Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri has told CRN that take-up of HPE’s GreenLake on-premise cloud service has grown a ‘record-breaking’ 82% in the quarter ending 31 July, much faster than public cloud adoption. In the same period, Microsoft Azure revenue grew 47%, Google Cloud 43% and Amazon Web Services 29%.
If you add in other GreenLake service orders, the pay-per-use platform is growing at a rate of 100%. Overall, HPE’s GreenLake revenue was $528 million, up 11% from the same period last year. How has the HPE Greeenlake cloud service grown so significantly compared to the hyperscalers?
“The reason we are doing well is we provide a true hybrid experience. Cloud is not a destination. It is an experience. Seventy percent of the apps and data are still on prem, and more and more apps and data is moving to the edge. Customers want a true consumption driven model from edge to cloud. GreenLake offers that in an automated way.
What customers realize as they get to a larger scale is that it is cheaper to keep the workloads and most importantly the data on prem and yet automate everything and get the same cloud experience and pay the same way as if they moved to the public cloud, It is a cost benefit and an experience benefit.
We guarantee services levels and outcomes so their IT professionals don’t need to spend time on that versus the public cloud where they still have to curate those workloads and make sure they are performing to the levels they want. With GreenLake we manage that and take care of that for them. So it is a unique value proposition. It is all software driven.”
Antonio Neri, CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
At least one U.S. service provider that makes extensive use of the GreenLake on-premises cloud infrastructure reports that it is overall 20-30% less expensive than deploying in the public cloud. HPE’s GreenLake services include virtualisation, infrastructure as a service, container management, machine learning operations, data protection and connectivity as a service.