HPE Helion is a cloud-based platform offering scalable cloud solutions designed to support enterprise IT environments. Tailored for businesses aiming to modernize their IT infrastructure, it provides robust tools for cloud management and deployment.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| HPE Helion | 1.3% |
| Amazon AWS | 13.5% |
| Microsoft Azure | 12.4% |
| Other | 72.8% |
Enterprises leveraging HPE Helion enjoy a comprehensive, flexible cloud management system that adapts to their current workflows. This platform facilitates seamless integration with private and public clouds, ensuring compatibility with existing IT frameworks. Users benefit from increased operational efficiency and agility, empowering IT departments to rapidly deploy and manage cloud-native applications. HPE Helion's cloud services provide optimized resource allocation and advanced security features, addressing modern business challenges.
What are the key features of HPE Helion?HPE Helion is widely adopted across industries such as finance, healthcare, and retail. In healthcare, it helps streamline data management and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. Retailers use it to manage customer data and enhance the consumer experience. Financial institutions benefit from its improved transaction processing capabilities, supporting real-time analytics and secure operations.
HPE Helion was previously known as HPE Helion Cloud, HP Helion .
| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| CTO at Indra | 3.5 | Access to private and public clouds is valuable, improving our delivery time. I wish to better select the optimal private cloud provider by service and cost. The solution is stable, scalable, and our vendor relationship is key. |
| Head Of Security at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees | 3.5 | I highly value HPE Helion for solving customer problems with world-class personnel and excellent scalability. While a unified dashboard and stronger vendor relationships are needed, I trust their comprehensive service and am very satisfied. |
| Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees | 2.5 | We chose HPE Helion for its vendor backing and cost benefits, seeing sales potential. However, we're concerned about stability, outdated packages, and complex setup, hoping SUSE's involvement improves upstream alignment and development pace. |
| Pre-Sales Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees | 4.5 | I value HPE's scalability for new services, improving client delivery with minimal downtime. Customer service is responsive. However, I wish for reduced costs and better hybrid cloud integration for my complex client needs. |
| Solution Manager - Dynamic Datacenter at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees | 4.0 | I find this product offers an easy-to-use GUI for service automation, improving flexibility and reliability. However, it needs better hybrid cloud support, simpler setup, and more integration with DevOps processes. |
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 like to know which provider to use. I would like to know the best option for this application.
This solution is stable.
We can scale up to public clouds with multiple vendors.
When selecting a vendor, I look at the relationship and the support that this vendor can provide. We have a very good relationship with HPE. The delivery is normally good. We have had a good experience with different kinds of HPE products in the past.
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.
We focus on what we are good at. We focus on our skillsets and our core competencies. We are always looking for partners who can assist us because we have limited expertise based on company strategy.
With a lot of the services we use, we need a single dashboard that could do more. At the moment, the biggest challenge in technology and security is redundancies in the systems. It would be great to have just one system that can manage a lot of your workflow.
I think that the challenge for HPE is their diversification into new markets. They're a new company and they are doing very well; but I would say that they still have a little bit of work to do with some of their partners. That’s understandable because it is still very new. But they really need to strengthen certain vendor relationships.
It's good. I feel that we are doing more and more business with HPE. I still think there is a lot of work to do with their own partners; so the majority of the time our experience is very good.
I know we are trying to reach out to new vendors all the time, Gemalto being one. We did not have a good experience with them; but, all in all, it is a very mature product line that I am very happy with.
I have a very high opinion of them on scalability. I have no doubt that they can provide whatever we need as long as we pay them enough money.
We actually haven't had to call them yet; so that’s good.
We were using older systems and we moved to HPE; but for a lot of the projects, I've reached out to HPE for the first time because they have good services.
The scope of the work involved in the initial setup is very detailed. You need a really detailed understanding of each of your business systems; and you need to communicate that to the HPE team and security. I always try to keep it simple; but to explain the specific requirements is a lot of work which requires a lot of preparation and planning.
We considered Dell SecureWorks and HPE obviously; and a very few niche players that do specific functions. There was nobody as big as HPE. They all might do specific parts of it very well. We picked HPE because we could contact one account manager to fulfill all our needs. What it comes down to when choosing a vendor is that I've got to trust them.
Reach out to your account manager, and give them a refined understanding of what you want to achieve. HPE is a very large organization. You just need to be very clear on what you want to experience.
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.
The cost is really a big benefit. It gives us an extra string to our bow. We run quite a big hosted-enterprise solution for customers on the network, and I think Helion will give us another opportunity to sell more to them.
We're still in a POC at the minute, so time will tell whether it improves the way my organization functions.
Some improvements I think are needed are greater stability and more up to date packages. The Ceph Cluster components that we've been looking at are still in the previous Hammer release. We were expecting the next release to be pretty much in line with it; at least not more than one behind. They're a couple behind at the minute. Maybe a better track to the upstream software would be good.
With this obviously being an elastic type solution, the initial setup time seems to be taking a lot longer than we expected.
We've been in the POC phase for quite a while, since I think version 1. With each release we get more stability. Hopefully things will continue.
We speak to the teams that are helping us out with the POC that we're running. We do speak to the technical support teams every so often. It's a working relationship at the minute.
We were not using any previous solutions. We just needed some kind of flexible offering. With being a HPE partner, we thought Helion was the way to go.
I wasn't involved with the initial setup. One of my other colleagues has been running with it. Obviously we keep a bit of an eye to make sure that everything's going the right direction. I do know that it was very complex. We were trying to leverage it in a custom way and I think out of the box, it may be easier. I think making any small tweaks and changes upset things. That's where the complication came in.
Give it a go. Maybe look at other upstream vendors, maybe. Obviously with the announcement that Helion's going across to SUSE now, hopefully that development train will accelerate and things will stay more in line with the open upstream.
When choosing a vendor, cost is obviously important. What sort of support we can get from that vendor is also important, as well as a good working relationship.
Scalability, it's very important.
It's improved the delivery of services to our clients. Also, I believe my clients get new business, and better performance.
I'd like it to join up with other hybrid cloud solutions as my clients often have very complex requirements.
It has minimal downtime.
It's very important because I can sell new services for my clients because I don't stay in one place. With the cloud I can offer new services. If there was only one server box, I'm not free to sell new services.
They normally take less than four hours to get back to us.
Previously, we used Microsoft Azure but now we're in Open Stack which is helping us to provide services to our clients.
If they could reduce the cost, that would be good as there is much competition, and many companies, and organizations are looking to reduce costs.
It has a really great GUI so it's easy to use. You can get an overview of the different services you define and how to automate them and bring them into the infrastructure.
We're a lot more flexible in HR. We have many more services, including self-service an Apache Ant user. We don't have to call IT and wait for weeks or months for service. That's the biggest benefit for our business.
We need improvements for more hybrid use. Right now, the system is very focused on pay-as-you-go cloud services, and our customers are looking for more a hybrid use. They want to spread their services into the public cloud and pay-as-you-go cloud services.
Also, there are some drawbacks in terms of the ease of setting up these. You have to have a lot of knowledge about the insides of the software to get it in place. After this, it's really easy for an administrator to use it and to leverage the services for their interview system.
It also needs more integration with DevOps and the whole infrastructure process around that.
It's deployed without issue for us.
If the automation is defined well, you won't have the problem of walking into failures. The whole system is not only flexible but also stable and reliable for an Ant user.
