CDW Managed Cloud Services vs HPE GreenLake comparison

CDW and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are both solutions in the Managed Cloud Services category. CDW is ranked #3, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.7. CDW holds a 3.9% mindshare in MCS, compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s 35.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of CDW users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between CDW Managed Cloud Services and HPE GreenLake based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Managed Cloud Services solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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CDW Managed Cloud Services vs. HPE GreenLake

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Categories and Ranking

CDW Managed Cloud Services

Ranking in Managed Cloud Services

3rd

Average Rating

9.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

HPE GreenLake

Ranking in Managed Cloud Services

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Consumption Services (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Managed Cloud Services category, the mindshare of CDW Managed Cloud Services is 3.9%, down from 5.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE GreenLake is 35.9%, up from 6.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Shawn Campbell

IT Manager at Bolger Brothers Inc.

Half the time, they know if something is wrong before we do

The infamous whiteboard still has some things to deploy from my standpoint and our primary business solution standpoint. So, there is always room to grow. There are a few security things that I would like to deploy, such as single sign-on so the email address and password are the login. From my professional standpoint, I would like an app to manage WorkSpaces from my phone. I don't believe there is one right now, and I have looked. For example, if somebody comes to me, and heaven forbid I'm not in the office, my solution is to log into my phone to the portal via web, then scroll down and restart their WorkSpaces. This is assuming that I have the data, because in places like rural Pennsylvania, you can't guarantee that. They have an app for managing the servers, but WorkSpaces is where most of my day-to-day stuff ends up. This is not really under CDW, but if CDW developed an app for that, I definitely would partake in it. If you take a dive through their websites, it feels like they were all put together by different teams. I know they are changing this because I am pretty sure that we have talked about this issue with the account reps. In the two years that we have used them, the websites have improved considerably. One used to be like an old SharePoint site that was Internet-facing, and I was very scared of it. They have actually gone to custom dashboards now, but I would love to see a single dashboard for my AWS, Office 365, and all of that stuff just laid out about three-tiers deep so I don't have to dig through websites.

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MohamedKhairy

Co-Founder & Enterprise Solutions Architect at Qtopia Tech. Solutions

Robust scalability and flexibility in managing workflow

There is a need for improved support in HPE GreenLake, including more administrators and engineers to provide faster resolution for issues. Storage issues can impact the entire data center, especially in virtualization environments where multiple virtual machines are connected. Availability of hardware and timely monitoring have been reported as a problem, with some difficulties in obtaining hardware due to limited stock in the local market.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Their proactive alerting is valuable. They'll try and apprise us of issues before they become problems. I find that very valuable."

"CDW has performed great from a project management standpoint. We had set up our environment with our knowledge of how to set up the virtual servers in the cloud. They came back and did an analysis to help us with our savings. This was something we hadn't thought about, but actually helped us reduce some of the costs. The cost savings was about a third of the cost over three years."

"CDW Managed Cloud Services has found pitfalls and various things in the infrastructure, e.g., in routes, IP ranges, and security loopholes, that didn't need to be there. They stripped it down and went to a very flat topography, making it less complicated. So, there are less things to trip over and go wrong, which means less downtime."

"It has freed up staff time by not having them work on managing the infrastructure. We are able to spend time doing application administration, focusing on the long-term strategy of where we are going. The impact is that we are able to better leverage our investment in our application technology and offload infrastructure to CDW as part of their managed services."

"Everything has been kept to what we planned on for budgeting. CDW Managed Cloud Services has met all the requirements there, and exceeded it in some cases."

"CDW's service enables us to deploy infrastructure services at our own pace without being limited by the availability of resources. It helps us leverage skills that take a long time to acquire, skills that we don't have in-house. Making use of CDW's skills in those areas saves us a lot of time."

"It has helped us with the planning, and in concert with this, we are doing a lot of virtualizations. For a lot of cases, we are bringing in less gear and equipment to be able to accomplish the same things. It makes better use of what we do bring in."

"The solution's technical support does an excellent job."

"The most valuable feature for me is the ability to perform backups with a graphical user interface (GUI). It makes the process easy."

"It offers businesses the flexibility and scalability of the public cloud while having their infrastructure on-premises."

"It is the flexible way to pay for everything that you need and pay as you go."

"The biggest thing that it gives us is reportability; that's the critical component. By giving us a monthly bill that is expandable based on usage, we're able to report back to the organization on the value that we're actually getting out of the hardware platform."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to grow into a lower price point at some point in time."

