready for anything.
In 2019, enterprises will focus on accelerating innovation and transformation — HPE experts provide new predictions
Our world has been fundamentally transformed by digital technology. What began with the mainframe and early supercomputers being used to solve isolated, complex functions, has since evolved to solve modern data-driven needs. Challenges that requires a new way of computing that is virtually instantaneous and intelligent, secure, and built for today’s “edge to cloud” requirements.
Today, digital transformation is creating countless possibilities in a world where everything computes and where everyone and billions of connected “things” – devices, cars and homes, workplaces, stadiums, hospitals, and factory floors – shares data. It’s what’s driving us to a faster, more intelligent world.
It’s a world where machine learning and artificial intelligence can help companies make decisions automatically and autonomously. The explosion of connected things creates a wealth of new mobile and IoT-based services and capabilities from edge to the cloud and across the enterprise.
According to IDC, “by 2022, more than 40% of organizations' cloud deployments will include edge computing to address bandwidth bottlenecks, reduce latency, and process data for decision support in real time.” [1]
In 2019, a more edge-centric, cloud-enabled and data-driven enterprise approach, coupled with flexible, consumption-based IT, will ease the burden of administration and enable organizations to focus on revenue generating priorities and new capabilities to accelerate customer innovation and enterprise transformation. HPE experts provide specific predictions for the New Year.
"In 2019, we see two dynamics at play in the Internet of Things (IoT) and at the edge. First, the deployment of enterprise-class IT for edge analytics, enabling the execution of unmodified data-center and cloud applications right at the edge. Second, the physical convergence of IT systems with operational technology (OT) functions -- control systems, data acquisition systems, and industrial networks -- like how the modern smartphone has converged many consumer functions all into a single device. These dynamics are material for realizing the promise of the IoT: to capitalize on the vast amounts of data created by the ‘things’ at the edge, driving automation and creating new customer experiences and business models." – Tom Bradicich, Vice President and General Manager, Converged Servers, Edge and IoT Systems, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
“In 2019, hybrid cloud will be the norm, with organizations using multiple public clouds, private clouds, containers and hypervisors. The only way to respond to this uber hybrid world is to offer an open approach to building solutions and managing environments—an approach anchored by composability. This will provide organizations with the integration and flexibility to address any workload. With increased cloud adoption, the pace of business has changed as well. In 2019, infrastructure automation, and machine learning and artificial intelligence for predictive and proactive operations will be required to achieve agility and keep pace with today’s data-driven businesses.” – Ric Lewis, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Software Defined & Cloud Group, Chief Technology Officer, Hybrid IT, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
“In 2019,mark the year of intelligent storage for businesses. IT decision makers at these companies will utilize intelligence to address their always-on, always-fast requirements, including: Full stack intelligence that predicts issues and resolves them before they become a problem in their data center; the need for a data browser that delivers global visibility to their data assets and enables intelligent placement of workloads and data; and end-to-end data lifecycle management that is context-aware and effortless. The new year will also mark the adoption of storage class memory that extends the acceleration and consolidation value of all-flash arrays to even the most demanding workloads that require ultra-low and predictable latency.” – Milan Shetti, General Manager, HPE Storage, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
“In 2019, the global race to exascale will be in full-swing and we’ll see multiple procurements announced, revealing a plethora of technologies, integrators and even sites for hosting exascale systems. Storage-class memory, flash-based filesystems, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), ARM microprocessors and even custom ASICs, will have a home in exascale solutions. While still in its infancy stage, software will be recognized as a key investment area to capitalize on the scale of exascale. As for more traditional vendors and technologies, we may see their support being scarce in addressing the drive for solving some of the world’s toughest problems, as we anticipate more use cases to emerge.”– Bill Mannel, Vice President and General Manager, HPC and AI, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
In addition to machine intelligence from modeling and simulation, based on rules and laws of physics, we will also see HPC cycles being increasingly dedicated to machine learning in 2019, based on consuming large amounts of data examples.” – Eng Lim Goh, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, HPC and AI, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
“Reducing the risks caused by the massive introduction of IoT devices on the network will be a top priority for organizations in 2019. Securing and managing IoT devices to support business requirements is a top concern for business and technology leaders, along with stopping advanced threats, as hackers continue to get more sophisticated. The challenges will lie in effectively adopting these innovative new technologies, without putting corporate data at risk or burdening IT teams.” – Keerti Melkote, President, Intelligent Edge for HPE and Senior Vice President and General Manager, and Founder of Aruba Networks
“In today’s pay-as-you-go world, consumption-based IT is the single trend emerging that impacts the offices of the CEO, CFO, CIO, and the VP of Product Development. This economic model resonates broadly across the enterprise as the benefits are tangible with consumption-based IT on premises and managing cloud consumption. When businesses pay only for what they use – they achieve close to 100% economic utilization. Across their organizations, they can quickly deploy IT to support new projects, new businesses, and new customers. Consumption-based IT provides businesses with personalized attention, enables them to eliminate some of the ‘heavy lifting’ necessary to operate IT, and allows them to focus on growing their own enterprise.
But at our current rate of consumption, we need about 1.7 Earths in order to provide all of the resources we expend on an annual basis.
