Government and private organisations alike face growing pressure to transform the way they serve customers, employees and citizens. Fast, seamless digital experiences underpin the modern era – and even more so in the wake of COVID-19.
The challenge shared by both the public and private sector is where to allocate budgets to ensure optimal, cost-effective service delivery. Traditional on-premises infrastructure is often restrictive and lacks the agility needed to adapt to changing workloads. Over-provisioning can also quickly lead to wastage and blown out capital expenditure.
Conversely, cloud solutions offer greater flexibility and scalability, but can cause concerns in regards to compliance and security. What’s more, hidden costs such as network egress and retrieval fees can complicate budget management.
Fortunately, organisations can access the best of both worlds through HPE GreenLake, powered by Intel® Xeon® Platinum processor – a cloud-based subscription model that enables you to leverage on-site infrastructure while only paying for the metered capacity you use each month. The benefits are far-reaching:
1. Unprecedented deployment and scalability
With the benefit of a pay-as-you-grow economic model, GreenLake enables you to rapidly provision and scale up capacity as requirements increase while leveraging the benefits of an on-premises environment. According to Forrester research 1, organisations noted a significant decrease in time-to-market (75% faster) for global IT projects after investing in HPE GreenLake.
2. Greater control through on-premises infrastructure
GreenLake Central’s single self-service platform allows centralised monitoring and management of performance, compliance, security and data consumption. Access to advanced analytics enables greater control, so you can make critical decisions faster and continuously optimise costs.
3. Faster response to breaches and issues
Research by IDC 2 found IT teams using GreenLake improved their ability to respond to potential security breaches (50% faster) and deploy needed security patches (28% faster). Additionally, desk and support teams benefited from an improved ability to identify performance issues (48% faster), needing less time to resolve these issues (38%), while also being able to identify more performance issues (19% more).
4. Optimal workload placement
GreenLake’s consumption metrics and analytics make it simple to dynamically optimise workloads based on critical factors such as cost, governance, security and interdependence with other systems. IDC calculates that GreenLake’s workload optimisation capabilities realise IT teams time savings worth an annual average of $1.45 million per organisation.2
5. Improved productivity
With HPE GreenLake supporting the day-to-day management of on-premises infrastructure and data centres, IT teams have more time to focus on strategic business initiatives. According to Forrester research, this improves IT resources productivity by 40%, while saving 60% on professional services/contractor costs.1
6. Reduced costs
Adopting GreenLake’s OpEx model reduces the need for significant upfront investment, while productivity gains lead to further cost efficiencies. Research by Forrester1 found GreenLake enabled organisations to avoid overprovisioning on infrastructure and eliminate expenses for technology refreshes, leading to estimated CapEx cost savings of 30-40%.
7. Better business outcomes
Overarchingly, the HPE GreenLake solution allows you to seamlessly scale as user demand changes, leverage active capacity management and unlock services that improve IT efficiencies – all with a cost-effective pay-per-use model.
As an HPE GreenLake partner, Area9 can help your organisation transform for the future and ensure optimal service delivery with a flexible managed compute and storage solution. Get in touch with us today to find out more.
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1 The Total Economic Impact™ Of HPE GreenLake – Forrester 2020
2 The Business Value of HPE GreenLake Management Services