GROWTH Expansion
“We were lucky in that as a technology company, it was becoming very apparent the way out of COVID for many companies is digitization and their digital strategy. So HPE has actually done quite well in terms of helping customers to transform and to help them with their digital transformation,”
HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE (HPE) Next, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), a global edge-to-cloud platform as-a-service company, which celebrates 50 years in Ireland this year, announced its plans to recruit 150 experienced technologists in Ireland over the next two years with jobs in R&D, cyber security, software development and cloud consulting. The company has also named Galway as its European hub for cyber security operations and they will be establishing a new Hybrid Cloud Practice, an element Maeve Culloty, Managing Director of HPE says will be critical when it comes to helping Irish customers accelerate their digital transformation as their new normal continues to evolve. 16
The company, Maeve says, have always been one to pivot as their needs – and those of their customers demanded – and the pandemic has been no different. “We were lucky in that as a technology company, it was becoming very apparent the way out of COVID for many companies is digitization and their digital strategy. So HPE has actually done quite well in terms of helping customers to transform and to help them with their digital transformation,” she said. “That same sentiment goes from a worldwide perspective, and in the last two years, we’ve really worked to ensure that from a global perspective, we continue to be relevant. We really focused on high capability, high complexity work that
requires a highly capable workforce. And that’s what Ireland can deliver on. In 2013, we started the cybersecurity practice out of Galway. We’ve been developing that ever since and been able to expand what that team is doing out of Galway, across Europe. So it’s focusing on those key areas of where the strategy of the business is going. And making sure that we’ve got a workforce that can follow through and deliver against that.” She explains along with their customer buying behaviour changing and accelerating, HPE too, had to change to meet those demands. This is what, she feels, has made the company excel where others may not have. “One of the things that we help our customers with is to build a technology platform that enables their data and apps to live. Now, they’re just looking for access to what that technology can do – they are saying, ‘just give me access to the technology’. And I’ll either run it myself or have HPE run it for me.’ And In this way, change is at the heart of what HPE does. As a brand, we’re constantly changing and providing the roadmap for the future.” “So that means our team, and our people have to move with that pace. And when it comes to digitization, and the Technology Roadmap that’s going to get us out of this, it’s very much part of the HPE DNA to be able to accommodate that and go with that change. We’ve had to understand our own teams, as well as being able to solve the customer’s problem; how do we solve this internally from a physical and mental health perspective?” As to why some companies haven’t or refused to do this during the pandemic, she explains each company needs an energy, a motivation to be able to do that transition. “And if motivation isn’t big enough, and the change doesn’t happen.”
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