Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) introduced updates to the enterprise private cloud version of its edge to cloud platform HPE GreenLake in a move to target data-first modernization in hybrid cloud environments.

HPE GreenLake SVP Vishal Lall told a group of reporters that when it comes to hybrid cloud, "HPE GreenLake for private cloud enterprise is one of our key assets." According to HPE's recent data capabilities survey, "about half the companies out there today are adopting a hybrid approach," he noted. Based on research and customer conversations, he expects that figure to rise to 70% in the next two or three years.

Lall touted a 96% retention rate for GreenLake customers, which "really tells you how much our customers liked this offer, and we see a lot of expansion in existing customers," he added. "We continue investing a lot of money as a company into this offer."

To fuel GreenLake's momentum, which has become a significant contributor to HPE's financial successes,"we are expanding our Kubernetes deployment options from a customer perspective," Lall said. Specifically, the private cloud offer now supports Kubernetes container deployments with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).

"We've always had an open source version of it. We've also always had our own version, which is called HPE Ezmeral. But now we are also enabling Amazon EKS Anywhere to that environment," he explained. The vendor is also adding support for infrastructure as code (IaC) and cloud-native toolchains within the GreenLake enterprise private cloud platform.

The integration of Amazon EKS with GreenLake allows customers to run containers they typically deploy to the public cloud on-premises, which provides workload portability and a consistent cloud-native experience, according to HPE.

GreenLake for private cloud enterprise now also includes six workload-optimized instances for general purpose, compute, memory, and storage. This addition is targeted at mission critical workloads and employs a pay-as-you-go consumption model.

"If you look at the cloud infrastructure that actually supports the private cloud, it's not homogenous" in its support of any architecture or any workload, Lall said. "We've actually built archives of different cloud modules," which are "infrastructure pipes that are designed for different workload types," he explained.

HPE GreenLake's private cloud offering is available in 52 countries and via the vendor's partner program.