In today’s computing culture, moving to a hybrid cloud environment should happen by design, not by accident, according to most industry advisors. Doing so offers a consistent experience across the enterprise.

Following a cyber incident that hit its services and backups, Saskatchewan Polytechnic, a primary public institution for post-secondary technical education and skills training, accelerated its hybrid-cloud journey. It looked to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. for help, using its GreenLake platform for data resiliency via a landing zone comprising of enterprise resource planning and disaster recovery tools.

“We turned everything off, found out that we had a cyber incident,” said Gwen Bourque (pictured, right), assistant vice president of information technology services at Saskatchewan Polytechnic. “We lost all the indexing on our backups. Right now, we are working to get a lot of our systems onto to GreenLake. We’ve made a backup plan, DR plan with the HPE GreenLake, so we’re ready to go when it fails again, and we’ve had huge success with that.”

Bourque and Alexia Clements (left), vice president of worldwide sales and go-to-market leader for HPE GreenLake cloud services commercial business at HPE, recently spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Dave Vellante and Rob Strechay at HPE Discover, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how HPE GreenLake is helping the institution adopt a hybrid-cloud framework for optimal and resilience purposes. (* Disclosure below.)

Looking at the bigger picture

HPE GreenLake is one of the hot megatrends in computing resiliency right now, according to Clements. As a result, it enhances business outcomes by enabling enterprises to forge the way forward based on their needs and preferences.

“With HP GreenLake, we’re meeting with our customers to really understand what’s next for them, what’s the next workload, what’s going on in their business,” she said.

As a post-secondary institution, not only is hybrid cloud on Saskatchewan Poly’s radar, but also artificial intelligence, because it offers predictable analytics. Therefore, both hybrid cloud and AI are enabling the institution to be a huge catalyst for economic growth by continuously nurturing learners, according to Bourque.

“The thing with AI and what I love is all of the predictable analytics, and when we see workloads that are starting to fail, they just automatically move,” she said. “We’ve got that automation orchestration starting; we are new, but it’s working well. The services are totally available to students.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of HPE Discover:

(* Disclosure: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Intel Corp. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither HPE and Intel nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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