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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News. Welcome back to Bloomberg Tech.

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Speaker 1: Let's get straight to earnings now, because shares of HPE

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Speaker 1: they are training higher throughout this morning. The company reporting

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Speaker 1: fiscal third quarter earnings, but did show operating margin in

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Speaker 1: the server unit had narrowed. But the CEO an Tonio

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Speaker 1: and Neery on the call telling investors, look, it's going

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Speaker 1: to return to roughly ten percent by the end of

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Speaker 1: the current period. Well, now we've got him here to

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Speaker 1: explain a little bit more. HPE CEO Antonio Niry. We

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Speaker 1: get into how you're building out this business, how Juniper

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Speaker 1: adds to the networking side, but for now, the AI systems,

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Speaker 1: this server unit, Howard, is profitability to improve.

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Speaker 2: Well, good morning calleran, thanks for having me. We are

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Speaker 2: very pleased with our quarter. It turned out to be

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Speaker 2: very solid with record breaking performance on revenue and we

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Speaker 2: expand the profitability sequentially. And to your around the service segment,

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Speaker 2: we deliver what we say we will do. But most importantly,

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Speaker 2: our traditional server business returning to a historical level. And

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Speaker 2: so when I think about you four, we're going to

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Speaker 2: see a return to approximately ten percent for the quarter

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Speaker 2: because of the momentum in traditional servers, which by the way,

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Speaker 2: group double digits here over here, and the balance of

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Speaker 2: AI mix between sovere and an enterprise which now represents

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Speaker 2: more than fifty percent of our orders compared to the

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Speaker 2: service providers.

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Speaker 1: So the AI serve a bit is that set to improve?

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Speaker 1: How well broadly is the AI system's profitability improving as

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Speaker 1: we see this monumental buildout of infrastructure.

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Speaker 2: Well, as I think about the AI servers, I think

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Speaker 2: it is important character to think about different customer types

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Speaker 2: and how we participate in each of the segments. Should

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Speaker 2: we think about the service providers and the hyperscals and

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Speaker 2: the model buildings where a lot of the capital expenses

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Speaker 2: are taking in place. To your point, we are now

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Speaker 2: going to lead with networking for AI. We are extremely

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Speaker 2: pleased we close the Juniper transaction. Junior is already a

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Speaker 2: reference in many of those buildouts, and that's where how

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Speaker 2: we're going to lead in that particular segment of the market.

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Speaker 2: And we're going to sell the server compute platforms with

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Speaker 2: our partner. What makes sense from a profitability perspective, But

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Speaker 2: what we saw in the last couple of quarters in

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Speaker 2: particular discorders sovereign and neo clouds and enterprise now represent

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Speaker 2: more than sixty percent of the market. There, we participate

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Speaker 2: in a slightly different approach which the market profile is different.

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Speaker 2: We lead with a rack scale integrated architecture for the

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Speaker 2: sovereign space, and we lead with an integrated solution for

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Speaker 2: enterprise enterprise group for the seventh consecutive quorder, and we

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Speaker 2: double the number of logos. And then in sovereign we

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Speaker 2: want some marquete deals in the Middle.

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Speaker 3: East, Antonio, that might be the answer. Actually, I study

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Speaker 3: the traditional server business and the storage business, and you're

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Speaker 3: doing better than your peers Dell NetApp. But why are

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Speaker 3: the dynamics better for you when you have these analogous

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Speaker 2: Is multiple things. At first, in the enterprise traditional server,

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Speaker 2: we see a refreshed cycle taking place for age infrastructure

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Speaker 2: We did a fantastic job in really hitting the sweet

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Speaker 2: through WORLDD optimization. And so now as we go to

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Speaker 2: ability to attach services is much higher. As I go

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Speaker 2: to the storage business, we really transform the entire industry

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Speaker 2: in my mind by deploying a consistent architecture, whether it

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Speaker 2: think that's what's resonating in the market. Butten we have

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Speaker 3: Those are the things specific to you, Antony, would you

