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MODERN ORGANISATIONS NEED TO ENSURE THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE IS ABLE TO SUPPORT THE LIKES OF BIG DATA , AI , MOBILE AND EDGE COMPUTING , WHILE KEEPING CONSTANT AGILITY AT FRONT OF MIND .
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‘‘ plan for their required demand . Clearly , this approach doesn ’ t allow for that much-needed agility in order to respond to changing business priorities .

There are many factors which are driving organisations to evaluate consumptionbased models and the public cloud has benefited as a result . Futurum has stated that it envisions this consumption-based trend coming to on-premises infrastructure deployment models in the next three to five years as client expectation transforms .
It ’ s an approach that enables businesses to scale and respond to pressures or changing demands but also being in control of spending and reducing wastage .
What is HPE Greenlake and how is it helping organisations ?
We know that the vast majority of apps and data are things like ERP and CRM – ‘ systems of record ’ that run the enterprise – and there are various reasons why these must be located in data centres and colocations , therefore lacking the agility of the modern cloud experience .
Greenlake enables organisations to bring that cloud speed , agility and an as-a-Service model to where their apps and data are

MODERN ORGANISATIONS NEED TO ENSURE THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE IS ABLE TO SUPPORT THE LIKES OF BIG DATA , AI , MOBILE AND EDGE COMPUTING , WHILE KEEPING CONSTANT AGILITY AT FRONT OF MIND .

today . This ultimately enables them to transform the way they do business with one experience and one operating model across their distributed clouds , for apps and data at the Edge , in colocations and in the data centre .
Key elements of this include :
Pay per use – Pay-per-use and financial flexibility for new ventures and business operations , so you can free up capital and boost operational and financial flexibility .
Scale up and down – HPE speeds insights for organisations to unlock data ’ s value with pay-per-use , scale-up-and-down freedom .
Simplified IT – Centralised operations and insights across your hybrid estate from a single intuitive self-service platform , HPE Greenlake Central . Get a unified view , monitor usage , cost performance , compliance and more .
Managed for you – Offload monitoring and management of your on-premises cloud and public clouds , securely managed from our world-class IT operations centres helping you free up your resources to be more productive .
The cloud experience has shaped what business leaders expect of IT . HPE GreenLake delivers cloud economics on-premises , a pay-per-use model with no capital needed up front and no overprovisioning of infrastructure .
Ultimately , this enables those core requirements of business agility , simpler IT , lower IT costs and proper control , providing a true hybrid experience that enables Digital Transformation . •
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