HPE GreenLake Customer Stories
Across industries, HPE GreenLake is helping customers complete digital transformations.
Australia’s leading container terminal operator requires terminal efficiency, business agility, and responsive service for its global customers.
- Challenge: Provide efficiency, agility and reliable automated operations.
- Solution: Adopt HPE GreenLake cloud services to ensure reliable loading and unloading, and gain agility to innovate and respond to changing business demands.
- Outcome: Improved terminal operational efficiency, ensuring support for greater automation, enabling new services for customers, and providing added security to systems.
Zenseact is at the center of the crossroads of driver safety and autonomous driving. This Volvo Cars-owned startup built a consumption-based platform to deliver tens of thousands of simulations per second and make cars safer.
- Challenge: A critical need for an innovative technology partner, enabling delivery of thousands of self-driving simulations each second.
- Solution: Partner with HPE GreenLake to ensure technology is always available, consumed as a service and paid for over time, ensuring Zenseact is fully equipped for today and into the future.
- Outcome: A high performance platform to deliver what the business needs now, and ensure what is possible in this space as a result of the partnership going forward.
Learn how LyondellBasell is partnering with HPE to drive sustainable digital transformation for next-level agility, efficiency, and speed with HPE GreenLake cloud services.
- Challenge: Reduce environmental footprint, and improve business efficiency to drive sustainable digital transformation.
- Solution: Switch to a next generation data center and innovate with HPE GreenLake.
- Outcome: Reduced environmental footprint, and improved business efficiency while empowering collaboration and expanding value creation.
Financial Services
EPS worked with HPE to put in place a highly scalable, available and secure deployment and achieve its business objective of delivering real-time ATM transactions to end users of banks and payment solutions to financial institutions.
- Challenge: EPS needed high uptime to facilitate real-time ATM transactions for banks, along with a high level of security and compliance.
- Solution: Working with HPE Pointnext, EPS put in place a highly available, robust data center and hosting solution.
- Outcome: EPS offers managed ATM and outsourcing services to public sector banks and financial institutions on a pay-per-use basis.
After completing the renewal of its accounting system, Mizuho Bank refreshed the infrastructure of its private cloud platform, Mizuho Cloud IA.
- Challenge: Provide stable services that support banking operations and information systems on an IaaS platform that can respond quickly to unforeseen changes.
- Solution: Adopt HPE Synergy, a composable infrastructure product that allows code control and automation using REST API, via HPE GreenLake, which allows the bank to deploy additional hardware and software on a monthly IT consumption model.
- Outcome: Improved the system’s ability to users’ varied demands, achieved adaptability, enabled predictive maintenance.
With HPE GreenLake, au Kabucom Securities Co., Ltd., a Japanese online securities company is realizing their vision of becoming a digital financial securities firm. To do this, the company completely revamped their infrastructure.
- Challenge: Refresh and relocate a data center consisting of about 1,000 physical servers used for securities training, while realizing the highest degree of security, keeping costs low, and making infrastructure secure and agile.
- Solution: Optimize performance and costs by consuming next-generation infrastructure system in a monthly or pay-as-you-go model with HPE GreenLake.
- Outcome: Reduced the number of servers from over 1,000 to under a few hundred with the expectation of reducing the total cost of infrastructure by 11% in five years.
HPE GreenLake helps Wibmo adopt an agile, scalable infrastructure model
In business for over two decades, Wibmo provides authentication services to over 70 banks and processes between 60–70% of India’s e-commerce transactions. It prides itself on playing a major role in the digital infrastructure of the country.
- Challenge: Overhaul infrastructure to gain better deployment time, use less space, and lower power consumption.
- Solution: HPE and Archon built a private cloud in Wibmo’s datacenter, virtualizing over 80% of infrastructure and reducing procurement lag, while also decreasing infrastructure footprint by 65% and capital expenditure by 55%.
- Outcome: Scalability, agility, and cloud-like experience.
YF Life leverages Fintech innovation to drive policyholder value
- Summary: Hong Kong-based YF Life Insurance International is driven by financial technology innovation to continually deliver greater value to policyholders, consultants, and business partners.
- Challenge: YF Life's IT infrastructure required hands-on management and manual processes to provision and configure environments for new projects. This was a time-consuming process, impeding the MIS team's ability to respond as quickly and flexibly as the business required.
- Solution: To support dynamic, ever-changing business demands, the company needed a flexible IT infrastructure, choosing HPE GreenLake for its cloud-like agility and pay-per-use economies with on-premises control to meet strict regulatory compliance requirements.
- Outcome: Reduces capital expenditures by 35% with 3-year ROI, Assures compliance with financial services regulatory requirements and Supports innovation goals to drive business growth and competitive advantage.
Healthcare
Flevoziekenhuis builds a data platform of the future with HPE 3PAR and HPE GreenLake
Located in a fast-growing region of the Netherlands, Flevohospital has seen the population of its city more than double since it opened its doors in 1991—and that growth trajectory is expected to continue in the next decades.
