Assessing the strengths, challenges and differentiators of 17 distributors, the analyst agency recognized key parts that prospects ought to bear in mind as they think about partaking with every particular vendor.
The current IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud Skilled Companies 2022 Evaluation (doc #US48061322, April 2022), addressed a few of these themes. Assessing the strengths, challenges and differentiators of 17 distributors, the analyst agency recognized key parts that prospects ought to bear in mind as they think about partaking with every particular vendor.
The IDC MarketScape stated HPE ought to be thought-about when “you need an organization dedicated to the concept it is best to be capable to devour your entire IT, together with hybrid/on-premises options, utilizing an as-a-service supply mannequin. Likewise, if you would like an organization to not do every part for you within the cloud, however to assist be sure to do it proper, HPE has an extended historical past of growing quite a few productized providers to jump-start shoppers’ efforts no matter their maturity degree.”
The IDC MarketScape named HPE as a Main Participant within the Worldwide Cloud Skilled Companies market. We imagine it is a honest and correct evaluation. We could not but have the market share or scale of another techniques integrators, however we imagine our know-how, our methodologies, expertise, capabilities, and expertise stand out within the market.
The reference to our as-a-service mannequin attests to the energy of HPE’s GreenLake technique. With HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform, we’ve introduced a brand new sort of cloud expertise to all apps and information. Irrespective of the place sources dwell – within the cloud, on-premises, or on the edge – firms can reap the benefits of safe, agile providers delivered in an as-a-service mannequin. Greater than 1,000 enterprises have taken benefit of HPE GreenLake platform. It’s the cloud that involves you.
Fascinating phrases apart, the reality is we’re fulfilling our ambitions and serving shoppers’ wants by bringing the cloud expertise on-premises and on the edge. Moreover, we’ve a deep on-premises expertise which for years helped our prospects modernize information facilities (together with modular); consolidate and co-locate; obtain their optimized ROI targets; and replace growing older architectures as we moved to fashionable cloud platform providers.
We imagine the reference to creating positive prospects “do it proper” speaks to HPE’s means to serve all enterprises no matter dimension, geographical ties, trade focus or maturity degree. We’re a channel-rich firm that appreciates the capabilities in our companions. We even have a singular strategy to digital transformation that helps prospects determine and act on key “moments” on their very own particular person digital journeys. Our Digital Subsequent Advisory strategy units the muse for a profitable DX journey by absolutely addressing the challenges of every facet and mitigating the drawbacks that generally set transformations on the highway to failure. This strategy helps a lot of our prospects bridge the hole from imaginative and prescient to execution.
The IDC MarketScape report highlighted a number of HPE strengths: the corporate’s worker technique, monetary funding mannequin, supply functionality, customer support and advertising and marketing capabilities. Right here’s how all of them match collectively. Our worker technique is concentrated on capitalizing on acquisition data and systematically enabling a bigger world inhabitants of crew members to ship. Our funding mannequin consists of the investments required to see this by way of. The supply functionality we’ve developed consists of systematic coaching and certification in all cloud platform applied sciences, together with hyperscalers. And our assist and repair capabilities are aligned to the brand new methodologies and multi-stack necessities of our buyer base. Final, you’ll discover our well-known thought management journal known as The Doppler is alive and effectively.
The IDC MarketScape famous that the cloud skilled providers market has developed in recent times, with prospects placing extra emphasis on innovation and fewer precedence on utilizing cloud as a value takeout play. We agree. Whereas price will at all times be an element, prospects more and more have gotten extra strategic of their cloud implementations, utilizing them to ship higher buyer experiences and drive worth all through the complete operation whereas sustaining compliance, latency, and efficiency necessities of mission-critical purposes.
As HPE continues to spend money on cloud native skilled providers, essential themes evolve reminiscent of workload balancing, automated assessments, and cloud-native code re-engineering by way of AI-based code evaluation and extraction. Clients have mandates which are extra about sensible cloud migrations, resilient supply of hybrid cloud providers, and integration and administration of hybrid platforms that join a multi-cloud world. We now have invested and proceed to mature new choices in multi-cloud platform administration.
HPE takes its function as a cloud facilitator severely. We perceive which you could’t achieve cloud skilled providers with out regularly investing in innovation. That’s why we’ve established distinctive choices like Proper Combine Advisor that gives a “recipe” for workload placement by way of automated evaluation and cloud native code re-engineering.
One other providing, HPE’s Edge to Cloud Adoption Framework, gives a construction and customary language for purchasers to know the place they’re of their adoption journeys, benchmark in opposition to greatest observe, and prioritize the suitable subsequent steps for his or her organizations.
A 3rd instance of our innovation is HPE’s clever multi-cloud administration platform for hybrid cloud. HPE has developed a confirmed methodology and useful reference structure to design, construct, and function a viable multi-cloud administration platform.
The cloud shouldn’t be a vacation spot – it’s an expertise and a journey. Clients need assistance navigating the completely different platforms, software architectures and know-how decisions they’ll encounter alongside the way in which. As we’ve confirmed by way of the years, HPE is a Main Participant on this recreation.
Toby Weiss
VP WW Hybrid IT Follow Space
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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