As the cloud continues to gain steam, enterprises are grappling with the burning issue of how to seamlessly visualize both public cloud and on-premise estates.

Through a cloud operational model, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. builds services that might be consumed from a hyperscaler because it creates a common theme, according to Tom Black (pictured, left), executive vice president and general manager of storage at HPE.

“The public cloud won on operational model, and so we decided to make that our mantra … that everything we were going to do would be based on the cloud operational model,” Black said. “We took the heritage of the Aruba networking platform, we made it a common platform for the company, HPE GreenLake Cloud platform … and then we started printing services on top. What became really clear is customers liked our operational model and our cloud control plane.”

Black and Casey Taylor (right), chief operating officer of HPE Storage, spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Dave Vellante and Rob Strechay at HPE Discover, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how HPE is using a cloud operational model to accelerate a hybrid computing environment. (* Disclosure below.)

An appetite for cloud operations

By employing a reusable microservice approach, HPE is able to build features on the cloud. Customer centricity is also at the core of the company, which is it relies on an easy-to-use provision model, according to Taylor.

“It’s super helpful speaking to customers and partners,” she stated. “You hear from them the truth — good, bad, the ugly. What we are hearing is really confirmation that the company strategy is resonating and there really is that appetite for the cloud operational model. Multicloud, on-prem that is definitely a custom in demand.”

Since simplicity is at the heart of the company, HPE Alletra transforms resource management and eradicates complexity as a cloud-native data infrastructure, according to Black. The HPE Alletra Storage MP is the latest addition and offers file or block storage.

“If you think through what we announced on April 4, we’ve collapsed all of block storage onto the Alletra platform, and that … continues to grow in triple digits for us,” he noted. “Most successful product that we’ve ever built in the company. The latest member of the Alletra family, called the MP, lets you go from a tiny box to many boxes. It’s just how you describe your workload, how the system, how a cluster ultimately gets configured. And then we made it multi-protocol. We announced our file offer on it as well.”

As data becomes more complex because it lives in multiple locations, data protection is top of mind for enterprises. HPE offers multi-faceted data protection through its StorageWorks Fabric Manager and software-delivered services, such as HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery and HPE GreenLake for Disaster Recovery, Black pointed out.

“Three additions to the portfolio and the GreenLake Cloud platform family,” he explained. “One is we enhanced our SaaS backup recovery-based service to include popular applications like MSSQL, RDS from Amazon, EKS, EC2, EBS. So now you can create one data protection policy, and whether the VM is in Amazon or Azure or on-premise in VMware, you get to apply that protection policy.”

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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