Quality, Reliability, Legacy: What HPE Means to an Early‑in‑Career Associate

Introduction

I was homeschooled as a kid. My three siblings and I all learned at home from my mom, who taught us through a full curriculum. We did math, science, history—your standard classes—and we worked on laptops that my dad had set up for us. I can still remember my old Hewlett Packard laptop; it had a 14‑inch touchscreen display and I loved using it. My dad had even installed SSDs on them, so they ran super fast. Those laptops served us well for years, and even though I've moved on from mine, my mom still uses the same laptop to this day.

That old laptop was my introduction to Hewlett Packard, which would later spin off into its own division, known as Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). I didn't know it at the time, but even before working with the HPE team through our partnership series, I was already acquainted with what HPE stands for: quality, reliability, and legacy. Those traits were my first impression of HPE, and they were only reinforced once the partnership series began.

The WWT Associate Academy

Allow me to lay the foundation for today's discussion. The Associate Academy is World Wide Technology's (WWT) immersive 12‑month development program for early‑in‑career, change‑in‑career, and advanced‑in‑career talent who aspire to become the next generation of WWT professionals. The program focuses on helping selected candidates reach their full potential by providing structured enablement designed to teach the technology and business fundamentals necessary to be successful in technical sales and consulting. Directed by Guy McDonald, the Associate Academy has seen great success in creating the next generations of sales professionals.

Partner Enablement with HPE

Part of the Academy program is our partner enablement series, where we work with valued partners to learn more about their services and solutions, but more importantly, to build relationships. Additionally, we are introduced to teams from both World Wide and our partners who have been driving success for years. In this blog, I am highlighting HPE for the incredible sessions we just concluded with them. Over four weeks, we dived into their portfolio led by Scott Webber, Doug Uthoff, Sam Bohlin, and Cindy Karczewski.

Let's talk about that series. Over those four weeks, we were introduced to many sides of HPE and given a broad look at their services & solutions. Ultimately, we were shown how HPE is *the* global edge‑to‑cloud company, with the technical depth and breadth to back that claim. Throughout the presentations a few key offerings really stood out to me, particularly HPE's GreenLake platform and their Zerto data protection service.

GreenLake: Edge‑to‑Cloud in Practice

HPE GreenLake is HPE's edge‑to‑cloud platform that gives customers a cloud‑like way to consume and manage storage instead of juggling individual boxes and manual workflows. Through the Data Services Cloud Console they can provision, monitor, and protect storage across on‑prem and cloud environments. The console serves as a self‑service interface, turning what used to be multi‑tool tasks into a few clicks.

What stood out to me in our series was how this directly addresses real data challenges: structured database data is only part of the picture, while most enterprise data is unstructured files and media that are harder to organize and search. GreenLake gives HPE a way to scale and govern that data without drowning admins in busywork.

Zerto: Protecting What Matters

Zerto fits into that story as HPE's continuous data protection (CDP) and disaster recovery (DR) solution, focused on keeping critical applications available when something goes wrong. We learned that "backups" can mean anything from simple snapshots to full DR (Disaster Recovery). Zerto goes beyond periodic copies by continuously replicating changes and orchestrating failover so businesses can recover quickly.

Paired with backup platforms like HPE StoreOnce for fast, efficient backups and long‑term retention, Zerto turns strong storage into real business continuity.

Explore HPE Zerto in 2 minutes

Looking Ahead with HPE

HPE brings these services and many others to the table in a way that reinforces their reputation of quality, reliability, and legacy. As a WWT Technical Associate aspiring to build impactful solutions with our partners for our customers, I'm excited to share these capabilities. After getting a closer look at what HPE offers, I hope you feel inspired as well.

Thank you to HPE and the team for bringing this collaboration together. There are only exciting times ahead.

If you'd like to explore more about the partnership, you can visit the WWT HPE partner page.

Meet the author

Hi, my name is Valentino. I joined WWT in July 2025 as a Technical Associate in the WWT Associate Academy, and I'm based out of Gilroy, California.

My professional background includes experience in the U.S. Army, where I worked in satellite communications and held various leadership roles. I also have time outside of the military to pursue cybersecurity through internships and college coursework.

Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with friends and family, playing video games with those people, and seeking personal growth through my community and Christian faith.

WWT is an exciting place for an early-career individual such as myself, and I'm blessed and honored to have a place here. Thank you to my peers and mentors for everything you do.