After years of working in cloud environments, we’ve come to expect some basics that we collectively refer to as the “cloud experience.” For example, scalable capacity that’s ready when you need it, and the ability to easily click and spin up new instances. In short, we expect a point-and-click experience with the added advantage that somebody else is managing the IT operations, so we can focus on accelerating outcomes—while paying only for what we use. That’s the cloud experience.
But some customers want to maintain more control over their data and make sure it has the required security. This has always created a disconnect in the cloud experience. Some industries, such as healthcare, don’t want to put their clients’ medical records in the cloud. Other companies’ applications have Jupiter-sized data gravity—literally terabytes of data to move to the cloud and back—that would incur costs each time they’re moved. Others have applications and data that are entangled like a spaghetti mess. Figuring out how to tease that apart, refactor it, and move each one to the cloud is expensive and time-consuming.
I’d estimate that 70% of web applications are still operating on-premises. Many companies are trying to overcome the tradeoffs between cloud-native capabilities and on-premises control. There’s never been a solution that could provide them with that cloud experience.
Until now.
HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform is redefining digital transformation
Digital transformation has always been synonymous with moving to the cloud. And although the future of cloud is hybrid, efforts to connect on-premises data with the cloud have been a duct-tape fix at best, because they didn’t deliver a consistent cloud experience. But now there’s a better choice.
The HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform gives customers that same in-the-cloud experience with their on-premises apps and data. (How?) You see, instead of moving your data to the cloud, the HPE GreenLake platform extends the cloud to your data. So your critical data and apps stay on-premises with an unparalleled platform that combines the simplicity and agility of the cloud with the governance, compliance, and visibility that comes with hybrid IT. It completely removes that disconnect with traditional IT.
I talked with HPE podcaster Calvin Zito recently to give a quick overview of HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform and what it can do for businesses — check out this Around the IT Block podcast.
