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Benedict Barton
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10 years ago, companies were reluctant to move their workloads to the cloud. They cited
security, performance and hidden costs as objections, and time has proven many of them
right. Reading the trade press, you could be led to believe that every company has moved
everything to the cloud. Yet, many companies have operational necessities - such as low
network and machine infrastructure latency - or compliance requirements that means
workloads have to remain on-premise. Cloud providers, like AWS, want your data and they
are not really interested in your workloads. Which is why it is the easier ones, such a dev
and email that moved to the cloud-first, leaving the traditional enterprise scale workloads
remaining on-premise. But companies with these workloads do not need to be tied to the
CAPEX heavy traditional IT model.
You can still enjoy the benefits achieved from cloud adoption, including the as a service
charging model. This will enable you to deliver an on-premises experience with the look and
feel of the public cloud whilst maintaining full control.
HPE GreenLake delivers exactly this by focussing on outcome-based consumption and
simplifying IT. You no longer need to invest in on-premises hardware, just pay for what you
use. There is no delay in the purchasing and provision of new hardware, it is already
there.
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with allocation software and services into a hybrid cloud platform, controlled by HPE
GreenLake Central. It doesn’t create a “walled garden” like its competitors and instead uses
the public cloud providers’ native languages and tools.
HPE's as a Service model can be applied to a wide variety of workloads. For virtualisation,
private cloud, backup and general storage, HPE GreenLake provides purpose-built
infrastructure using portfolio offerings like HPE SimpliVity hyper-converged and HPE
Nimble storage. For other workloads, HPE leverages a broad ecosystem of partners —
VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, SAP, and others.
Many enterprise applications have not been designed as cloud-native, ruling out a simple lift
and shift re-platforming and leaving the options to re-architect or rebuild the application to
move it to the cloud. This is often impractical even if it is in theory achievable. These
workloads will remain on-premise, often as a result of complex integrations with existing
systems.
Security and Governance often dictate where a workload can reside. Public cloud services
such as Azure and AWS provide highly flexible access to resources, but some kinds of data
are subject to privacy regulations that preclude the use of public cloud. These regulations
may prohibit storing or transferring information with a third party. In these instances, the onpremise approach gives companies the ability to keep the information within their own data
centre. Some industries and geographies have regulations that require additional data
governance regulations regarding data sovereignty, such as storing citizens data on physical
servers within a country's borders. The HPE GreenLake service has been designed to deliver
the performance and control required by enterprise for both cloud-native and traditional
workloads from within their own data centres.
HPE GreenLake enables you to keep complete control over your infrastructure, while it's as
a Service pricing model gives a lower cost than public cloud. On-premise deployments
always include a degree of over provisioning, often as high as 50%, catering for planned
growth and some unplanned peaks but with HPE GreenLake payments are based on metered
consumption so you only pay for the additional capacity and resource when it's used. By
having a real-time picture of services and consumed capacity you will have the ability for
ongoing rightsizing.
Cost analysis of HPE GreenLake against AWS found it coming out considerably cheaper.
One of the factors in this price saving was removing the charges for outbound data transfer,
while data ingress is usually free, egress is a different matter with public cloud providers.
HPE GreenLake also removes vendor lock-in or switching costs. these costs have always
existed in IT but in an increasingly hybrid world, where apps and data live everywhere, the
model of moving the data to where the cloud is has become outdated. With data increasing
being processed at the edge HPE GreenLake you can integrate Aruba Intelligent Edge.
For enterprise applications that cannot move easily to the cloud, you can still take a cloudfirst approach, bringing the benefits of the cloud, including innovation, improved internal
SLA and cost efficiencies to your IT operations without loss of control by using HPE
GreenLake. You will enjoy the benefits of automation and simpler management enabling
operational scale and far greater efficiency from your in-house team.
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SCC and HPE have been working together in partnership for over 30 years. Our expertise
has led us to become one of just eleven Platinum partners and we have more accredited
professionals, including Master ASE Data centre and Cloud Architects, than any other UK
company. SCC is the only company to hold accreditations across each of HPE’s business
groups including number one partner in multiple groups. It all adds to our ability to deliver
exactly what a client needs every time.
If you’d like to find out more then please get in touch - we can advise you of where to start
your journey.
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Adam Dale • 2nd
Building strong partnerships, whilst delivering viable solutions to meet customer needs.
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A very powerful way of helping customers improving against their business needs, whilst also allowing
IT teams to focus on other areas of innovation. Customers who are adopting a Cloud first strategy,
should also consider utilising the HPE GreenLake solution, as it still provides the agility of a Cloud-like
solution, whilst also having the security benefits from the On-Prem technology.
Fantastic post.
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Reuben Melville • 2nd
HPE WW GreenLake Channel Category Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Great article!
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