Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced significant advancements to HPE GreenLake, the company’s flagship offering that enables organisations to modernise all their applications and data, from edge to cloud. Now, HPE’s market-leading hybrid cloud platform just got stronger, with a unified operating experience, new cloud services, and availability of HPE GreenLake in the online marketplaces of several leading distributors.
“HPE was among the first to deliver a cloud platform that enables customers to manage and extract insights from their data from edge to cloud, and our continued innovation is driving growth and furthering our market leadership,” said Antonio Neri, president and CEO, HPE. “In the hybrid cloud market, HPE GreenLake is unique in its simplicity, unification, depth of cloud services, and partner network. Today, we are furthering our differentiation, boldly setting HPE GreenLake even further apart as the ideal platform for customers to drive data-first modernisation.”
HPE GreenLake platform – supporting multi-cloud experiences wherever workloads live
HPE GreenLake provides multi-cloud experiences across the board – including on-premises, at the edge, in a colocation facility, and in the public cloud – and continues to see high demand worldwide. HPE reported $798 million in annual recurring revenue in Q1 2022, with as-a-service orders up 136% year over year.
HPE GreenLake continues to develop and innovate to give clients a single, easy-to-use platform for significantly transforming and modernising their businesses. Updates to the platform include:
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Convergence of Aruba Central, a cloud-native, AI-powered network management solution, with the HPE GreenLake platform. Now, more than 120,000 Aruba networking customers, which includes nearly 2 million devices to manage and 2 million API calls per day, can use the HPE GreenLake platform to order services on-demand and manage their assets.
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A new, unified operational experience that provides a simplified view and access to all cloud services, spanning the entire HPE portfolio, with single sign-on access, security, compliance, elasticity, and data protection.
The HPE GreenLake platform provides the foundation for more than 50 cloud services, including electronic health records, ML Ops, payments, unified analytics, SAP HANA, and a wide-array of cloud services from partners.
HPE announces 12 new cloud services to drive data first modernisation, from edge-to-cloud
HPE unveiled 12 new cloud services in networking, data services, high-performance computing and compute operations management.
HPE GreenLake for Aruba networking
As a leading provider and expert in delivering comprehensive edge connectivity networking solutions, HPE is building out its network as a service (NaaS) offerings with HPE GreenLake for Aruba networking. The eight new services simplify the process of procuring and deploying NaaS and allow customers to align network spend to usage needs, while ensuring that the network is always ready to support business objectives.
The new services are also designed to help channel partners meet growing customer demand for NaaS through resale or managed service provider models. The new services cover a wide range of customer use cases, including wired, wireless, and SD-Branch, and offer unparalleled levels of velocity and flexibility, reducing time to revenue.
HPE GreenLake Data Services
New and enhanced block storage and data protection services join the current HPE GreenLake data services.
HPE GreenLake for Block Storage
HPE GreenLake for Block Storage is the first cloud-based block storage-as-a-service solution to provide a 100% data availability guarantee. It enables businesses to shift more quickly and provides crucial corporate applications with self-service agility. The new offering provides the following capabilities:
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Self-service provisioning to provide line of business owners and database admins the agility required to build and deploy new apps, services, and projects faster.
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IT resources are freed to work on strategic, higher-value initiatives with 98% operational time savings.
HPE Backup and Recovery Service
Enhanced HPE Backup and Recovery Service is a hybrid cloud backup as a service. Customers can easily protect their data for Virtual Machines, restore data quickly on-premises, and keep long-term backups in the public cloud for a low fee. HPE Backup and Recovery Service for Virtual Machines running on heterogeneous infrastructure is now available.
Additionally, HPE is advancing its ransomware recovery solutions by adding immutable data copies – on-premises or on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with HPE Backup and Recovery Service.
HPE GreenLake for High-Performance Computing
By adding new, purpose-built HPC capabilities to its HPE GreenLake for High-Performance Computing products, HPE is making the technology more accessible to any company. The new capabilities can instantly handle the most demanding computing and data-intensive workloads, allowing AI and machine learning programmes to move faster. These include lower-cost HPC entry points, such as a 10-node configuration for testing workloads and scaling up as needed. Among the new features are:
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Expanded GPU capabilities that will integrate with the new addition of HPE Apollo 6500 Gen10 system to accelerate compute and advance data-intensive projects using the NVIDIA A100, A40, and A30 Tensor Core GPUs in increments of 2-4-8 accelerators. Additionally, the new service will feature the NVIDIA NVLink for a seamless, high-speed connection between GPUs to work together as a single robust accelerator.
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HPE Slingshot, the world’s only high-performance Ethernet fabric designed for HPC and AI solutions, to deliver high-performance networking to address demands for higher speed and congestion control in larger data-intensive and AI workloads.4
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HPE Parallel File System Storage is a scalable, high-performance storage solution that delivers unprecedented throughput for broader HPC and AI needs.
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Multi-cloud connector APIs offer the ability to programmatically orchestrate HPC workflows on a diverse pool of computing resources such as other HPE GreenLake for HPC or public clouds. New model delivers more elasticity, scalability and tools to optimise usage of disaggregated resources. The capability improves collaboration by connecting to other projects between multiple sites, removing silos.
HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management
First introduced at HPE Discover 2021, the HPE GreenLake Compute Ops Management is a cloud-native management console to access, monitor, and manage servers. Compute Ops Management easily automates the compute lifecycle management and securely across a customer’s compute environment. Today, the cloud service is open for a 90-day free trial and will be available for purchase in June 2022.
Compute Ops Management has demonstrated early success with HPE’s customer Kimley-Horn, a leading U.S. firm specialising in design and engineering consulting in private and public infrastructure. By using the Compute Ops Manager, Kimley-Horn was able to speed-up overnight server updates four hours to 45 minutes.
HPE expands its partner ecosystem to deliver industry-leading solutions through HPE GreenLake
The HPE GreenLake platform draws a large number of partners who want to deliver their apps and services on it.
HPE continues to work with important distribution partners on co-development projects. HPE GreenLake, which was first announced in March 2021, is now available through ALSO Group, Arrow Electronics, Ingram Micro, and TD Synnex's cloud marketplaces and e-commerce platforms. HPE GreenLake is now available to over 100,000 partners, allowing them to provide cloud services to their customers. The markets now have access to a library of pre-defined cloud services and enhancements to order and billing automation.
HPE also announced the availability of HPE GreenLake for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, a new, optimised offering that provides customers more choice and flexibility for their hybrid IT environments. HPE GreenLake for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI is an integrated system, pre-built and configured for faster deployment and easier integration and delivered as a pay-per-use service from HPE GreenLake.
Finally, HPE announced a new global partnership with Digital Realty, the world's leading cloud and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation, and interconnection provider. Customers can colocate any HPE GreenLake service across Digital Realty's more than 285 data centres on six continents, including locations in 50 major cities, to provide a rich ecosystem of products and world-class business and cloud adjacency. Customers benefit from a streamlined approach that includes a single agreement, invoice, and integrated service management to help them achieve their time-to-value, sustainability goals, and innovation goals.
