HPE GreenLake exemplifies the best of hybrid by design, offering a cloud platform that simplifies IT operations and enables efficient hybrid cloud management, and highlighting the potential of a strategic, well-implemented hybrid model.
Digital transformation, powered by technologies like cloud, AI, edge, and IoT, is crucial for businesses globally. Enterprises have long used public clouds like AWS and Azure, shifting from on-premise data centers to enhance agility and innovation.
However, balancing data needs with public cloud use is tricky. Data gravity and sovereignty issues prompt businesses to keep data in-house or at the edge, avoiding potential performance and security issues. This led to the rise of hybrid clouds, blending on-premise private clouds with public clouds.
Hybrid cloud adoption is increasing, with 64% of enterprises worldwide adopting this model, according to a recent HPE report. often, this adoption is accidental, not strategic, leading to complex IT environments with intertwined systems and data, and inefficient IT operations due to inadequate monitoring and lack of automation.
Security and data consistency across cloud environments still pose significant challenges, compounded by a lack of IT expertise and resources. Without a proper strategy, hybrid cloud's potential remains unrealized.
A desired state of IT with hybrid by design
In contrast, “hybrid by design“ combines public cloud agility with on-premise control, addressing many of the challenges that present in distributed environments. Hybrid by design involves centralized control and a unified data plane, simplifying operations and promoting automation and interoperability.
Hybrid by design is intentional and superior. Achieving hybrid by design requires an investment in time, resources, and expertise. Many organizations prefer a tried-and-true hybrid solution rather than building their own.
HPE GreenLake exemplifies the best of hybrid by design, offering a cloud platform that simplifies IT operations and enables efficient hybrid cloud management, and highlighting the potential of a strategic, well-implemented hybrid model.
HPE’s platform approach to hybrid by design
Platform-native services underpinning cloud delivery
Stemming from the roots of being innovators and trailblazers in the industry, HPE is one of the first to introduce the hybrid cloud concept and solutions.
First introduced in 2013 as an infrastructure consumption model, HPE GreenLake has evolved into a portfolio of cloud services that include self-service, pay-per-use, and cloud management.
The HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform, which debuted in 2022, is a unified multi-cloud and hybrid cloud control plane that centralizes all platform-native services such as device management, user management, subscription management, asset management, user authentication, role-based management, and consumption analytics.
Common platform services and capabilities are available to all apps and services for efficiency – exemplifying the adage, "Built once; used by all". Cloud services that run on the platform don’t have to re-create similar capabilities. These common services significantly simplify day 0 to day 2 operations, allowing ITOps to focus on more valuable activities and initiatives. We pioneered a cloud-native service-centric platform that provides a framework to run, optimize, and expand your hybrid cloud operations.
When we started on this journey, our vision was to build the best-in-class cloud platform for customers to build, manage, operate, and sustain their hybrid cloud, and to enable customers to consume services in one place. With that end in mind, we have onboarded a wide range of services, including HPE Aruba Networking Central, HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management, OpsRamp, HPE Sustainability Insight Center, HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise, HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition, and more. The HPE GreenLake platform enables the ITOps team to transform from a provider of data center infrastructure to a provider of cloud service.
Autonomous hybrid operations pivotal to hybrid by design
At HPE, we believe a platform approach can best address the hybrid by design requirements for enterprises. The centralized control plane federates multiple clouds, including public and on-premise private clouds. The platform abstracts infrastructure and operational complexity with a software-defined stack, spanning compute, networking, storage, data management and governance, and analytics.
We have architected the platform with differentiating characteristics to enable hybrid by design. These characteristics include:
- Support of hybrid/multi-cloud and heterogeneous environments
- Multi-tenant and multi-tier capabilities that enable multiple important Managed Service Provider (MSP) use cases
- AIOps-driven platform that enables faster problem resolution and predictable IT operations
- API-first approach with standardizing APIs for northbound integration and broad ecosystem expansion.
We elevate the value of IT to a new level through autonomous hybrid operations. Discovering, monitoring, automation, and remediation are the elements of this hybrid operation, a non-stop continuous process, similar to the famous OODA loop originated by United States Air Force Colonel John Boyd.
Our AIOps-driven hybrid platform enables autonomous hybrid operations through a continuous and iterative process. This process starts with automated discovery, monitoring, and observability of the entire IT estate, covering heterogeneous environments from the edge to the cloud. Artificial intelligence and machine learning engine powers event management to rapidly identify, detect, and resolve issues while reducing alert noise. Intelligent automation with business context improves IT service quality, increases IT efficiency, and ensures audit and compliance policies.
Entering a new cloud era through a hybrid platform
With the purposefully architected HPE GreenLake platform, adopting a true hybrid operating model becomes easier.
Gone are the days of hodgepodge multiple different clouds, on-premise data centers, and the edge. Instead, you can have complete visibility and full-stack observability from infrastructure, and applications to cloud; You can expect a unified cloud experience for your ITOps, DevOps, and FinOps; You can get intelligent automation with business context and IT efficiency through AIOps; You can protect your data and ensure business resiliency with backup and recovery and disaster recovery solutions across your hybrid IT; You can easily integrate with ISV solutions and take advantage of ecosystem offerings.
Hybrid by design is possible. And the excellent news is that HPE GreenLake platform paves the way.
To learn more, be sure to visit the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform website, or call your local HPE sales representative or Authorized HPE Partner.
Vivian currently holds the director of product marketing role at HPE. She leads marketing for the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform that offers distinct differentiation for HPE in the vast hybrid cloud market.
Vivian is a product marketing veteran and brings over 25 years of experience in marketing and GTM at Cisco, Dell, RedHat, VMware, and more. She led teams to execute strategic visions, launched many products and solutions, and built GTM programs to deliver business values. Vivian lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking and volunteering for her son’s swim club.
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