One month into its new life as an independent firm, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) held its first conference, Discover 2015, in London. The highlights were a mobile-first enterprise platform from WiFi subsidiary Aruba, and a suite of products called Edgeline, which allow significant proportions of IoT data to be processed and filtered near its source via gateways at the edge of the network. Both these flesh out HPE’s strategy of collecting, sharing, analyzing and managing all the rising tide of data that an enterprise or vertical organization produces. That involves integrating network, hardware and software offerings into a single framework which, while supporting open standards for connectivity, data formats and SDN (software-defined networking), still makes it very hard for a…