Accelerate your decision making through visibility with HPE CloudPhysics

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Digital transformation has become an imperative for every business today. Successful digital transformation requires data-first modernization. With HPE CloudPhysics, you get instant data-driven insights to enhance workload placement, procure right-sized infrastructure, lower costs, and transform the IT purchasing experience. Here’s how.   
– By Adam Day, WW GTM strategy manager, HPE

When resources usage and costs are spiraling out of control, how about something at no cost on us?

It is often said there is no such thing as a free lunch, and while that in essence may be true here at HPE, we at least want to do as much as we can to help, and we are offering a fantastic tool to help analyze your IT landscape at no charge. If you are in the process of investigating or investing in new infrastructure and resources, it’s vital to know how the current environment, this allows you to understand the requirements to allow a partnership or clear map to define where to next.

Reduce guesswork in your VMware landscape

Some clear cases of this come from thousands of assessments and the millions of metrics we have collected. We clearly see that our customers are often not making the best use of their resources.

We give you more power than ever before to understand your VMware environment and analyze VM performance for optimization – to help you create a path to potential optimization of your VMware estate. With deep insights that are vendor agnostic, you can instantly identify optimization opportunities, focus on risk reduction, understand your VMware reliance, and quickly enhance your environment efficiency.

Of over 8,000 environments assessed:

• 12% of our customer are using less than 25% of their licenses,23% use less 50% of their licenses
• That means 35% of the time there is at least a 2X spend on licenses that are not consumed
• 40% of environments are below 75% usage

Clearly there is scope to optimize or reduce future spend

Of course, on the flipside we have 11% of the landscapes that are under licensed an off course this brings with risk too, meaning we can also highlight shortcomings. This is a clear example of better insights perhaps leading to less spend of less risk but there are many more? HPE CloudPhysics can help.

Knowledge truly is one of the keys to success and we should ensure we have valid, up to date and reliable data. Truth be told the old clichés, “Data is the new gold” or “Data is the new oil” is increasingly valid in this accelerating digital age. The proper use of information is essential for successful planning and business decisions. Using information correctly gives a tremendous advantage to us all, from reducing costs to more importantly addressing risk.

Let’s address the “what” of HPE CloudPhysics

First of all, HPE CloudPhysics is a SAS offering – which means it’s a simple, remote, and agentless software that continuously monitors and analyzes an IT environment. It’s a tool that assesses and analyses infrastructure, it can estimate the costs of migration to multi cloud or off on-premises solutions and can quickly model the infrastructure of your virtualized environments. (And did I mention it comes at no cost.)

With an assessment offered “as a service,” no hardware or agents are needed apart from an observer to send the metrics to be analyzed. This can help reduce unnecessary IT spend, by sizing correctly: showing that your insights data has real value in optimizing your environment.

CloudPhysics allows you to make decisions about investments based on your need, and not risk overspend that can come with assumptions and oversizing due to lack of insights. It can help make key choices, as different platforms require different resources. What’s more, it’s simple to define these requirements across both private and public clouds, removing any guesswork across a large set of metrics to help you reach the desired outcome and direction.

That’s all great, but a bit more on how it works?

HPE CloudPhysics collects and analyses detailed data to identify what resources are being used and highlight potential dangers in the existing estate. It looks at more than 200 metrics, including key items such as hosts, storage stores, and much more. This allows you to determine the resources that can be right sized to best deliver the needed outcome.

For example, If a virtual machine has been configured with eight virtual processors, but CloudPhysics detects that it never uses more than two, the size of the virtual machine can be adjusted and scaled down accordingly. (Wow! A free tool with instant savings and zero purchases.)

Installation is quick, with information generated in just 15 minutes. A deeper dive – with comprehensive analysis and reports produced – is available after seven days and the assessment will run up to 90 days (about three months) for deep insights. You have access to the data and report in real time throughout the assessment.

Optimize and right size your workloads for a hybrid world

HPE CloudPhysics can calculate the cost of infrastructure, including the power needed to run it, add in the use of shared storage all defined by your own cost per terabyte. It can then simulate various deployment scenarios, such as technology or infrastructure location. Within minutes of activation, compare the current VMware infrastructure with the prices and configuration options of public cloud providers, or look at HPE GreenLake.

This powerful tool allows you to easily engage in data driven discussions, about the cost of running applications in the public cloud, or to move your data back. Combining this kind of comparison with the real-word needs prevents inadvertent transfer of idle resources to the public cloud and avoids paying for what is not needed.

Within minutes of activation, HPE CloudPhysics maps your entire VMware infrastructure against current pricing and configuration options from leading cloud providers, including Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. You can quickly and easily make data-supported decisions about the costs of running applications in the cloud based on the actual resource needs of your VMs.

And by reducing spending and better leveraging your existing resources, HPE CloudPhysics has the potential for curbing the environmental impact of unused IT equipment, cutting the unnecessary consumption reducing the amount of energy your IT consumes or allowing to reuse or redeploy what you have in an effort to reduce consumption. Provided insights help you make smarter purchasing decisions across your multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments, spanning from edge to public cloud. It allows optimization of applications and data placement and ensures you have only the infrastructure that is needed and reduces risk of overspending when acquiring new resources.

Now that you have the insights, you can accelerate your decision making.

And in the end, it all boils down to the benefits of HPE CloudPhysics  

Through increased visibility and understanding, HPE CloudPhysics transforms the procurement process, so you can increase your time to value and ROI in infrastructure planning. This helps you reduce costs and transform IT purchasing with no cost assessment

HPE CloudPhysics data capture is one of the most thorough in the industry. With it, you can tailor your existing environment to ensure that your workloads run on the most cost-effective infrastructure possible. 

It’s a proven solution that could save you up to 50% on your next project by rightsizing based on the insights of what you have today. With over 8,000 assessments globally, the data shows large percentages of infrastructure are not leveraged or in use as regularly as you may think.

Aiming to provide increased visibility and a deeper understanding of the as is state of your IT environment, HPE CloudPhysics can assist in accelerating upcoming procurement processes through visibility. How? By informed planning and purchasing with accurate data accelerating your digital transformation as a transparent view of your infrastructure. This allows you to create efficiencies and move forward faster.

And let me repeat again there is no fee and no commitment, but we would love to be in position to help you understand your digital journey. We are ready to work with you to optimize what you have and help you build what’s next in today’s hybrid world. At HPE, our edge-to-cloud offerings designed to help your business accelerate.

Ready to learn more?

Watch to discover how to accelerate decision making through visibility with HPE CloudPhysics.

You can chat with an agent now to arrange an assessment. Just head to: HPE CloudPhysics. Or as always with our offerings, HPE CloudPhysics is available through your authorized HPE partners, as well as directly through HPE. Using this service is free to HPE partners and customers so take a free assessment today.

Now get ready to accomplish your IT goals with more efficient IT infrastructure planning and procurement.

*Source: HPE CloudPhysics SaaS platform data insights on license usage from over 8000 customer environments assessed. 

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Meet HPE Storage Experts blogger Adam Day, WW GTM strategy manager, HPE

Adam began his HPE journey with Digital Equipment Corporation. He has since enjoyed varying roles from enterprise account sales to presales management, always focused on enterprise storage and excited by data and its use. He led the storage category team for the HPE CERTA region before making the move to the worldwide team to help support a hybrid world as a strategy manager focused on helping customers make informed decisions though data. Connect with Adam on LinkedIn.

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