Hewlett Packard Enterprise added private cloud enhancements to HPE GreenLake, the company's cloud platform, and built out services for backup, machine learning and network as a service.
At HPE Discover, the company outlined a bevy of GreenLake additions. The timing is notable since Constellation Research analyst Dion Hinchcliffe recently published a report outlining how CXOs are moving to private cloud models for cost savings. In a nutshell, public cloud providers haven't been passing on savings and encouraging enterprises to move workloads such as AI on premises.
For stable workloads, high data movement and ongoing workloads the public cloud can be more expensive.
HPE CEO Antonio Neri said during a keynote that GreenLake is enabling hybrid and private cloud choice. Indeed, HPE expanded partnerships with Equinix and AWS. During his HPE Discover keynote, Neri said enterprises will be edge and cloud focused and data driven. He also touted HPE's supercomputing prowess and noted that "only supercomputing can accelerate AI."
He added:
"We are experiencing an exponential growth of data everywhere, but only 50% of it is used for decisions. The reality is we have been data rich and insight poor. AI and generative AI has accelerated and we now have the ability to harness the power of our data."
Among the HPE announcements at Discover:
- HPE closed its OpsRamp acquisition and launched OpRamp integration with HPE GreenLake's platform and sustainability dashboard. HPE GreenLake customers can use OpsRamp for observability and automation across multi-cloud assets.
- OpsRamp’s sustainability dashboard will provide visibility into multi-vendor and multi-cloud IT assets.
- HPE is adding HPE NonStop Development Environment delivered as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and HPE Fraud Risk Management as SaaS in AWS Marketplace.
- HPE's Machine Learning Development Environment is available through HPE GreenLake for High Performance Computing (HPC).
- HPE build out its network as a service (NaaS) offering with the addition of the HPE Aruba Networking CX 8000, HPE Aruba Networking 9000, and HPE Aruba Networking 10000 series.
- HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition enables customers to spin up virtual machines (VMs) across hybrid clouds on demand and self-manage their private cloud.
- HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise added capabilities for edge use cases and the ability to connect to distributed IT locations.
- HPE expanded its portfolio for private cloud with partnerships with Equinix. HPE launched HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise and HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition housed at Equinix's global data centers.
- HPE will provide pre-configured and tested cloud modules optimized for VMware Cloud Foundation.