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Speaker 3: give me an outlook for enterprise IT spending And because

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Speaker 2: I was based on our pipeline, first of all, is

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Speaker 2: demand will continue to be there. Every enterprise have to

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Speaker 2: same time, there is a way to modernize the legacy

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Speaker 2: the outlook and with Juniper, that outlook becomes even stronger

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Speaker 2: because now we have a complete portfolio networking that makes

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Speaker 1: And you're expecting to cut costs. I think with seeing

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Speaker 1: that combination. Antonio cost savings are necessary for many businesses

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Speaker 1: right now, as you think about some of the pressure

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Speaker 1: implicating your business.

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Speaker 2: Right now, you have to have a mindset of continuously

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Speaker 2: transform the company. That's a fact, and you know the

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Speaker 2: future belongs to the fastest said all the time. But

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Speaker 2: the at least six hundred million dollars in synergies is

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Speaker 2: related just to the Juniper transaction, and I re iterated

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Speaker 2: to optimize our portfolio, continue to optimize the workforce, and

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Speaker 2: aggressively deploy this set of technologies. Another quarter is not

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Speaker 2: just acustic out is a way to improve experiences and

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Speaker 2: very encouraged about what we're seeing and Juniper actually give

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Speaker 3: Here, Antonio, I ask you this every quarter, how is

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Speaker 3: the relationship in partnership with Nvidia? But is Jensen one?

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Speaker 3: We'd see it right for the supply chain and the partners.

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Speaker 3: They give great visibility to future iteration as a product right,

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Speaker 3: they commit to the annual cadence of new GPU. They're

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Speaker 3: increasingly involved in the networking through Envy Link. Is anything

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Speaker 2: We have a fantastic strong partnership at the company level

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Speaker 2: If I need something, he picks the phone and we chatted.

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Speaker 2: provide an integrated solution for our enterprise customers. That's a

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Speaker 2: testament how you co engineer despite the fact a lot

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Speaker 2: and Vidia does not participate into that. Our major competitors

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Speaker 1: I'm interested by the adoption and generator of AI by

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Speaker 1: benefits your share price, which is near a record high, Antonio,

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Speaker 1: But how is it benefiting your employees or indeed, how

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Speaker 1: are the pilot's running because there's been a lot of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's fair to say Carol and from

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Speaker 2: And my view is that agent KI will transform business

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Speaker 2: as a company, we are deploying agent KI across finance.

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Speaker 2: put of a concept. We have deployed more than sixty

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Speaker 2: Carolund and that's fine, and the mentality there needs to

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Speaker 3: Antonio, you've been CEO since the start of twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 3: Where does HPE sit today relative to your big vision

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Speaker 2: When I became CEO, I had a vision to be

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Speaker 2: And obviously now the next move was the acquisition of

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Speaker 2: Juniper to make this company a networking centric company, because

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Speaker 2: I believe the next AI era here is the convergence

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Speaker 2: we will run as an enterprise, and that to me

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Speaker 2: is the core foundation that have been envisioned for our

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Speaker 2: company going forward, and on our core foundation, we deliver

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Speaker 2: the best cloud and AI experiences so is continued to

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Speaker 2: be shaped. I'm very pleased with the progress, but let's

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Speaker 2: not forget it's not just the division itself. It's how

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Speaker 2: you execute with a culture, and I said the values

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Speaker 2: that makes us unique. And HP has been recognized also

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Speaker 2: come and work by many surveys and magazines and institutions.

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Speaker 2: So my view is that we are are shipping the future,

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Speaker 2: but ultimately is about delivering showholder value and we are

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Speaker 2: the value accelerated for our shareholders and be relevant to

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Speaker 2: our customers in this new environment we live in.

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Speaker 3: I should have just asked you if your stock price

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Speaker 3: is undervalued. Antonni ANDERI President and CEO of HPE. Will

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Speaker 3: leave it there, but a really robust conversation, Thank you

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Speaker 3: very much,