Podcast #111: HPE GreenLake Deep Dive

This week Brian takes us on an HPE GreenLake deep dive with Omer Asad. Omer is SVP & GM of the $1.4 Billion Data Storage, Data Services SaaS, and HyperConverged business at HPE Storage and is responsible for Engineering, Product Management, and Operations for all Data and SaaS services in Storage and Data Infrastructure platforms.

A key component of GreenLake is the Alletra product portfolio. HPE Alletra delivers agility and simplicity for every application from edge to cloud and can be provided as a service, or a fully managed turnkey offering, all with the right mix of subscription and usage-based services. Recently, we ran a piece on the Alletra 5000, the latest in the Alletra portfolio.

Prior to becoming a member of the HPE Storage team, Omer was SVP & GM at Nimble Storage, acquired by HPE in 2017. Omer has also led teams at Pure Storage and Riverbed Technology. To say he has a deep technical understanding of customer challenges would be an understatement. In addition to storage, Omer is well versed in cloud and edge solutions.

More on HPE GreenLake from the June launch.

00:00 Introduction

Recap around HPE Discover
GreenLake service introduction
HPE as-a-Service meaning
Differentiation

04:40 What is GreenLake?

Cloud consumption and operation model
What does a typical customer look like?
Move to Hyperscalers

10:00 Advantages and simplicity

Public cloud vs. as-a-Service
Rate card attributes
Keep the rates simple

17:00 GreenLake overprovisioning for growth

Determining how much hardware to deliver
Importance of Infosight
Sizing is performed through Infosight data simulation

25:00 Physical vs. the planning

The timeframe from planning and worksheets to delivery
Determined by the subscriptions
How the hardware gets delivered
Turning up the service

30:00 Provisioned before it gets there

Fleet service
Lifecycle environment
Maintenance
HPE maintains a state machine for every customer environment
IT can do important work when subscribing to GreenLake

36:00 Customer owns the consoles

Allowing HPE support to maintain and support
What is the size of GreenLake
Built for all customers
Affordability – Rate Cards are available on partner sites

40:00 How does GreenLake fit the retail market

Home Depot is a reference model
Retail is a perfect fit
Aruba is a crucial part of edge locations
A rack can be built for most environments

45:00 Unexpected benefits of GreenLake

Simplicity for operations and procurement
Innovations for GreenLake
Application frameworks

51:00 Wrap Technology – cloud and edge

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