By now you’ve heard of hybrid cloud and while the offerings available might still seem a little… ah-hem… cloudy, we’re here to help you figure out the best mix of cloud solutions for your business, as well as the right cloud model. Today we’re talking about how HPE and Morpheus have teamed up to provide a hybrid cloud experience your IT employees will love.

Hybrid cloud environments take the very best of public cloud and traditional on-premises infrastructure to create a flexible, scalable, and cost-effective solution.

If you’ve determined hybrid cloud is right for your enterprise, the next step is to decide which solution or platform will best suit your needs. In this article, we’ll discuss the partnership between and and how they’re bringing increased value to their customers.

HPE And Morpheus Data For Hybrid Cloud

Before we get into how HPE and Morpheus are working together, let’s discuss what each are doing to support hybrid cloud.

On HPE’s side we have , which offers a template-based approach to management that allows businesses to deploy infrastructure faster, as well as simplify lifecycle operations across compute, storage, and network fabric. In doing so, OneView transforms these resources into software-defined infrastructure and enables IT to increase the speed, agility, and efficiency of application and service delivery.

In addition, offers a public cloud-like experience through pools of compute, storage, and fabric resources with their HPE Synergy offering. In doing so, it reduces operational complexity and increases velocity for cloud-native applications and services.

HPE Synergy, a composable bladed infrastructure that powers workloads within a hybrid cloud environment, offers support for both traditional and cloud-native applications in virtual machines, containers, or on bare metal. By combining software-defined intelligence with a unified API, HPE Synergy is a powerful addition to the HPE ecosystem.

Morpheus Data, created initially as an internal solution to quickly deploy and efficiently manage application stacks across cloud environments, offers a simplified route to hybrid cloud by reducing cost by up to 30% and offers provisioning that’s 150 times faster than competitors, while also closing security holes and allowing enterprises to deploy hybrid-cloud automation with increased speed.

Achieve True Hybrid Cloud With HPE And Morpheus Together

When combined, Morpheus takes HPE’s compute infrastructure and turns it into an instant private cloud, allowing it to more easily integrate with public cloud. The integration provided by HPE OneView offers links to HPE Synergy Server Profiles and utilizes the HPE Synergy Image Streamer for certain deployments.

HPE and Morpheus are also lowering costs by enabling users to make informed choices about workload placement with in-line comparison tools. By offering policy-based governance with role-based access, HPE and Morpheus give assured control, as well as improving resiliency through automated monitoring, logging, and backup policy. Automatic scaling of instances and application clusters also improve flexibility throughout the hybrid cloud environment.

Through this partnership, HPE and Morpheus have helped customers provision and manage, “. And we have seen some powerful results in sectors that include financial services, healthcare, government, and more.”

By partnering with HPE and Morpheus early in their cloud journeys, enterprises can take full advantage of the benefits the two offer, including recommended optimal configurations and power schedules. However, those enterprises well established in hybrid cloud computing can still find significant benefit by utilizing HPE and Morpheus for their hybrid cloud needs.

Together, HPE and Morpheus are solving common issues faced by enterprises around the world, including data siloing, solutions that don’t communicate with each other, and IT’s lack of time or resources.

Where are you on your journey to the hybrid cloud?

As a global, edge-to-cloud company, HPE is helping enterprises around the world implement solutions that improve productivity and reduce costs through hybrid cloud solutions. By partnering with Morpheus Data, which has now grown to serve some of the largest Fortune 1000 companies and service providers in the world, the two are simplifying the hybrid cloud journey and propelling enterprises forward. If you want to explore more about this partnership and how it will work in your environment, contact the hybrid cloud experts at WEI today.

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So, what is the key? In one word – Morpheus. In Greco-Roman mythology, Morpheus is one of the sons of Hypnos, the god of sleep and dreams. In the era of the hybrid cloud in which business never sleeps, there is a new Morpheus, . Morpheus Data is a next-generation hybrid cloud management and application infrastructure automation engine. It’s a completely agnostic cloud management platform which really means it provides you the tools to get internal IT over the finish line in your quest to attain greater agility, control, efficiency and most of all speed across your entire IT estate.

