“Almost every large customer I speak with would like an option to move away from VMware/Broadcom,” says Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst with ZK Research. “Price hikes and reduced support are driving this.”
HPE is introducing HPE Private Cloud, which the company says will help enterprise organizations that are modernizing infrastructure and moving beyond traditional virtualization environments. The offering unifies infrastructure, operations, and data into a single-vendor solution to help customers reduce cost and manage risk, according to HPE. The platform also supports HPE Morpheus VM Essentials alongside VMware environments and integrates with HPE Zerto Software, Veeam, and HPE StoreOnce for backup, recovery, and migration, according to the company
“One operating model means one single pane of glass,” said Angel Penilla, vice president of private cloud engineering at HPE, in a press briefing. “You’re going to have one place where all of these organization actors can interact and do their workloads.”
HPE said the goal is to reduce operational complexity created by separate virtualization, container, and AI management tools. HPE is also trying to position the platform as a practical migration option for enterprises that do not want to immediately abandon VMware. HPE Private Cloud now offers:
