Hewlett
Packard Enterprise announced the expansion of its HPE
GreenLake edge to cloud platform to include support for Microsoft Azure
Stack HCI and Microsoft SQL Server. The new HPE GreenLake cloud
services deliver the agility and flexibility organizations are looking
for in a scalable, simplified, and cloud-native architecture
on-premises. Joint customers can consolidate virtualized Windows and
Linux workloads for efficiency, and run production workloads using a
familiar, hybrid environment. This announcement complements HPE's broad
portfolio of hyperconverged infrastructure offerings now available via
HPE GreenLake, including HPE SimpliVity and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI.
As
enterprises digitally transform, they require greater control over
their data while modernizing their on-premises and edge footprint.
Currently, 70 per cent of critical production applications and data
remain outside the public cloud, in a secure, single tenant environment
and at the edge where the data increasingly is created.
HPE GreenLake with Azure Stack HCI and Microsoft SQL Server enables
businesses to transform their on-premises and edge workloads by
providing customers with a cloud experience and operating model for
applications and workloads close to where the data lives.
"The
world is becoming hybrid and that's why we are so excited about this
collaboration with Microsoft, especially as we see significant growth in
the Hyperconverged Infrastructure area," said Keith White, General
Manager, HPE GreenLake Cloud Services. "By combining Microsoft Azure
Stack HCI with offerings like the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform,
customers benefit from a unified, automated experience. The solution
means customers can determine their own right mix of hybrid cloud and
workload placement, with flexibility but also control. We continue to
deepen our collaboration with Microsoft to develop comprehensive
solutions that help customers transform to modern cloud-driven
organizatons."
Hyperconverged
infrastructure is a fast-growing industry category founded on the
principles of software-defined infrastructure to drive agility with a
cloud-like experience. HPE continues to invest and innovate in
best-in-class HCI solutions, HPE SimpliVity and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI.
Together with HPE's ecosystem of partners, HPE offers a market-leading
portfolio of HCI solutions available as a service through the HPE
GreenLake cloud platform. These offerings are optimized to provide
customers with choice in selecting the right solution for the right
workload, including general purpose and business critical applications,
virtualized and containerized applications, and small and large scale
environments.
"HPE
Greenlake integration with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI and Microsoft SQL
Server is the latest collaboration in a long and productive relationship
between Microsoft and HPE," said Roanne Sones, Corporate Vice
President, Microsoft Azure Edge + Platform. "The shared work to
integrate HPE GreenLake with Microsoft offerings gives our customers a
managed services solution that offers simplicity, flexibility, and the
economics that work for their environments, plus the benefit of ongoing
security expertise from Azure and HPE."
Key benefits of HPE GreenLake with Azure Stack HCI and Microsoft SQL Server:
- A Cloud Experience: Customers
require a flexible cloud platform everywhere, one that provides
automation, self-service, capacity on demand, along with the ability to
use a broad range of tools, managed for them. Azure Stack HCI, a new
hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) operating system, is delivered as an
Azure service on the HPE GreenLake cloud platform, to accelerate data
center modernization, remote office productivity, and many edge
applications.
- Simplified Hybrid IT Management: Customers
can control their services through the Azure portal in the same way
that they manage their Azure public cloud services. With HPE GreenLake
cloud platform, customers can manage, bill, and grow their environment
as they grow.
- Data Anywhere with Savings: With
Microsoft SQL Server, HPE GreenLake uses defined and tested
configurations ready to support database applications of all sizes. HPE
delivers pay-per-use pricing, point and-click self-service, scalability,
and flexibility of the cloud experience with the security of dedicated,
on-premises IT at 30 to 40 per cent TCO savings while eliminating the
need for overprovisioning.
The
HPE GreenLake edge to cloud platform provides customers with a powerful
foundation to drive digital transformation through an elastic
as-a-service platform that can run on premises, at the edge, or in a
colocation facility. The HPE GreenLake cloud platform combines the
simplicity and agility of the cloud with the governance, compliance, and
visibility that comes with hybrid IT. HPE GreenLake offers a range of
cloud services that accelerate innovation, including cloud services for
bare metal, compute, container management, data protection, HCI, high
performance compute, machine learning operations, networking, risk
management, SAP HANA, storage, VDI, and VMs. The HPE GreenLake cloud
platform business is rapidly growing with over $4.8 billion USD in total
contract value and more than 900 partners selling HPE GreenLake. Today,
HPE GreenLake has more than 1200 enterprise customers across 50
countries in all industry sectors and sizes including Fortune 500
companies, government and public sector organizations, and small and
midmarket enterprises. For more information on HPE GreenLake, please
visit: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/greenlake.html.
Availability
HPE
GreenLake with the HPE Validated System for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI
and Microsoft SQL Server is available immediately, with an Integrated
System available this year.