Regardless of which industry you are in, you will have noticed that the digital transformation gap between companies is widening. Despite investing heavily in digital transformation, 67 % of CEOs feel they are losing ground, according to KPMG, while the best ones have doubled their profits in the last 12 months, according to McKinsey. Is this a coincidence? Certainly not. In fact, digitalization has become a key differentiator between companies.
What is storage as a service (STaaS)?
Storage (or storage) as a service (STaaS) is a way for businesses today to procure disk capacity without having to make a significant upfront capital investment in purchasing new hardware or software. Conversely, organizations can subscribe to storage as a service, paying for the stored capacity on an ongoing basis, using operational costs to do so. However, it must be stressed here that choosing the right strategy and provider is absolutely key. Why? Try answering the question for yourself whether it's okay for you to entrust sensitive corporate data into the hands of a public provider, or whether you'd rather keep it under your own control within your organization. Whichever way you choose, both approaches already give you the same cloud experience today, i.e. easy management, remote management, oversight of all storage and access to other services from the provider.
HPE and Storage as a Service
HPE is an innovator in offering IT solutions as a service. All key components of your business infrastructure, from servers to hypervisors and networks to storage, can be procured as a service today. HPE has long been a leader in innovation, this time in IT infrastructure design as a service, helping clients accelerate digital transformation and modernize their enterprise IT environments.
The HPE Alletra product is one of several representatives of the so-called invisible cloud-ready infrastructure managed by artificial intelligence. This platform represents all the benefits of reliable "on-prem" data storage that enables easy access and management of enterprise data. The storage is managed through the HPE Data Services Cloud Console (DSCC). This is delivered via a subscription, with organizations receiving regular updates and data services in this way, regardless of where their data resides.
HPE GreenLake for Storage is a service from HPE that eliminates storage complexity, simplifies operations, and enables you to run any enterprise application. HPE GreenLake for Block Storage is the first storage delivered as a service that offers a 100% availability guarantee for mission-critical environments. It is simple local storage managed by artificial intelligence.
Benefits of Storage as a Service:
• Operational time savings, cloud agility, simplifies data storage and operations
• Simple storage management - brings the agility and ease of cloud operations to your data infrastructure
• 100% uptime guarantee for mission-critical services; most issues are anticipated and automated
• Saves on total cost of IT ownership, solution can grow incrementally with your requirements
• On-demand service - Flexible as-a-service model eliminates complex procurements
More solutions from HPE:
• Block storage - block storage data services, where availability is defined within the SLA (Service Level Agreement). HPE GreenLake for block storage accelerates the transformation of mission-critical applications and data through cloud operations.
• File storage - a solution for distributed, scalable environments in the form of file services. Among other things, the industry-leading Qumulo tool runs in the background. Deployment can be rapid in minutes, with a variety of cloud architectures supported.
• Object storage - a solution suitable for DevOps teams that need to address the evolution of existing as well as emerging workloads, making heavy use of object storage.
• HPE GreenLake for data fabric - different types of data on different platforms present a real challenge for further data processing. HPE GreenLake for Data Fabric is a solution that offers a variety of analytics tools to understand, process, and access data stored on different platforms.
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