HPE Discover 2023: HPE Unveils Hybrid Cloud with GreenLake Platform Innovation, New Cloud Services, and Expanded Private Cloud Portfolio and Partner Ecosystem

At HPE Discover 2023, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced an expansion of offerings and innovation across its GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform, hybrid cloud services, private cloud portfolio, and partner ecosystem.

• HPE closes OpsRamp acquisition; solution is now available as a SaaS offering on the GreenLake platform, providing customers with AI-driven operations for multi-vendor, multi-cloud IT environments.
• GreenLake adds SaaS offerings for backup and ML, delivers additional HPE SaaS offerings on the AWS marketplace and extends Network-as-a-service (NaaS) portfolio.
• The company expands the GreenLake private cloud portfolio with GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition, an offering that allows customers to spin up VMs across hybrid clouds on demand.
• The firm also announces enhancements to GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise to address multi-cloud use cases by providing upcoming support to deploy Red Hat OpenShift.
• HPE and VMware, Inc. build on longstanding partnership by enhancing GreenLake for VMware Cloud Foundation pay-per-use solution, with pre-configured and tested HPE cloud modules, optimized for VMware Cloud Foundation.
• HPE and Equinix announce expanded partnership to pre-provision GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise and GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition at Equinix, Inc. data centers around the world, giving customers rapid access to a broad range of private cloud offerings, for greater speed, agility, flexibility, and choice in their hybrid cloud strategy.

“In 2019, we introduced our strategy to deliver everything as a service through HPE GreenLake. Since then, our strategy has been a winner, as customers increasingly seek to combine the modern cloud experience with the control, governance, performance, and predictability of hybrid cloud,” said Antonio Neri, president and CEO, HPE. “HPE GreenLake has led the way in this new category, and today we are extending our leadership by expanding the reach, choice, and capabilities of our hybrid and private cloud offerings. HPE GreenLake is the destination of choice for any organization seeking to drive a successful hybrid cloud strategy.”

GreenLake operations console with OpsRamp
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OpsRamp integration with GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform and sustainability dashboard
The GreenLake platform provides customers and partners with a unified experience to simplify hybrid and multi-cloud IT operations and access cloud services. Organizations benefit from a single control plane from which to automate, orchestrate, and run their hybrid cloud.

The company continues to innovate on the GreenLake platform by adding software from OpsRamp, a HPE company, as a SaaS offering. GreenLake platform customers can leverage OpsRamp for full stack observability and automation of assets and applications across heterogenous, multi-vendor, and multi-cloud estates. These capabilities provide customers with a powerful tool to drive automation and simplicity, and lower costs, across hybrid cloud estates.

Additionally, OpsRamp advances the capabilities of the recently announced sustainability dashboard, by providing visibility into IT assets and applications across multi-vendor and multi-cloud estates. The sustainability dashboard is now available in early access mode on the GreenLake platform today.

The company also offers OpsRamp services and consulting through HPE Complete Care Service and Managed Services.

Expanded GreenLake hybrid cloud services
The firm continues to expand the portfolio of SaaS and NaaS offerings on GreenLake and add HPE SaaS offerings to the AWS marketplace.

• It also announced that it has expanded its relationship with AWS to simplify hybrid cloud transformation by delivering a consistent, unified hybrid cloud experience to customers, including offering the HPE NonStop Development Environment delivered as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and HPE Fraud Risk Management as SaaS in AWS Marketplace.
• It has added new capabilities to HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery, which provides cost-effective, long-term retention, and protects data and workloads across customers’ hybrid clouds. The enhanced offering now protects on-premises and cloud databases managed by Microsoft SQL Server and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).
• The HPE Machine Learning Development Environment is available through HPE GreenLake for HPC. The offering provides optimized AI infrastructure and ML software through GreenLake.
• The data center switching portfolio of Aruba Networking CX 8000, Aruba Networking 9000, and Aruba Networking 10000 series is available for consumption via network as a service (NaaS). The 2 new GreenLake for Aruba networking service packs allow partners to expand into data center networking and bundle their design and delivery services with a monthly SaaS technology subscription, enabling customers to consume a full compute, storage and networking data center stack via GreenLake.

