Kern County Chooses HPE GreenLake to Accelerate Digital Transformation and Save Costs Amidst COVID-19 - Seite 2

Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, Kern County has also leveraged HPE GreenLake’s elasticity to increase its VDI capability to meet the unprecedented demand for remote work. In a legacy model, the county would have to initiate a procurement process, receive the order, and provision equipment – which would take weeks or months. Instead, with HPE GreenLake’s elastic approach, Kern County already had the additional bandwidth available to build out capacity immediately, without disruption to service.

Running HPE GreenLake since February of this year, Kern County achieved a predictable rate of growth and spend structure through flattening its technology spend variation, allowing the CIO office to focus on solving complex operational problems. Kern County is using HPE GreenLake for composable, software-defined compute infrastructure with HPE Synergy and industry-leading storage solutions with HPE 3PAR, HPE Nimble Storage, and HPE StoreOnce VSA for speed and flexibility to drive value.

Through HPE GreenLake Central, an advanced software platform that allows customers to run, manage and optimize their entire hybrid IT estate, , Kern County can access cloud services, and has real-time visibility into its usage data, and can set budgets, create reports, and build rules-based policies. HPE also ensures that any backend issues are fully managed through HPE Pointnext Services, so that the CIO office can focus on leveraging next generation tools.

Additionally, HPE Financial Services worked with Kern County to convert its existing, owned IT assets into a source of incremental budget and accelerate Kern County’s transition to HPE GreenLake, all while retaining its IT systems' full use. HPE Financial Services also sourced 200 TB of additional storage capacity for Kern County, using HPE certified pre-owned technology, to prevent interruptions in its supply chain due to COVID-19.

“We are thrilled to partner with Kern County to enable them to do important work in continuing to modernize, innovate, and serve their community,” said Keith White, Senior Vice President and General Manager of HPE GreenLake Cloud Services. “Kern County is a terrific example of the value HPE GreenLake provides to the public sector, as well as many other industries, in combining the agility and innovation that comes with delivering the cloud experience everywhere, with the visibility, compliance, and security that comes with preserving their applications and data on-premises and at the edge.”