Identifying the opportunity to help IT departments work with developers and lines of business to optimize their hybrid computing environments, HPE is to offer the first SaaS-based multicloud management application for on-premises and public clouds. Dubbed OneSphere, the software is being unveiled at the company’s Discover Conference in Madrid.
“Hybrid IT is a given,” said Rhett Dillingham, vice president and senior analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, speaking on a webcast organized by HPE. He added That as adoption of multiple clouds picks up steam, private cloud infrastructure investment continues for classic reasons of compliance and cost optimization as well as to support edge computing and IoT applications.
Dillingham asserted, “You have these orchestration tools and cloud management platforms enabling multicloud and hybrid cloud use; what’s turning into the challenge is the consolidated management across this hybrid infrastructure.”
The problem is that the orchestration tools on the market now are limited, said Ric Lewis, senior vice president and general manager of the Software-Defined and Cloud Group at HPE. He said, “They are very homogeneous; usually it’s virtual machines only or VMs on- or off-premeses or VMs only in one public cloud vendor. OneSphere is open — it has an open API so you can use it with whatever you want.”
After getting launched in January however, OneSphere will work only with AWS. HPE says that will be followed by support for Azure and Google Cloud. On-premises, HPE says OneSphere will support a range of cloud platforms including VMware and Kubernetes. In the future others will be added, including Open Stack and Azure Stack. HPE also plans to work with Cloud 28, a coalition of 600 partners worldwide, to further expand the capabilities.
OneSphere was designed to make it easy to build private clouds and connect to public clouds, help developers get the resources they need immediately, and give lines of business and executives insights to make operations more efficient. The software provides users access, via a SaaS portal, to a pool of IT resources that spans public clouds they subscribe to as well as on-premises environments.
