Demystifying HPE GreenLake and HPE GreenLake for Networking

[Robin_Hodus]

Since 2019, CEO Antonio Neri has proclaimed that HPE was going to offer everything as service in our company through a unified experience called HPE GreenLake. From that day forward, HPE began to transition its compute and storage products into an as-a-service (aaS) flexible consumption model, and with that success, the story continued to grow.

More than four billion dollars invested and five years later, that promise has been achieved, and today HPE GreenLake encompasses all the services customers can consume from the edge to the cloud. HPE GreenLake brings the experience, agility, and economics of the cloud to data centers, co-lo and edge locations while the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform is the foundation for how you buy and transact with us today and into the future.

HPE GreenLake for Networking is our branded Network as a Service (NaaS) offering, where we bundle HPE Aruba Networking products including hardware, software, and services via subscription through a monthly recurring payment (MRC). We have a few product options:

• HPE GreenLake for Networking service packs is our standard offer for partners and includes the bundled package described above along with digital insights on lifecycle management for the care and feeding of the customer network. Service Packs are built specifically for our partners, providing a cost-effective model to package customer service management and build their own offer. It is ideally suited for partners wishing to expand their aaS revenue quickly and easily while continuing to offer customers their assessment, design, implementation, and management services.
• HPE GreenLake for Networking intelligent operations is for customers who want to outsource the day-to-day management of their network with HPE Aruba Networking Network Operations Center (NOC) support. It is ideally suited for partners that do not offer managed services, enabling them to resell the Intelligent Operations to their customers, while still owning the customer relationship. The customer receives 24x7x365 management through the HPE Aruba Networking NOC along with additional technology that drives proactive versus reactive management. We work with partners to support the delivery of exceptional experiences and business outcomes for their customers.

So, what is the difference between HPE GreenLake and our solution offering HPE GreenLake for Networking?

HPE GreenLake is a cloud experience that enables our partners to provide customer outcomes consumed any way they want, wherever they want, with technology that sits in the cloud (public, private, hybrid). HPE GreenLake for Networking is a comprehensive, network-as-a-service offer via subscription, with cloud-like qualities and much of the technology sitting on-premises (e.g., Wi-Fi access point, ethernet switching).

For partners, HPE GreenLake for Networking helps expand their footprint into a new consumption-based market and makes it easier to purchase, sell, and deliver targeted solutions that meet customer needs. It also broadens their value-added services, unlocking new revenue and margin opportunities.

Whether it was bringing your own device (BYOD) and mobile-first networking in the 2010’s or the increasing adoption of NaaS in the 2020’s, HPE Aruba Networking has always been at the forefront of innovation. With HPE GreenLake for Networking partners can now provide their customers with a fresh way to consume networking. It is time to reinvent!

For more information about HPE GreenLake for Networking, visit here. If you are interested in learning more about HPE GreenLake, visit here. 

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