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title: GreenLake
tags: [cloud, storage, managed-services]
vendors: [hpe]
summary: Hardware in your own datacentre, billed by what you use. The cloud model without the move to the cloud.
photoNeed: "HPE hardware in our hands: a ProLiant or Alletra being racked, cabled, or opened, with the model badge readable"
stub: false
draft: false
kind: product
addon: false
vendorName: HPE GreenLake
status: current
practice: >
  Draft, not yet reviewed. We rarely see GreenLake win on cost. It wins on predictability, because growth stops meaning a procurement project. The contract is the demanding part, and the committed minimum is the number that hurts three years later.
practiceReview: true
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## What it is

GreenLake puts HPE infrastructure in your datacentre and bills it by consumption. A
buffer of capacity sits installed and ready, you pay for what you actually use, and the
meter reads monthly.

## What it is for

Data that has to stay in the building for legal or operational reasons, where demand
cannot honestly be forecast three years out.

The benefit is in the procurement model, not the technology. The hardware is the same
hardware.

## What to watch

A consumption model moves capital expenditure into operating expenditure. It does not
make it smaller. The arithmetic works when demand genuinely varies. Under a stable,
predictable load, buying is often cheaper, and that calculation belongs before the
signature.