Defense Information Systems Agency selects HPE GreenLake for the Distributed Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Prototype to bring unified cloud experience to data centers

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), a combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense (DoD), has awarded HPE with a prototype Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement to develop its Distributed Hybrid Multi-Cloud (DHMC) prototype as part of a phased-acquisition approach. HPE will develop the prototype on HPE GreenLake, and upon successful completion, it will enable DISA to simplify management of its disparate IT infrastructure and resources across public and private clouds through a unified hybrid, multi-cloud platform.

“We’re honored that DISA has selected HPE to develop this innovative prototype and with a successful completion, HPE GreenLake will have the opportunity to be the secure hybrid, multi-cloud platform where DISA can deliver innovative managed services to the agencies it supports,” said Fidelma Russo, executive vice president and general manager of hybrid cloud and chief technology officer, HPE. “With this visionary project, and the eventual potential to deliver a sovereign cloud for DISA, HPE continues to expand upon its hybrid cloud leadership and solutions with HPE GreenLake.”

The revitalization under the prototype OTA, if successful, will bring together isolated and independent infrastructure environments within DISA’s J9 Hosting and Compute into a modernized DHMC infrastructure and services offering. The eventual revitalization is expected to reduce DISA’s IT footprint, costs and management complexity. Until now, DISA’s J9 HaC has managed multiple hosting environments independent of, and isolated from one another with different management planes, processes and portals for DISA systems administrators.

HPE will develop a prototype that meets DISA’s key requirements of managing on-premises and commercial cloud services through a single hybrid cloud control plane capable of supporting multi-tenancy, virtual private clouds, and comprehensive data privacy and protection through a zero-trust architecture. With support from trusted partner Iron Bow Technologies, HPE will assist DISA in testing and validating the advanced capabilities from HPE GreenLake private cloud solutions through prototype deployments in DISA data centers in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania and Ogden, Utah.