Hewlett Packard Enterprise pairs a strong infrastructure portfolio with a pay as you use consumption model. We help clients judge when that model pays off.
Official Hewlett Packard Enterprise partner, and an independent adviser
HPE provides servers (ProLiant), storage (Alletra, Primera and Nimble), Aruba networking and GreenLake, its consumption based platform for running infrastructure as a service on premises.
Consumption based infrastructure can be a smart middle ground between cloud and traditional ownership, but only when the numbers are checked honestly. We partner with HPE and help clients work out where GreenLake and Alletra genuinely fit, and where they do not.
HPE is at its strongest where a consumption model genuinely fits, a business that wants cloud like flexibility on its own floor, with Alletra storage and Aruba networking that are easy to live with. GreenLake can be a smart middle ground between owning kit outright and renting it from a hyperscaler. It can also quietly cost more than ownership when the commitment floor is set too high or the usage never grows into it. That is where we earn our keep. We model the GreenLake and consumption numbers against straight ownership honestly, on your real workload rather than the headline, so you commit to a baseline you will actually use. As an official HPE partner we can source, implement and support the platform, and run the storage refresh or the rollout for you. As an independent adviser, if the consumption case does not stack up, or another vendor fits your needs better, we will say so plainly.
Yes. C4C Group is an official Hewlett Packard Enterprise partner, so we can source, implement and support Hewlett Packard Enterprise for you, not only advise on it. The partnership is genuine and active, which means you get one accountable team for the technology and the commercials.
Yes, and the two work together. We hold official partnerships across many vendors rather than being tied to one, so we recommend what genuinely fits your needs and tell you honestly when Hewlett Packard Enterprise is not the right answer. Our independence is in the recommendation, our partnership is in the delivery and support.
No. We partner with technologies we have tested and trust, but we stay vendor neutral. If something outside our partnerships is the better fit for you, we will say so. A C4C recommendation is based on your needs and your numbers, not on a quota.
Sometimes, and sometimes not. GreenLake makes sense when you value flexibility and your usage is variable or growing, because you pay for what you draw rather than buying for the peak up front. It works against you when the committed minimum is set higher than you actually consume, so you pay for headroom that sits idle. The honest answer depends on your real usage curve, which is exactly the modelling we run before you sign, comparing consumption against ownership on your numbers rather than the brochure.
Alletra is a strong, modern array that suits organisations already comfortable in the HPE world, or drawn to running storage through GreenLake. Whether it is the right choice still depends on your workload, your data services and the commercial terms next to the alternatives. We assess it the way we assess any array, on genuine fit and on whole life cost, and we will tell you where it leads and where another platform would serve you better.
We will give you an independent, vendor neutral view on whether it fits, and help you buy and run it well. No quota, no preferred vendor.
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