HPE Modernizes Enterprise With Data Services That Deliver Cloud Operations Everywhere

By Tom Black, EVP and GM, HPE Storage

HPE GreenLake cloud services and platform enhancements are designed to help customers reduce data management complexity and embrace the cloud operational model

Data is the lifeforce of the modern enterprise. And with applications and data spread across on-premises, edge, co-locations, and the public cloud, it important for IT leaders to deliver cloud experiences to end-users, everywhere. To accelerate their transformation and innovate faster, organizations must become data-first.

The company has been helping customers accelerate their IT modernization journeys with a data-first approach for some time now. And we’re not slowing down.

The firm announced new GreenLake cloud services and platform enhancements at HPE Discover 2022. New services include GreenLake for HCI, GreenLake for Disaster Recovery, Backup and Recovery Service, and GreenLake for Block Storage. These innovations are designed to help customers reduce data management complexity and embrace the cloud operational model.

And I can’t wait to share more about these innovations in person in Las Vegas, in front of our customers and partners later today. 

“We will continue to deliver new and enhanced cloud data services to bring self-service agility and a cloud operational experience across edge to cloud,“ said Black.

Why data-first?
Data-first modernization begins with an always-on and always-fast data delivery so that applications are powered to support an organization’s needs. As I shared earlier this year, data-first businesses are more likely to outpace their competitors, recover faster from ransomware, and drive more innovation. This allows you to deliver more products to market and exceed revenue goals more easily.

Infrastructure management can be complex and require specialized expertise to manage. But it doesn’t have to be. Purely stated: the world needs a better, more straightforward approach to data and infrastructure management. An approach that eliminates the need for legacy infrastructure and can drive strategic business initiatives … the cloud operational model.

Cloud operational model is answer
According to an ESG study ⁽¹⁾, 91% of IT leaders identified mature cloud operations on-premises as the most critical step to eliminating complexity. Public cloud has set the standard for agility, with an operational model that organizations can use to build and deploy new applications, services, and projects faster. And to make this transformation journey a reality, customers must shift to an as-a-service model, which rsimplifies and automates data management and enables IT to meet the increasing business needs while delivering self-service agility.

New cloud data services
HPE announced 4 new innovations to its storage and data services portfolio that will help you modernize with a cloud operational experience.

GreenLake for HCI
Now you can build a self-service cloud on-demand wherever you need it with HPE GreenLake for HCI. With cloud-based management and self-service agility, you can procure and manage virtual machines across on-premises and cloud environments.

GreenLake for HCI gives you the ability to:

• Get hybrid cloud VMs delivered as-a-service, with predictable monthly payments
• Unify across hybrid cloud for VM to infrastructure management, including AWS VMs
• Go faster with the cloud operational experience and self-service agility
• Simplify hybrid cloud data protection and mobility

Expanded data protection as-a-service
GreenLake for Data Protection now offers 2 modern data protection services, including DR and ransomware protection ⁽²⁾, and backup and recovery for AWS.

The conversation of protecting your data (from either natural disasters or cyberattacks) is no longer focused on if you can recover but rather on how quickly you can get your business back up and running with minimal data loss. HPE GreenLake for Disaster Recovery brings Zerto’s leading RPOs and RTOs, based on Continuous Data Protection, to GreenLake. It allows customers to resume operations in minutes at scale, recover to a state that is seconds prior to a disaster or attack, and de-risk your recovery with quick and non-disruptive testing. ⁽³⁾

Enhanced HPE Backup and Recovery Service delivers backup-as-a-service and is built for hybrid cloud. With it, you can start protecting your VMs in 3 simple steps and in less than 5mn, eliminating the complexities of managing and operating backup hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure together. With it, you can modernize backup for VMware and AWS, specifically AWS EC2 instances and AWS EBS volumes across hybrid clouds.

GreenLake for Block Storage
HPE had also announed that HPE GreenLake for Block Storage is available. This storage SaaS with it enables to go faster with self-service agility, consume as-a-service, and run any app – without compromise. It provides 100% data availability guaranteed for mission-critical applications and a 99.9999% uptime for all other workloads.⁽⁴⁾

This announcements demonstrate how the company is helping customers accelerate data-first modernization by bringing the cloud operational experience where your data lives. And how we’re simplifying the customer experience across the board with GreenLake. We will continue to deliver new and enhanced cloud data services to bring self-service agility and a cloud operational experience across edge to cloud.

⁽¹⁾ ESG, Data Management Maturity Study, November 2021​
⁽²⁾ Almost Two-thirds of Organizations Have Responded to a Cyberattack with a Disaster Recovery Solution in the Last 12 Months, According to New Research   
⁽³⁾ Non-disruptive Disaster Recovery Testing, With Zerto, you can carry out orchestrated and automated disaster recovery testing at any time with just a few simple clicks     
⁽⁴⁾ Based on HPE Internal analysis of known industry block storage-as-a-service offerings available as of March 11, 2022 that are offered self-service.