Getting the best of the private cloud, on-premise and public cloud worlds is the new reality in enterprise tech.

As a result, the world is going hybrid. This is because an on-prem environment is still needed for a myriad of reasons, including regulatory concerns. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has been key in delivering a hybrid-cloud experience through its GreenLake platform, irrespective of the route taken since the primary objective is value proposition, according to Brian Falvey (pictured, right), vice president of sales for HPE GreenLake North America at HPE.

“There’s this kind of false narrative out there about should you use public cloud? Should you use private cloud or on-prem? The answer is all of it,” Falvey said. “It’s this idea, this notion we have of hybrid by accident versus hybrid by design. For my future planning, my future growth, supporting my business leaders in my company, I need to have a multicloud strategy. I need to be hybrid, and so that’s hybrid by design. You need to design for it, and what HPE does is consider us the gap fillers. You work with HPE with GreenLake cloud platform, we bridge all of those together … and even create kind of a true unified data fabric.”

Falvey and Joseph George (left), global vice president of strategic alliance at HPE, spoke with theCUBE industry analyst Dave Vellante at the “Supercloud 5: The Battle for AI Supremacy” event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how HPE accelerates the hybrid cloud narrative through GreenLake.

GreenLake as a game-changer

HPE GreenLake is a stepping stone toward a seamless hybrid cloud experience. It does this by offering enhanced orchestration capabilities and an effective control plane. As a result, it presents continuity of that experience irrespective of the cloud or on-prem environment, according to Falvey.

“I’ve been selling GreenLake for almost 10 years here at HPE, and it used to be flex capacity, so it was kind of a consumption model for infrastructure,” he said. “The way I interact with and drive value on public cloud, I want that in my on-prem, my private cloud. The critical differentiator is that software layer, the GreenLake cloud platform that sits over the infrastructure.”

The GreenLake platform helps with customer centricity, which is a core objective laying at the heart of HPE, according to George. This is because identity and access management are built in, and value is derived from the underlying infrastructure at the same speed as a public cloud since GreenLake acts as an abstraction layer.

“Imagine just a layer where you’re taking applications, data users, et cetera and putting it into a portal with HPE GreenLake and then determining where these things need to reside at that point in time with the flexibility to manage portability of things over time,” he said. “It’s time for us to listen to what our customers are saying, where they say, ‘We have privacy concerns, we have sensitivity concerns, we have security concerns. How do we manage across the whole portfolio?’ And I think this is what HP GreenLake offers.”

Given that speed is the name of the enterprise business, democratizing access to artificial intelligence is of the essence in this current day and age. As a result, HPE GreenLake has gone a step higher by offering a large language model service meant for easier onboarding as generative AI and ChatGPT continue making waves, Falvey pointed out.

“You don’t have time or the money or the resources to spin this huge thing up,” he explained. “What HPE GreenLake for large language model does is, it’s basically a multi-tenant cloud. It’s like a public cloud environment where you can log in, put it to use, use the infrastructure, use the tools, use our expertise, develop your model and then shut it off. You don’t have to make the big investment. I think it’s pretty noble in democratizing access to AI.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the “Supercloud 5: The Battle for AI Supremacy” event:

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