![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Google, for example, claims to be "carbon neutral since 2007. In sustainability, HPE said it "has committed to be a net-zero enterprise by 2050." That is nearly 30 years in the future it does not seem ambitious to us. HPE promises "an agnostic approach to public cloud," but we should not expect the company ever to advise a pure public cloud solution since it "champions building… hybrid infrastructure." Still, the Consciously Hybrid campaign makes more sense than the bizarre For the Good "manifesto" that the company has also unveiled, in which it promises to be ethical in its dealings with the public sector – as if, without such a manifesto, we could expect otherwise? Digital sovereignty? Over-reliance on a few US service providers for key services? The price premium for renting rather than owning IT resources? HPE did not make that case well, relying too much on vague generalisation and presenting little hard data. There is a case to be made for hybrid cloud, or not using cloud, and not just that legacy technology is hard to migrate. In Microsoft's world, cloud email still often requires on-premises Exchange.MongoDB loses its mind with marketing budget movie mania: Yep, it's choose-your-own-adventure Hackers with drop-down menus.'It takes a hell of a mental toll' – techies who lost work due to COVID share their stories.Eclipse Data Connector arrives for GAIA-X, Europe's plan to protect its cloud data from foreign tech firms.UK.gov shakes hands on cloud agreement with 'non-cloud service provider' HPE.Component shortages: HPE pushes up some hardware prices and as if by magic, reports 'record' gross margin in Q3.The interesting questions about something like GreenLake are about the trade-offs, what is gained and what is lost.Īnother matter not explored by HPE for obvious reasons is that smaller suppliers and cloud providers can sometimes offer better value than the big three cloud providers, or indeed HPE GreenLake. ![]() The NIST cloud model specifies multi-tenancy, rapid elasticity, and the fact "the consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure" as essential characteristics of cloud, excluding on-premises deployments. Nevertheless, a GreenLake installation is not equivalent to AWS, Azure or GCP, even if it has a subset of their features. HPE also said that "cloud technology can be delivered anywhere," meaning that some aspects of cloud computing, including automation, self-service, virtualization and containers can be implemented on-premises such as through the company's GreenLake services. HPE made the valid point that pressure from cloud companies to reserve capacity to reduce costs versus pay-as-you-go prices makes over-provisioning more likely, but cloud still offers many possibilities such as auto-scaling and serverless computing that do not exist in the same way on-premises.Īn online press Q&A at the film's online premiere was run by HPE, where we asked about server utilisation on-premises compared to public cloud, but the company chose not to answer in a carefully choreographed session. It is of course possible to over-provision cloud services but this statement seems to miss the point that hyperscale providers can in principle achieve greater utilisation rates than on-premises.ĪWS, as you would expect, takes a different view, referencing a 2014 survey by the US Natural Resources Defense Council estimating "cloud server utilization at 65 per cent and on-premises utilization running 12 to 18 per cent," a huge difference, especially in the context of environmental sustainability. And so there are hundreds of thousands and millions of servers running all of the time. Public-sector advisor Russell Macdonald said: "By definition, hyperscalers are hyper scale. HPE claims the efficiency of public cloud is a mirage. Is this anything to do with the cloud-first policy? In the film and paper, HPE failed to prove its point, and listening to some of its arguments felt like going back in time, to the early days of cloud when there was more anxiety about using shared computing resources than there is today. When former Ministry of Justice technology professional Steve Holt said in the recording that "there is a terrible waste of public money" in government IT, that is easy to believe. Since "cloud first" already allows for non-cloud deployments when justified by cost, the difference is not as great as it first appears, but HPE may feel that government policy has handed the US public cloud giants a marketing advantage in their public-sector pitches, such that it has to work harder to make a case for its on-premises solutions. ![]()
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