HPE makes hybrid cloud adoption simple and effective with a complete cloud strategy across all your locations. We offer a hybrid cloud by design through HPE GreenLake, the cloud that comes to you.
- Healthcare organizations are using cloud capabilities to increase collaboration between disparate environments, expanding the reach of today’s physicians and enabling researchers to work smarter and more connectedly.
- Manufacturers are boosting production capacity by implementing hybrid cloud that brings the power of AI and high-performance computing (HPC) to multiple locations.
- Retailers are integrating in-store and online shopping for seamless customer experiences at the edge.
- Financial institutions are offering cashless payment options through cloud service platforms.
- Public agencies are better serving their citizens and improving employee productivity through hybrid cloud.
In early 2023, HPE investigated how enterprises are deploying hybrid cloud in the real world, interviewing enterprise cloud decision-makers in more than 900 companies across nine countries. Hybrid cloud isn’t just an option for the modern enterprise. It has emerged as the prevailing operating model, with 91% of organizations surveyed using at least two types of models. A majority of respondents prefer hybrid cloud for its flexibility and responsiveness to deliver against business SLAs.
Going hybrid means more than utilizing public or private cloud to run your apps or place your data. It is a strategy for managing your business easily and securely in a broad range of IT environments for all workloads including mission-critical ones. That’s why delivering a consistent, familiar cloud experience everywhere is key to giving your organization greater agility with control over your apps and data.
Apps that can easily move to the public cloud benefit from the elasticity of a cloud operating model. But that is less than a majority of all apps. Most must remain in your colos, data centers, and increasingly at the edge for host of reasons (including mission criticality, data gravity, data sovereignty, hardware dependency, more resiliency, and network latency requirements).
It’s clear that hybrid cloud is shaping the future of business. (See: What is hybrid cloud?) But many organizations are wondering how to capitalize on the benefits while tackling other concerns—such as managing hybrid cloud cost and distributed IT complexity, operationalizing AI, or connecting people and devices at the edge with security and resiliency.
Taking digital transformation to the next level
Organizations shouldn’t have to choose between the speed of the public cloud and the performance and control of private infrastructure. If you are an organization with multi-generational, multi-vendor IT estates that can’t move all your apps and data to the public cloud, then you need an option that offers more freedom to deliver your KPIs and SLAs.
What should you expect from an innovative hybrid cloud solution?
- A secure, consistent cloud experience everywhere with intuitive, self-service access to resources and pay-per-use economics for all your workloads.
- Agility and flexibility to scale up and down as needed with interoperability between public and private clouds, edge, and multi-generational IT.
- Improved visibility, compliance, and control across your data and entire hybrid estate.
- The ability to manage your IT and hybrid cloud operations in a standard, automated, and centralized way that optimizes your environment to run the right workload at the right place and time—whether your goal is to optimize performance, costs, or even energy usage.
Solve your toughest hybrid cloud challenges with HPE GreenLake
In a nutshell, HPE GreenLake is HPE’s hybrid cloud offering and the flagship brand for our diverse SaaS, cloud-native IaaS, and other-as-a-service solutions. HPE GreenLake is the culmination of HPE’s strategy to offer everything as a service, bringing a single hybrid operating model that merges the capabilities of public cloud and on-prem IT to unlock more value from your apps and data.
What makes HPE GreenLake different from other consumption-based offerings? It helps you simplify and accelerate the development, delivery, and management of your cloud-native and traditional IT services through an open edge-to-cloud platform that is secure and designed for hybrid cloud. This software-based platform provides a common set of self-service capabilities including user authentication, role-based access control, quoting and ordering of services, managed service provider workflows, metering and billing, tagging, inventory management, notifications, API and CLI standards, and more. The platform enables monitoring, management, control, and automation of your edge-to-cloud infrastructure with multi-vendor, hybrid multi-cloud visibility, and through 2500+ integrations with other IT&Ops and service management tools.
Here are a few examples of public cloud integration with on-prem data centers, private cloud, or edge computing services through HPE GreenLake:
- Hybrid consumption visibility: Gain visibility and insights of your service consumption through the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform across all your services: public cloud, private cloud, data center, and edge.
- Hybrid, secure data management: Store, share manage, and protect your data across the hybrid cloud through data fabric, unified analytics, storage, data protection SaaS offerings, and a secure intuitive, self-service platform built on zero trust architectural principals from suppy chain to your workloads.
- Hybrid cloud management: Discover and monitor all your IT&Ops resources in one place integrating with hundreds of other service management tools and platforms across your ecosystem of resources. With HPE’s acquisition of OpsRamp, HPE GreenLake now has a unified AI-enabled multi-cloud, multi-vendor IT&Ops management capability that allows you to shift your human capital to innovation and manage all your resources.
- Hybrid deployment options and public cloud integration: Integrate Amazon, Google, and Microsoft public cloud services with your on-prem private cloud and deploy your apps and data in private, public clouds, edge or colo data centers. For example, HPE and Microsoft have validated integrated systems that provide an as-a-service cloud experience for on-prem compute and storage resources, which includes an Azure subscription when you select HPE as your Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider. You can combine the Google Cloud stack with HPE GreenLake for a seamless on-prem Google public cloud experience. Furthermore, you can provision and deploy your services at any location and manage your public cloud and on-prem virtual machines through HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise.
- Hybrid cloud expertise: Option to consume advisory and managed services as part of your pay-per-use model of HPE GreenLake so that you get access to the global team of hybrid cloud experts that can help you with the adoption of hybrid cloud, cloud migrations, and hybrid cloud management, including your apps.
Succeeding in a hybrid world
As organizations look to the next wave of transformation, HPE is prepared to help at each stage of your journey. We meet you where you are—whether your mission is to connect your edge, turn data into intelligence with AI, create your hybrid cloud, or secure vast amounts of data. HPE GreenLake is designed to deliver hybrid cloud environments to face all of today’s requirements and prepare for tomorrow’s challenges. Organizations worldwide are gaining exceptional value:
Explore HPE GreenLake with an interactive demo experience or hosted trial. You can also engage with our experts for an advisory session to make the transition to hybrid cloud.
Let’s rethink your hybrid cloud design. Visit hpe.com/greenlake to learn more.
Disclaimer: This blog has been written by a human without any AI tool or application editorial help.
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+ 20 years of global experience in technology services development and marketing for IT infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, hybrid cloud, and security.
