While the cloud continues to grow in popularity for many organizations, there are some applications that can’t be moved to the cloud. Sometimes, IT infrastructure needs to remain on-premises due to latency, governance, security, and many other reasons to maintain a good business. So how can technology companies accommodate this reality?

“Seventy percent of apps and data remain on-premises today,” said Arwa Kaddoura (pictured), vice president of worldwide sales of GreenLake at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (HPE). “How do you solve that problem for the remaining 70% of applications? So if they can’t move into the cloud, well, how do we bring the cloud to them?”

Kaddoura spoke with Stu Miniman, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the HPE Discover Virtual Experience event. They discussed bringing the cloud to customers through GreenLake. (* Disclosure below.)

HPE delivers hybrid cloud innovations

HPE has been looking for solutions for this issue through hybrid cloud innovations, and HPE GreenLake Hybrid Cloud is a multi-stack managed service for public and private clouds that simplifies operations to help companies eliminate complexity surrounding cloud adoption, according to Kaddoura.

“Our competitive advantage comes from being able to bring a true cloud experience to those apps and data where I would argue no one else can,” Kaddoura said. “I don’t want our customers spending time thinking about how to architect and how to design the right IT or infrastructure offering. I want to be able to do that for them in order to deliver that experience that they need.”

From a GreenLake perspective, Kaddoura believes that enterprises can now modernize IT infrastructure and bring it to their customers in a way that they’ve never seen before. Enterprises must modernize the platform before they can modernize the application on the platform.

“It really starts to focus on launching new cloud services like containers, virtual machines, storage, compute — sort of the core cloud offerings — but then also adding things like machine-learning ops, data protection for cloud and on-prem, and networking services,” Kaddoura explained. “It’s … managed services. But what does that mean? That means new self-service cloud experiences via GreenLake Central, which has very detailed … consumption and billing data to allow you to have that transparency.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the HPE Discover Virtual Experience event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the HPE Discover Virtual Experience. Neither Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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