NTT WEST Group Selects HPE GreenLake to Launch New Portfolio of Hybrid Cloud Services
December 20, 2021 at 04:00 am EST
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that NTT Business Solutions, a member company of NTT WEST Group, Japans leading network and system integrator has selected the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform to deliver its growing Regional Revitalization Cloud and provide a hybrid cloud service to local governments, educational institutions and businesses across western Japan. The new hybrid cloud service meets the demands of their customers for robust cloud services which span public and private cloud environments and ensures that critical data are located close to the end customer, thus alleviating any concerns about data sovereignty. The key driver of the NTT WEST Groups Regional Revitalization Cloud is to solve regional issues and help businesses and institutions accelerate their digital transformation. NTT WEST Groups initiative is based on a regional information integration platform that combines NTT Groups various technologies, NTT WESTs regional data centers and other facilities, business sector-specific consulting services, along with community-based support capabilities, and the highly advanced cloud technologies of leading partner companies. NTT WEST Group is implementing a true hybrid cloud approach that leverages Microsoft Azure public cloud combined with the HPE GreenLake platform to provide a strong regional delivery model. NTT WEST Group has deployed the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform running HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub enabling NTT WEST Group to provide Azure-consistent services from its own data centers. NTT WEST Group selected the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform to quickly accommodate the different requirements, resources and budgets across the various prefectures. The first cloud services have been launched in Kyoto, Tottori, and Aichi and are rolling out in individual data centers across a total of 30 different prefectures across the western part of Japan. NTT WEST Group is maximizing its powerful communications network infrastructure, the Regional Revitalization Cloud, technical expertise, and partnerships with local system integrators to engage with customers in driving digital transformation. Demand for the Regional Revitalization Cloud is expected to grow even more with their Smart10x initiative which delivers applications previously developed for individual projects as priority cloud services. NTT WEST Group is also working closely with customers to select which applications, workloads and data should sit on the public cloud and which need to run in the local data centers.