Technology and Environmental Responsibility

Today’s sustainability goals are igniting the synergies between technology and environmental responsibility. As businesses continue to expand, the demand for cloud services and IT resources has grown exponentially. But is this digital expansion eco-friendly? And how does the cloud contribute to environmental sustainability?

There is a common perception that because data is stored in the cloud, it is somehow ethereal and has limited impact on the environment. In reality, the infrastructure supporting it has a tangible and profound impact. Data centers, which power the cloud, are among the highest consumers of electric power, while the cooling systems that maintain them require vast amounts of water. Developing new cloud technologies that prioritize energy efficiency and minimize resource consumption while balancing the rapid pace of technological innovation are imperative in ensuring a sustainable digital future.

The good news is that many manufacturers are taking proactive measures to address these environmental concerns, championing innovative solutions that prioritize sustainability without compromising on performance. In fact, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has publicly committed to becoming a net-zero enterprise by 2040, helping businesses advance sustainability agendas with a holistic approach to carbon footprints across the IT estate, edge to cloud.

 

How Zunesis and HPE GreenLake Advance Sustainability

For businesses turning to HPE GreenLake, they’re not just adopting a cutting-edge technology solution, they’re embracing a vision of operational efficiency against the backdrop of environmental responsibility. Specifically, with HPE GreenLake, Zunesis can deliver businesses measurable environmental efficiencies across the following core pillars:

 

• Energy: With optimal compute, storage, and connectivity capabilities that require minimal energy consumption, HPE GreenLake reduces operational costs as well as the environmental impact associated with excessive power usage.

 

• Equipment: HPE GreenLake offers a significantly enhanced IT processing power and storage capacity while minimizing the reliance on physical equipment. This leads to increased output with a substantially reduced environmental footprint.

 

• Resources: Because HPE GreenLake uses technology designed for peak efficiency, it requires significantly less support, staff, and equipment for power conversion, cooling, and resiliency. Fewer resources means a leaner operational model, reduced costs, and a smaller environmental impact.

 

• Software: Using intelligent software that automates environments, HPE GreenLake reduces computational load, which not only streamlines operations but also minimizes the carbon footprint associated with data processing.

 

• Data: HPE GreenLake efficiently gathers and processes data, retaining only the most crucial information for business insights, which minimizes storage demands. This selective data retention both reduces carbon emissions of data centers and curtails associated operational costs.

 

The increasing ubiquity of cloud computing in modern business operations requires an urgent pivot toward sustainable practices. Every bite of data stored, every computational operation performed, and every millisecond of uptime has an energy impact. Cloud sustainability isn’t just a catchphrase—it’s an urgent imperative. As businesses increasingly rely on data-driven decisions, it becomes crucial to ensure that the underlying processes are environmentally sound. Massive data accumulation without purposeful use or retention can lead to unnecessary energy consumption.

Zunesis is ready to stand at the forefront of this transformative journey. By delivering efficiency at every step, from equipment to data management, HPE GreenLake represents a holistic re-envisioning of what cloud sustainability can look like. With our advanced expertise in this solution, Zunesis can help you optimize your workloads with less energy and smaller footprints—while maximizing value across the asset lifecycle, engaging in the circular economy.

To stay competitive and adapt amid a rapidly evolving digital and economic landscape, keeping up with emerging technologies is not a nice-to-have; it’s essential. Those that fail to do so risk falling behind their competitors, missing out on valuable opportunities for growth, efficiency gains, and innovation in today’s highly dynamic and interconnected business environment.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing industries and driving transformative changes across various sectors. But, as models and data continue to grow, massive computer power is required to train and deploy AI systems.

 

Leveraging AI with HPE Greenlake

HPE GreenLake offers supercomputing capabilities that are equipped to handle the constantly growing demands of AI workloads at scale. And with that, you can unleash the full potential of your AI initiatives, ensure real-time processing of complex data sets, and foster innovation.

Here are five ways HPE GreenLake can help you leverage AI to power growth and maintain your competitive advantage:

1.       Improved productivity: With the ability to power AI models trained on large amounts of textual data, HPE GreenLake can help you leverage AI at a deeper level, using profoundly more data, to tackle emerging AI challenges more effectively, automate processes, streamline operations, and better allocate resources for increased operational efficiencies and productivity.

