慧与CEO梅格•惠特曼即将卸任

慧与（Hewlett Packard Enterprise）的首席执行官梅格•惠特曼即将结束六年的任期，卸下职务。在此期间，她带领的转型计划并未取得太大成效。

接替惠特曼的将是慧与的现任总裁安东尼奥•奈里。他将从明年2月1日起成为公司的首席执行官和董事会成员。

惠特曼在一份声明中表示：“我为自2011年加入惠普以来所取得的成就感到无比自豪。现在是安东尼奥和新一代领导层执掌慧与的时候了。我对他们信心十足，相信他们将能够继续建立起一个伟大的公司，慧与将在未来茁壮成长。”

惠特曼领导的慧与经历了一段动荡时期，随着云计算的兴起，这家数据中心硬件厂商表现挣扎。亚马逊（Amazon）和微软（Microsoft）等云计算提供商根据需求出售计算资源，这使得公司购买自己的数据中心的需求遭到了挤压。

为了更好地在不断变化的信息技术行业展开竞争，惠特曼引导着惠普（Hewlett Packard）拆分成了两个公司。慧与继承了原公司的数据中心业务，而惠普公司（HP, Inc.）则继承了个人电脑和打印业务。

把一家历史悠久的硅谷科技巨头拆分成两家市值数十亿美元的公司，是一项巨大的工程。她的理念是这样可以创造出两家规模更小、更加灵活的公司，从而在不断变化的科技领域更好地竞争。

惠特曼之前曾担任在线商城eBay的首席执行官。

作者：Jonathan Vanian

译者：严匡正

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman is stepping down following a six-year tenure during which a turnaround plan she championed failed to gain much traction.

Replacing Whitman will be HPE’s current president, Antonio Neri. He will become the company’s CEO and board member on Feb. 1.

“I’m incredibly proud of all we’ve accomplished since I joined HP in 2011,” Whitman said in a statement. “Now is the right time for Antonio and a new generation of leaders to take the reins of HPE. I have tremendous confidence that they will continue to build a great company that will thrive well into the future.”

Whitman has led HPE during a time of turbulence, as the data center hardware maker has struggled amid the rise of cloud computing. Cloud computing providers like Amazon and Microsoft sell computing resources on-demand, which eliminates some of the need for companies to buy their own data center gear.

To better compete in a changing IT industry, Whitman oversaw Hewlett Packard’s splitinto two companies. Hewlett Packard Enterprise inherited the original company’s data center business, while HP, Inc. took over the personal computer and printing business.

It was a massive undertaking to cleave one of Silicon Valley’s long-time technology giants into two multi-billion companies. The idea was that by creating two smaller, more nimble companies, they would be able to better compete in the changing technology landscape.

Whitman was previously CEO of online marketplace eBay.