HPE GreenLake helps California’s third largest county modernize
its IT environment, save costs, and harness data to improve
organizational performance and deliver vital services for
citizens
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that Kern
County, the third largest county in California by geography, has
selected HPE GreenLake to drive its digital modernization efforts,
save costs and improve performance.
Kern County recently embarked on a digital transformation
initiative to modernize its IT and technology operations and
deliver a cloud experience on-premises to the dozens of departments
that rely on the county’s centralized IT system. By selecting HPE
GreenLake, Kern County has gained the agility, flexibility, and
innovation of the cloud, while preserving the compliance,
governance, cost controls, and visibility of running its
applications and workloads on-premises. As a result, Kern County
has saved costs, increased efficiency, standardized architecture
and continued to provide vital support and services to the
community throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kern County, home to almost one million California residents and
comprised of over 40 different departments, turned to HPE GreenLake
to overcome its departmental-specific IT challenges. Previously,
every department had its own agreement with an OEM, and this
created an enormously complex and costly system to manage. Kern
County’s vision was simple: establish a central IT platform managed
by the CIO office that acts as a service provider and broker of IT
resources for all county departments. The county leveraged HPE
GreenLake to create one unified framework so that all county
departments can benefit from the same platform and economies of
scale.
Today, over 75% of Kern County’s departments are supported by
HPE GreenLake, and the goal is to reach 100%. Kern County was also
attracted to the robust and continually expanding set of cloud
services available through HPE GreenLake – which will allow the
county to continue to grow and innovate on the HPE GreenLake
platform.
“HPE GreenLake is a game changer because, among other reasons,
it transforms financial optics – I am not worried about managing
capital spend. I am now a broker to my organization, enabling
departments to innovate and operate with agility, while I gain
visibility, predictability, and centralized management of our
operations and spend levels,” said Mac Avancena, CIO of Kern
County. “This is analogous to me getting my electricity bill – it
is addressed to me, comes to my house, meters what I am using in my
home. I believe that this is the secret sauce that HPE GreenLake
unearths; the ability to get to that level of transparency and
granularity for the business so that everyone understands the value
of what IT delivery is all about.”
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.”
HPE partnered with Nth Generation to help Kern County drive its
digital transformation and modernization efforts, improve overall
performance and save costs. Since 1991, Nth Generation has provided
industry leading consultative IT services, encompassing a suite of
IT and security solutions. In 2020, Nth Generation was recognized
by HPE with the North America as-a-service Partner of the Year
Award.
Additional resources
- For a short video featuring Mac Avancena, CIO of Kern County,
and Keith White, Senior Vice President and General Manager of HPE
GreenLake Cloud Services, discussing this news and partnership,
please click here.
- For more information on HPE GreenLake, please visit:
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/greenlake.html
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud
platform-as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate
outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere.
Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to
advance the way we live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and
intelligent technology solutions, with a consistent experience
across all clouds and edges, to help customers develop new business
models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance.
For more information, visit: www.hpe.com.
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