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Barclays selects HPE GreenLake for private cloud platform
Hewlett Packard Enterprise ( HPE ) has announced that Barclays has selected HPE GreenLake to deliver its global private cloud platform . The bank has signed a strategic cloud partnership , in which the HPE GreenLake Edge-to-cloud platform will be integral to Barclays ’ hybrid multicloud strategy and Digital Transformation across Barclays ’ global businesses . The automated and open cloud platform will host thousands of workloads and support the bank in delivering an enhanced personalised banking experience for its customers .
The HPE GreenLake Edge-to-cloud platform will provide a unified on-premises cloud experience , with capacity available ondemand and granular consumption-based pricing for computing , memory and storage resources , offering the resilience , scalability and efficiency necessary to meet the high standard of performance required in today ’ s digital world .
“ Our customers expect an intelligent , contextual and personalised digital experience with seamless performance . With HPE GreenLake , we are building a cloud platform that will enable the agility and operational performance needed to achieve this ambition while providing a modern economic model for private cloud ,” said
Craig Bright , Group Chief Information Officer at Barclays .
“ Banking systems are critical national infrastructure . Resilience , sustainability and security of the underlying technology platform are the non-negotiable fundamentals that enable the provision of personalised digital experiences ,” said Marc Waters , Senior Vice President and Managing Director , UK , Ireland , Middle East and South Africa , HPE . “ Given Barclays ’ prominence as the UKheadquartered global financial services leader , we are immensely proud to be chosen to provide its private cloud . Our fully-managed HPE GreenLake platform provides infrastructure , software and services that enable automation , control , flexibility , exceptional experience and a positive commercial advantage .”
Using the HPE GreenLake platform , Barclays will only pay for the resources it consumes with the option to reserve workloads and run them on-demand . Barclays is using HPE GreenLake Central to manage costs , utilisation , compliance and security across the entire private cloud estate – through a unified global dashboard . Furthermore , the infrastructure environment is managed by HPE , ensuring constant uptime , regular patching and updates and automation-driven infrastructure optimisation .
Barclays ’ global private cloud platform will host thousands of apps and over 100,000 workloads that will include virtual desktop infrastructure ( VDI ), SQL databases , Windows server and Linux . The migration from the legacy infrastructure to the private cloud is being performed by HPE Pointnext Services in partnership with the Barclays team . p
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