Nationwide taps HPE GreenLake for private cloud deployment
Nationwide, the world’s largest building society, is migrating its on-premises IT infrastructure to a hybrid cloud platform provided by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).
Nationwide heads to the cloud with HPE GreenLake
The HPE GreenLake platform will be used for Nationwide’s private cloud deployment, with HPE GreenLake Management Services acting as a strategic cloud services provider.
In a statement, the two companies say that HPE GreenLake’s consumption-based model is expected to reduce the building society’s IT costs by at least 30%.
“With HPE GreenLake Management Services, Nationwide’s IT team will automate and orchestrate infrastructure management and deliver infrastructure as code,” the companies add.
“Faster release cycles will accelerate the time to market, providing consistent customer experiences across all digital platforms. At the same time, Nationwide can ensure that sufficient controls are in place to manage risk, protect their customers and meet the demands of regulators, while unlocking the value of cloud technology.”
The building society will also be able to monitor energy consumption and emissions through the platform’s managed services, while recycling decommissioned assets including end-of-use compute and storage infrastructure.
Commenting on the selection, Paul Walsh, director of infrastructure and service delivery at Nationwide, describes HPE GreenLake as “a core component” to the hybrid cloud strategy the building society has pursued since 2018.
He cites this strategy as “vital to our ability to compete”, with the hybrid cloud platform to “further improve our resilience and agility, enabling us to provide even better levels of service and deliver new capabilities to our developers faster than ever before”.
In September, Nationwide inked a deal to leverage OpenShift, a hybrid cloud application platform provided by Red Hat and powered by Kubernetes, in the development of its new business integration platform.
This expediated the building society’s intake of open source technologies, including Kafka for distributed event storage and stream processing, and MongoDB for database management.
