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HPE and Nutanix sign
agreement to deliver
hybrid cloud as-a-Service
ewlett Packard Enterprise
(HPE) and Nutanix (NTNX) have
announced a global partnership
to deliver an integrated hybrid cloud as-a-
Service (aaS) solution to the market. This
offering will leverage Nutanix’s Enterprise
Cloud OS software including its built-in,
free AHV hypervisor, delivered through
HPE GreenLake to provide customers with
a fully HPE-managed hybrid cloud that
dramatically lowers total cost of ownership
and accelerates time to value. Additionally,
as part of the agreement, Nutanix will enable
its channel partners to directly sell HPE
servers combined with Nutanix’s Enterprise
Cloud OS software so that customers can
purchase an integrated appliance.
Businesses today are under constant
pressure to innovate and accelerate Digital
Transformation. However, current legacy
approaches to hybrid IT present many
challenges, including complex systems that
require large IT operations staff, increasing
software licensing and operating costs, and
concerns over vendor lock-in. As a result,
businesses are losing flexibility in a world that
demands choice and agility. The HPE-Nutanix
partnership addresses these challenges
by delivering an attractive alternative that
reduces cost and complexity. The combined
offering will provide fully managed hybrid
cloud infrastructure delivered as-a-Service
and deployed in customers’ data centres or
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colocation facility. The combination of HPE
GreenLake and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS
software is ideal for customers who want
to use Nutanix, including its AHV hypervisor
technology, to support a range of use cases.
Customers using the HPE GreenLake aaS
offering will benefit from:
Reduction in cost of operations, Capex
spend and support and professional
services costs: The combined offering
promises customers significant lower total
cost of ownership. According to Nutanix-
commissioned research, customers will
achieve a 60% reduction in the five-year
cost of operations. According to a HPE-
commissioned Forrester report, customers
benefit from a 30% Capex savings due to
eliminated need for overprovisioning, and a
90% reduction in support and professional
services costs
Focus on innovation and acceleration of
time to value: By shifting to an IT aaS model,
HPE provides 40% increased productivity by
reducing the support load on IT operations
staff and shortens the time to deploy IT
projects by 65%
Choice and simplicity: Customers can
now leverage a built-in, free hypervisor
through an aaS offering and benefit from
Nutanix’s single-click simplicity to deploy and
scale virtualised workloads
“Our partnership with HPE will provide
Nutanix customers with another choice to
Dheeraj Pandey,
Founder, CEO and
Chairman of Nutanix
make their infrastructure invisible so they
can focus on business-critical apps, not the
underlying technology,” said Dheeraj Pandey,
Founder, CEO and Chairman of Nutanix.
In addition to the announcement,
Nutanix will enable its channel partners
to directly sell HPE servers combined with
Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud OS software as
an integrated appliance. Nutanix customers
will be able to leverage a fully integrated
solution, shipping directly from HPE factories,
combining the world’s largest installed base
of secure, innovative HPE ProLiant and
HPE Apollo server technology from HPE
and the pioneering Enterprise Cloud OS
software from Nutanix to modernise data
centre environments and unify the support
experience on their preferred hardware and
software platforms.
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