Lineas Chooses Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Transform Freight Operations and Support Business Growth
February 11 2021 - 4:00AM
Business Wire
HPE GreenLake selected to bring cloud speed, agility and
scalability to Lineas’ IT Infrastructure
Europe’s largest private rail freight operator chooses HPE
GreenLake and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI to drive the development of a
high-performing sustainable transport system
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that Lineas,
the largest private rail freight operator in Europe, has selected
HPE to provide next-generation IT infrastructure in an as-a-service
model to support their transformation from a conventional freight
company into a high-performing, efficient and sustainable transport
system for the European logistics industry. The HPE Nimble Storage
dHCI solution, delivered with HPE GreenLake, provides Lineas with
an agile and easy to manage platform that enables the company to
respond to its customers’ needs for increased delivery quality and
faster IT resource deployment.
Headquartered in Belgium, Lineas offers premium rail products
and total door-to-door logistics solutions across Europe. The
company’s previous IT infrastructure and technology operated in a
traditional, siloed environment and was reaching its limit in terms
of sizing and performance. The platform also required the
implementation of a disaster recovery system mode to ensure Lineas’
business continuity.
Lineas chose HPE as its technology and service partner to boost
performance, drive efficiency and ensure that its infrastructure
was ready to support business growth, as the company looked to
expand into new markets and industries. HPE was the ideal partner,
as it offered the right mix of infrastructure and an as-a-service
model that met Lineas’ increased demands for flexibility,
scalability and cost efficiency with pay-per-use billing and need
for additional capacity when required.
“We were looking to enter new markets to drive growth across our
business and needed a complete technology infrastructure that is
uniquely tailored to our needs with a scalable pay-per-use
as-a-service model,” said Maurice Peterse, Head of IT
Infrastructure & Service Management at Lineas. “We expect
the new infrastructure generate optimizations for our organization
and bring even greater value to our end-customers. “
The end-to-end HPE solution and migration services, delivered by
HPE Pointnext Technology Services, are built from the ground up and
delivered through HPE GreenLake. The as-a-service solution delivers
direct value to the business enabling new projects that take
advantage of the internet of things, artificial intelligence and
machine learning such as improving operational efficiency through
better track and tracing of the wagons and locomotives.
The HPE GreenLake as-a-service solution is based on HPE Nimble
Storage disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI) which is
designed from the ground up to deliver the HCI experience, but with
more flexibility and better resiliency and performance than
traditional HCI. The solution designed for Lineas supports
virtualized workloads, client virtualization, database workloads,
DevOps Kubernetes and S3 scalable storage services, based on
Scality with HPE Apollo 4200 Gen10 Server. This environment is
automated and orchestrated by HPE OneView, while the operations and
management are handled by HPE InfoSight, the industry’s most
advanced AI for infrastructure.
“We are delighted to join Lineas on its journey to modernizing
its operations with HPE Storage solutions, and opening up to new
opportunities and markets,” said Bart Wellens (Country Lead
Services, Consumption Growth) at HPE. “The HPE GreenLake
deployment provides delivery reliability, financial predictability
and operational flexibility and delivers direct value to Lineas to
ensure their expansion ambitions are realized.
HPE GreenLake Cloud Services provide customers with a powerful
foundation to drive digital transformation through an elastic as a
service platform that can run on-premises, at the edge, or in a
colocation facility. HPE GreenLake combines the simplicity and
agility of the cloud with the governance, compliance, and
visibility that comes with hybrid IT. HPE GreenLake offers a range
of cloud services that accelerate innovation, including cloud
services for compute, container management, data protection, HPC,
machine learning operations, networking, SAP HANA, and storage,
VDI, and VMs. The HPE GreenLake Cloud Services business is rapidly
growing with over $4 billion USD in total contract value, over 700
partners selling HPE GreenLake, and more than 1000 customers in all
industry sectors and sizes including Fortune 500 companies. For
more information on HPE GreenLake, please visit:
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/greenlake.html
About Lineas
Lineas is the largest private
rail freight operator in Europe with headquarters in Belgium and
sites in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain. The
company’s mission is to offer such superior rail products and
services that customers shift the transport of their goods from
road to rail, thereby improving their supply chain while decreasing
their negative impact on climate, mobility and air pollution.
Lineas’ flagship product is the Green Xpress Network, which
provides daily, fast and reliable rail connections between major
European hubs, combining different types of cargo into one train.
The GXN offering was launched in 2014 and now has over 20
connections.
Lineas employs over 2.100
people and owns a fleet of 250 locomotives and 7.000 wagons. The
company’s shareholders are independent private equity group Argos
Wityu together with Lineas management (90%), and SFPI/FPIM, a
financial institution working in name of the Belgian Federal
Government (10%).
For more information, visit:
www.lineas.net
About HPE
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud
platform-as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate
outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere.
Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to
advance the way we live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and
intelligent technology solutions, with a consistent experience
across all clouds and edges, to help customers develop new business
models, engage in new ways, and increase operational
performance.
For more information, visit: www.hpe.com
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