“HP is doing just fine”
Steve DeWitt, HP

The dichotomy that is HP the company, and HP the company – yes, confusing. I know! – is the seeming total disconnect between HP the innovative, responsive, and responsible corporate entity, and HP, the company with the publicly, and privately dysfunctional board of directors couldn’t be more stark.

Whenever I go to an HP event (Disclosure: I go to a LOT of HP events, either as a partner or as an embedded blogger), I talk to a lot of HP staffers.

Either on or off the record, these people are passionately engaged in delivering the best products they possibly can to their partners for eventual consumption by their end users.

This week’s GPC, it what was served at the press briefing this morning is any indication, will be no different.

At the presser, HP’s BU leaders from Storage, Converged Infrastructure, Networking, Services, Financial Services, and Servers announced new products and solutions that are available now.

From BYOD to Big Data, from analytics to performance servers, and from financing those same products to making all products act together holistically, HP is again at the vanguard of innovation.

It is impressive. And after taking the time to delve into the meat of the announcements, so to speak, I will let you know if I am impressed.

Now, off to lunch. Then the keynotes.

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