"HPE GreenLake is highly stable."

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Cons

"The ticket system is a little clunky for Managed Cloud Services. There is no ticket category for Managed Cloud Services, per se. It's a little awkward when trying to find a way to put a ticket in. It's just not streamlined enough and doesn't take you step-by-step. And it doesn't seem to have all the categories I need. If I'm putting in a ticket for AWS or AppStream, there is no category for them."

"The pricing could always come down because cost is always a factor. Our business is always looking to reduce costs while getting the best services."

"They can maybe improve the scheduling. There have been times where I wanted to schedule something, and there was a conflict on their side as to who can do it and when and why, but other than that, they have been pretty stellar."

"The infamous whiteboard still has some things to deploy from my standpoint and our primary business solution standpoint. So, there is always room to grow. There are a few security things that I would like to deploy, such as single sign-on so the email address and password are the login."

"I would like to see them improve when it comes to helping develop an interface to this environment that's more user-friendly. We're introducing people to the use of a type of cloud scenario that they're not familiar with. We have to train them on and teach them how it's implemented. Having a little bit better interface would be helpful."

"When you initially engage with them, there is the idea that you will have certain check-ins on a quarterly or monthly basis. That didn't really occur until we started to reach out to engage with them. As soon as we started to touch base, it was great. We identified that there were some other initiatives we wanted to get in place. However, it was really on us to get the ball rolling on that. It would have been helpful if we had a CDW resource reaching out, saying, "Hey, what do you want to do next? How is this working for you? How is this not?" That initial engagement would have certainly helped on the professional services side."

"The interconnects were a challenge originally, but they sorted that out, and It was fine. We did have to spend a bit more money."

"There could be better monitoring of growth and threshold usage so users could be more aware when their billing will change."

"Unfortunately, HPE GreenLake can be sold only in Bahrain, UAE, and the Middle East, meaning it can be sold in only three or four countries because it requires certain approvals from countries where it has to be used."

"I would really like to see more granularity in the costing model. That's the one limitation that we do have: We have a lot of departments. We want to be able to break down, in a granular way, that this department is using X amount of resources, that department is using Y amount of resources... I want to be able to tag it and say, "This is this department's fees, this is that department's fees." That way I could charge back internally to my own departments."

"Part of the integration, with cutting things over to Unisys, may have hurt us a bit. We had a couple of rough implementations earlier this year. Part of that was due to some internal system changes on HPE's side. We are keeping an eye on this to make sure it doesn't happen again."

"The support service needs improvement. The support team isn't very active in addressing cases. It should also provide a web application."

"There is a need for improved support in HPE GreenLake, including more administrators and engineers to provide faster resolution for issues."

"Both times that we've had to increase the hardware, the deployment took way longer than expected. In addition, we haven't yet gotten to a use point where the cost is below what it would cost us to provision the same set of services on HPE hardware outside of the GreenLake service."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"A lot of people see the cost, and they are like, "Well, that is a lot if we already have an internal IT person." It's like, "Well, you're not just getting that." You are getting access to resources and peace of mind, to say, "I don't have to worry about this server dying at 2:00 in the morning because these guys will handle it." I will wake up, and if there would have been a problem, it would have been addressed. It would have been notated and fixed."

"The cost is very competitive and appropriate for what we get."

"The biggest factor for us was cost, and at the time, CDW Managed Cloud Services was most efficient for what we needed."

"CDW Managed Cloud Services will not be cheaper than what you are doing on-premises. It will be more expensive."

"It is a little more complex than I would like, but I think that's more AWS than CDW. CDW actually saves us money in regards to the way they handle things. We get support without a six-figure commitment from the AWS side, and that's appreciated."

"We have used CDW’s free Recommendation Engine. That is what we use for the cost savings. It helped us find places to reduce our cloud costs."

"It is significantly less expensive than going to cloud for development... Our cost is approximately $25,000 a month."

"It's a small cost per month compared to that one-time purchase. The big thing is if you get your one-time purchase wrong, then you are buying a lot more. With GreenLake, if we miss estimate (which with all the planning, you usually don't), we sign a piece of paper, and then they send more equipment in."

"If you are looking to turn some of your capital expense into operational expense, this allows you to do it. It is a good idea."

