.NEXT: HPE and Nutanix Announce Availability of GreenLake and ProLiant DX Solutions

At NEXT conference, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Nutanix, Inc. announced the availability of HPE’s integrated hybrid cloud as a service (aaS) offering, HPE GreenLake for Nutanix, and the ProLiant DX solution.

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This news delivers on the partnership announced between the two companies in April, through which they are providing customers and partners greater freedom of choice for building their hybrid cloud strategy.

“Hybrid cloud today offers a strategic advantage for organizations by granting them the flexibility to store data where they want it, maintain the level of control they desire and scale workloads more efficiently, to provide the level of service their customers expect,” said Pradeep Kumar, SVP and GM, Pointnext services, HPE. “Through our combined offering with Nutanix, we’re helping customers deliver cloud capabilities with greater agility, flexibility, control and choice, so that they can focus on driving digital initiatives that allow them to innovate and move their business forward.“

“Companies around the world know that hybrid cloud is the ideal IT model and they need solutions that make it easier to deploy,” said Monica Kumar, SVP, product and solutions marketing, Nutanix. “Our goal is to make the underlying cloud infrastructure invisible so leaders can focus on what matters most to their businesses: their applications. By partnering with HPE, we’re paving pathways for more enterprises to easily find the right hybrid cloud solution and focus on what moves the needle to scale.“

The GreenLake solution leverages Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud OS software, including its built-in AHV hypervisor, to deliver a fully HPE-managed private cloud that lowers TCO and accelerates time to value, while allowing customers to pay for the service based on actual consumption.

With GreenLake, businesses can design IT solutions with their chosen technologies and consume them easily, reduce CapEx up to 30% due to reduced overprovisioning, increase IT resource utilization by 40% by lowering the support load on IT operations staff, and as a result speed time to value for their IT projects.⁽¹⁾

The as-a-service solution is now available to order across the 50+ countries where GreenLake is offered. The GreenLake for Nutanix offering will be initially focused on simplifying customer deployments of end user computing initiatives, databases and private clouds.

The ProLiant DX solution is built on ProLiant and Apollo servers with Nutanix software pre-installed and shipped from HPE factories. ItX brings together Nutanix software and server technology into a solution enabling enterprises to accelerate the adoption of modernized datacenter architectures.

The two companies showcased their combined offerings at the Nutanix .NEXT Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 8-10, 2019. As part of its platinum sponsorship at .NEXT, HPE will lead several presentations and other engagement activities with joint customers and partners at the conference.“Nutanix Enterprise Cloud software running on HPE ProLiant systems has proven to be an easy-to-deploy, flexible and reliable solution for my IT team,” said Herman Brown, CIO, San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. “Since putting it into production, my team has been able to focus more time bringing online new applications and services and much less time managing underlying infrastructure.“

“As a partner of both HPE and Nutanix, PQR has been waiting for the day that the Nutanix proposition and the HPE proposition would come together. Now that it has, we are especially pleased to see that the joint proposition is also available as a service through HPE GreenLake,” said Marco Lesmeister. commercial director, PQR B.V., “PQR as a company is always looking for a simple and understandable offering to our customers. In taking the responsibility to manage all of the IT infrastructure for our customers and then bill them on a usage basis, the GreenLake proposition gives us the opportunity to do just that. We can scale up and down easily, without any financial risks for PQR or our customers.“

“We are very excited about the partnership between HPE and Nutanix. The combination of Nutanix Enterprise Cloud software and HPE hardware results in a highly scalable and easily upgradeable solution for our customers,” said Jon Lankert, principal partner, Summit Partners LLC. “The opportunity to sell Nutanix software with HPE technology as a service through HPE GreenLake has been very good for our business. With this partnership, our customers receive the benefits of HPE with Nutanix, while just paying for what they use each,nth with no payment upfront.“

⁽¹⁾ Total Economic Impact of HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity, Forrester, May 2018