--- title: Four Essential Steps to Adopting IT as a Service description: A blueprint for delivering the cloud experience for your on-premises apps and data through HPE GreenLake. image: https://blog.vlcm.com/hubfs/HPE%20GreenLake/blog-four-essentials.jpg --- [![VLCM Getting IT Right Logo](https://blog.vlcm.com/hubfs/_vlcmlogos/vlcm%20tagline.svg "VLCM Getting IT Right Logo")](https://www.vlcm.com) # Four Essential Steps to Adopting IT as a Service ![](https://blog.vlcm.com/hubfs/vlcm.png) VLCM July 16, 2026 [mailto:?subject=[SUBJECT]&body=Check%20out%20this%20site%20https://blog.vlcm.com/blog/itaas](mailto:?subject=[SUBJECT]&body=Check%20out%20this%20site%20https://blog.vlcm.com/blog/itaas) A blueprint for delivering the cloud experience for your on-premises apps and data. ![blog-four-essentials](https://blog.vlcm.com/hs-fs/hubfs/HPE%20GreenLake/blog-four-essentials.jpg?width=1200&name=blog-four-essentials.jpg) Achieving a cloud-like experience is challenging. Line of business managers want IT to operate like a public cloud vendor, yet typical IT delivery models favor traditional project deployments. IT as a Service (ITaaS) on premises delivers many of the things that customers expect from the public cloud: ### 1. Pay-per-use ## 2. Elastic IT ## 3. Simplified IT operations. They also get the added control that comes from directly operating their data center or edge solution.  For this reason, many organizations are leveraging forward-looking best practices from the experts at HPE to help them deploy their own consumption-based infrastructure. This blueprint describes the critical business and technology practices for achieving the cloud experience on-premises. It covers determining workload destinations, using IT partner resources, applying ITIL features, operations service practices, and funding for infrastructure as a service.  Each organization adopts their unique process to improve IT operations and services and reduce complexities and costs. However, HPE has found that organizations commonly face the following challenges:    **Proactively managing IT capacity and costs **   **Optimizing staffing and processes **   ## **ITAAS ADOPTION STRATEGY ** Converting a traditional IT organization to delivering ITaaS takes careful planning. Each step must address business goals: to run workloads where they are needed on best-fit platforms, protect the company’s IP, provide security and governance, control costs, and improve engagement with the business. Achieving this positions IT as a direct contributor to business outcomes.    ### **The four essential steps to setting up IT as a service are: **   1. Define the Right Mix of workloads to remain in on-premises based on your current business needs. Detailed workload profiling is required to make sound, cost-effective platform decisions. The reward is a well-managed, proactive approach to scalability, managed capacity, agility, spending, and cost control. Through this, IT can provide more resources towards innovation and meeting business needs.  2. Put in place scalability-on-demand processes as part of an everything-as-a-service hybrid cloud model. Adopting an on-premises consumption business model begins with discovery and mapping, followed by portfolio planning, on- and off-premises platform  3. Optimize skill sets within your organization. Organizations are also under pressure to meet growth objectives while reducing budgets and to make better use of existing resources. An honest assessment of resource utilization, including internal technical resources, is key to making the best use of the resources and expertise you currently have.    4. Assess your operating model to simplify IT. Take advantage of new approaches such as predictive analytics and proactive support to eliminate downtime and reduce staff time spent resolving them.    While the best practices outlined here can be applied in many ways, one way to gain the benefits and performance of a cloud experience is the use of resources-on-demand. HPE’s approach to resources on-demand is most frequently HPE GreenLake an as-a-service infrastructure solution including predictive maintenance and proactive support services for your key workloads.    ## HPE GreenLake - Consume and Operate IT as a Service   Consumption-based IT takes both experience and breadth of capabilities to get right. A consumption‑based IT vendor must offer robust choices for technology, expertise in solutions, strong financing, global enterprise-grade support, and advanced remote infrastructure management capabilities.  HPE GreenLake is a market-leading IT as a service offering that brings the cloud experience to your on-premises infrastructure and unifies your edges, clouds, and data centers. HPE GreenLake started 10 years ago delivering infrastructure in a pay-per-use mode on‑premises.  HPE GreenLake delivers as-a-service infrastructure including predictive maintenance and proactive support services for your key workloads. This ties technology spend directly to your business outcomes. With the addition of HPE GreenLake Management Services, HPE can operate your consumption-based infrastructure for you to free up in-house staff to focus on core business initiatives that are key to growth.    The benefit of HPE GreenLake is two-fold:    As we have discussed, adopting a consumption-based model shifts the way IT typically works to a more value-added resource for the business. Major steps on this journey include:    HPE has consolidated their experiences working with enterprises globally into a comprehensive methodology. HPE GreenLake solutions, coupled with offerings from HPE Pointnext Services, such as Workload Portability and Migration, enable customers to transition to and then operate a successful ITaaS production environment.  Consumption-based IT takes both experience and capabilities to get it right. A consumption-based IT vendor must offer robust choices of technology, expertise in solutions, strong financing, global enterprise-grade support, and advanced infrastructure management capabilities.  Enabling successful deployment of IT as a service enhances traditional IT operations traditions of high‑quality delivery and service. It offers the agility and economics of a public-cloud experience, with the security, control, and performance of on-premises IT. Business users get a proactive, flexible capacity buffer that enables adding new resources quickly.  With guidance and support from HPE, you can successfully:    HPE GreenLake brings it all together by creating a cloud experience for all your apps and data, and by providing a robust as-a-service portfolio that drives flexibility and time to market.    To learn more about HPE GreenLake, visit [www.vlcm.com/hpe-greenlake](https://www.vlcm.com/hpe-greenlake) or download the full [Four Essential Steps to Adopting IT as a Service](https://blog.vlcm.com/hubfs/HPE%20GreenLake/Four%20Essential%20Steps%20to%20Adopting%20IT-as-a-Service%20business%20white%20paper.pdf) [blueprint](https://blog.vlcm.com/hubfs/HPE%20GreenLake/Four%20Essential%20Steps%20to%20Adopting%20IT-as-a-Service%20business%20white%20paper.pdf).   ### Subscribe to VLCM Blog **Copyright VLCM   |  All Rights Reserved  |  [Privacy](https://www.vlcm.com/privacy)** - [![facebook icon](https://blog.vlcm.com/hs-fs/hubfs/i-img/social-fa.png?t=1444107731905&width=22&name=social-fa.png "facebook icon")](https://www.facebook.com/VLCMtech/)[![linkedin icon](https://blog.vlcm.com/hs-fs/hubfs/i-img/social-in.png?t=1444107731905&width=22&name=social-in.png "linkedin icon") ](https://www.linkedin.com/company/valcom-vlcm-) [![instagram icon](https://blog.vlcm.com/hs-fs/hubfs/i-img/social-phot.png?t=1444107731905&width=22&name=social-phot.png "instagram icon") ](https://www.instagram.com/vlcmtech/) [![twitter icon](https://blog.vlcm.com/hs-fs/hubfs/i-img/social-twi.png?t=1444107731905&width=22&name=social-twi.png "twitter icon") ](https://twitter.com/vlcmtech)[![shopping cart icon](https://blog.vlcm.com/hs-fs/hubfs/cart.png?width=24&name=cart.png "shopping cart icon") ](https://usm.channelonline.com/valcomslc/storesite/Login/?destination=/valcomslc/storesite/Search/Category/index.co) ![](https://px.ads.linkedin.com/collect/?pid=494756&fmt=gif)