Expanded GreenLake portfolio of modern private cloud offerings and partner ecosystem
Today, organizations demand greater visibility, control, and predictability of their workloads and data at the edge, on-premises and in the public cloud. As a result, organizations are increasingly turning to private cloud offerings to modernize and digitally transform.

A report from Constellation Research found that organizations that moved to a private cloud model experienced 50% in cost savings, up to 65% in increased performance on private cloud workloads, and two times faster IT and development cycle times in hybrid environments.⁽¹⁾ The study is based on input from senior IT leadership in corporations across North America and is consistent with the momentum behind GreenLake.

Since the release of GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise last June, the company continues to invest to give customers more choice with the expansion of its portfolio of private cloud offerings, to provide customers a simple, flexible, and intuitive experience for running modern private clouds.

GreenLake For Private Cloud Business Edition
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• GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition is the newest offering in the private cloud portfolio. The offering allows customers to spin up VMs across hybrid clouds on demand and self-manage their private cloud from VMs to infrastructure with AIOs-driven simplicity. With an intuitive cloud operational experience for management and integration for data protection, customers can store, manage and protect data across on-premises, edges and public clouds while providing industry-leading ⁽²⁾ data availability and efficiency. The offering provides customers self-service flexibility as well as the option to pay up-front or pay-as-you-go.
• GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise has added capabilities to address edge use cases by adding the ability to connect to thousands of distributed IT locations to provide managed services for cloud native and traditional applications. The offering will also add upcoming support to deploy Red Hat OpenShift. GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise will also provide new hybrid and multi-cloud capabilities to self-provision workloads with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and VMware.
• GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition is the newest offering in the private cloud portfolio. The offering allows customers to spin up VMs across hybrid clouds on demand and self-manage their private cloud from VMs to infrastructure with AIOs-driven simplicity. With an intuitive cloud operational experience for management and seamless integration for data protection, customers can store, manage and protect data across on-premises, edges and public clouds while providing industry-leading data availability and efficiency. The offering provides customers self-service flexibility as well as the option to pay up-front or pay-as-you-go.
• The firm also supports customers looking to build a customized private cloud offering through GreenLake Flex Solutions, which is built on standard modules to give customers more speed and simplicity.
• HPE and VMware, Inc. continue their decades-long partnership by introducing an expansion of GreenLake for VMware Cloud Foundation capabilities. The company provides pre-configured and tested cloud modules, optimized for VMware Cloud Foundation, in addition to the software licenses, installation, and ongoing management services, all delivered on a pay-per-use basis through GreenLake. Management of VMware Cloud Foundation through GreenLake enables enterprise IT to shift resources to meet changing business demands and avoid overprovisioning by providing customers with a secure, self-service hybrid cloud running on fully managed HPE infrastructure.
• The firm also announced that its expanded private cloud portfolio will be pre-provisioned at Equinix data centers around the world. The expanded partnership with Equinix, Inc. will give customers more choice and the ability to rapidly deploy modern private clouds.

Resources:
Watch the Discover keynotes live online   
Aruba Networking: Data center investments simplify IT and cloud modernization   
GreenLake Cloud Services Solutions: HPE GreenLake and Equinix partner to deliver modern private cloud wherever customers need it    
GreenLake for Backup and Recovery: Redefining backup and recovery with cloud experience    
GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition: An Insider’s Guide   
GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise: Private cloud for the distributed enterprise: unleash edge data without the complexity  
GreenLake for Storage Fabric Management: Next generation SAN fabric management as a service built for hybrid cloud     
Machine Learning Data Management Software: Scale ML workloads to petabytes with HPE Machine Learning Data Management Software   HPE Machine Learning Development Environment: Accelerating AI modeling with the HPE Machine Learning Development Environment   
OpsRamp: OpsRamp Brings Industry-Leading AIOs-driven ITOM to HPE GreenLake    

⁽¹⁾ Source: Constellation Research, The New 2023 Cloud Reality: A Rebalancing Between Private and Public (registration required)
⁽²⁾ Source: Based on HPE internal testing conducted in October 2022 comparing GreenLake for Backup and Recovery with four competing on-prem and AWS cloud native backup solutions. Includes 99.9999% data availability guarantee and up to 10x lower write latencies for data bases, with up to 8x more efficient backups than other solutions.