Escaping hybrid complexity demands redefining private cloud

We consistently hear from customers across industries: workloads are increasingly distributed across heterogeneous environments—spanning multiple hypervisors, runtimes, locations, and clouds. Managing this complexity has become costly and time-consuming, limiting flexibility at a time when enterprises need it most.

As a pioneer in cloud consumption and a leader in engineered systems, HPE is focused on helping customers shift from complexity and lock-in to limitless opportunity with investments that redefine what customers should expect from private cloud. 

Today, we’re excited to announce a new unified private cloud portfolio fueled by the addition of HPE Morpheus Software across multiple product lines, including HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software and the integration of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials into HPE Private Cloud Business Edition—taking our open, enterprise-grade private cloud portfolio to the next level, delivering greater flexibility, control, and choice.

Examining the Barriers of Complexity, Cost, and Control

Today’s IT landscapes are evolving faster than many organizations can manage, creating operational, financial, and resource constraints at every level. High virtualization licensing costs and the inefficiencies of traditional hyperconverged infrastructure are top of mind, with hypervisor and hardware silos forcing organizations to choose between proprietary stacks that limit flexibility or unproven options that can’t scale efficiently to adapt to evolving business needs.

Operating across fragmented hypervisors, tools, and manual processes force IT teams to compromise what’s important, exposing inefficiencies, limiting visibility, and increasing operational risk. Every layer of complexity slows decision making, stretches resources, and creates hidden costs.

We work side-by-side with customers who are living these challenges every day—fighting complexity, breaking down silos, and building a future where options are open, operations are simpler, and environments are modernized for what’s next.

Simplify, Optimize, and Modernize with HPE Morpheus Software

This is where HPE steps in with HPE Morpheus Enterprise: a powerful solution purpose-built to improve IT effectiveness and efficiency, turning IT into an internal service provider and empowering business teams to provision workloads into any hypervisor and cloud on demand with all the governance and financial guardrails that enterprises need. 

With a single unified interface—whether through GUI, API, Infrastructure as Code, or ITSM plugins—organizations can manage HPE-native KVM and Kubernetes runtimes alongside existing environments and public cloud infrastructure. The platform is hypervisor, hardware, and cloud-agnostic, and integrates with surrounding toolsets like ServiceNow, DNS, backup providers, and task orchestration tools to manage application dependencies end-to-end.

Powered by built-in automation, optimization, and governance, HPE Morpheus Enterprise delivers measurable results, accelerating provisioning by up to 150x, cutting cloud costs by up to 30%, and reducing risk through granular, role-based controls. The result: streamlined operations and more capacity to innovate where it counts.

HPE Morpheus Enterprise is the latest addition to our HPE Morpheus Software portfolio, expanding on the capabilities we introduced earlier this year with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials. Customers can start with VM Essentials and upgrade to Enterprise as their hybrid cloud needs evolve, unlocking advanced capabilities without disruption.

Whether deployed on industry-standard hardware or integrated into our engineered HPE Private Cloud systems, this portfolio offers unmatched flexibility. And with availability through HPE GreenLake Flex, it simplifies deployment and operations while lowering total cost of ownership.

Leading with Purpose and Setting the New Standard for Unified Private Cloud 

At HPE, we've consistently led the way in modernizing enterprise infrastructure, from early software-defined and hyperconverged systems, to the first disaggregated HCI solution from a major vendor in 2019 and extending leadership with enterprise-grade disaggregated storage in 2023. These innovations have helped customers simplify operations, optimize resource use, and modernize how they manage virtualized environments.

We are extending that leadership across both hyperconverged and disaggregated innovation by integrating HPE Morpheus VM Essentials with HPE Private Cloud Business Edition. Let’s look at how this milestone, combined with the broader integration of Morpheus technology across our entire private cloud portfolio, empowers our customers with unparalleled flexibility, operational simplicity, and cost efficiency:

• Cost Efficiency: A socket-based pricing model coupled with independent scale of compute and storage significantly lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) compared to core-based licensing and fixed hardware approaches—all while maintaining enterprise-grade capabilities.
• Flexible Choice: Unified management across HPE’s KVM-based hypervisor and VMware-based virtualization environments means businesses aren’t boxed in. They scale IT their way, aligned to their needs, landing workloads on the right platform to optimize what matters for the business.
• Operational Simplicity: Designed for productivity, this solution leverages AI and automation to streamline setup and lifecycle operations, eliminate routine tasks, and accelerate VM provisioning, freeing up IT to focus on strategic priorities that move the business forward.
• Use Case Optimized: HPE’s disaggregated architectures help reduce TCO by up to 2.5x in datacenters and departmental deployments, while SimpliVity-powered solutions deliver up to 45% lower cost at the edge. And with the ability to upgrade and integrate with HPE Morpheus Software, organizations gain unified management across edge, core, and cloud environments.

Progress Moves Faster with the Right Partners

Diversifying runtime strategies and adopting a modern cloud operating model is a journey, and one no organization should take alone. Since launching HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, we’ve seen strong interest from channel and ISV partners in our KVM-based hypervisor. And to accelerate adoption, HPE Advisory and Professional Services now offers Virtualization Modernization services that combine cost analytics with purpose-built migration tooling. They can even extend into full HPE Morpheus Enterprise deployment with orchestration blueprints and DevOps pipeline integration.

This integration of HPE Morpheus Software into our private cloud portfolio represents a pivotal step in delivering on our vision for unified hybrid cloud operations. By combining cutting-edge virtualization and orchestration capabilities with a private cloud portfolio that’s unmatched in scope, depth and impact, we’re enabling customers to unlock new efficiencies, streamline operations, and gain the agility needed to thrive in an increasingly dynamic IT landscape.