HPE GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform Powers Data Modernization With Analytics and Data Protection Cloud Services

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP announced a sweeping series of cloud services for the GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform, providing customers capabilities to power digital transformation for their applications and data.

This represents the company‘s entry into 2 large, growing software markets – unified analytics and data protection. Together, these innovations accelerate the firm‘s transition to a cloud services company, and give customers greater choice and freedom for their business and IT strategy, with an open platform that provides a cloud experience everywhere.

These offerings, which add to a growing portfolio of GreenLake Cloud Services, allow customers to innovate with agility, at lower costs, and include the following:

GreenLake for analytics – Open and unified analytics cloud services to modernize all data and applications everywhere – on-premises, at the edge, and in the cloud
GreenLake for data protection – DR and backup cloud services to help customers take ransomware head-on and secure data from edge-to-cloud
Edge-to-cloud adoption framework and automation tools – a set of methodologies expertise, and automation tools to accelerate and de-risk the path to a cloud experience everywhere

“The big data and analytics software market, which IDC predicts will reach $110 billion by 2023 ⁽¹⁾, is ripe for disruption, as customers seek a hybrid solution for enterprise datasets on-premises and at the edge,” said Antonio Neri, president and CEO,. “Data is at the heart of every modernization initiative in every industry, and yet organizations have been forced to settle for legacy analytics platforms that lack cloud-native capabilities, or force complex migrations to the public cloud that require customers to adapt new processes and risk vendor lock-in. The new GreenLake cloud services for analytics empower customers to overcome these trade-offs and gives them one platform to unify and modernize data everywhere. Together with the new GreenLake cloud services for data protection, HPE provides customers with an unparalleled platform to protect, secure, and capitalize on the full value of their data, from edge to cloud.“

The company continues to accelerate momentum for the GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform. The platform has more than 1,200 customers and $5.2 billion in total contract value. In the firm‘s most recent quarter, 3Q21, it announced that its annualized revenue run rate was up 33% Y/Y, and as-a-service orders up 46% Y/Y ⁽³⁾. Most recently, it announced GreenLake platform wins with Woolworths Group, Australia and New Zealand’s largest retailer, and the United States National Security Agency.

GreenLake rolls out cloud-native unified analytics and data lakehouse cloud services optimized for hybrid environments ⁽²⁾
GreenLake for analytics enable customers to accelerate modernization initiatives, for all data, from edge to cloud. Available on the GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform, the new cloud services are built to be cloud-native, and avoid complex data migrations to the public cloud by providing an elastic, unified analytics platform for data and applications on-premises, at the edge and in public clouds. Now analytics and data science teams can leverage an industry’s first⁽²⁾ cloud-native solution on-premises, scale-up Apache Spark lakehouses, and speed up AI and ML workflows.

GreenLake cloud services include following:

Ezmeral Unified Analytics: Industry’s first ⁽²⁾ unified, analytics and data lakehouse platform optimized for on-premises deployment and spans edge to cloud.

Ezmeral Data Fabric Object Store: Industry’s first ⁽²⁾ Kubernetes-native object store optimized for analytics performance, providing access to data sets edge to cloud.

Ezmeral Partner Ecosystem: The firm’s Ezmeral Marketplace delivers a growing set of validated full-stack solutions from ISV partners that enable customers to build their analytics engines. This includes support from Nvidia, PepperData and Confluent, and open-source projects such as Apache Spark. The company has added 37 ISV partners to the Ezmeral Marketplace since it was introduced in March 2021, delivering additional ecosystem stack support of core use cases and workloads for customers, including big data and AI/ML use cases.

Takes cyberthreats and ransomware head-on with GreenLake Cloud Services to protect customers’ data from edge to cloud
The company entered the growing data protection-as-a-service market with GreenLake for data protection, cloud services designed to modernize data protection from edge to cloud, overcome ransomware attacks, and deliver rapid data recovery.

Backup and Recovery Service: Backup-as-a-ervice offering that provides policy-based orchestration and automation to backup and protect customers’ VMs across hybrid cloud, and eliminates the complexities of managing backup hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure.
GreenLake for DR: Following the close of the Zerto Ltd. acquisition, the company plans to deliver Zerto’s DR-as-a-service through GreenLake, to help customers recover in minutes from ransomware attacks. Zerto provides restore times ⁽⁴⁾ without impacting business operations for all recovery scenarios.

Accelerates adoption of cloud-everywhere operating models with proven framework and data-driven intelligence and automations tools
The company also announced a proven set of methodologies and automation tools to enable organizations to take a data-driven approach to achieve the optimal cloud operating model across all environments:

Edge-to-Cloud Adoption Framework leverages the firm‘s expertise in delivering solutions on-premises, to meet a spectrum of business needs for customers. The company has identified several critical areas that enterprises should evaluate and measure to execute an effective cloud operating model. These domains, which include strategy and governance, people, operations, innovation, applications, DevOps, data, and security, form the core of the Edge-to-Cloud Adoption Framework.
Cloud operational experience is enhanced with the AI Ops for infrastructure ⁽⁵⁾, the firm’s InfoSight, that now constantly observes applications and workloads running on the GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform. The capability, called InfoSight App Insights, detects application anomalies, provides prescriptive recommendations, and keeps the application workloads running disruption free. HPE CloudPhysics delivers data-driven insights for smarter IT decisions across edge-to-cloud, enabling IT to optimize application workload placement, procure right-sized infrastructure services, and lower costs.

Product availability:

GreenLake for Analytics and GreenLake for Data Protection will be available in 1H22.
Edge-to-Cloud Adoption Framework is available.

Resources:
GreenLake announcement event: HPE Discover More Network to watch the GreenLake announcement event, including the keynote from Antonio Neri, president and CEO, HPE, live on September 28 or anytime on-demand.
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