The Power of Azure in Your Data Center: HPE Proliant for Microsoft

Solution brief

The power of Azure in your data center HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack Deploy the right mix of Azure Users can quickly provision and scale services HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack with the same self-service experience as difference: simplicity, expertise, and cloud technologies—IaaS/PaaS Azure. For example, Microsoft Azure Stack affordability accelerates DevOps by providing a rich More IT services, faster Delivering an Azure hybrid cloud requires Azure ecosystem of resources. Application more than just providing services. You Organizations today are turning to hybrid need to ensure you have the right strategy. cloud strategies that include both private developers can maximize their productivity Hewlett Packard Enterprise offers a broad and public clouds to reduce cost and using a write-once, deploy to Azure or range of services and products to help you increase flexibility. Since 2008, Microsoft® Azure Stack approach. Using APIs that are ensure your Azure hybrid cloud is delivering identical between the public and private on its promises. Azure public cloud services have enabled businesses to move faster and achieve Microsoft Azure offerings. You can create The HPE simplicity more. However, business and technical applications based on your choices of open HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack is a source or .NET technology. complete hybrid IT solution with consulting, considerations—including regulatory application assessment, operational, support compliance, data sovereignty, security, HPE and Microsoft—a strategic cloud and training services available to deliver agility, cost, and latency issues—have caused partnership simplicity, and reduced cost to your data many companies to avoid public clouds. For more than 30 years, Hewlett Packard center. Today, Microsoft Azure Stack enables IT Enterprise and Microsoft have shared a The HPE expertise organizations to provide the benefits of Azure successful partnership. In December 2015, Deploy with confidence with over 4000 public cloud—agility and scalability—with the we extended our relationship by announcing Azure and hybrid cloud experts to support control, performance, and security of the a 3-year collaboration to advance innovation you along the way. on-premises data center. in hybrid cloud computing through Microsoft • Microsoft Azure Advisory Workshop Azure and HPE infrastructure, as well as Azure goes hybrid • Application Suitability and Rationalization private and managed cloud solutions. This Services Co-engineered by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Microsoft, the HPE ProLiant for Microsoft collaboration helps our customers accelerate • Operational Readiness Services Azure Stack solution provides business with and simplify their journey to the cloud. • Cloud Native Development and Operations an Azure hybrid cloud platform in their own Unmatched capabilities for Microsoft Azure Services data center that is fully compatible with Today HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack • Training Services Azure Public Cloud services. This hybrid is the only solution offering in the market with: HPE financial and service support cloud solution delivers the speed, agility, and simplicity of a public cloud, combined with the • Broadest configuration options with choice • HPE Flexible Capacity in processor type, memory, storage capacity, • HPE Proactive Care Service cost-effectiveness and security of a powerful on-premises private cloud. Adding to the as well as support for 3rd party networking • HPE Datacenter Care benefits is consistency with Microsoft Azure switches, power supplies and rack options, public cloud services. ensuring the solution will fit seamlessly into your existing environment Maximize IT agility and reduce • Investment optimization with clusters sized implementation risk HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack in single node increments instead of four is a fully integrated system that delivers node increments, like most competitive Azure‑compatible, software‑defined offerings in the market, that results in over infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform provisioning and unnecessary cost as a service (PaaS) on HPE hardware. It has • Unified billing and pay-as-you-go pricing been validated to provide a robust customer for Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack experience. This means you can transform services. With HPE Flexible Capacity, you on‑premises data center resources in a can instantly scale up or down and manage hybrid cloud environment or build your own usage with one contract, one invoice, and on-premises private cloud services—which one portal provides more agility to leverage applications designed and built for the cloud. Solution brief

Implement Azure based cloud services in provide implementation, consulting and your data center education services to assist with adoption, 4000+ Use the same management and automation design, and usage. This lets you select your HPE services professionals have the expertise services to access Azure public and private Right Mix of hybrid IT across private and to design and deploy the HPE ProLiant for cloud services from a single console enabling public clouds, and traditional IT. Microsoft Azure Stack solution IT to provide a single-vendor experience HPE Pointnext for Azure Hybrid Cloud for the entire Azure Stack environment with HPE Pointnext and partners can help you HPE infrastructure. develop and execute your strategy for your 120,000 The operational readiness services available cloud with confidence. Backed by the global new Azure customer subscriptions per month3 from HPE Pointnext and partners ensure expertise and deep Microsoft experience, that the HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Hewlett Packard Enterprise and partners can Stack solution is fully integrated with your data help you prepare for your implementation center environment and processes (e.g., identity with Azure using our proven methodology to 80% and access, backup, disaster recovery, etc.) accelerate business results and reduce risks less IT administration time to manage apps This means that the solution conforms to as well as missteps. Microsoft Azure Advisory with Azure PaaS4 your security controls with consistent policies, Workshop and Proof of Concept (POC) is a unified security and event management great way to start. across Azure hybrid cloud and traditional IT. Microsoft Azure Advisory Workshop 50% A true hybrid cloud with portability During the multiday workshop, we will review improvement in application delivery time with The HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack business objectives, current strategies around Azure PaaS5 solution offers the architectural flexibility to virtualization and cloud, IT organizational optimize cost and meet SLAs by delivering structure, and intended workloads to be IaaS and PaaS capability to run virtualized moved to a Microsoft Azure Hybrid Cloud and cloud-native apps at cloud scale using a solution. This could be either on Microsoft 25 hours single management model. Applications can Azure public cloud or Azure Stack private average time saved per app in testing and be developed, deployed and ported between cloud. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is building development time6 Azure Stack private cloud and Azure public a portfolio of solutions associated with cloud to meet changing business needs. For Microsoft cloud technologies. These services example, organizations that need geographically can be combined to form a true hybrid cloud distributed data centers with global redundancy solution, or used individually for satisfying for hosting public-facing cloud apps can customer requirements. Additionally, you can leverage Azure public cloud. While for start with a POC to plan, build and configure a dev/test they may require variable capacity test use case including database as a service in a few specific locations to complete (DBaaS), SQL IaaS, multi-tier PaaS, or dev/test. different development phases, such as code Go hybrid, get more compilation and processing. The solution Contact your HPE representative today provides complete control over the physical to learn more about the HPE ProLiant for location and reallocation of capacity with just 3 Microsoft Website Microsoft Azure Stack solution, delivering a few clicks in addition to seamless workload 4, 5, 6 The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Azure the power of the Azure public cloud to your migration across Azure hybrid cloud. PAAS, Forrester, June 2016 on‑premises data center. Additionally, the ProLiant DL380 server, known for industry-leading energy efficiency, further improves your ROI. Make the right purchase Learn more at decision. Click here to Move to the cloud with confidence hpe.com/info/hybridit chat with our presales specialists. Microsoft is the second largest cloud provider hpe.com/cloud/azure-stack by market share and it offers a broad set of hpe.com/services IaaS and PaaS services through Azure, while findapartner.hpe.com Hewlett Packard Enterprise and its partners

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