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Monday, September 12, 2016

Innovation Acceleration: HPE CEO Whitman Set To Rattle Dell, Cisco With Next-Gen Products, Channel Initiatives

Hewlett Packard Enterprise ( #HPE )CEO Meg Whitman laughs when asked how her life has changed from five years ago when she took over what was then a debt-ridden Silicon Valley behemoth with me-too products and a demoralized partner network. "My life is better," she says. Whitman said she is having "way more fun" today running HPE as a smaller, nimble and more agile company with a reignited innovation engine and a charged-up partner community. "I may be the only CEO in America who thinks it is actually fun to have a smaller company as opposed to a bigger company," she said in an exclusive interview with CRN. It's a long way from the dark days of ­five years ago when Whitman took the helm of a $127 billion Silicon Valley dinosaur with $12.5 billion in debt and a future that was at best uncertain. At the time, Whitman, who had made an unsuccessful run for governor of California in 2010, said she took the job to turn around a Silicon Valley crown jewel that had lost its luster. "I believe HP matters—it matters to Silicon Valley, California, the country and the world," she said upon accepting the job.

http://m.crn.com/news/data-center/300082027/innovation-acceleration-hpe-ceo-whitman-set-to-rattle-dell-cisco-with-next-gen-products-channel-initiatives.htm

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