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HPE GreenLake vs Spot comparison

Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

HPE GreenLake
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Consumption Services (1st), Managed Cloud Services (1st)
Spot
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (31st), Server Virtualization Software (15th), Cloud Operations Analytics (1st), Cloud Analytics (4th), Compute Service (11th), Containers as a Service (CaaS) (5th), Cloud Cost Management (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Infrastructure and Tools solutions, they serve different purposes. HPE GreenLake is designed for IT Infrastructure Consumption Services and holds a mindshare of 48.3%, up 47.4% compared to last year.
Spot, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Analytics, holds 18.2% mindshare, up 5.8% since last year.
IT Infrastructure Consumption Services Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
HPE GreenLake48.3%
Dell APEX41.7%
Cisco Open Pay8.2%
Other1.7999999999999972%
IT Infrastructure Consumption Services
Cloud Analytics Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Spot18.2%
IBM Turbonomic25.3%
Oracle Big Data Cloud Service Compute Edition13.4%
Other43.1%
Cloud Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

MohamedKhairy - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Manpreet_Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Used to manage Kubernetes infrastructure, but it doesn't have support from OCI
Spot Ocean is deployed on the cloud in our organization. I would recommend the solution to other users. You need to have an experience with Kubernetes, or else this product is of no use. It is not difficult to learn to use Spot Ocean. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution's technical support does an excellent job."
"Absolute flexibility for scaling storage needs on demand."
"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."
"HPE GreenLake is highly stable."
"It offers businesses the flexibility and scalability of the public cloud while having their infrastructure on-premises."
"The solution integrates well with Dell, Cisco switches, or other switches."
"Its performance is a significant improvement over the legacy stack that we had."
"It has made our organization's capacity management efforts so much better. Usually, engineers need to take time to worry about firmware updates and and getting that stuff done. However, that falls to the wayside, knowing with GreenLake's data center management and data center support that all the firmware has been tested for all the equipment that you have. When you apply the updates, nothing should go wrong, because it has already been fully tested."
"The solution helps us to manage and scale automatically whenever there is a limit to the increase in the application workflow."
"The solution offers both block access and file access, making it a nice solution for customers."
 

Cons

"HPE GreenLake can improve by making some of the user's experience better. It can take some time to learn."
"I would like to have more detail in the monitoring."
"There is a need for improved support in HPE GreenLake, including more administrators and engineers to provide faster resolution for issues."
"The time to receive a price when I am going to a proposal is too long."
"I am still struggling with monitoring, particularly with OpsRamp, which is not fully customized to our needs, especially for disaster recovery."
"There could be better monitoring of growth and threshold usage so users could be more aware when their billing will change."
"The support service needs improvement. The support team isn't very active in addressing cases. It should also provide a web application."
"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."
"The solution doesn't have support from OCI, and it should start working to onboard OCI."
"There are no particular areas for improvement I can identify."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Our first year costs were approximately $1.2 million instead of spending five to six million dollars."
"It is significantly less expensive than going to cloud for development... Our cost is approximately $25,000 a month."
"We have reduced a lot of our VMware licensing costs."
"In terms of pricing, it's a bit on the higher side."
"HPE GreenLake payment model is you pay for what you use. You can purchase a yearly, quarterly, or half-year license. The overall price of the solution is a little high and hopeful there can be better margins in the future."
"The price could be more flexible."
"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."
"Pricing is based on usage plateaus. The more you use, the more you pay."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
University
7%
Manufacturing Company
19%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
9%
University
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise6
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about HPE GreenLake?
The solution's technical support does an excellent job.
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.
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...
What do you like most about Spot Ocean?
The solution helps us to manage and scale automatically whenever there is a limit to the increase in the application workflow.
What needs improvement with Spot Ocean?
There are no particular areas for improvement I can identify.
What is your primary use case for Spot Ocean?
Spot by NetApp is primarily used for backup and also for Fiservware.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

GreenLake Flex Capacity, HPE Flexible Capacity, HPE FlexCap
Spot Ocean, Spot Elastigroup, Spot Eco
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Capgemini Finland Infrastructure Services, Sogeti BeLux, Accenture
Freshworks, Zalando, Red Spark, News, Trax, ETAS, Demandbase, BeesWa, Duolingo, intel, IBM, N26, Wix, EyeEm, moovit, SAMSUNG, News UK, ticketmaster