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New Futurum Research Report – A Colocation Cloud Journey with Flexibility and Peace of Mind

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Futurum Research believes that the HPE GreenLake platform is the best solution to meet the growing demand across organizations to balance their workloads across colocation, on-premises, public cloud, and private cloud environments. For many organizations, the cloud journey has proven challenging, and HPE GreenLake with colocation provides the practical capabilities and solutions needed to advance digital transformation, while meeting business outcomes and sustainability goals.

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Aruba CX 10000 Series Switch Launch Aims to Shatter Centralized Security Appliance Chokepoints

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Aruba, a HPE company, introduced its CX 10000 Distributed Services Switch, aimed at enabling enterprises to deploy software-defined stateful services where data is created and processed, with the goal of eliminating legacy appliances and host software needed to build the hybrid clouds demanded by modern applications and IT organizations. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the new solution is a clearly differentiated competitive threat to centralized security appliance solutions and could make further inroads by making TCO benefits more tangible, demonstrating portfolio ability to comprehensively administer any switch/server/appliance fabric scenario, and sharpen the advantages and role of the Distributed Services Switch in relation to alternative SmartNIC/DPU implementations.

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New Futurum Research Report – HPE GreenLake for VDI: The Optimal Choice for On-premises Cloud Services

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VDI is ready to make new inroads as organizations must fully align their operations and business processes to the digital workplace demands of the post-pandemic hybrid workforce and hybrid cloud era. Futurum Research analyzes why it identifies HPE GreenLake for VDI as the best value for meeting today’s foremost VDI challenges due to new capabilities such as the ability to deploy directly into the customer data center or colocation facility, combining the software and hardware required to keep desktops close to users and applications, assuring an optimized desktop experience.

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HPE Awarded $2B NSA Contract to Deliver HPC as-a-Service Through HPE GreenLake

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Futurum Research analysts Steven Dickens and Shelly Kramer unpack the news coming out of HPE on the company’s selection by the NSA for an HPC as-a-Service offering based on HPE GreenLake, why this is attractive in instances where security dictates an on-prem deployment, along with thoughts on what’s ahead for the industry as a whole.

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Google Cloud’s BeyondCorp Enterprise Zero Trust Enhancements Are Designed to Boost Customer Trust

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Google Cloud introduced three new BeyondCorp Enterprise features designed to fortify customer zero-trust capabilities including providing their users with simple and secure access to key applications. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the new features align with meeting growing ecosystem demand for zero-trust, can help drive SASE adoption, and strengthens Google Cloud’s competitive hand against rivals such as HPE GreenLake and Azure as well as especially AWS.

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HPE GreenLake Organizational and Leadership Changes Announced This Week Clearly Raises the HPE GreenLake Tide

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HPE President and CEO Antonio Neri unveiled new HPE GreenLake organizational and leadership changes all targeted at making further inroads into the hybrid cloud space. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the new HPE GreenLake changes, such as the formation of the HPE GreenLake Platform Development team, the HPE GreenLake Cloud Service Services group, SRE and Cloud Services Operations teams, all strengthen HPE’s hand in competing against hyperscalers AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud as well as enterprise-savvy cloud players IBM/RedHat, VMware, and Oracle.

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HPE to Acquire Zerto, a Cloud Data Management and Protection Company, Bolstering GreenLake Storage Portfolio

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HPE announced the acquisition of Zerto, a cloud data management and protection company, in a strategic move aimed at delivering the most robust recovery as-a-service solution in the industry. Futurum’s Steven Dickens shares his insights on the acquisition as well as the potential impact on the hybrid cloud storage marketplace.

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HPE’s Project Aurora Launches, a New Zero-Trust Offering to Help Address Security Concerns

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Futurum Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on news coming out of HPE’s Discover event around the latest zero-trust solution, Project Aurora. As the cybersecurity landscape evolves, new approaches are required to combat the emerging threats. HPE’s zero-trust approach is designed to deliver robust attestation and verification derived through a root-of-trust model at the silicon layer.