Today, HPE announced additional Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) subscription configurations through their Greenlake brand. HPE has been offering IT-as-a-Service for the last three years under the Greenlake brand name. Greenlake Central is a new software platform that is supposed to unify their existing offerings by providing customers a single software platform they can use to manage their clouds. Hewlett Packard Enterprise was spun off from HP in 2015 to focus on enterprise computing. Since then, they’ve spun off several of their divisions and are now down to just providing servers and cloud platforms, primarily on an as-a-Service basis.
Today, HPE announced additional Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) subscription configurations through their Greenlake brand. HPE has been offering IT-as-a-Service for the last three years under the Greenlake brand name. Greenlake Central is a new software platform that is supposed to unify their existing offerings by providing customers a single software platform they can use to manage their clouds. Hewlett Packard Enterprise was spun off from HP in 2015 to focus on enterprise computing. Since then, they’ve spun off several of their divisions and are now down to just providing servers and cloud platforms, primarily on an as-a-Service basis.
Earlier this year, in April, HPE announced a series of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) offerings. The new services and configurations are in addition to the company’s earlier efforts to cope with the increased demand for remote work solutions. According to the company, 80% of employees would like to work remotely at least some of the time.
HPE’s new Virtual Desktop Infrastructure configurations are each targeted at different segments of the workforce, including configurations for knowledge users, task users, power users, and engineering users. HPE defines power users as application developers and others who need more intensive use of office applications. They recommend systems like their HPE
ProLiant servers or HPE Nimble Storage dHCI hyper-converged systems for this group of users. HPE distinguishes engineering workers from power users and describes them as professionals with intensive graphics or data analysis requirements such as CAD/CAE users or financial traders. For this segment of the workforce, HPE encourages customers to subscribe to use HPE ProLiant servers or HPE Nimble Storage dHCI hyper-converged systems as well. Unsurprisingly, HPE recommends the same set of their own servers for all other segments of the workforce, with the one exception of also suggesting HPE SimpliVity hyper-converged for knowledge workers who mostly use office productivity applications. For all segments, HPE wants customers to buy infrastructure (hardware and software licenses) in units of 100, 300, 500, or 1000. As with many other Greenlake offerings, this is a subscription service, and customers will be billed monthly.
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