Cyxtera a global leader in data center colocation, interconnection services, and digital infrastructure announced its collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to help customers simplify their IT operations, improve agility, and realize significant cost savings.
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“Our partnership with HPE gives our customers the flexibility, performance, and choice they’re looking for as they build out sustainable hybrid IT infrastructures that power both traditional and high-density AI workloads.”
As an HPE Partner Ready service provider, Cyxtera is now offering its Enterprise Bare Metal solution supported by the HPE GreenLake platform. With HPE ProLiant servers on Cyxtera Enterprise Bare Metal, customers can benefit from the operational flexibility of the cloud with the performance, control, cost-predictability, and security of dedicated infrastructure running in Cyxtera’s global data centers.
“We’re thrilled to continue working with Cyxtera to deliver agile and flexible approaches that empower our customers to rapidly scale and optimize their hybrid IT infrastructures,” said Brian Falvey, VP North America Sales, HPE GreenLake, HPE. “Cyxtera’s global data center platform, unique Digital Exchange network fabric, and rich ecosystem of interconnected partners are a great complement to HPE GreenLake and our industry-leading private cloud solutions.”
Cyxtera has also launched the Quick Start TCO Workshop, a program that helps organizations assess their current IT infrastructure and conduct a total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis for different infrastructure deployment models, in collaboration with HPE. During the Quick Start TCO Workshop, Cyxtera solutions architects use actualized inputs from a customer’s environment and pull real-time pricing to compare IT spend for colocation and bare metal vs. public cloud.
When workshop customers deploy new, more efficient infrastructure with Cyxtera, HPE will buy back its old hardware via HPE Asset Upcycling Services, which enables organizations to recover value from retired hardware securely and sustainably.
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“Many organizations are reevaluating their workload placement in the wake of high public cloud costs. According to IDC, 47% of enterprises report overspending on cloud infrastructure1,” said David Keasey, Chief Revenue Officer, Cyxtera. “Our partnership with HPE gives our customers the flexibility, performance, and choice they’re looking for as they build out sustainable hybrid IT infrastructures that power both traditional and high-density AI workloads.”
Cyxtera + HPE Benefits
Cyxtera Enterprise Bare Metal with HPE ProLiant servers:
- Allows for quick provisioning – in hours, not weeks or months
- Reduces costs – no CapEx with as-a-service solution and simplified subscription pricing (predictable cost with no bill surprises)
- Improves performance, reliability, and security vs. public cloud via a single-tenant solution
- Ensures maximum control – customer retains exclusive ownership of all data; once servers are provisioned, Cyxtera hands over administrative credentials so only authorized users can access the environment
- Reduces IT staff and administration costs, as well as the risk and expense of testing and adopting new technologies
- Simplifies capacity planning with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) dynamic scalability
Cyxtera’s global data center platform also provides access to robust interconnection services and a vast ecosystem of technology partners, helping customers build out their complete hybrid IT infrastructure.
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