Functionality, flexibility, innovation, support – surely the four key components of a future-proof cloud solution.
After all, enterprises large and small must have it all at their disposal if they are to meet the ever-evolving demands on today’s modern tech stack.
Whether it’s to support that first giant leap into the cloud, or to facilitate a refresh of existing capability, choosing a vendor product that is both a best-fit for now and that is capable of keeping pace with continued technological advancement is crucial.
Team that vendor with an IT Managed Service Provider’s smooth and efficient deployment of the solution and, well, that’s a partnership sure to deliver big.
“Cloud technology, in all its forms, now underpins virtually every aspect of every business and is the foundation on which many critical functions and workflows now depend – a cutting-edge solution bridging the public and private space, combined with the experience of an expert provider ensures high-quality performance across the piece,” says Andy Bevan, Head of Cloud and Digital Transformation at leading MSP Daisy Corporate Services, whose ‘everything-as-a-service’ HPE GreenLake cloud offering will enable businesses to plot an energy-efficient, fast, and flexible path to an AI-powered future.
“Enabling game-changing, cloud-based digital transformation is all about giving IT teams the right platforms, tools, and capabilities to unify all of a business’s component parts and standardise a secure and reliable user experience. When that occurs, good things happen.”
In the case of HPE GreenLake in particular, it provides the foundation for a true hybrid cloud platform, with a unified control plane across its own private platform and public cloud services, enabling users to run any workload, including AI-powered tools, across multiple locations.
Highly-scalable, it combines security, sovereignty, visibility, ease of management, and pay-per-use flexibility. Via a single and intuitive self-service dashboard, users are able to centralise insights and operations across edges, data centres, colocations, and public clouds.
“The innovative nature of the platform’s functionality empowers organisations to deliver a plethora of services that drive enhanced efficiency, productivity, and user experience,” says Bevan.
“The OpEx nature of its commercials provide extremely important flexibility; single pane end-to-end observability of the platform gives IT teams full control; its AI capabilities are all about future-proofing; and sustainability is also enhanced. We deployed HPE GreenLake into a large university and the organisation’s power consumption fell by more than 72%. Through massive consolidation of their estate, yet delivering higher performance, it runs much leaner in the data centre, and requires less cooling.
“In addition, once an organisation has built a catalogue of standard server builds, it has the right to buy them at the same price at any time during the contract term. That enables them to understand that, if in two years’ time they need to add 30% more capacity, they will do so at a known cost. CFOs and strategic business planners really value that kind of certainty.
“Our proposition comes with further added value too – in the form of our long and close technology partner relationship with HPE. We enjoy extensive access into the organisation and benefit hugely from its wider sponsorship at all levels. We get insight and support which we are able to pass on to our own partners and customers in ways which give them added value too. Of course it’s about the brilliance of HPE GreenLake, but it’s also very much about the extra dynamics that we bring to the table. When all parties are working in synch like that, long-term success is assured.”
To learn more about how Daisy Corporate Services’ HPE GreenLake offering can help your and your customers’ businesses leverage the power of the cloud, click here.
