Modern data tools and analytics workloads may be the key focus for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s Ezmeral software platform, but the primary driver is customer choice.By building a software portfolio of open-source solutions to help organizations capitalize on an edge-to-cloud strategy, HPE believes it is providing options that enterprises value in today’s data-driven world.“It really comes down to giving our customers the choice for the solutions that they want to build,” said Mohan Rajagopalan (pictured, right), vice president and general manager of HPE Ezmeral software at HPE. “Historically we were not known as the stewards of software, especially in the cloud and cloud-native spaces