Dec 03, 2019 / 04:55PM GMT
Matthew Normand Cabral - Crédit Suisse AG - Research Division - Research Analyst
All right. I think we're going to go ahead and get started. So my name is Matt Cabral. I cover IT hardware here at Crédit Suisse. And I wanted to say thank you to Tarek Robbiati, CFO of HPE, for joining us. So thanks for making the trip on out.
Tarek A. Robbiati - Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company - Executive VP & CFO
Good morning, Matt. And thank you very much for hosting it.
Questions and Answers:
Matthew Normand Cabral - Crédit Suisse AG - Research Division - Research AnalystYes. I think maybe just to kick off the conversation. I want to start a little bit bigger picture. I think 2019 has been a little bit of a more difficult enterprise spending backdrop. I guess, as we think through some of the factors that have been weighing on trends this year, can you just talk a little bit about what the overhang has been? And as you're now starting to talk to customers about 2020,