Getting to Better Business Outcomes with HPE GreenLake Flex Solutions

Overview of HPE GreenLake Flex Solutions

HPE GreenLake Flex Solutions is an offering from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) that enables customers to deploy physical hardware on-premises, but pay for it as if it were cloud computing resources. It’s a consumption-based IT solution created from standardized modules. For example, with HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity, you could run a database on a server in your data center, but instead of buying the server, you pay a monthly subscription fee. You can add to the capacity as needed and pay incrementally more.

The HPE GreenLake Flex Solutions Portfolio

The HPE GreenLake Flex Solutions portfolio features several optimized workloads, including:

• Core compute and storage—With a range of software-defined servers available to run a variety of workloads, e.g., composable compute, high availability (HA) compute, and storage-optimized compute.
• Database—HPE GreenLake provides database-optimized hardware, software, and services in a unified offering that includes SAP HANA® in-memory databases.
• Business applications—With HPE GreenLake, you can run business software for payments, electronic health records (EHR), telco cloud, and more with optimized systems on a subscription basis.
• AI, machine learning (ML), and data analytics—Workload-optimized HPE GreenLake solutions enable you to access the computing power you need for demanding analytics and AI processes. Ecosystem partners include Cloudian, HPC, Qumulo, Scality, and Digital Twin.
• Data protection—Backup and disaster recovery become manageable and more economically reasonable with HPE GreenLake Flex Solutions working as backup infrastructure. Ecosystem partners include Cohesity, Commvault, Veeam, and Zerto.

Drivers of Better Business Outcomes

HPE GreenLake Flex Solutions can drive better business outcomes than are typically possible with legacy infrastructure or pure cloud architectures. These outcomes run the gamut from financial gains to the operational benefits of high-performing on-premises IT assets.

Saving on CapEx and OpEx with GreenLake’s Flexible Consumption Model

Subscription pricing through HPE GreenLake results in savings in capital expenditures (CapEx). It is no longer necessary to procure hardware, which may use up cash or require financing, neither of which is good for the balance sheet. The flexible consumption model also enables savings from capacity expansion, a process that typically involves acquiring more hardware than is necessary to allow workloads to “grow into it” over time. With HPE GreenLake, there is no need to invest in excess capacity when scaling a solution.

HPE GreenLake’s pay-per-use pricing is an operational expense (OpEx). However, HPE GreenLake can also reduce OpEx when compared to traditional on-premises infrastructure. With its pre-packaging of core components, workload-optimized design, and HPE support, an HPE GreenLake solution should require fewer IT administrative resources to run. Additionally, because HPE retains ownership of the equipment and has responsibility for security, performance and compliance, your staff has less work to do. This saves on the IT budget.

Realizing the Efficiency Advantages of a Unified Stack

With its unified stack and pre-configured, specialized modules, HPE GreenLake enables rapid deployment of IT assets that support business processes. This can translate into faster market time and realization of strategic technology projects like AI and data analytics.

Enabling the IT and Financial Benefits of Hybrid Cloud Architectures

HPE GreenLake Flex Solutions are well-suited to serve as the high-performing on-premises side of a hybrid public/private cloud architecture. Customers get on-premises control and security but with cloud-like operational benefits. From a business perspective, this means faster time-to-operation and less expensive and complex administration.

Delivering Reliability and Security Through Hybrid Observability

Hybrid observability, a feature of HPE GreenLake Flex Solutions, gives admins a full view of consumption and management across a hybrid cloud and multi-cloud estate. It can provide visibility into partner ecosystems like Google Anthos, Microsoft Azure, VMware Cloud Foundation, and Red Hat OpenShift Container. With real-time insights and proactive management, this capability translates into reliability and security and reduces the likelihood of an outage or slowdown that adversely affects business operations.

Leveraging AI to improve IT operations management

AI powers the HPE GreenLake command center, expediting system optimization, and facilitating automated incident response and remediation. As a business issue, leveraging AI leads to improved IT operations management, with greater reliability and IT team productivity emerging as a result.

Implementation and Support

The HPE GreenLake implementation process starts with an engagement with HPE Pointnext, which is HPE’s professional services organization. Working with implementation partners like Comport, PointNext recommends hardware, software, and partner technologies for an optimal HPE GreenLake instance. Comport synergizes with PointNext, offering the benefits of more than 30 years of experience in managed services. The firm offers a range of management and support options

Conclusion

IT organizations want the flexibility and economic advantages of the cloud, but they may be reluctant to host key IT assets off-premises. Indeed, they may be required by law to keep data onsite. HPE GreenLake offers a way to enjoy the best of both worlds: High-performing on-premises infrastructure that is delivered and priced like cloud services. It’s an arrangement that results in a number of improved business outcomes, from reduced IT operations costs to faster time-to-market, better security, and the efficiency that comes from managing a uniform tech stack with an AI-driven centralized management interface.

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