Netherlands-based HPE partner Infradax worked as a consultant for the deal in which Digital Realty will standardize on the HPE Private Cloud Business Edition for its mission-critical operations across more than 300 data centers on six continents.
Digital Realty is modernizing the efficiency and workload management for its mission-critical operations and lowering the cost to do so across its massive global footprint through Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s private cloud platform in a deal that also represents a huge storage win for HPE.
Amersfoort, Netherlands-based solution provider Infradax worked with Digital Realty to test multiple storage solutions before choosing HPE Private Cloud Business Edition.
Dallas-based Digital Realty – one of the world’s largest data center and colocation providers that expects annual sales of up to $5.9 billion in its current fiscal year – selected HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 for its Business Edition deployment for the ease of use and total cost of ownership boost, HPE said in a press release.
“We own and operate world-edge data centers across a global footprint that requires a technology platform to scale with the growing demands of our customers,” Faramarz Mahdavi, vice president, IT infrastructure and operations, Digital Realty, said in a statement. “HPE Private Cloud Business Editon brings our vision to life through efficient scaling and streamlined management of infrastructure delivered with a predictable total cost of ownership.”
Digital Realty has 5,000 customers inside its 300-plus data centers around the world and added 119 new customers last quarter.
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HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 supplies Digital Realty with a robust data storage foundation that uses predictive analytics, cross-stack visibility, enhanced reporting and detailed performance insights – all integrated with seamless management and cloud operational experience.
HPE’s Private Cloud Business Edition has several platform innovations, such as the industry’s first disaggregated, scale-out block storage with 100 percent availability guaranteed, according to HPE.
Mahdavi in a statement called HPE’s private cloud a “future ready platform” that will let Digital Realty meet its customer’s needs in the AI era.
HPE Private Cloud Business Edition gives Digital Realty a single-intuitive interface so the company’s engineers can manage secure, reliable, high-performance services at its data centers anywhere in the world.
HPE and Maryland Heights, Mo.-based global systems integrator World Wide Technology will work together to support the deployment across Digital Realty’s global footprint.
HPE Private Cloud Business Edition lowers TCO by up to 2.5 times compared to competing solutions, HPE said. Customers who employ HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software and the disaggregated architecture of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 can expect even easier management and lower TCO, HPE said.
“Digital Realty has been an exceptional technology and colocation partner for HPE, and their endorsement as a customer demonstrates the tremendous trust they have placed in HPE and our private cloud technologies,” Cheri Williams, senior vice president and general manager for private cloud and flex solutions at HPE, said in a statement.
While Digital Realty’s sales dropped 2 percent in the first quarter, the company said demand remains high. It increased annual guidance based on a robust pipeline of enterprise and hyperscale customers.
CEO Andy Power said during the company’s April earnings call that the company is “encouraged by the secular demand drivers of cloud, digital transformation and AI, which have been in place for the last several quarters.”
