Public cloud-based IT services have grown rapidly over the past decade, and the total amount of public cloud storage in "as a service" mode has surpassed spending on on-premises storage. However, despite this, spending on local storage continues to grow, and for very good business reasons. Currently, up to 70% of enterprise applications and data remain on local systems due to security concerns, also due to data severity, latency, application dependency and regulatory compliance. Many of these applications are block-based, so to speak, and block-based public cloud service offerings do not guarantee the level of data availability that is required for these workloads.
In addition, the time and effort involved in re-architecting applications for the public cloud may simply not be worth the effort, making it easier to keep them running on local servers. However, the public cloud offers features that are attractive. Fast access to new infrastructure, a pay-as-you-go consumption model, better storage spend, the ability to easily scale up or down capacity, and the fact that IT managers aren't managing the infrastructure themselves.
Although the use of public cloud services is rapidly expanding, there are still reasons to keep your data on-premises, locally, so to speak. Local storage as a service can mimic a "cloud" environment while addressing these reasons. In an effort to offer many of the benefits of the public cloud, some vendors have introduced subscription-based consumption for local storage infrastructure as well.
Despite the rapid growth in the use of public cloud storage, there will continue to be a need for on-premises storage for at least the next five years. Security, data severity, latency, availability, and regulatory compliance requirements for some workloads, necessitate non-public cloud storage options.
"Everything as a service" finds application in all areas of life. And first and foremost in IT.
Customers are gradually moving to a storage-as-a-service model to increase agility and accelerate the pace of innovation. However, previous storage-as-a-service offerings have limited this transformation.
What might be the persistent problem?
- First, managed services are expensive. Customized managed service offerings are suitable for large-scale customer deployments, but come with higher costs.
- Second, most storage-as-a-service offerings are not suitable for mission-critical applications. They come with four nines of availability, but mission-critical applications require six nines or 100 % availability.
- And finally, these offerings do not bring self-service agility. While storage-as-a-service has brought consumption as per actual need, customers still have to deal with traditional storage management that requires storage expertise and other operations. As a result, the speed at which organizations can transform by adopting a "storage as a service" model remains limited. HPE GreenLake for Block Storage is changing that.
HPE GreenLake for Block Storage is a cloud data service offered on the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform that simplifies on-premises storage management, with the speed and agility of cloud operations.
What does HPE GreenLake for Block Storage enable?
Increase the time to achieve value:
99 % operating time savings. Administrators can self-manage storage for faster application deployment
Reducing business risk:
100 % guaranteed availability for mission-critical applications
AI-based problem solving:
86 % of problems are automatically predicted and resolved with HPE InfoSight
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