The flexibility and reliability of the cloud are invaluable features for data centers, bordering on a necessity for many enterprises. If servers and services fail, the result is a ripple effect of disrupted services and upset clients. 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s GreenLake takes its products and elevates them into an operational experience in the cloud, allowing businesses to manage all data services from the cloud, according to Patrick Osborne (pictured), vice president of the Storage Business Unit at HPE.

“[Services] like disaster recovery, backup, data immutability, data vision, understanding what kind of data you have, we’ll be able to provide those services that are essentially abstracted from the platforms themselves that run across multiple types of platforms,” Osborne said.

Osborne spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Dave Vellante and David Nicholson at VeeamON, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed upcoming GreenLake innovations, HPE’s partnership with Veeam Software Corp., GreenLake’s evolving ecosystem, and more. (* Disclosure below.)

Cultivating an ecosystem

GreenLake is currently providing more than 50 services on its platform, from solutions and workloads to compute, network and storage. This large selection of services is proving popular with clients, with GreenLake the catalyst behind the transformation fueling the future of HPE, according to Osborne.

“The customers are voting with their dollars, so they’re happy with the platform, certainly from an operational perspective and a financial consumption perspective,” Osborne said. “Our target goal, which we’ve said a bunch of times, is we want to be the hyperscaler on-prem. We want to provide that customer experience to the folks that are investing in the platform.”

HPE achieves its success with the help of partners like Veeam, with HPE seizing an opportunity out of the split of HP and HPE to develop a new ecosystem in data protection and backup, according to Osborne.

“We’ve always been a big partnering company, both on the route to market side — so our distributors and partners — and we work with them in big-channel business,” Osborne said. “Then on the software partnership side, that’s always evolving and growing. We’re a very open ecosystem, and we like to provide choice for our customers.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the VeeamON event:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the VeeamON event. Neither HPE, the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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