Last year, during HPE Discover 2022, Red Hat Enterprise Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced a plan to combine services on HPE GreenLake, including OpenShift, Ansible and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

One year later, those Red Hat services have been integrated into the HPE GreenLake platform, a key step for both companies in the implementation of an edge-to-cloud strategy.

“The next biggest challenge is optimizing at the edge,” said Rocco Lavista (pictured, left), vice president of worldwide sales and go to market leader for GreenLake at HPE. “You need to have that cloud-native operating model at the edge. Red Hat being everywhere at the edge with HPE GreenLake and what we’re going to solve for the customers is that next place that, at scale, is where our customers are asking us to look at.”

Lavista spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Dave Vellante and Rob Strechay at HPE Discover, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. He was joined by Ryan King (right), senior director of the global hardware partner ecosystem at Red Hat, and they discussed how the integration of Red Hat and HPE GreenLake services is helping customers with edge-to-cloud deployment. (* Disclosure below.)

Journey to the hybrid cloud

The integration of key Red Hat offerings with GreenLake provides further insight into what enterprise customers need in the march toward hybrid computing. Customers across industries such as manufacturing, telecommunications and government want to deploy virtualized environments and modernize applications, according to King.

“We have a customer that’s doing something in e-government around application modernization specifically on OpenShift,” he said. “We can walk industry from all of those and say that they’re all taking this particular journey on the hybrid cloud path towards fully automated infrastructure and application platforms.”

HPE recently announced new enhancements to GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise, a fully managed private cloud that can run both cloud-native and traditional applications. The new services expand capabilities for edge use cases and will soon include additional support for OpenShift.

“With Private Cloud Enterprise, we make it easy to deploy Red Hat OpenShift container platform,” Lavista said. “If we can simplify how you deploy containerized platforms on HPE Private Cloud Enterprise, we’re simplifying how customers operate with consistency at the edge. We want to deliver that hybrid cloud experience across the continuum for our customers and we do that with Red Hat.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of HPE Discover:

(* Disclosure: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Intel Corp. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither HPE and Intel nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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