Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced the expansion of its
partnership with VMware to offer VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service.
Through the integration of HPE GreenLake and HPE Synergy with VMware Cloud Foundation,
the two companies allow mutual customers to keep all their
applications, tools and data in-place, while achieving the benefits of
cloud and composable infrastructure.
Through HPE GreenLake, mutual customers can benefit from a fully managed
hybrid cloud environment in which they only pay for what they consume,
lowering TCO by 30% and accelerating new IT project deployment by 65%.1
The solution is compatible across on and off premises data centers,
simple to operate and supports VMs and containers. This dramatically
improves the value enterprise customers experience from a hybrid cloud
environment, including agility and speed of composability, ability to
shift resources from managing infrastructure to innovation.
Today's partnership announcement provides customers with:
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Cloud Economics: Management of VMware Cloud Foundation through
HPE GreenLake enables enterprise IT to shift resources to meet changing
business demands. Customers pay for what they use and plan capacity
ahead of use, to avoid overprovisioning and save on TCO.
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Speed and Agility: The integration of HPE GreenLake and HPE
Synergy with VMware Cloud Foundation enables companies to accelerate
time to value. HPE Synergy allows customers to compose resources to
dynamically configure them to meet the needs of VMware Cloud Foundation
workloads and scale when needed - enabling IT and developers to spin up
new resources for faster app provisioning. With HPE GreenLake metering
and capacity management, the resources required for each workload are
ready to deploy in minutes, not months, shortening time to deploy global
IT projects by 65%.2
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Control, Security, and Workload Optimization: Customers can use
the HPE Right Mix Advisor to identify which workloads and applications
are ideal to move to public clouds, or keep in private clouds, and how
to migrate those workloads to achieve the optimal mix of hybrid cloud.
HPE Right Mix Advisor delivers data-driven guidance that allows
customers to remain in control of IT operations, policies, and
procedures, achieve increased performance and manage costs for each
workload.
"Cloud has fundamentally changed customers' expectations around IT. They
seek an experience that allows them to act with agility, and
dynamically compose resources based on business demands," said Phil
Davis, President of Hybrid IT at HPE. "VMware and HPE have a long
history of co-innovation, and today we are enabling customers to bring
the cloud experience to their data center. Our vision is built on a
single platform that can span across multiple clouds and puts companies
in a better position to take advantage of new business opportunities
without the management complexity and cost."
"Customers demand a cloud experience that offers high levels of
flexibility and functionality to deliver consistent infrastructure and
operations," said John Gilmartin, General Manager and Senior Vice
President of the HCI Business Unit at VMware. "VMware is working closely
with HPE to give our mutual customers the freedom and flexibility to
consume hybrid cloud as a service, empowering them to unleash the full
potential of the hybrid cloud. This will enable organizations with
greater degrees of cost management, business automation, and
innovation."