2.       Data-driven insights: HPE GreenLake delivers a trusted, enterprise-grade AI/ML and analytics cloud-like experience that allows you to mine continuous streams of value from data, uncover trends, identify patterns, and make critical correlations across large-scale data sets. These data-based insights empower you to make more strategic and profitable business decisions to optimize processes, improve customer experiences, and stay ahead of the competition in today’s data-centric business landscape.

 

3.       Quicker time-to-innovation: By providing on-demand access to powerful compute resources in a scalable infrastructure, HPE GreenLake reduces the time required for AI model development, so you can experiment with new ideas, iterate quickly, and adapt to changing market demands. This, in turn, empowers you to bring innovative products, services, and experiences to market faster, while also staying agile and responsive to customer needs.

 

4.       Scalability and flexibility: HPE GreenLake makes it easy for you to scale your AI capabilities as needed to accommodate fluctuating demands and next-generation architecture. Plus, using continuous monitoring, you can right-size capacity and even enable capacity-bursting on-site, on demand.

 

5.       Sustainable AI: Large AI models require massive computing power and energy to train. With its supercomputing capabilities, HPE GreenLake enables you to train, tune and deploy your AI models using renewable energy. Beyond cost efficiencies, a commitment to sustainable AI practices will boost your brand image and may even help you attract and retain top talent.

 

Thriving in Today’s Digital Landscape

As AI continues to take the world by storm, the speed and ease with which you are able to operationalize AI models that can harness massive amounts of data can mean the difference between staying ahead of the competition and falling behind in today’s fast-paced digital landscape. By delivering a trusted, enterprise-grade AI/ML and analytics cloud-like experience, HPE GreenLake can help you rapidly integrate and leverage AI technologies in your business processes—so you can maintain a competitive edge and thrive in the ever-evolving digital landscape of today.

Contact Zunesis for more information on how to unlock the power of AI with HPE GreenLake.

 

 Downtime costs businesses an average of $84,650 per hour.  A natural disaster or cyber-attack can result in weeks of downtime for a business that’s not prepared, delivering a massive financial blow. Even worse, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 40% of small and mid-sized businesses never reopen after a natural disaster, and an additional 25% reopen but fail within a year. These statistics are staggering—and sadly, we’ve seen scenarios like these play out many times with our clients.

The threat of man-made and natural catastrophes is real—and in most cases, it’s something you can’t control. What you can control, however, are the safeguards you have in place to help your business recover when disaster strikes.

 

Enter Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS).

DRaaS is a pay-as-you go cloud service model that delivers backup services in a managed data center to ensure access and functionality to IT infrastructure after a disaster. It gives an organization a total system backup for rapid restoration of data servers and applications in the event of system failure. By replicating and backing up all cloud data and applications, DRaaS protects data, limits downtime, and shortens Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) when a disaster happens.

 

7 Benefits of Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service:

 

1. Cost savings: According to Gartner, 55% to 65% of I&O leaders say they overspend in backup and recovery by at least 30%. With DRaaS, you get the same capabilities and reliability as the more costly on-premise DR systems, but in a pay-as-you-go model whereby you only pay for what you use. Plus, with the ability to rapidly recover from a disaster, you stand to save your business hundreds of thousands of dollars—or more—from unplanned downtime or lost data.
2. Immediate recovery: The longer it takes for your business to recover following a disaster, the more money your business will lose. By backing up your data to a secondary infrastructure, DRaaS offers instantaneous failover, so your business can return to normal operations within minutes—not hours or weeks.
3. Secure data backup storage: DRaaS offers a multi-layer security approach designed to address most vulnerabilities. Employing the latest security protocols, with frequent patches, multi-factor authentication, encryption, ongoing audits, and more, DRaaS providers ensure comprehensive data security.
4. Peace of mind: With redundancy for all your critical business information systems, DRaaS eliminates the worry and pressures associated with meeting recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO), while helping you stay GDPR compliant.
5. Reduced administrative burden: Managing disaster recovery eats up a lot of time for your internal staff—and keeps them in react mode. By outsourcing your disaster recovery to a third-party provider who will manage all DR planning and maintenance activities, you free up internal staff to proactively focus on other critical IT functions, achieve greater levels of productivity, and realize greater efficiencies.
6. Specialized expertise: A DRaaS provider has advanced expertise in backup, recovery, and data security. With access to a team who knows everything there is to know about implementation, replication, failover, and more, you can unload a heavy and complex burden while letting the experts do what they do best.
7. Scale on demand: Because you only pay for what you use, not only do you avoid overprovisioning for an in-house solution, but you also get the flexibility to scale up or down as needed. If your needs grow, you can quickly, easily, and efficiently upgrade your service

