LAS VEGAS — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) CEO Antonio Neri kicked off his company’s annual Discover conference today with a commitment to offer HPE’s entire portfolio delivered as a service by 2022. And two of the big new as-a-service offerings announced today include a hybrid cloud service offered in partnership with Google and an edge networking service offered from Aruba.

“In the next three years HPE will be a consumption-driven company,” Neri said. “Everything we deliver to you will be available as a service.” This includes subscription-based software and on-premises infrastructure that customers essentially rent in a pay-per-use model, where HPE manages, automates, and secures these systems for the customer. “All of these approaches free up capital,” Neri said.

HPE’s consumption-based infrastructure and services portfolio is called GreenLake, and today it has more than $2.8 billion in total contract value and more than 600 customers. Additionally, the GreenLake channel business has grown more than 275% year over year. “This is HPE’s fastest-growing business,” Neri said.

More recently, competitors including Dell Technologies and Lenovo have started offering on-premises IT as a service, but “we are miles ahead of anything else in the industry,” Neri said. “We have a 10-year head start and that has enabled us to build unique partnerships that no one else can match.”

Three of these partnerships announced today include colocation providers Equinix and CyrusOne, along with Google Cloud. The Equinix and CyrusOne partnerships allow customers to turn on GreenLake services inside of Equinix and CyrusOne data centers.

HPE and Google Cloud partnered earlier this year on Anthos, the cloud provider’s Kubernetes-based hybrid cloud play. At that time the companies announced validated designs for running Anthos on HPE hardware.

Today they expanded the partnership to run Anthos in combination with HPE’s on-premises ProLiant servers and Nimble storage, as well as HPE Cloud Data Services software, and delivered as a service through GreenLake. HPE also provides advisory and professional service to help customers deploy hybrid cloud environments.

“Think of it as containers as a service, on demand,” said Phil Davis, president of Hybrid IT at HPE, who joined Neri on stage during the keynote.

Later this year, HPE will also provide its Cloud Volumes software as a storage service for Google Cloud Platform and other public clouds.

HPE also extended GreenLake to the edge with a new network as a service offering from Aruba, the networking company HPE acquired in 2015. The new service includes enterprise WiFi, edge switching, security, end-user analytics, and other tools.

Photo: HPE CEO Antonio Neri (left) and Phil Davis, president of Hybrid IT, discuss the company’s hybrid cloud strategy on stage at Discover.