The Need for Automation

IT touches nearly every department and aspect of the organization today. While IT has brought rampant innovation, it often times remains a bottleneck as legacy approaches can’t keep up with demand for digital services. As a result, many IT departments find themselves contending with Shadow IT as internal business units seek other alternatives to get the job done faster. While the objective of speedier deployments may be achieved in the short term, shadow IT reduces visibility and control for internal IT, not to mention the potential security holes and cost overruns it tends to create.

In a recent involving nearly 2,000 CIOs, 76 percent said that the demand for new digital products and services increased in 2020. The kicker was that 83 percent project it will increase in 2021. Said one survey respondent, “There is no going back to the way business used to be.” This means that businesses must further scale their IT infrastructure and Operations so that new services can be deployed across any platform within their as quickly as possible. This can only be achieved by eliminating manual tasks and vastly reducing the number of hand-offs across the workstream that adds unnecessary deadtime to new releases.

These lofty goals can only be achieved through new automation practices and the utilization of self-service provisioning for DevOps and IT engineers. In our recent Tech Brief titled, “,” we explain how these new methodologies can ensure you fulfill the next step of your company’s digital evolution. We also discuss the rapid speed at which companies are embracing these new approaches, as well as the reasons why so many will fail in the end without the right tools and skills.

Morpheus Automation

Gartner describes the shared self-service platform as a “digital toolbox” of Infrastructure and Operations capabilities. According to a recent report by Gartner concerning , 75 percent of large enterprises will build self-service infrastructure platforms to enable rapid product innovation. Now consider that only 15 percent of large enterprises utilized them in 2020. How will organizations possibly achieve these dreams?

Morpheus Data may not be the god of dreams, but it provides the tools to make dreams of automation and self-service provisioning become a reality. With Morpheus, internal IT can enable a self-service provisioning portal in the course of an hour and put it into service within a day. Admins can provision even complex hybrid cloud applications with the click of a mouse or a single line of code. One way in which Morpheus is able to accelerate deployments in rapid fashion is through the use of an instance catalog that provides on-demand delivery of operating systems, databases, web servers, virtual machines, containers and even bare metal.

In fact, Morpheus integrates with over 90 different third-party products right out of the box. It also provides a library builder for customers to add virtual images as custom instance types to the existing provisioning catalog. Morpheus also accommodates container environments in order to increase the portability of your applications amongst your multiple cloud platforms. It can make Kubernetes as easy to deploy and manage as VMware. The end result is the ability to provision services into virtually any private or public cloud without waiting on IT. By eliminating wait times and handoff, organizations can now speed up application deployments by 150x!

Speed doesn’t have to cost more, however. Morpheus can lower your by up to 30 percent. The Morpheus cloud cost analytics engine compares utilization and costs across available clouds to help you make decisions on where workloads should be provisioned. It then provides rightsizing guidance for resource and cost optimization in terms of CPU, RAM, storage, sizing and power state. Morpheus can then project visible cost trends and detailed performance and cost metrics.

Governance doesn’t have to be sacrificed for speed, either. Morpheus can help you organize your clouds into groups to give you greater control and manageability concerning access and governance. It not only gives you the ability to share multi-tenant resources but can even add multi-tenant sharing to typically single-tenant platforms like VMware ESXi and Nutanix. You can assign permissions to networks, data stores, resource pools and folders as well as compliance policies. Besides automating deployments, Morpheus also automates compliance checking, vulnerability management and security measurement.

Start accelerating hybrid cloud deployment today

The year 2020 showed us how speed is of the essence when reacting and adapting to ever changing environments and challenges. Morpheus Data is the next generation cloud management solution that can give you the speed to react to whatever unknown challenges lie ahead.