At Zunesis, we can help you achieve modern data protection with HPE GreenLake for data protection. Ask us about how your company can install a free trial of HPE Greenlake backup and recovery.

For more information about HPE’s industry-leading backup, recovery, and ransomware protection capabilities, contact us today.

Growing IT Projects- Limited Budget

The last year has been wild. Organizations across the globe have had to adapt their operations, and methods of doing business, to accommodate the various challenges and changes brought on by a post-Covid world. The problem, however, is IT needs have not gone away while these other changes have had to take place. On the contrary, technology needs are on the rise more than ever. But how can companies and organizations expect to procure these new IT solutions with a fixed budget and growing, often unexpected, technology needs? Thankfully, HPE has got you covered in MULTIPLE ways! Check them out below!

 

 

HPE Financial Services

From helping release capital from existing infrastructures to deferring payments, and providing pre-owned tech to relieve capacity strain, Hewlett Packard Financial Services has a variety of financial and asset lifecycle solutions.   You can leverage these solutions to support your needs today and position your organization for long-term success.

Here are just a few exciting promos currently being offered by HPEFS to help customers secure technology in the most cost-effective way possible.

 

HPE Storage “Accelerate your Migration” Promo

• Low Rate or 0% Financing
• HPE Financial Services will make the first two monthly payments after which you will make 46 monthly payments
• First new HPE Alletra 9000, HPE Alletra 6000, HPE SimpliVity, or HPE dHCI acquisition within the last 36 months eligible
• Offer available now through October 31, 2021

Payment Relief Program

• Pay 1% of the solution value monthly for the first 6-8 months of your contract.
• Exit option available for full OEC after 6-8 months.
• Standard payments commence if the exit option not exercised.
• Up to 20% of select non-hardware items (e.g. software, software appliances, services, and installation) may be bundled.

 Cash Infusion 

• HPEFS can also take recently invoiced projects and retroactively place them on a financing agreement.
• Also able to convert a Net30 balance that is still open.

Best of all, HPE Financial Services is not dependent on an HPE hardware sale. Does your company need to secure a large software purchase? Procuring a new product from a different manufacturer? No problem! HPEFS can apply its flexible payment solutions to all your IT projects! Just provide a quote or proposal and they will help you get started!

 

 

HPE Greenlake Cloud Services

So now that we have discussed procuring traditional IT Solutions using some alternative financing options, let’s talk about another great offering from HPE. It’s called HPE GreenLake Cloud Services and it rethinks the technology procurement process entirely. Rea don!

HPE GreenLake Cloud Services is a new consumption-based IT model that marks a paradigm shift in the way we operate IT. It focuses on outcome-based consumption, while radically simplifying IT and freeing up resources. Best of all, it really does deliver the best of both public cloud and on-premises IT—so you don’t have to compromise. Payment is simple and based on a single pay-per-usage metric that is relevant to the particular solution and your business.

Here are some key highlights:

HPE GreenLake is:

• • A flexible consumption-based model that speeds your time to market and grows organically as your needs change—helping you to avoid overprovisioning.
  • A pay-as-you-go solution that establishes a simple, outcome-oriented metric.
  • Operated for you, but you remain in control. You experience no disruption, no staff transfer.
  • A service that takes the burden off IT operations with a simple approach.
  • A solution that delivers the advantages of public cloud services—simplicity, scalability, pay per use—but with the security and control of on-premises IT. It also delivers more robust services that are specific to your needs.
• HPE GreenLake is not:
  • A fixed IT purchase that comes with a significant capital outlay and long procurement, design, and build cycles.
  • A fixed lease with predetermined payment plans.
  • An outsourced service that requires you to make an all-or-nothing decision and relinquish control.
  • An appliance-like solution that is still labor-intensive for IT.
  • A public cloud that doesn’t deliver the control and security of on-premises IT, where services are fixed or generic, and where applications must be refactored on a cloud-native architecture.

