HPE Discover: GreenLake Advances Hybrid Cloud Experience With Private Cloud and New Cloud Services

Summary:

• GreenLake platform provides a unified experience across edge to cloud; deepens security, extends developer tools, and strengthens capabilities to run workloads at scale

• GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise delivers a transformed and modern private cloud experience with automated, flexible, scalable pay-as-you-go private cloud for traditional and cloud-native workloads

• GreenLake adds 8 new cloud services including backup and recovery, block storage, compute operations management, data fabric, disaster recovery, HCI, as well as industry-vertical cloud services for customer engagement and payments.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP unveiled platform enhancements and cloud services for GreenLake, an offering that enables organizations to modernize all their applications and data.

This includes a reimagined modern private cloud that provides a cloud-native experience to power an organization’s hybrid strategy, regardless of location. In addition, the company unveiled 8 new GreenLake cloud services, giving customers more choice, control, and predictability for their enterprise cloud delivery.

“Three years ago, at HPE Discover, HPE committed to delivering our entire portfolio as a service by 2022,” said Antonio Neri, president and CEO. “Today, I am proud to say that not only have we delivered on that commitment, we have become a new company. HPE GreenLake has emerged as the go-to destination for hybrid cloud, and our industry-leading catalog of cloud services enables organizations to drive data-first modernization for all their workloads, across edge to cloud. The innovations unveiled today further build on our vision to provide the market with an unmatched platform to spur innovation and drive transformation.”

GreenLake platform: Foundation of GreenLake experience
GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform provides customers and partners with a unified experience, control and visibility, and access to over 70 cloud services. Today, GreenLake has 65,000 customers and over 1EB of data under management with customers WW. These organizations benefit from one control plane from which to automate, orchestrate, and run their hybrid cloud strategy.

The company continues to invest in the GreenLake platform. In March 2022, the firm announced a unified operational experience that provides a simplified view and access to all cloud services, including capabilities at the edge. This included convergence of the GreenLake platform with Aruba Central, a cloud-native AI-powered network management solution, and GreenLake for Aruba networking, 8 cloud services covering a full span of use cases – including wired, wireless, and SD-Branch.

At HPE Discover 2022, the company unveiled additional advancements to the GreenLake platform, including enhanced security, a developer portal and developer tools, and deeper capabilities to manage assets and workloads at scale. Click here to take a virtual test drive of the updated GreenLake platform.

This platform continues to drive customer demand. In 2Q22, the firm reported Annualized Revenue Run-Rate (ARR) of $829 million and triple digit as-a-service orders growth for the third consecutive quarter.

GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise
The market for private cloud continues to grow, due to multiple concerns and priorities for customers, including application entanglement, control, cost, data gravity, data latency, and predictability. Enterprise customers across industries are embracing modern private clouds as part of their hybrid, multi-cloud, and digital transformation strategy. However, to date, traditional private cloud offerings have failed to deliver on their promise, due to complexity, manual processes, lack of visibility and governance, and narrowly focused solutions that cannot scale to meet the needs of the enterprise.

Addressing this market opportunity, GreenLake has become thl solution for organizations seeking to roll out pay-per-use (1) private clouds, from departmental workloads to large, multinational initiatives spanning thousands of applications and workloads.

GreenLake builds on this momentum with GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise, an offering that reimagines the private cloud experience, by providing an automated, flexible, scalable, and enterprise-grade private cloud. Built for both cloud-native and traditional applications, It includes modular infrastructure and software and supports the deployment of bare metal, virtual machines, and container workloads.

Blog: Modern private cloud made easy: HPE unveils HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise 

• Manage workloads, not infrastructure – GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise is delivered with enterprise-grade SLAs, covering the full lifecycle, including installation, provisioning, firmware updates, maintenance, operations, hardware, growth planning, and support.

• Open platform for both cloud-native and traditional applications – Run both traditional and cloud native applications at scale with simplicity and speed, without the cost, risk, or effort of moving and refactoring data.

• Built for DevOps and automation – Designed for the modern DevOps model, GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise can be programmatically provisioned, configured and scaled. It integrates into an organization’s approved configurations, toolchains, images, and networks.

