A blueprint for delivering the cloud experience for your on-premises apps and data.
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:
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
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.
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.
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 or download the full Four Essential Steps to Adopting IT as a Service blueprint.