New capabilities for MSPs on HPE GreenLake cloud
By Paul Zinn, Senior Product Advertising Supervisor, HPE GreenLake Cloud
First, a bit background: As of Could 2024, greater than 1,000 MSPs use HPE GreenLake to handle their clients’ environments, with near half one million units below administration. These MSPs handle many purchasers, so it’s of their curiosity to maintain to a minimal the variety of duties that they need to carry out individually for every buyer. HPE GreenLake presents an MSP workspace with hierarchical multitenancy, enabling many duties to be carried out as soon as and utilized to all buyer tenant workspaces. So, for instance, whenever you rent (or lose) a member of your operations workforce, you don’t have so as to add or take away that consumer in every buyer workspace one after the other.
That’s the expertise HPE GreenLake cloud has supplied to MSPs, who’ve, up till now, been capable of handle networking for his or her clients in a enterprise mannequin the place the MSP owns the {hardware} units and the subscriptions to handle them with HPE Aruba Networking Central. How is that altering?
Let’s begin with that enterprise mannequin. MSPs proudly owning the infrastructure to supply providers primarily based on that infrastructure to their clients is widespread, however nonetheless lower than half of the market. Most clients favor to personal or lease their infrastructure straight and convey of their MSP associate to handle it. HPE GreenLake cloud now helps this mannequin too, opening up a big base of potential clients to MSPs.
The second means that we’re increasing the marketplace for MSPs is by giving them extra to handle for a buyer. I discussed that up till not too long ago, HPE Aruba Networking Central was the one service on HPE GreenLake cloud that might be managed in an MSP workspace Now, we’ve added three extra providers, enabling MSPs to handle a a lot greater a part of their clients’ environments:
- Compute ops – HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Administration
- Community monitoring – HPE Aruba Networking Person Expertise Perception
- Hybrid observability – OpsRamp
And there are extra within the works.
Since they debuted this previous November, HPE GreenLake APIs have been a key enabler of MSPs reducing their operational price by automating their workflows and integrating with their current instruments. However every buyer tenant required a distinct endpoint when calling these APIs. Now MSPs can handle all their clients utilizing a single endpoint, considerably decreasing the quantity of labor required to automate. The HPE GreenLake API ecosystem continues to develop, with new APIs added in latest months each for the cloud platform and for the providers that run on it, together with Compute Ops Administration. That offers you a greater variety of actions which you can automate and combine.
Similar to enterprises, MSPs use single sign-on (SSO) with their very own id supplier (IdP) to simplify id administration of their operations workforce. When an MSP manages services and products from a number of suppliers, modifying their IdP to accommodate the roles from all these service suppliers is usually a burden. HPE GreenLake cloud now provides you the choice of utilizing SSO just for authentication, leaving function definitions and mappings to be managed within the platform so that you just don’t want to switch your IdP.
Earlier, I discussed the hierarchical multitenancy that enables extra streamlined administration from the MSP’s father or mother workspace. Many MSPs will love with the ability to add a brand new member of their operations workforce to the MSP workspace and robotically give that consumer entry to all the MSP’s buyer workspaces.
However MSPs that handle a excessive variety of clients or handle in a number of geographical areas would possibly assign every member of their operations workforce to handle a particular set of shoppers, and for them, giving consumer entry to all clients is an pointless safety and privateness threat. We’re comfortable to say that now you’ll be able to outline teams of buyer workspaces and provides your customers permission to a number of of these workspace teams in order that they’ll entry solely the purchasers that they’re assigned to handle.
Our imaginative and prescient is to allow companions to create versatile and scalable MSP providers utilizing HPE GreenLake choices. These new enhancements allow you to pursue a bigger buyer base and scale your operations with out including many new names to your roster.
Create your workspace on HPE GreenLake cloud in the present day and check out these capabilities for your self.
In over 30 years within the enterprise software program trade with mature corporations and startups, Paul has held roles each for constructing merchandise and for bringing them to market. Earlier than becoming a member of the Advertising workforce, he led a Product Administration workforce that constructed utilization and price analytics for HPE GreenLake. Presently, his main focus is product advertising and marketing for the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform, and he additionally works to make HPE GreenLake messaging clear and constant throughout the corporate. In his off hours, he makes music with the Sacramento Americana/rock band The Nickel Slots.
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