Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that J. J. Keller & Associates Inc. has selected HPE to power its edge-to-cloud transformation using scalable HPE GreenLake cloud services. The new services support the growing demands for data processing and storage across various business applications that run onsite or across remote locations, and enables J. J. Keller to scale its business across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Embracing unprecedented business expansion to support growing on-demand driver delivery: An area of significant business growth for J. J. Keller occurred over the past few years where demand for last-mile delivery has grown due to increasing online orders, and since the COVID-19 pandemic, has further spiked as more people shop online and opt for on-demand delivery.

As a result, some of the nation's largest industries that distribute and deliver goods across North America turned to J. J. Keller to support their training, compliance and management solutions for new and existing drivers. These solutions include large-scale IoT tracking and analytics for trucking fleets, training and driver qualification services, and commercial driver substance testing, among others, which all depend on reliable and trustworthy digital infrastructure. To support the scale of its business and higher volume of data collected and processed across multiple locations, at the edge or onsite, J. J. Keller needed a hybrid cloud solution with advanced, scalable technologies.

Additionally, as a mid-sized organization, staying nimble and cost-effective was a critical factor in J. J. Keller's IT decision-making. Accelerating digital transformation with an edge-to-cloud approach: To address its unique needs, J. J. Keller turned to the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform to replace its aging Dell-based infrastructure and adopt the latest compute and storage solutions from HPE as cloud services. The transition to the new model also consolidated workflows that previously ran on multiple platforms, reducing the number of platforms from six to two.

These include various applications across VMware, Veeam, Microsoft SQL, Red Hat, SUSE, SAP and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that are now supported on high-performing HPE ProLiant servers, HPE Primera for intelligent storage and HPE Apollo 4000 systems for data analytics and archival needs. J. J. Keller immediately realized outcomes of its digital transformation and grew multiple customer-facing businesses over the past year. These results include doubling its Managed Services and Consulting offerings, tripling its SafeGear™ line of personal protective equipment (PPE), and expanding its Safe & Smart Driver Training by five times.

To monitor workloads, costs, and compliance, J. J. Keller uses HPE GreenLake Central, a centralized portal for managing and optimizing IT environments while gaining insights. Additionally, HPE GreenLake provides transparent usage-based pricing, allowing J. J. Keller to predict and control costs as its business grows. HPE and New Era Technology partner to build the right solution with HPE GreenLake: As part of HPE's robust channel partner ecosystem for HPE GreenLake, New Era Technology, a reseller partner of HPE, worked with J. J. Keller to understand its unique needs and explore offerings to reach its IT and business goals.

As a trusted partner to J. J. Keller, New Era Technology provided extensive consulting and recommended the HPE GreenLake solution to support J. J. Keller's needs to scale while enabling clear visibility into workloads and associated expenses.