HPE continues to evolve technical solutions for a dispersed workforce

HPE’s VDI portfolio is not new but is increasingly valuable to its customers as remote work looks like a more permanent situation than initially anticipated

As of April HPE had rolled out a series of VDI solutions that enable customers to adapt to the growing workforce and garnered a significant number of new customers. This week’s announcement at Workplace Next rides the momentum that highlighted use case-specific VDI offerings, allowing customers to customize their experience based on the type of worker and the size of the remote workforce. With these inputs, HPE can optimize newly designed VDI configurations that are dependent on each type of worker and customize pricing, billing and delivery.

Kaddoura explained that customers “need access to their data centers in a very secure way, and in a highly cost-optimized way as well,” and highlighted GreenLake as the cloud that can be implemented in a customer’s data center, colocation facility or edge. Additionally, she noted that what HPE has done is “brought together the best of our Pointnext Services, our software management layer, as well as HPE’s rich portfolio of hardware to create that cloud experience.”

While the announcement of HPE’s GreenLake virtual desktop cloud services was the banner topic woven throughout the event’s discussions, HPE’s rich ecosystem of partners was highlighted as key to optimizing the rollout of these latest features. For example, in addition to offering VDI from Citrix (Nasdaq: CTXS), HPE can now include VMware (NYSE: VMW) Horizon as well as NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) virtual GPU (vGPU) technology for more cumbersome workloads. The extension of HPE’s partnership with Wipro was also announced, enabling delivery of hybrid cloud and VDI solutions “as a Service” through HPE GreenLake.

Yadavalli expanded on the partnership between Wipro and HPE explaining how the relationship will allow Wipro to leverage HPE GreenLake across its managed services portfolio, offering a pay-per-use model that is subscription based and easily consumable. The aim, said Yadavalli, is to “bring hyperscaler capabilities to customers on-premises or on hosted infrastructure,” which will enable customers to “fast track their workplace transformation efforts by eliminating the need for upfront capital investments and provisioning costs while enjoying the benefits of on-premises control, security and compliance.”

On Nov. 10 HPE sponsored Workplace Next, a series of discussions on the trends and impacts of the reimagined workforce as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, featuring a cross-industry panel of experts and executives. During the virtual broadcast, business leaders from various industry roles, including human resources, real estate, healthcare and manufacturing, discussed not only the workplace challenges and trends resulting from the pandemic but also highlighted the opportunities a remote work mandate have unveiled. HPE is a prime example of an enterprise that has addressed the challenges of remote work internally while reorienting its portfolio of solutions to enable as seamless a shift as possible for customers. Additionally, with the discussion of the reimagined workplace as the backdrop, HPE notably leveraged the event to announce expansion of HPE GreenLake VDI cloud services, which included several updates to its workforce strategy for the digital economy.