Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) entered into an agreement to buy Morpheus Data, which offers hybrid cloud management and platform operations software.
The transaction reflects HPE’s commitment to streamlining IT complexity by expanding the hybrid operations capabilities available through HPE GreenLake cloud. Unifying complete hybrid capabilities on a single platform such as GreenLake is critical, as enterprises grapple with IT estates that are more heterogenous and complex to manage.
Morpheus will enhance provide GreenLake with multi-vendor, multicloud application provisioning, orchestration and automation, as well as FinOps capabilities for cloud cost optimization. The acquisition complements HPE’s 2023 purchase of IT operations management firm OpsRamp. The capabilities will solidify HPE as a vendor for providing a full suite of enterprise-grade capabilities and services across the hybrid cloud stack, and is expected to make GreenLake a future-proof hybrid cloud destination for enterprises.
“With the acquisition of Morpheus Data, we will take the next major leap to make HPE GreenLake cloud the de facto platform for innovating across hybrid IT,” said Fidelma Russo, HPE’s CTO, EVP and GM, hybrid cloud.
To prevent IT complexity from being an innovation bottleneck, GreenLake is evolving into the future-proof platform for managing virtualized, cloud-native and AI workloads. Morpheus advances this vision by enabling customers to orchestrate and automate the full lifecycle management of applications across hybrid environments. HPE GreenLake customers can seamlessly provision and manage workloads across traditional and modern cloud environments, including brownfield private and public infrastructure.
GreenLake will also help enterprises optimize spending across cloud environments, through extensive FinOps capabilities. HPE will combine its multi-vendor, multicloud IT data with Morpheus’ FinOps capabilities, enabling customers to understand cloud spend, put guardrails around usage and optimize workloads to lower cost. GreenLake customers will also be able to seamlessly provision and manage almost any workload across traditional and modern cloud environments, including brownfield private and public infrastructure
“This acquisition is the result of a long-term relationship between HPE and Morpheus Data that has already proven successful with customers,” said Morpheus Data co-founder and CEO, Brian Wheeler. “Together we will be able to help more customers transform their multicloud, multi-vendor IT estates to thrive and innovate in this increasingly complex and fragmented IT landscape.”
The transaction is expected to close early in HPE’s FY24Q4, at which time Morpheus Data’s technology will be integrated with GreenLake cloud and HPE’s private cloud portfolio, and continue to be offered as standalone software. HPE will support existing customers and partnerships.
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