By Antonio Neri, President & CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The pandemic was a catalyst to accelerate digital transformation, fundamentally resetting and redefining how enterprises, governments, and societies work together towards common goals. Today, we are strategic partners moving humanity forward, and we have an opportunity to drive the adoption of new technologies that are inclusive, accessible, and sustainable.
In this digital economy, connectivity is an absolute necessity, and data is the new currency. But, data alone isn’t enough. We must harness its power to uncover insights that advance the way we live and work – reinventing healthcare to extend healthy, productive living; providing essential technology to explore space in news ways; analyzing the ocean’s natural cycles to unlock unlimited supplies of clean, renewable energy. These are just a few examples of the future Hewlett Packard Enterprise and our customers are making possible.
HPE GreenLake: One Platform, One Experience, From Edge-to-Cloud
Four years ago, we declared that the enterprise of the future would be edge-centric, cloud-enabled, and data-driven – and as a result we launched HPE GreenLake to help customers leverage data and complete their hybrid cloud transformation. Three years ago, we promised to deliver everything as a service by 2022. Thanks to HPE GreenLake, I can proudly say, we’ve achieved that goal. Today, we are the world’s leading edge-to-cloud company, with HPE GreenLake delivering one platform, one experience, from edge to cloud.
I am often asked by customers, “What workloads should we move to the public cloud and what should stay on-prem”? I think the better question is, “How do I bring a consistent cloud operating model across all my workloads and data”? To do that, you need an edge-to-cloud architecture and a platform built specifically for a highly distributed enterprise. The HPE GreenLake platform not only compliments public cloud capabilities, it also completes your hybrid cloud strategy by addressing your biggest, data-first modernization challenges.
Introducing HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise
Today, we are introducing HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise, a new service that provides a modern cloud experience built on a modular infrastructure that supports bare metal deployment, virtual machines, and container workloads from one shared environment. You can run traditional and cloud-native applications at scale without moving data and refactoring applications. And, it is delivered with enterprise grade service level agreements covering the full lifecycle including Day Zero, Day One and Day Two activities. That means, you can focus on your strategic business priorities and leave the infrastructure to HPE GreenLake.
We are also rolling out the HPE GreenLake Developer Portal to help developers easily access our API’s, CLI’s, and documentation. And, we are adding the ability to create multiple workspaces within your organization, the ability to purchase directly within the platform, and more ways to do show-back and charge-back at a business level so you can become a more flexible service provider to your business.
Together, these enhancements reaffirm our platform as the go-to destination for hybrid cloud, providing the market with an unmatched platform to spur innovation and drive transformations.
What makes HPE GreenLake unique?
Many customers struggle with workloads that have data gravity and data compliance issues preventing their transition to the public cloud. HPE GreenLake solves that problem by bringing the cloud operating experience to your data. Because of this flexibility, you can deploy your cloud anywhere.
As more and more of your data requires real-time processing at the edge, you can extend your hybrid cloud to your many edges; in your factories, cell towers, schools, and branch offices — wherever your workloads need to run. With HPE GreenLake you can create cloud-native, private clouds that you can deploy adjacent to public clouds as part of your hybrid environment, while still allowing your developer teams to use and deploy public cloud services on the platform.
At HPE, we are also committed to being a force for good, using game-changing optimization and economics as a catalyst for sustainability advancements. Alongside partners and customers, we have an immense opportunity to positively impact our planet by enabling you to transform and modernize sustainably – in ways that help move society forward. The move to the public cloud has been a key lever, but sustainability must reach all applications and data, wherever they are.
The bottom line is, with HPE GreenLake, you can build your hybrid cloud, your way, to fit the needs of your data and your mission. HPE is now the world’s leading edge-to-cloud company, and HPE GreenLake is our beating heart.
I am very pleased with how the market has responded to our strategy. Today, 65,000 customers – including The Home Depot, Carestream Health, and BMW Group – are on the HPE GreenLake cloud platform, consuming 70 unique cloud services, with over an exabyte of data under management with customers worldwide.
I hope you see a notable difference in HPE. Bringing this platform to life was a massive undertaking, against the backdrop of an incredibly disruptive time, that not only redefined HPE as a company but changed the way we do business. We have been transforming to create a more inclusive culture. I am proud of our team members and our culture for the way we show up for our customer.
We are positioned for the future, and with HPE GreenLake, we are positioning you to be the enterprise for the future.
But we are not stopping there. As a company, we will continue to look forward, continue to innovate, and continue to reimagine the cloud in ways never thought possible so we can transform the world together. Come with us.