- Challenge: To meet ever-increasing data scale, velocity, and complexity, Flevoziekenhuis needed to modernize its storage environment.
- Solution: The hospital leveraged HPE GreenLake to make the move to an intelligent storage environment while avoiding capital investments.
- Outcome: HPE GreenLake delivers both a 30% OPEX savings and a model for growth without up-front investment or negotiation.
Asante delivers data-driven, digitally enabled healthcare. With a new Epic environment built on HPE GreenLake, it can speed services to patients and other regional medical providers.
- Challenge: A secure, flexible, and simplified platform was needed for Asante’s most critical environment.
- Solution: Asante deployed its Epic environment on the HPE GreenLake platform for seamless healthcare experience.
- Outcome: Asante doubled the lifespan of its infrastructure and gained agility to empower clinicians, expand its leadership, and enhance the patient experience.
Tübingen University Hospital is a leading German center for university medicine. It comprises 17 hospitals, 13 healthcare institutes, 16 interdepartmental centers, and a range of medical centers.
- Challenge: The entire IT infrastructure for Tübingen University Hospital’s SAP environment was outdated and increasingly reaching its performance limits.
- Solution: The previous hardware has now been replaced with four HPE ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA resulting in a significant boost in application performance.
- Outcome: The new SAP-certified infrastructure reduces risk, eliminates downtime, and gives options for new applications.
Manufacturing
Danfoss has partnered with HPE to design a forward-looking IT strategy, leveraging in-memory computing platforms to support both its business processes and its engineering teams. With world pressure mounting to solve issues like population growth, depletion of natural resources, and urbanization, Danfoss is now equipped to operate as a digitized enterprise.
- Challenge: Align global operations and speed time-to-market with IT infrastructure that meets the highest standards for transparency, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.
- Solution: For its ERP initiative, the company implemented SAP S/4HANA in a Greenfield environment, using HPE hardware, software, and services to do so.
- Outcome: Wrapping its HANA architecture in a pay-per-use model using HPE GreenLake helped the company access cutting-edge technology without large capital expenditures.
In just a few years, Assemblage Entertainment has grown to become an international, full-service 3D animation and visual effects studio credited with making major Hollywood features.
- Challenge: Tasked with creating media-rich assets, Assemblage wanted a best-in-class IT infrastructure that offers them flexibility, scale, reliability and affordability.
- Solution: HPE GreenLake solution helped Assemblage overcome process bottlenecks of the past and achieve significantly greater productivity, reliability and speed.
- Outcome: Assemblage is able to instantly meet customer demands, while reducing administrative complexity and preserving options for easy expansion.
Porsche Informatik forges data center from a single mold
Porsche Informatik, a wholly owned subsidiary and IT service provider of Porsche Holding based in Salzburg, needed to modernize its IT components from the ground up.
- Challenge: The company wanted to create a data center that with high computing power, clear and manageable structures, a high degree of automation, the greatest possible security and a flexible billing model.
- Solution: Changing its IT approach, Porche Informatik shifted to a software-defined data center using future-oriented HPE Synergy and HPE GreenLake.
- Outcome: The new system simplifies and centralizes management, while providing the highest power computing available and enabling flexibility and agility.
Public Sector
Flexibility for the Austrian Economic Counsel via WKO InHouse and HPE
The Austrian Economic Chambers’ internal IT organization, WKO Inhouse GmbH, delivers IT services and applications such as SAP® and Microsoft® Exchange to the country’s regional chambers as well as its main Vienna locations.
- Challenge: Focus less on IT operations and focus more effectively on the advancement and growth of Austrian industries.
- Solution: WKO upgraded its legacy HPE storage infrastructure – previously managed under a patchwork of leasing and support contracts – and servers to HPE 3PAR and HPE Synergy.
- Outcome: The HPE GreenLake consumption-based framework reduces the administrative overhead that once encumbered the group’s procurement and deployment processes, and users get faster, simpler access to enterprise-grade IT hardware and support.
Telco
Using HPE GreenLake, Nokia Software accelerated 5G software development with a private cloud as a service built on all-flash HPE 3PAR storage and HPE blades, maximizing performance and lowering CAPEX.
- Challenge: Support fast-growing software development and testing demands with greater agility and efficiency.
- Solution: Adopted HPE GreenLake consumption based IT model to build private cloud as a service on efficient, high-density HPE 3PAR all-flash storage.
- Outcome: Nokia Software continues to maximize performance and reduce capital expenses, while reducing its environmental footprint.
LAKE put its trust in HPE with partner Scality to provide a highly reliable, secure, and scalable backup solution, delivered with HPE GreenLake to accommodate unpredictable customer demands with the agility and economics of the cloud.
- Challenge: LAKE needed to improve flexibility and economics for delivering backup as a service to customers with unpredictable demands.
- Solution: The company deployed Scality RING cloud built on HPE Apollo 4000 systems delivered with the HPE GreenLake as-a-service consumption model.
- Outcome: Customer data is secure and compliant, and LAKE’s flexible platform makes it possible to deliver new service offerings while aligning costs to usage.