So brian, I spoke a little bit about, you know,
our customers wanting to get the cloud operating model to where the data is
and where the workloads are,
can you talk a little bit more about it
in terms of how GreenLake empowers this vision?
Yeah, you know,
it starts with everything that we've been doing focused
on at HPE is focused on customer customer experience,
solving those customer problems and this has really been around uh you know,
how do you bring the resources to where the data is?
How do I bring the resources that I need
um to where it's going to be and
really focused around delivering that cloud operating model?
Vishal touched on some of the, that that key piece, but
many customers don't want to operate the complexity of it.
They want the value proposition
of the public cloud
but where can I deliver it? Where I need it to be. Again
at the edge, my edge branch locations in kolo or On-Prem
It's good.
So brian, I mean the other, you know,
we had the big announcement today right around HPE GreenLake for private cloud.
Can you talk a little bit more about the
features and also what you're hearing from customers because
I know you had a lot of conversations with
customers and analysts right on the value proposition.
So what are you hearing from them?
It is around that cloud operating model
Right. It's, it's again, how do I get the capabilities
that I'm seeking for the public cloud official mentioned early
as you think about the agility, the self service
that consumption model pay for what you use
that experience that can come into play.
But again I have 70% of my data is still on prem or where am I collecting that data?
I think you gave a great analogy earlier. If you think about like the factory floor,
I'm looking at well defects and doing high speed imaging of those.
Well if I'm shipping that data to and fro trying to
push that to the public cloud, I'm introducing latency,
I'm adding the cost of moving that data around so if
I can move that capability to where that data is,
where it needs to be analyzed in process.
The faster I can analyze those defects,
the faster my processes can move forward
and that's about delivering that private cloud experience where
I needed to be bringing those resources there.
So we focused on kind of key value for customers that easy button of cloud.
How do I deliver an operating model
and that responsibility matrix,
just as if it was a public cloud experience,
HPE is providing and delivering that underlying service.
I'm free to now manage in the data plane my applications my workloads
we of course have focused on as HPE
that enterprise D N A everything from zero root of trust security all the
way through delivering SLAs for the availability of this kind of court of that
but of course
giving that cloud experience that flexible and fungible experience. How do I
provide that self service capability,
shift my mix of how workloads are consuming that infrastructure,
scale up scale down
kind of core to that
that Pay-as-you-go peace.
Um and then really that focus on open ecosystem both in the form of open standards
bringing in or enabling open source tooling,
de facto standards, things like Tara form
as a operator. How do I manage that infrastructure?
But also that that openness of embracing that ecosystem of I. S. V. Providers
as we talked about or touched on the marketplace
and growing that ecosystem
brian. I know I mean there are a lot of components to the private cloud. Right.
I mean there's like you know cloud modules,
there's the software there's like you know a whole bunch of
other things that we do to to pull this solution together.
Can you talk about some of the building blocks and how they come together? Yeah.
So it very much starts with that concept of cloud modules. How do we provide
building blocks that are common and provides that
underlying tooling that allows us to deliver that service
yet?
Our workload optimized we're able to provide
ratios of compute to memory to storage.
How do we think about networking specifications
to make sure that we can still serve the needs
of more complex workloads
but using those standard building blocks of technology
we of course have provided
rich toolset that we use to
automate and orchestrate the provisioning and management
of those underlying cloud modules and then present up into the application stack,
those tools and self service interfaces
that allow again not just an I. T.
Admin but serving the needs of developers, application owners,
those self service tools to deploy and manage their workloads on top of it.
No I think it's it's a lot of stuff that has come together
to get the solution for our customers.
Can you talk about some of the attributes of um of by private cloud?
Yeah, so really this private cloud solution is is building on that,
starting with that user experience,
how do I deliver that public cloud experience yet where
you need it again in those different form factors and
where you might have specific locations where you need that
we of course deliver that consumption model.
So it's a rate card experience I'm charged based on
the resources that I'm consuming
but in a very predictable way I understand what is that capacity and where
I'm managing through that
we think about that overall operating model,
that cloud operating model and that responsibility matrix
where HP is delivering this as a service,
we're providing outcomes and capabilities and SLAs
and as a customer I'm free to use my resources
focused on things that are unique to my business running in the application tier,
improving that experience
location where I can deliver that is of course key
as Michelle mentioned
everything from large multi rack deployments in my core data center in yellow
all the way through smaller form factor that I can deliver and branch locations
where I need those resources
and support that multi region multi availability zone architecture.
Um and then of course it really ties back to that open standards piece of this.
How do I make sure that the same tool chain
that you use to deploy on other surface areas,
you're able to leverage through our API cli
those infrastructure as code interfaces
and again those open standards that we deliver.
No thanks brian.
Um you know, we've spoken about it, can we take a look at it?
