Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that City Electrical Factors (CEF), the United Kingdom's leading electrical wholesale network, has selected the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform as the first step in its digital transformation journey. The HPE GreenLake platform will enable CEF to optimize their infrastructure management and improve security using the disaster recovery capabilities of Zerto. This move will provide the company with a cloud experience that allows them to scale on demand and pay as they use.

CEF will also simplify their infrastructure management experience using HPE GreenLake Management Services and ensure their business continuity with Zerto for Disaster Recovery. With the implementation of the HPE GreenLake platform in the UK, CEF now has a global platform that can easily be deployed and replicated with a single user experience throughout all their regions, including North America, Ireland, Spain and Australia. When researching a new solution to drive their transformation, CEF focused on systems that would enable them in their journey to the cloud, enhance their security and strengthen their customer relationships.

Key requirements were to increase the company's protection against cyber threats and external disruptions, ensure the continuity of high quality of customer service, and the reduction of energy consumption and thereby of the group's carbon footprint. At the same time, it was important for the services to be deployable and replicable throughout the different regions CEF operates in. With the deployment of HPE GreenLake Management Services, CEF will entrust the managing of its infrastructure stack to HPE.

By reducing the time spent on management, about 20% of the CEF IT team's time will be freed up. This additional time will allow the group to enhance their offerings and address their customer's needs and requirements and accelerate their cloud journey in additional regions. HPE GreenLake also allows them to migrate their bespoke applications to a hybrid cloud platform designed for both cloud-native and legacy workloads.