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… SeekingAlpha.
“In sum, we don’t see a bright future for HPE, primarily because of workload migration to the public cloud, but also because of the hyper-scale and service provider customer segments, which are increasingly unwilling to do business with HPE.(emphasis added) The migration of workloads to public cloud service providers will likely deter companies from increasing investment in on-premises data centers, which means that less infrastructure supplied by HPE will hit the market.
HPE is still a leader in servers, but we still expect cutthroat competition here. The company lacks the size and scale of industry …

… of July 2nd 2021.
Over five years after this article was written, we find that this is one of the least accurate predictions we have ever made. SaaS vendors moved away from making their applications available to test, and many SaaS vendors are pretending they are SaaS but are not. Lock-in is still the name of the game, particularly for the largest vendors. The cloud service providers like AWS and GCP do allow people to spin up resources that are priced by the hour and minute, but this is more for infrastructure and has little impact on most applications.