• Leverage GreenLake Marketplace – Access to over 80 ISVs and growing. The GreenLake Marketplace is an ecosystem of ISVs, service providers and colocation partners, that enables customers and partners to deploy software in their private clouds with ease, all pre-tested and qualified for the GreenLake platform.

• Achieve cost control and transparency – Customers can keep tabs on usage and spend with consumption analytics, and view and optimize costs by service type, location, or business unit, and get aggregated usage across your private cloud deployment.

Data, storage, and compute cloud services from GreenLake
The company also unveiled multiple cloud services designed to help organizations drive data-first modernization:

• GreenLake for Data Fabric – It is a managed service that contains an analytic-ready data fabric for hybrid environments. The service increases productivity with a single data store through companywide access to data. Blog: HPE GreenLake for Data Fabric, simplifying data analytics for the enterprise 

• GreenLake for HCI
  Delivers cloud operations with a SaaS based interface to simplify VMs and infrastructure management in a hybrid cloud environment. Blog: Modernize your Enterprise with Data Services that Deliver Cloud Operations Everywhere

• GreenLake for Disaster Recovery – Unlocks recovery experience in one simple platform with unlimited scale. With it, customers can recover in minutes, to a of state seconds before the disruption. From ransomware to outages or natural disasters, resume operations with ease with RPOs and RTOs ⁽¹⁾. Blog: HPE GreenLake for Disaster Recovery – Get the Preview

• Backup and Recovery Service– Delivers a backup solution ⁽²⁾ for Amazon Web Services (AWS), specifically AWS EC2 instances and AWS EBS volumes. With this solution, customers can protect their VMs in 3 simple steps and in less than 5mn, eliminating the complexities of managing and operating backup hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure together. Blog: Secure Your Enterprise: Protecting AWS Workloads Just Got Easier

• GreenLake for Block Storage – This first block storage as-a-service to deliver 100% data availability ⁽³⁾ built on a cloud operational model. This offering includes general-purpose service tiers where customers can leverage a cost-optimized storage service for general-purpose workloads. Blog: 3 Ways HPE GreenLake for Block Storage Transforms On-Prem Storage as a Service

• GreenLake for Compute Ops Management – The company builds on its heritage and leadership in the server market with GreenLake for Compute Ops Management, to provide a cloud experience that simplifies and automates compute lifecycle management. Blog: Unified server management from edge-to-cloud drives greater performance and efficiency

GreenLake offers new industry solutions
It also continues to build out a catalog of cloud services for specific industry-verticals, based on partnerships and integrations with domain specific ISVs.

• GreenLake for Payments – Delivers an end-to-end, pay-per-use payments service from GreenLake. This secure, low-risk and cloud-centric payment platform enables customers to modernize their payments environment to innovate rapidly and help manage compliance with the latest regulations. Managed by industry experts from GreenLake, this solution combines the payments experience of Lusis TANGO and the distributed-transaction processing of Nonstop for payments. Blog: The frictionless future of payments

• GreenLake with FIS Ethos – The company is working towards a collaboration with FIS Ethos to provide a real-time customer data platform that delivers intelligent engagement analytics, leveraging technology from FIS, a financial technology leader. To improve the digital engagement of customers on demand, business requires real-time access to data that reside across multiple locations, and the tools to understand them. The insights from GreenLake with FIS Ethos will enable businesses to deliver personalized data-driven customer engagement that can increase customer loyalty and overall profitability

Availability:

• The updated GreenLake platform experience will be available in September 2022.

• GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise will be available in September 2022.

The company also offers financing options, through HPE Financial Services, to fund customers’ data-first modernization initiatives with GreenLake.

⁽¹⁾ Almost Two-thirds of Organizations Have Responded to a Cyberattack with a Disaster Recovery Solution in the Last 12 Months, According to New Research, May 12, 2022    
⁽²⁾ Based on HPE internal testing conducted in March and April 2022 comparing HPE Backup and Recovery Service with 3 other competing VMware backup solutions.
⁽³⁾ HPE Data Management Maturity Research, November 2021