HPE customers on agentic AI: No, you go first

HPE envisions a future where customer systems are filled with its agentic AI products, but reactions from the HPE Discover show floor in Las Vegas this week suggest the company has a way to go to convince folks to buy in. We spoke to a number of HPE customers following CEO Antonio Neri's agentic AI-focused keynote, and while …

[Pascal Monett]

"a lack of explanation of data privacy rules"

Why is it so difficult to understand ?

Data Privacy. My data is mine, not yours. I might be willing to give you the right to store it for my purposes, but just like my wife, you don't touch it.

There. Is that so difficult to get ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Agentic has big work to do

I don't know anyone that's even trying it yet, most are still figuring out plain old AI and how that can add benefit. Bit it's point solutions at the moment. Not process and not workflow. Even point has issues where it breaks, fails, goes mad. Agentic is 3yrs away I'd guess

[OhForF']

Liability

As long as HPE or whoever is providing an agent is not responsible and liable for any problems caused by the agent I'm not interested in having that agent do work in my name with my reputation and money on the line.

[ecarlseen]

Do we need to move the HPE logo to the left of The Register logo on these articles?

The whole article is "we found one whole customer who's excited," then ends with ya'll better start FOMOing harder or, you know, you might experience the same kind of regret that companies that didn't push everything into the cloud are feeling now, what with having far more control over their systems' feature stability, costs, and downtime.

[Paul Crawford]

So has HP's sales teem been replaced by these super efficient agents?

If so, how is it going? Profitable yet?