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Screen Shot 2014-02-20 at 3.09.48 PMMoving a company forward takes confident leadership. But that confidence can manifest itself in all parts of the organization, says HP CEO Meg Whitman. In fact, it can start with IT.

Whitman envisions HP as a company that can draw from its legacy of engineering innovation to deliver a converged server, networking and database infrastructure that can run on public, private and managed clouds.

Screen Shot 2014-02-25 at 12.10.16 PMBusinesses need this more flexible, virtual way of delivering IT services because they can’t afford to run their IT departments the way they did in the past.

Whitman points out that today, the economy creates more data in just two days than it did from the beginning of time to 2003. And making sense of that data remains a top priority for companies, says research group Gartner, which recently reported that 64 percent of companies are investing in or plan to invest in Big Data technology, compared with 58 percent in 2012.

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