Get the cloud experience everywhere
This guide outlines the challenges organisations face in managing diverse IT environments and the need to bring the flexibility and efficiency of the cloud to all applications and data sources. It proposes solutions to address these challenges, including a modern private cloud infrastructure, unified cloud experiences, and comprehensive security measures. By implementing these solutions, organisations can streamline operations, optimise performance, and enhance security and compliance across their IT landscape. Reduce costs, increase efficiency, and provide a unified cloud experience for workloads everywhere, helping organisations achieve their cloud transformation goals.
Organisations are all-in on the flexibility, speed, agility, and pay-per-use model of public cloud. Today, 96% of organisations use at least one public cloud, and 89% use multiple clouds.1 But despite the benefits and widespread adoption, many are struggling with the reality that not every workload is appropriate for public cloud due to security, compliance, and performance concerns, as well as the complexity of migrating legacy applications.
This helps explain why 80% of organisations have diverse IT environments, giving them the ability to run workloads on a mix of environments as they see fit2, Only 30% of IT leaders say their existing IT infrastructure can “very effectively” dynamically adjust to workload demands. These organisations are seeking a way to bring the flexibility, agility, economics, and developer tools that they are used to with public cloud to applications and data across their other IT environments.
62% of IT leaders say they have ended up with a hybrid cloud environment by accident rather than by design. Building your cloud, your way with a unified cloud experience for workloads wherever they are means you can have everything you like about the cloud experience along with the benefits of one platform for all applications and data across your data centres, colocations, clouds, and edges.
How to reduce the cost and complexity of multiple IT environments
Extend the cloud experience wherever you need it
Operating in diverse IT environments can hinder flexibility and agility, impacting IT’s ability to deliver resources promptly. Adopting cloud principles throughout all applications and data locations can alleviate this, enabling capital liberation and financial flexibility with scalable, pay-as-you-go models.
HPE offers a modern private cloud solution, featuring automated, scalable infrastructure for traditional and cloud-native workloads, with precise metering for transparent billing. Additionally, HPE assists in aligning hybrid cloud strategies with business needs and budgets, optimising cloud benefits. Simplified management of mixed IT infrastructures streamlines operations, freeing up resources for innovation and supporting sustainability objectives. Centralising processing and data management enhances efficiency, ultimately facilitating a more agile and cost-effective IT environment.
How to optimise performance, efficiency, and costs for all applications, everywhere
Bring a unified cloud experience to all your workloads, including the latest technologies
In complex IT landscapes, the disparity between cloud systems and various environments such as data centres, colocation, and edge setups heightens management complexities, hindering responsiveness to resource demands and impeding transformation objectives. 61% of ITDMs worry the growth of AI-related workloads will place a huge burden on their organisation’s IT infrastructure.
HPE offers a unified cloud experience, streamlining operations and insights across diverse environments, providing rapid resource accessibility, data-driven insights, and on-demand management of various applications. Integrating automation and AI, we can enhance efficiency, meets diverse operational needs, and offers a wide range of cloud services including storage, networking, compute infrastructure, AI, Machine Learning operations, virtual desktop infrastructure, SAP, and other business workloads. These services, developed with leading ISVs, enable self-service provisioning, management, and reporting without upfront costs.
How to maintain security and compliance across diverse IT environments
Make security and compliance risks easy to identify and remediate
46% had data security concerns when hosting across diverse IT environments. Ensuring security and compliance amidst data management across various sources and public cloud platforms is paramount. HPE offers comprehensive security, risk, and compliance assessments tailored to different architectural setups, along with integrated data security features across the entire IT infrastructure. Through a flexible zero-trust framework and scalable solutions, HPE enables the inclusion of additional services, data centres, and multiple clouds while delivering security both as part of the infrastructure and as a managed service.
The HPE GreenLake platform further facilitates compliance management with a KPI dashboard, unified network visibility, and control mechanisms covering infrastructure, edge-to-cloud security, and AIOps, providing simplified processes, modern data protection, and disaster recovery options to mitigate risks effectively and lower overall costs.
Increase your resilience while maintaining security and compliance across diverse IT environments with visibility into the governance and security status of your entire environment.
Start building your cloud, your way
Extend the cloud experience to apps and data wherever they are
Hybrid cloud can give you unprecedented flexibility, speed, agility, and cost-savings, but not if it’s disjointed and bogged down with complexity and inefficiencies. Success requires the ability to use your cloud on your terms, deploying applications where they make the most sense with a unified cloud experience.
We can help you:
- Reduce the cost and complexity of multiple IT environments by extending the cloud experience wherever you need it
- Optimise performance, efficiency, and costs for all applications, everywhere with a unified cloud experience for all your workloads, including the latest technologies
- Maintain security and compliance across diverse IT environments
Building your cloud, your way with a unified cloud experience for workloads everywhere gives you all the benefits of the cloud experience with one platform across your data centres, colocations, clouds, and edges. Learn how HPE can help you reduce the costs and complexity of diverse IT environments, bring a unified cloud experience to all your workloads, and provide edge-to-cloud security, governance, and control.
1, 2 “2022 State of the Cloud Report,” Flexera, 2022
2 Compared to prior to adopting the HPE GreenLake platform. “The Total Economic Impact of HPE GreenLake,” Forrester study commissioned by HPE, May 2022