I was hoping you would say that Yes,
I would love to show you and build on
hopefully that experience that some of you saw earlier today
as a chance to really see where we're bringing this to fruition,
that concept of public or private cloud is not a
new one we know but bringing together that full experience
with the lifecycle management,
that's really where this investment has come and that's where
our customers are seeing a lot of value from that.
So you might have seen earlier
this is the GreenLake cloud platform. How do I think about identity management
and managing access to these resources but
the power of that private cloud enterprise
solution again delivers that same public cloud experience but now to my end users,
this is a service and a capability that again
we're not focused on just the IT administrator,
we're, empowering your end users, developers, application owners
to in a self service way, be able to manage deploy,
operate the infrastructure as they need to
um as Michelle mentioned, we come across those three common
surface areas that you would use to deploy a very broad aperture of applications,
virtual machines being the table stakes of a cloud solution
container cluster management, how do I scale that
even bare metal provisioning the power and ability to
provision a bare metal physical node for large workloads,
large database workloads that
can't run in virtualization
other solutions where I would benefit from that full
big iron machine capability
but delivered in that self service way
as simple as provision of VM
when I think about delivering and provisioning bare metal nodes,
I have great control over these
compute instance groups, how do I think about common tools I might have such as
ssh keys,
building out the networking rules and network assignments
that I want to use for these policies,
even creating shared storage volumes that I might attach them to.
Creating an instance itself is super simple.
Right again, giving that that same kind of self service ability
to spin up, give it a name,
I present different instance types,
we talked about those cloud modules where it allows
me not just to provide one size fits all,
compute resources
but actually delivered
specific capabilities, those optimized workloads, surface areas
depending on the profile of the types of applications that I'm looking to deliver,
I can choose from the O. S. S that have been made available to me as an administrator.
I can control which versions my golden image
patch versions, everything that needs to go into that.
Again, choose from those ssh key libraries,
choose the networks I'm going to deploy it to
again, attached storage volumes.
It's very simple to spin up and manage those bare metal instances
and in the same way, deep provisions,
I can return them back to the pool very easily in that Again, self service,
cloud experience,
if you think about the other
kind of core cloud primitives
standing up, Containers I actually showed this earlier today too.
But how do I make it really easy
in a self service way to stand up a container cluster
allowing my developers to publish our applications to them
within our container management platform. We like to create and define blueprints
which would specify the starting profile of these different container clusters,
depending on types of workloads
scaling policies,
default starting configuration
I can choose Intune what I want. My worker nodes and my control plane nodes to start as
how do I scale those? How do I find quota policies.
But then once I've built those templates,
I can enable my end users to stand them up very easily.
Just choosing from those predefined blueprints
and standing up a cluster that's available in a couple of minutes
and developers then have access to look at those
clusters pull down that kube config I have all
that I need that manifest to allow me to
publish I understand my name spaces my credentials users,
everything that I need to publish my application to those
endpoints and get my apps up and running very quickly.
Now.
One of the key powers of this private cloud enterprise
experience still ties back to kind of the overall business.
The owner. How do I think about the costs that are being accrued?
How do I understand that? What projects?
Different applications workloads are consuming
and that's where we bring in this cost and consumption. So our
consumption analytics data allows us to pull in
rich telemetry data from the different services were running
and I can use things like smart tags on different resources I've deployed or
other made it metadata attributes and create
my own chargeback or show back experience.
How do I allocate costs against different projects
or cost centers or departments or workloads?
Uh there's a lot of power both in predefined
as well as custom reports.
We provide everything from time series data reporting all the way through.
How do I how do I think about like a monthly roll up or aggregate reporting.
So it gives me a ton of power there.
Now. The last key piece that I want to touch on
is specifically around we think about that open ecosystem.
We didn't get the chance to highlight this earlier today
but where we've been working on the marketplace in particular
as official mentioned, how do we provide that curated marketplace of I. S. V.
Services and components that can a self service way be easily discovered.
How do I click to deploy a trial experience around that? How do I click to deploy
those building blocks within a container environment virtual
machine even think of it as like an
image I can put on bare metal So this is an
area that will continue to work on and expanding this capability
to again provide those same building blocks and help
end users quickly stand up
and operate the different application stacks and workloads
that they need to get onto the platform
a bit of a world wind tour official but I think that's key.
I will touch on something that we had shown earlier.
Many of you might have taken advantage of it.
I think we've had as of today like 230 of them
in the afternoon but the test drive experience available right
up there on the expo hall in our living labs
and you'll also see this available on hp dot com where you can literally go in
and start to touch and kick and and and play with these different services yourself.
Thank you brian, when when, when this is this available,
you caught me I almost forgot
this is available now. We are in select availability
meaning it's not in all gos but we are ready
now to deliver those private cloud enterprise solutions for customers
would love to talk to you and and get those running.
Thank you brian,
appreciate it.