Given the challenges our planet faces today due to energy and resource consumption, further exacerbated by population growth, the concept of sustainability – in order to truly live up to its name – must be more comprehensive than perfunctory efforts. Indeed, we must bend the curve from a take-make-dispose model to a regenerative and restorative system that eliminates waste through the superior design of materials, products, and business models.
That approach is the foundation for the Circular Economy, a sustainability paradigm with the ultimate goal of creating net-zero impact by addressing every phase of the product lifecycle: from resource extraction to product design and use, through to end-of-use management.
When Circular Economy principles are embraced, it’s good for both business and our planet. While environmental disruption creates vulnerabilities from material scarcity or fluctuating commodity prices; actively managing our consumption creates infrastructure efficiencies, opportunities for innovation, and business resilience. We fully believe that at HPE– as we announced today with the release of our new Circular Economy Report – we can help organizations drive financial and business results with efficient solutions that maximize material, resource, and equipment efficiencies for IT infrastructure.
At HPE, we are following Circular Economy principles as we innovate the IT infrastructure of the future, not simply because of the environmental and societal benefits but because it is a strong driver for economic growth.
As we indicate in the Circular Economy Report, which is available to HPE Financial Services Lease Return and Asset Upcycling Services customers, HPE is able to provide IT and sustainability organizations with information about the carbon, energy, material, and landfill savings achieved by returning retired or end-of-use assets to us for processing through HPE Technology Renewal Centers.
Specifically, the report, based on sophistical life-cycle-analysis and economic assessment, shows a breakdown by category of the IT products that were refurbished, remarketed and reintroduced into the economy as products, and those that were recycled and put back into the economy as recycled materials.
This is important information for organizations to share, especially as investors and customers increasingly request the disclosure of a company’s environmental impacts. But even more important than the information is the message behind it:
That we have the capability to find new ways to manage the explosive demand for data by using far less space, materials, and energy.
Intelligent storage: Unlocking your data’s potential
Data creation is following an exponential growth curve, doubling each time it’s measured. It’s created in more places than ever and in amounts bigger than previously conceived. This explosion of data is bringing with it a mountain of challenges, but also a wealth of opportunities. With the right tools, analysis of this data can provide insights to drive business forward. Those who use AI and analyze big data correctly can become more efficient and more competitive. They can attain new customers, discover new sources of revenue, and find new business models. Those who don’t will get left behind; they’ll only get missed opportunities from their data.
In light of the dawn of big data, technology companies are offering vastly greater storage capacity coupled with improved servers. On top of this, there are open source programs with analytics and machine learning software available for all. Companies also have cloud services enabling an almost unlimited volume of data to be stored, so why isn’t IT thriving? IT is struggling under the weight and volume of such huge systems. The complex nature of the new capabilities is leading to insufficient operations, escalating costs and lost opportunity.
It’s not just the volume of data that’s causing inefficiencies, it’s also a problem of place. Data is being stored in private on-premises clouds and in the public cloud. Furthermore, it’s increasingly being created at the edge. This data must be transferred, analyzed and readily available when and where it’s needed. Current solutions weren’t designed and aren’t prepared for this hybrid cloud environment. They can’t efficiently sort the data and move it between the hybrid cloud, edge and data centers while maintaining security and privacy. The plethora of variables disrupt and slow the process, resulting in downtime, displacement and a situation where administrators spend time trying to control the system failures, rather than planning and improving data storage and access.
Intelligent storage helps unlock data’s full potential
HPE intelligent storage is self-managing, self-healing and self-optimizing, offering as-a-service storage solutions which facilitate efficiency and drive business outcomes while reducing costs. The AI-driven HPE InfoSight learns from the data it can access globally, allowing it to make insights based on huge amounts of information. This benefits everyone using it as the insights are made in one place, but drive solutions that can be implemented anywhere. HPE Cloud Volumes is built for the cloud, allowing users to access their data when and where they need it, no matter where it lives. It delivers the data mobility that is now a necessity in the hybrid cloud reality. HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity is a consumption-based, pay-per-use solution, reducing costs while also providing for any unpredictable growth in data. It simplifies storage operations, allowing businesses to focus on their goals, knowing data and insights are there when they’re needed, no matter the size of data input.
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HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) announced today that Kim Rivera, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, has been named President, Strategy and Business Management, effective January 1. She succeeds Interim Chief Operating Officer Cathie Lesjak who previously announced she will retire in early 2019.
Rivera is a proven leader who has spent her career working with Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries managing an array of business, strategy, risk and legal disciplines. She joined HP in 2015, responsible for all aspects of legal, government relations, compliance and ethics. In her expanded role, Rivera will now also lead the company’s Strategy and Business Management organization.
“Since joining HP, Kim has proven herself time and again not only as an expert in legal and policy areas, but as an essential advisor to our business and regional leadership team and Board of Directors. Her understanding of the entire organization combined with her ability to thoughtfully navigate highly complex issues have added tremendous value to our business,” said Dion Weisler, HP President and Chief Executive Officer.
Prior to HP, Rivera held a variety of positions including: Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary for DaVita HealthCare Partners; Chief Compliance Officer and Head of International Legal Services at The Clorox Company; and Chief Litigation Counsel for Rockwell Automation as well as General Counsel for its $2B Automation Controls and Information Group.
Rivera is a recent recipient of the Burton Legends in Law award as well as Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession Award for Professional Excellence. Her bio is available here.
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