HPE’s Hybrid Cloud Strategy & Portfolio Overview

Brad Park from HPE opens by outlining the company’s hybrid cloud strategy and portfolio, emphasizing the importance of achieving a cloud operating model for AI and other initiatives. He highlights the challenges posed by technical debt and the complexities of heterogeneous enterprise environments. The goal is to address these complexities with solutions that transcend individual tech stacks, focusing on provisioning, governance, security policy, and FinOps at a broader level.

The HPE portfolio is presented as a “Fantastic Four” analogy, with GreenLake as the unifying leader, providing a platform for accessing various HPE services through a single pane of glass. The CloudOps Suite is introduced as the software control plane, comprising Morpheus for self-service provisioning and lifecycle management, OpsRamp for observability and reducing mean time to resolution, and Zerto for cyber resiliency and data recovery. This suite aims to manage the lifecycle of application workloads across any cloud, hypervisor, or hardware profile.

Beyond the core components, HPE offers a private cloud portfolio with pre-engineered turnkey systems and flexible options, leveraging the CloudOps Suite. The ultimate goal is to help customers achieve a modern cloud operating model, improve efficiency, and accelerate time to value for both traditional and AI workloads. HPE is also working on integrating these services, building on existing integrations, and enabling use cases like automated database deployment with cost optimization. The placement of Zerto under the CloudOps suite is explained by its focus on protecting workloads, which exist across different environments and technologies, rather than being tied to specific storage types.