"HPE GreenLake has been growing in popularity due to its subscription model. The flexibility of the solution allows it to adapt to the changing market trends towards more edge performance and workloads."

"The price could be more flexible."

"Right now we're paying about $180,000 per year."

"Our first year costs were approximately $1.2 million instead of spending five to six million dollars."

"We have reduced a lot of our VMware licensing costs."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

26%

Comms Service Provider

Energy/Utilities Company

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

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Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CDW Managed Cloud Services?

In my experience, CDW Managed Cloud Services pricing can vary significantly depending on the scope and scale of the services you require. It's essential to have a clear understanding of your organi...

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What do you like most about HPE GreenLake?

The solution's technical support does an excellent job.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE GreenLake?

We had a service and cost model established on utilization for specific KPIs, and we were measured by memory and storage, with no costs for CPU consumption.

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What needs improvement with HPE GreenLake?

I am still struggling with monitoring, particularly with OpsRamp, which is not fully customized to our needs, especially for disaster recovery. In our scenario, we define a disaster recovery test c...

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Also Known As

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GreenLake Flex Capacity, HPE Flexible Capacity, HPE FlexCap

Overview

CDW Managed Cloud Services is an all-around cloud management service. This service is used to manage, integrate and migrate cloud platforms such as Office 365, Amazon WorkSpaces, and Microsoft Azure Cloud, to name a few. In addition to the cloud management service, CDW Managed Cloud Services as well helps users design and set up platforms upon request. This service helps users keep their platforms running smoothly and advises the best practices to its users. Users can lean on this service as it provides IT support and operations which helps to reduce their IT footprint and can result in both time and cost savings.

CDW Managed Cloud Services Features:

CDW Managed Cloud Services has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Management - Manages a vast amount of services to support users’ cloud infrastructure in addition to other solutions and platforms.

Integration and Migration - Provides users with integration and migration services and support for cloud infrastructure.

Portal - This service’s portal is very accessible and logging a ticket can be done via the portal.

Expertise - CDW Managed Cloud Services has the expertise to address any question or request that may arise. If they are unable to provide the information needed, they will reach out to the first-line provider and will get any answer that is needed.

CDW Managed Cloud Services Benefits:

There are many benefits to implementing CDW Managed Cloud Services. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Proactivity - CDW’s team will realize something is wrong within a system that they are managing before the user notices and is quick to fix the issue at hand. CDW will alert the user right away and will prevent any further damage from happening. This provides all users with the security that they need and increases operational efficiency.
User-First Outlook - CDW Managed Cloud Services provides integration and deployment services. These services are provided at the pace of the user without being limited by the availability of resources, giving the user the flexibility that they need. CDW will listen to its users and understand their goals before they start to take action.
Efficiency - This service helps to save users’ time by providing support and skills that users may not have acquired yet. By providing this support, a user does not need to spend the time required to research and learn about the issue and the remediation process. A user can easily request support from CDW Managed Cloud Services.

Reviews from Real Users:

Below are some reviews and insightful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using CDW Managed Cloud Services.

A Systems and Network Engineer at a medium-sized university comments: “CDW's service enables us to deploy infrastructure services at our own pace without being limited by the availability of resources. It helps us leverage skills that take a long time to acquire, skills that we don't have in-house. Making use of CDW's skills in those areas saves us a lot of time.”

A System Integration Manager at a medium-sized utilities company says: “It gives us peace of mind, knowing that someone is there in case the servers go down… Their managed services team knows that something is wrong before we do and they fix it for us. This keeps us running very smoothly without issues.”

CDW

Flexible Capacity from HPE Pointnext offers on-demand capacity, combining the agility and economics of public cloud with the security and performance of on-premises IT. With advanced metering, customers pay monthly for actual capacity used, above a minimum commitment – by core, by terabyte, by virtual machine – with no up-front capital outlay. HPE provides a buffer of capacity on-premises and ready for use, which you pay for only when you start to use. Active capacity management ensures that the buffer is replenished before it runs out, so that you have the servers, storage, networking, and operating software that you need, and ensuring that you are ready to take on your next project or next customer. Flexible Capacity cuts overprovisioning – commonly as much as 50-60% of servers and storage – saving on IT cost, enabling faster time to value and eliminating the typical long purchasing cycle. And it includes support for your IT environment to simplify how you operate IT.

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Capgemini Finland Infrastructure Services, Sogeti BeLux, Accenture

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