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When it comes to service delivery, there has never been more pressure on IT teams than today. With rapid adoption of digital technology and the prioritization of responsiveness, employees, customers, vendors, and enterprise leaders expect digital needs to be fulfilled faster than IT can often provide.

For this reason, IT leaders must improve the speed and efficiency of service delivery in order to keep business moving forward and stay ahead of the game when it comes to these new technologies.

IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) has been a buzzword for some time, and the industry is at a point where best practices for implementing ITaaS have been developed and the benefits have been proven to be effective, making the transition to ITaaS all the more attractive for enterprise IT organizations.

Five critical steps every IT organization should take to transform IT service delivery:

1. Promote self-service IT
2. Quickly integrate and optimize
3. Establish policy and controls
4. Provide seamless delivery
5. Plan for Day-2 and beyond

By linking together all of the tools and technologies in a way that acknowledges the people and process challenges of modernization, you can improve control and agility at the same time. Let’s take a closer look at these 5 steps to examine what is involved so that you can effectively plan your ITaaS delivery strategy.

Self-service for all

If an IT organization can’t get ahead of service requests, there will never be time for digital innovation. For this reason, promoting self-service for end-users is paramount. Whether the request involves providing access to business critical apps, spinning up a new (VM) or cloud resources, cutting through the noise and allowing employees to find the answers they need quickly, easily, and securely, will free up IT for long-term digital transformation initiatives.

As a secondary bonus, self-service cuts down on instances of , where users bypass the IT service stream entirely, whether due to impatience, wait times, or any other reason, and go off in search of answers themselves. Not only does this pose increased security risks, it can result in increased costs.

Integration and optimization

A majority of enterprises are running a mix of several platforms and clouds, with new options being added all the time. For this reason, utilizing software that promotes third-party integration is a game changer when it comes to optimizing your environment for efficiency. To fully take advantage of the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and automation, IT must have visibility and integration across the network.

Controls and policy

Third on the list is establishing effective role-based access control (RBAC). Regardless of your desired governance model, utilizing RBAC to effectively manage user access, provide self-service and automation, while still ensuring security, is a key piece of the IT service delivery puzzle.

Seamless delivery

Speeding up product delivery a high-priority goal for many IT organizations. That said, hurrying along the development of software development is of no use if the delivery and implementation process does not quicken as well. By bringing together development and implementation, IT organizations can create a seamless path for efficient delivery.

Post-implementation administration (Day-2 Ops and beyond!)

Automation will be your friend for managing Day-2 operations. While the provisioning process is accelerated through the above strategies, it’s also crucial to include lifecycle management as part of the IT service delivery equation. IT leaders are often expected to push out new applications or services as quickly as possible, but IT’s job doesn’t end once the new technology goes live. After that first day, IT is responsible for the administration and management of every new technology and ensuring that lifecycle management, including monitoring, logging, and data management, is part of your long-term plan for IT service delivery is key to preventing roadblocks in the future.

Consider transforming IT service delivery with Morpheus

Morpheus originally began as an in-house agnostic application automation platform and has now grown to serve some of the largest Fortune 1000 companies and service providers in the world. Offering CloudOps, DevOps, SecOps, and FinOps as a unified platform, Morpheus drives innovation and propels enterprises forward.

There is no single product or “magic bullet” that can make your digital transformation initiatives an instant success, but Morpheus stands behind their agnostic automation and orchestration platform as a catalyst to help you get there faster and provide the freedom to quickly adapt to an ever-changing landscape.

Regardless of where you are in your digital transformation or innovation journey, can provide the platform and tools your enterprise needs to promote efficiency, reliability, and speed throughout IT service delivery.

Questions about Morpheus? WEI has the answers.

WEI’s engineering team has vast experience helping IT organizations in several industries implement automation across infrastructure, cloud, and application management. Our goal is to help you simplify the management of your unique IT environment, while also ensuring all your business goals are met. Our experience with Morpheus will prove to be a critical factor in your assessment of their automation and orchestration platform. Contact us today to learn more about how Morpheus can work in your environment and what implementation will look like. We’re here to help.

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