So the moral of this blog is: don’t let the ever-changing IT infrastructure procurement process scare you. Above are just a few ways in which we can help you reach your project goals on any budget. Reach out to a representative at Zunesis today to help you get the process started!

 

What is HPE GreenLake?

 

According to IDC, by 2020, consumption-based procurement in data centers will account for as much as 40% of enterprises’ IT infrastructure spending. Businesses today expect rapid access to resources that allow them to pay for only what they use. This allows businesses to not only be competitive in today’s market but economical as well.

 

Introducing HPE GreenLake which provides enterprise customers with a compelling value proposition of a consumption-based IT model and the comfort of managed services. It gives a company exactly what it needs and when it needs it. It is a suite of curated solutions that deliver IT outcomes with hardware, software, and expertise on premises. Payment is simple and based on a single pay-per-usage metric that is relevant to the particular solution and your business.

 

 

Five Reasons to Love HPE GreenLake

 

 

CRN recently shared five reasons to look into HPE GreenLake:

 

1. Eliminating Over Provisioning: The average customer utilization rate for IT is 45% which means 55% of assets are not being used. Customers are buying excess compute, storage or networking capacity for on premises solutions. Customers who have adopted the GreenLake model on average are seeing a 22 – 30 percent cash flow savings.
2. Provides Detailed Consumption Data: Critical data is being collected via HPE’s “consumption manager”. This gives detailed analysis on what is being consumed, who is consuming it and what trends may be for the future.
3. Speeds Up IT Provisioning: There is no more waiting period to buy and provision new IT on premises solutions. The solution works to figure out what the work requirements really are, deploys that and buffers it for the client.
4. Metering Advantage: Using the Cloud Cruiser tool, GreenLake can meter down to the core, Gbyte, or VM or in any way the customer wants. A portal is provided that shows detailed consumption metering. This data can be tracked by project, business unit or external customer. This allows for a more detailed financial background check on each and every IT service.
5. Capex or Opex: Customer has the choice of  how financially they would like to focus their work service contract.  A company may be focused on EBITDA where they prefer to depreciate IT asses in a capital expenditure deal. Or a company may want to focus on freeing up cash to use elsewhere. The client has the option to decide what matters to them: Capex or Opex.

 

There are quite a few HPE GreenLake packages available including Hybrid Cloud, Backup, SAP HANA, Database EDB Postgres and Big Data. Zunesis and HPE would work with your business to find out what package is the most beneficial for your organization.

 

 

Why Consumption Based IT?

 

Many companies and organizations are looking to take the advantage of more of a hybrid environment where they can use the advantages of the public cloud while having the option to run workloads on premises. Businesses are moving away from capital-intensive models to more of a consumption-based approach where they can be more agile and save money and IT resources.

 

 

Here are three reasons why a Consumption Based Approach may make your IT more efficient.

 

 

1. Improve IT Operations: IT admin and operations staff are bogged down with the tasks of software updates and/or troubleshooting technology problems. By having a vendor that takes over these tedious tasks on a monthly basis via a consumption model, this frees up time for the IT to focus on projects that actually help a business generate revenue.
2. Understanding Where to Place Workloads:  40 percent of organizations with public cloud experience have moved workloads off of the cloud and back to their on-premises setups.  Moving these workloads can cause additional costs, dealing with a reduced size of their IT footprint and other unexpected problems. A consumption-based IT model can help set up an IT solution within a quicker time frame. The business is only paying for they used so you don’t overspend. The vendor also helps determine the best place to locate each of the workloads.
3. Capacity Planning: 451 Research found that 59 percent of enterprises wait three months or longer for new capacity to come online. 50 percent of enterprises typically suffered downtime as well due to poor capacity planning. With a pay-as-you-go approach, an IT provider works to determine a business’ current capacity needs and continually plans for future capacity requirements.

 

Is HPE GreenLake and a Consumption Based IT Approach a fit for your business or organization? Contact Zunesis to do an assessment of your current infrastructure to determine what may work best for your needs.