HPE and CCS sign memorandum of understanding to accelerate pace of public sector cloud migrations

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) centred on the supply of tech large GreenLake’s proposition to public sector organisations to run their workloads and functions within the cloud.

The MoU will present public sector organisations with entry to HPE’s portfolio of compute merchandise, together with its composable, software-defined infrastructure for hybrid cloud environments and high-performance compute (HPC) capabilities for synthetic intelligence (AI) functions.

The association marks an extension of HPE’s long-standing relationship with CCS and is geared in direction of serving to public sector organisations accelerate the pace of their cloud migrations, stated Philip Orumwense, business director and chief know-how procurement officer at CCS.

“CCS has renewed and extended our relationship with HPE through this updated memorandum of understanding, which will help our customers accelerate their IT modernisation, achieve sustainability and utilise systems that harness the power of data to improve services for citizens,” he stated.

“This MoU extends to cover all areas of HPE’s portfolio, including new key areas such as HPE’s pay-as-you-go GreenLake platform – making it easier for all public sector bodies, no matter how big or small, to get value for money.”

As properly as supporting public sector organisations on their transfer to the cloud, the MoU can be geared in direction of serving to them undertake off-premise companies in a sustainable method that won’t threat enlarging the environmental footprint of their IT estates.

To this level, the MoU covers the supply of free sustainability assessments from HPE for the primary 100 public sector prospects who search assist with creating their very own inexperienced IT technique.

HPE stated: “The evaluation supplies an evaluation of vitality effectivity, offering steerage on IT transformation issues, datacentre optimisation, in addition to engineering and transformation challenge companies to drive sustainability. 

“Additionally, public sector organisations will have access to annual reports detailing factors like sustainability savings, IT asset up- and recycling, and the value of resold upcycled assets. These will help to quantify the environmental impact and savings achieved through IT asset lifecycle solutions and can be leveraged by the organisations for their sustainability reporting.” 

Andrew Young, vice-president of UK and Ireland gross sales at HPE, stated that with the UK authorities within the throes of revising its 2050 net-zero emissions technique, the MoU is well timed.

“Pressure on the UK public sector is increasing to deploy sustainable solutions while balancing their IT needs and cost between legacy technology and the government’s cloud strategy,” he stated.

“HPE GreenLake can help organisations that are struggling to modernise their systems or with public cloud pricing, providing an alternative, cost-efficient solution that allows them to optimally manage their workloads and data.”

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