Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that CDW selected the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform to enhance its core UK cloud suite of products called ServiceWorks. HPE GreenLake will enable ServiceWorks to meet increasing demand, accelerate deployment of new services and improve overall customer experience for its Desktop-as-a-Service platform. CDW is a leading multi-brand technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare customers in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada.

CDW ServiceWorks provides a highly reliable, infrastructure-as-a-service platform for customers who need to run core business services in a stable, accessible and secure fashion. CDW wanted to expand its ServiceWorks platform to offer increased flexibility and meet growing customer demand while avoiding costly over-provisioning and unnecessary upfront capital investment. The platform also needed to scale to meet the demand for its Desktop-as-a-Service product, which increased rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic as more customers required solutions to support remote working for their employees.

In the past, CDW had procured its hardware as an annual capital expense and would previously hold a buffer capacity for emergency use to meet unexpected customer demand. Now with the HPE GreenLake platform, CDW has transformed the process to a flexible, scalable model with faster time to market, offering immediate deployment when and where it's needed for every new customer. HPE and CDW work closely together to monitor and manage ongoing cloud capacity using HPE GreenLake Central to manage costs, utilization, compliance, and security across CDW's cloud and desktop platforms. From a financial perspective, the pay-per-usage model eliminates upfront capital investments, improves visibility and predictability, and preserves cashflow with closer alignment of costs and revenues.

The HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform runs on HPE Infrastructure and Nutanix software. This is following the recent announcement that Nutanix and Hewlett Packard Enterprise has expanded partnership to accelerate hybrid cloud and multi-cloud adoption with new database as a service offering delivered through HPE GreenLake.