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CDW Managed Cloud Services vs HPE GreenLake comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

CDW Managed Cloud Services
Ranking in Managed Cloud Services
3rd
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
HPE GreenLake
Ranking in Managed Cloud Services
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Consumption Services (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Managed Cloud Services category, the mindshare of CDW Managed Cloud Services is 7.7%, up from 3.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE GreenLake is 19.9%, down from 35.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed Cloud Services Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HPE GreenLake19.9%
CDW Managed Cloud Services7.7%
Other72.4%
Managed Cloud Services
 

Featured Reviews

Gaurav_Aggarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Apprenticeship IT Trainee at Chitkara University
Managed multi-cloud services have simplified operations and now deliver secure, optimized workloads
There are not many challenges with CDW Managed Cloud Services. However, there are a few extensions that felt hard to integrate into our organization's setup. The expert team and expert support provided by CDW Managed Cloud Services helped us integrate those extensions easily and smoothly into our organization's setup so that we can focus more on innovation and our IT team can direct more focus toward innovation. CDW Managed Cloud Services could provide more detailed documentation for their services, expert support, and all of the benefits they provide. More detailed documentation through presentations or other means could help our organization think about services in a more significant and positive way. It would also make our decision-making process smoother and easier.
HM
CEO at Cyber Internet Services (Pvt) Ltd.
Flexible monthly infrastructure has simplified management and improved client cost control
Some valuable points about HPE GreenLake are that it is a managed solution in the same pane of glass. HPE GreenLake integrates well with the existing infrastructure, and it is straightforward. HPE GreenLake positively impacts my organization because it saves money and time, and it improves my sales because I have another solution to reduce costs for the client. The client may need to pay two thousand dollars to change every infrastructure in one payment, but not all clients have the total amount available. However, if it is possible to pay month-to-month for the solution, it is much easier for the client to accept the proposal. HPE GreenLake's real-time monitoring tools are good, and I really need them to improve the services.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I know I can go to them and get an answer or multiple answers for any problem that I am having."
"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 positively impacted my organization by reducing costs, being more efficient and secure to use, and offering a user-friendly platform that gives quick access to all features in a single cloud service portal."
"CDW Managed Cloud Services enables us to deploy infrastructure services at our pace, not being limited by the availability of resources, providing us another team to review and monitor things for us so we can keep our team smaller as well as tap into a much larger pool of knowledge than what we have."
"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."
"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."
"Since using CDW Managed Cloud Services, we have noticed improvements in reduced complexity, enhanced security, and cost management."
"CDW Managed Cloud Services acts as a gateway between us and Microsoft, providing highly technical resources that save us from going to Microsoft frequently and reduce costs since Microsoft support depends on hours purchased."
"The solution's technical support does an excellent job."
"In case the client needs this resource, it is available, and it is the best option in the market right now."
"HPE has delivered on all their promises for this service."
"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."
"In the next four years over the lifespan of the first segment, it's going to be saving us approximately $1.2 million in just hardware purchases and software support costs."
"It sort of lines up with our direction to move to the cloud. By using a hybrid cloud service to get us there, this allows us to run our legacy workloads on-premise. Those which are not really suited to a proper cloud."
"We have seen ROI, reducing our organization's capacity management efforts by around 40 to 50 percent and saving our organization 30 to 40 percent while decreasing the time it takes to deploy IT projects by 50 percent."
"The fact that we can now add storage on the fly without any downtime means better productivity and scalability on demand."
 

Cons

"We are still waiting on one thing, but it is not really CDW. It is just something from Microsoft."
"The pricing could always come down because cost is always a factor."
"CDW Managed Cloud Services needs to implement a chatbot and enhance their AI capabilities."
"During implementation, I wasn't that impressed with their performance from a project management standpoint, especially for the prices charged."
"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."
"I would like to see them improve when it comes to helping develop an interface to this environment that's more user-friendly."
"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."
"CDW Managed Cloud Services needs to work on the costing for the license part, making it more affordable would be beneficial."
"I think the solution has cost us money. It hasn't decreased the time it takes to deploy IT projects."
"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."
"HPE GreenLake can improve the price."
"In the GreenLake portal, I would really like to see more granularity in the costing model."
"There is a need for improved support in HPE GreenLake, including more administrators and engineers to provide faster resolution for issues."
"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."
"I don't think we have seen an actual return on investment or that the return is not directly related to the product."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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 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."
"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."
"CDW Managed Cloud Services will not be cheaper than what you are doing on-premises. It will be more expensive."
"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."
"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."
"The price could be more flexible."
"In terms of pricing, it's a bit on the higher side."
"If you're used to buying HPE servers, it's less expensive than that. I don't really compare competitor servers because HPE has never given me any reason to look otherwise. However, if you get good pricing on HPE servers, you get better pricing on GreenLake."
"Pricing is based on usage plateaus. The more you use, the more you pay."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
58%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Transportation Company
6%
Healthcare Company
5%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
University
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

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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.
What needs improvement with HPE GreenLake?
HPE GreenLake solution is very good. Another solution that really improves the offering is what HP created for its own hypervisor solution. Because VMware is very expensive right now, offering anot...
What is your primary use case for HPE GreenLake?
I have dealt with HPE GreenLake for approximately one year. Initially, I offered service only, but this year, I am using it to sell HP products because the supplier in Puerto Rico, Solution Box, he...
 

Also Known As

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GreenLake Flex Capacity, HPE Flexible Capacity, HPE FlexCap
 

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Sample Customers

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Capgemini Finland Infrastructure Services, Sogeti BeLux, Accenture
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