HPE M6Q24CAE Product Data Sheet
Objective
Move its infrastructure, servers and
legacy applications without investing in
data centre build costs, and transform
legacy applications to cloud-ready and
deploy them on hybrid cloud
Case Study
Moving legacy applications to
an HPE Helion hybrid cloud
Multi-utility service provider frees up resources to
expand services to customers and reduce costs
Approach
Engaged with HPE to transition 176
legacy applications to the cloud, adopting
a hybrid cloud approach of public and
private environments
IT Matters
• Lower capital and operational costs
• Reduce physical IT assets
• Free up resources and capacity
• Provide better service continuity and
minimise service interruptions
Business Matters
• Enable move to corporate headquarters
without investing in data centre
build costs
• Transform legacy applications to cloudready and deploy on hybrid cloud
• Improve the solution development
life cycle and bring new products to
market quickly and nimbly
• Foster innovation by allowing teams to
focus on new, dierentiating projects in
a competitive marketplace
• Provide better service and experiences
to both internal and external customers
• Build a long-term relationship with HPE
to bring innovation to Trustpower
When you’re in business
for more than 22 years, you
tend to accumulate a lot of
technology. Now imagine
that you’re moving this wellentrenched headquarters
to a new location. Imagine
further that you serve more
than a quarter of a million
multi-utility customers of
Internet, electricity and gas
as New Zealand’s fourth
largest Internet service
provider (ISP). Moving your
infrastructure and servers
to the cloud – rather than
lugging them along with you
physically – sounds like a very
attractive proposition. For
Trustpower, it certainly was.
Case study
Trustpower
Industry
Energy, generator
and reseller of power/
gas, broadband, bre
and telecom services
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“The attractive thing
about HPE Helion
was the maturity of
the hybrid cloud
proposal and the
proven record of
HPE: our long-time
trusted partner.”
— Matt van Deventer, Head of
Technology, Trustpower
Tend to a growing
infrastructure
Trustpower owns and operates 34 power
stations, generating 100% of its electricity
using renewable energy sources such as
hydro-electric and wind farms. Founded
in 1993, Trustpower and its sta of 500-
plus employees serve more than 260,000
customers in New Zealand and Australia.
The company’s infrastructure had grown in
tandem with its 22-plus years in business,
which meant that it had a fractured, siloed
ecosystem consisting of many inexible
and non-scalable legacy applications and
hardware. Outgrowing its headquarters,
Trustpower was planning to move them
to a new location within the same city of
Tauranga, New Zealand. It decided to use that
opportunity to also move its infrastructure
and servers to the cloud.
“Our infrastructure has grown with the
business in our building, which isn’t ideal for a
lot of reasons,” says Matt van Deventer, Head
of Technology, Trustpower. “There are a lot
of legacy applications and hardware around,
and it’s not really sustainable. Making changes
and scaling is more painful and takes longer
than it should. We decided that anything new
we build would be in the cloud, and that we’d
move our legacy environments as close to the
cloud as we could get them.”
Assessing applications
Trustpower engaged with HPE to transition
its legacy applications to the cloud. HPE
reviewed more than 350 applications and
determined that 176 applications were
relevant to the cloud, assessing which could
be migrated easily and which required
transformation.
“HPE was able to demonstrate better than
anyone else that they’d done it before and
that they had a really robust and mature
architecture to go through every application
and determine suitability for the platform and
how to get it onto that platform,” says van
Deventer. “That’s pretty comforting.”
“We had a look at quite a few players,” says
Simon Clarke, General Manager of Business
Solutions and Technology, Trustpower. “At
the end of the day, HPE has been a longterm partner with us and we were very happy
with the proposition that they put to us…. It
was just about the relationship and also the
technology around the application transition
that was really, really attractive to us.”
Since certain applications would be too
critical or not well suited to a pure cloud
environment, Trustpower decided on a
hybrid approach in which some would
move into collocated environments, others
into private cloud and the rest into public
cloud. In response, HPE Enterprise Services
carried out a full application migration and
upgrade program.
Choosing a hybrid approach
“The attractive thing about HPE Helion was
the maturity of the model and the proven
record that HPE, who is a long-time trusted
partner of ours, has,” says van Deventer.
“HPE’s experience with moving similar
application workloads into the cloud was
probably the dening point of our decision.”
Trustpower centralised on HPE Helion
CloudSystem Enterprise to provide a better
quality service at a lower cost. HPE Helion
CloudSystem Enterprise will also be providing
Trustpower with exible deployment options
for its private cloud. HPE BladeSystem c7000
Enclosure, HPE ProLiant DL360 and DL380
Servers, and HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9
Server Blades, HPE 3PAR storage and HPE
5900 top-of-rack switches are supporting
its infrastructure.
“We base any technology decision on
three things: the right technology, the right
relationship and the right price,” says van
Deventer, “We really like that the technology
is built on open source and open standards
and that HPE has embraced this new way of
doing things.”
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