NTT WEST Group Selects HPE GreenLake to Launch New Portfolio of Hybrid Cloud Services
December 20 2021 - 4:00AM
Business Wire
The HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform enables NTT WEST Group
to deliver unified cloud experience and meet demands for data
sovereignty for business and local government across western
Japan
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that NTT
Business Solutions, a member company of NTT WEST Group, Japan’s
leading network and system integrator has selected the HPE
GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform to deliver its growing ‘Regional
Revitalization Cloud’ and provide a hybrid cloud service to local
governments, educational institutions and businesses across western
Japan. The new hybrid cloud service meets the demands of their
customers for robust cloud services which span public and private
cloud environments and ensures that critical data are located close
to the end customer, thus alleviating any concerns about data
sovereignty.
The key driver of the NTT WEST Group’s ‘Regional Revitalization
Cloud’ is to solve regional issues and help businesses and
institutions accelerate their digital transformation. NTT WEST
Group’s initiative is based on a regional information integration
platform that combines NTT Group’s various technologies, NTT WEST’s
regional data centers and other facilities, business
sector-specific consulting services, along with community-based
support capabilities, and the highly advanced cloud technologies of
leading partner companies. NTT WEST Group is implementing a true
hybrid cloud approach that leverages Microsoft Azure public cloud
combined with the HPE GreenLake platform to provide a strong
regional delivery model.
NTT WEST Group has deployed the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud
platform running HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub
enabling NTT WEST Group to provide Azure-consistent services from
its own data centers. NTT WEST Group selected the HPE GreenLake
edge-to-cloud platform to quickly accommodate the different
requirements, resources and budgets across the various prefectures.
The first cloud services have been launched in Kyoto, Tottori, and
Aichi and are rolling out in individual data centers across a total
of 30 different prefectures across the western part of Japan.
“Our purpose is to realize the well-being of people in regional
communities and we are taking the lead in solving various social
challenges with the power of ICT as a ‘Pioneer in Social ICT’,”
said Hidenori Kigami, executive officer, Value Design Department,
NTT Business Solutions. “We have selected the HPE GreenLake
platform because it accelerates our customers’ digital
transformation and quickly scales performance and capacity to meet
our customers’ business demands. HPE GreenLake allows us to pay for
what we use so we can accurately match our costs to revenue and we
can invest efficiently to expand the regional revitalization
cloud”.
NTT WEST Group is maximizing its powerful communications network
infrastructure, the ‘Regional Revitalization Cloud’, technical
expertise, and partnerships with local system integrators to engage
with customers in driving digital transformation. Demand for the
Regional Revitalization Cloud is expected to grow even more with
their ‘Smart10x’ initiative which delivers applications previously
developed for individual projects as priority cloud services. NTT
WEST Group is also working closely with customers to select which
applications, workloads and data should sit on the public cloud and
which need to run in the local data centers.
For example, some customer data is being anonymized to be
analyzed and processed on Microsoft Azure public cloud whilst other
data are being securely stored at NTT WEST Group’s local data
centers delivering a true hybrid cloud environment. Another example
is where applications or services designed initially to run in the
public cloud are also being transitioned to run in the ‘Regional
Revitalization Cloud’ in a pay-per-usage, SaaS or subscription
model. These are examples of how the hybrid cloud model is being
used and how NTT WEST Group is further expanding its knowledge of
operating in this environment and how best to optimize costs.
“NTT WEST Group’s Regional Revitalization Cloud initiative to
accelerate digital transformation for local governments,
educational institutions, and corporations is truly advanced and
extremely innovative,” said Hirokazu Mochizuki, managing director,
HPE Japan. “We are honored that NTT West Group has chosen HPE's
portfolio to run data and applications that cannot be deployed in
the public cloud due to security constraints, and are excited to
see how the HPE GreenLake platform is being leveraged strategically
to maximize their cloud business. In addition, as we have the
common mission to accelerate our customers’ digital transformation,
I would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to NTT WEST Group
for selecting HPE as a partner for the revitalization of the
region. Together with NTT West Group and system integrator
partners, we look forward to maximizing the Regional Revitalization
Cloud and contributing to energizing local communities.”
To deliver support across all 30 initial prefectures, NTT WEST
Group has also tapped HPE Pointnext Services to deliver HPE
Complete Care, comprising a dedicated HPE team to operate and
maintain the ‘Regional Revitalization Cloud’ service infrastructure
and support the delivery of the regional revitalization program.
Beyond this, the HPE team play a key role ensuring frequent and
complex updates to the technology stack are delivered in a timely
and efficient way, to ensure consistency and quality.
About HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform
The HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform is a powerful
foundation for accelerating digital transformation by delivering
cloud services that can run on-premises, at the edge, or in a
colocation facility. Today, HPE GreenLake has grown to $5.7 billion
USD in total contract value, has 900 partners selling the platform,
and 1,250 enterprise customers across 50 countries in all industry
sectors and sizes, including Fortune 500 companies, government and
public sector organizations, and small and midmarket enterprises.
For more information on HPE GreenLake, please visit:
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/greenlake.html.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global
edge-to-cloud 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
people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent
technology solutions delivered as a service – spanning Compute,
Storage, Software, Intelligent Edge, High Performance Computing and
Mission Critical Solutions – with a consistent experience across
all clouds and edges, designed 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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