HPE Helion Reviews

Name: HPE Helion
Brand: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Rating: 3.6 (5 reviews)

3.6 out of 5

5 reviews
87% willing to recommend

What is HPE Helion?

The HPE Helion Platforms are HPE Helion OpenStack, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering, and HPE Helion Stackato, a cloud-native application platform. They are based on industry-leading open source projects in OpenStack and Cloud Foundry and provide enterprise customers with flexibility in software and hardware. With HPE Helion OpenStack and HPE Helion Stackato, you can simplify the development, deployment, and delivery of applications you design for cloud. Enterprises often need to quickly develop, deploy, and scale cloud applications across a mix of public and private clouds. To achieve this, they architect cloud apps to be modular and easy to modify in an agile way. The HPE Helion Platform enables large organizations to gain the benefits of supporting these new types of apps, while still meeting required SLAs for security, governance, and privacy.

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HPE Helion is the #25 ranked solution in PaaS Services. PeerSpot users give HPE Helion an average rating of 7.2 out of 10. HPE Helion is most commonly compared to Amazon AWS: HPE Helion vs Amazon AWS.

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Featured HPE Helion reviews

it_user568056

CTO at Indra

The most valuable feature is our access to private and public clouds We can improve our delivery time because we can manage different solutions. I would like to be able to select the best private cloud to use in terms of service and cost. If I need to put an application on the cloud, I would…

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it_user567930

Head Of Security at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

What matters is whether the end product that you deliver to your customers fixed their problem. To me, it is all about solving and fixing problems. So it always comes down the whether it helped you fix your customers’ problems. HPE Helion provides access to world-class personnel and skill sets. Their ability to perform repeatedly at a high standard provides a positive experience. The reason I outsource a lot to HPE is because they are very good at what they do. I do not have the resources internally to do a lot of this myself; so I speak very highly of them.

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it_user568173

Cloud Architect at Service Provider

We're looking for an open stack platform. The whole HPE wraparound support and everything that we can get with an open source project is what we are looking at. Helion Being backed by a vendor (HPE) rather than vanilla openstack gives us a little more confidence that the product is now at a level of maturity where we are happy to start consuming open technologies.

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HPE Helion mindshare

As of July 2025, the mindshare of HPE Helion in the PaaS Clouds category stands at 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

HPE Helion excels with a user-friendly GUI for easy service management and automation. Scalability plays a crucial role for users. It focuses on solving client issues efficiently. Users value access to expert support and cloud environments. OpenStack platform with comprehensive HPE support boosts reliability and confidence in technology adoption.

Room for Improvement

HPE Helion requires enhancements for hybrid usage as it focuses on pay-as-you-go services. Users find it challenging to set up without extensive knowledge. Improvements are needed for DevOps integration and infrastructure management. Users seek better vendor relationships and ease in selecting private cloud providers. They desire greater stability and up-to-date packages, noting outdated Ceph Cluster components. Initial setup times are longer than expected, highlighting a need for better alignment with upstream software updates.

Stability

HPE Helion is recognized for its stable and reliable performance, particularly when automation is well-defined. Users express satisfaction with minimal downtime and increasing business opportunities with HPE. While collaborations with partners like Gemalto have faced challenges, the product line is mature and dependable. Users note enhanced stability with each release during the POC phase, appreciating its flexibility and stability.

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HPE Helion was previously known as HPE Helion Cloud, HP Helion .

HPE Helion customers

ACA Fashion Software, myLoc, Mendix, Comline AG, Nava Solutions, 20th Century Fox, Zhejiang University, iService Global, Okinawa Cross Head, Creative Photo Cloud, Zuora, Ormuco, Ecad, MyCloud, Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS)