HPE unveils 'game-changing' addition to GreenLake platform

Newest offering allows customers to control their hybrid IT estate through an integrated management console

HPE has reached the "next milestone" in its transformation into an as-a-service company with its new GreenLake Central product.

The latest hybrid offering gives customers an integrated management console that runs and manages their entire hybrid IT estate.

Earlier this year, CEO Antoni Neri declared that the vendor would offer its entire product portfolio as a service by 2022, allowing customers to consume their offerings on a consumption basis through GreenLake.

Unveiled by Neri (pictured) during his keynote at HPE's Discover More event in Munich, the vendor claims that GreenLake Central will lower costs and risks for customers while providing them with more control and choice of tools with which to build applications and where and how they place their workloads and data.

GreenLake Central battles the siloed, inconsistent experiences that organisations have been encountering across their hybrid infrastructure, according to Neri, who detailed how it can assist different roles in an organisation to achieve better business outcomes.

These include the CIO, who can use it to monitor and take action on a range of KPIs; developers can use it as a "point, click, get" pay-per-use platform that allows them to write, release and deploy code quickly; and CFOs who can use it to establish a real-time view of technology spend across the organisation's hybrid infrastructure.

"HPE GreenLake Central is a transformative platform that changes the game in hybrid IT," Neri stated.

"With this offering, every user in a company gains access to a unique console from which to run their organisation and achieve powerful business outcomes.

"Now the CIO can operate as a strategic service broker, and everyone benefits from a consistent cloud experience, resulting in lower costs and risks, and greater choice, control, simplicity and speed."

Last week, HPE revealed that it had tripled the amount of GreenLake business put through the channel in its fourth quarter, and stated that it is now one of the fastest-growing businesses in the company.

GreenLake Central is currently in trial with customers but will become generally available to GreenLake clients by the end of HPE's first quarter.