Obtaining the benefits of cloud services and colocation is now faster, easier and more cost-efficient. With these just-announced offerings, organizations can quickly build private cloud environments that are simplified, scalable, secure and closer to their data for optimal performance.
By Vishal Lall, SVP & GM of HPE GreenLake Cloud Services Solutions
The trend is driven by the fast-growing public cloud costs, including that of data egress, and the increasing complexity of managing these environments due to evolving data security and sovereignty requirements.
These organizations are adopting hybrid models that enable them to:
- Leverage cloud services, enabling their teams to focus on value creation
- Build environments that allow them to easily place workloads for optimal cost and performance with proximity to partner ecosystems
- Strengthen their ability to provision workloads in a dynamic and timely manner – in hours or days, not weeks or months
- Move quickly, and avoid lengthy purchase and installation/deployment cycles
- Meet sustainability targets.
Together, they add up to a strategy that only HPE GreenLake with Equinix can deliver.
Delivering the best benefits of both colo and cloud services
This powerful combination enables enterprises to host any of their HPE GreenLake private cloud services – with all the benefits of scalability, automation, consumption-based billing, just-right provisioning, and more – at an Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX). They benefit from a single HPE service experience and invoice covering both their cloud and digital infrastructure requirements.
From cage design to best-fit technology, maintenance, and lifecycle management, our HPE Services team works closely with HPE and Equinix customers to ensure a comprehensive data center, networking, security, and cloud solution, enabling them to abstract themselves from less strategic data center and IT management tasks.
Private cloud made easy – and fast
To this end, we have made pre-deployed HPE GreenLake capacity available at strategic Equinix locations around the world. Read our announcement here: Hewlett Packard Enterprise extends private cloud portfolio at Equinix data centers to give customers more choice and access to hybrid cloud. Now organizations can rapidly launch private cloud services – HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise or HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition – together with all of the Equinix colocation services covered by our overarching partnership.
Let’s take a high-level look at these 5 key advantages of the HPE GreenLake and Equinix joint offering:
Security, reliability, and resiliency: HPE GreenLake offers more than 2,200, real-time security controls to protect data.1 Customers benefit from Equinix’s exceptional uptime record2 as well as numerous networking, facility and power safeguards. Those include inter-IBX connection by a private, on-demand network supporting real-time data synchronization, replication and backup; five security checkpoints with 24x7 manned security stations, physical security traps, and biometric readers; and full, uninterruptible power supply systems.
Dense connectivity: Customers can optimize costs and performance by deploying HPE GreenLake adjacent to an extensive network of cloud and IT service providers. Equinix connectivity services feature one of the highest network densities in the industries. This enables it to link to link to thousands of customers and partners on-demand, as well as the ability to instantly enable virtual network appliances, such as HPE Aruba EdgeConnect.
Scalability: HPE GreenLake ensures that customers can scale up and down as needed, with a minimum buffer capacity. It also accelerates expansion into new geographies, thanks to Equinix’s substantial global footprint of 240+ data centers in 70+ metros across five continents.
Cost predictability: As with all HPE GreenLake services and solutions, customer optimize their economics by bypassing the need for major upfront investments. HPE provides a single, monthly, consumption-based invoice, with the colocation element included.
Positioned to drive sustainable IT: HPE and Equinix share a long-standing commitment to helping customers achieve their sustainable IT goals.
- Just-right provisioning mitigates unnecessary equipment usage and ensures the correct power and cooling needs;
- Access to the latest HPE technologies, which typically consume less power than older equipment;3
- Use of ultra-efficient Equinix facilities, which have achieved 96% renewable energy usage for the fifth year in a row;
- Comprehensive IT lifecycle management with the HPE Services team, from strategic planning and end-of-life services to proper equipment retirement and re-use.
Together, HPE and Equinix can meet organizations no matter where they’re at in their transformation journey. Because we understand that customers must focus on driving business outcomes, instead of managing their IT environments, we are thrilled to deliver this simple, modern, low- and predictable-cost private cloud and digital infrastructure experience.
To learn more, view the HPE GreenLake Announcement video below. Starting at around 11:00, Equinix SVP of Global Alliances Lisa Miller and I explore some of the key customer benefits of HPE's newly extended partnership with Equinix. But you won't want to miss the earlier part of the video, which covers the rise of generative AI and how you can leverage it to create competitive advantage for your business.
Learn more about HPE GreenLake cloud services.
1. HPE 2023 Cybersecurity Annual Report
2. As measured from January 1–December 31, 2021, for IBX Operations
3. The Total Economic Impact of HPE GreenLake, Forrester, 2022
GLCSS includes all software and hardware teams at HPE focused on enabling these cloud services, including the HPE GreenLake Marketplace, a curated ecosystem of validated ISVs, HPE Ezmeral, software for data analytics in hybrid environments, and cloud modules, modular workload-optimized infrastructure.
HPE and Equinix are close partners in serving customer needs for edge-to-cloud technology services. Learn more about our growing roster of customers:
UK-based wholesaler City Electrical Factors is improving the customer experience, strengthening security and moving to a cloud experience with HPE GreenLake, Zerto, and Equinix: City Electrical Factors selects HPE GreenLake to modernize its customer and data experience
Woolworths Group, Australia and New Zealand’s largest food and everyday needs retailer, selected HPE GreenLake to power a new payments platform, integrating it with 13 ISV and system applications as well as data center hosting services from Equinix: HPE GreenLake cloud platform enables Australian and New Zealand retailer to launch new flexible payment offerings to market
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