K-Businesscom wins the HPE Central Europe Service Provider of the Year Award with HPE GreenLake-based Workload-as-a-Service

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced the winners of the HPE Partner of the Year Awards 2023. The awards recognize HPE partners who have demonstrated commitment and success in delivering value to their customers on their digital transformation journey. This award was given to HPE partners who have achieved exceptional results in terms of financial performance, innovative solutions and meaningful business outcomes.

"It is a privilege to honor the winners of the 2023 HPE Partner Awards. These partners have successfully demonstrated the ability to innovate and execute business outcomes and outstanding experiences for customers," said Gilles Thiebaut, SVP of Worldwide Partner Ecosystem and Business Development, HPE. "Our partner ecosystem continutes to be a top priority at HPE and these awards are one way we highlight some of the partners that are driving impressive results and outcomes for customers".

"Workload as a Service (WaaS) enables companies to outsource their workloads to KBC, which takes care of the entire infrastructure, scaling and maintenance. This leads to a significant reduction in internal workloads and allows companies to focus on their core competencies. With WaaS, companies can scale resources quickly and on demand to cope with peak loads or implement new projects without having to invest in hardware. KBC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are working closely together to ensure that customers in Austria benefit from this innovative solution. The combination of K-Businesscom's expertise in the field of local infrastructure and HPE's leading technologies makes it possible to offer customized solutions that meet the specific requirements of customers.

HPE GreenLake provides customers with a consumption-based billing model that offers the flexibility of a cloud with the advantages of on-premise infrastructures. KBC can therefore offer its customers elements of an on-premise cloud infrastructure from the standard portfolio with HPE. This includes storage solutions, servers and network components, among other things. Challenges that arise in connection with bandwidth, data security or latency can thus be overcome. Customers also benefit from faster provision of the infrastructure thanks to a fixed contract, as there is no need for a quotation process involving several rounds of negotiations with the manufacturer.

Price hedging over the term of the contract can be used to counteract price fluctuations on the market. For customers, there is no need for price negotiations in the event of license extensions. A significant added value of the HPE GreenLake package is the price reduction through economies of scale. With higher call volumes, a price reduction can be achieved by scaling price bands upwards.

What makes HPE Greenlake unique is its sustainable approach. Companies can scale their IT resources according to demand and only pay for the resources they actually use. This enables optimal resource utilization while reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions. HPE GreenLake thus helps to reduce the environmental impact and supports companies in achieving their sustainability goals.

"The collaboration between K-Businesscom and Hewlett Packard Enterprise enables our customers to offer services with the flexibility and speed of the public cloud combined with the security and control of a local infrastructure. The long-term cost transparency and the availability of buffer capacities are the basis for the rapid and reliable provision of different workloads. This approach, which is unique on the Austrian market, ensures a particularly high level of customer satisfaction thanks to individual concepts and the simultaneous realization of economies of scale," says Christian Neuhauser, Vice President System Integration at K-Businesscom.

About K-Businesscom: K-Businesscom AG (formerly Kapsch Businesscom) is Austria's leading ICT solution and service provider and digitalization partner. As a member of CANCOM Group since June 2023, the company is a key part of an international Leading Digital Transformation Partner with over 5,600 employees at around 80 locations and a key player in the DACH region. With many years of expertise in technology and certified know-how in collaboration, network and IT technology, KBC acts as a consultant, implementation partner, managed service partner and digital business engineer. Combined with technologies and services from numerous international manufacturers such as Cisco, Microsoft, HPE and AWS. The company also develops its own software solutions and platforms for new business models with its customers. As digital makers, KBC employees always think end-to-end. Thanks to its Kapsch roots, K-Businesscom combines 130 years of innovative strength with experience as a market leader for network, data, IT, security, collaboration and managed services. The Cyber Defense Center provides 24/7 protection against cyber attacks and KBC designs cloud transformation, smart spaces and hybrid offices. K-Businesscom employees are convinced that digital technologies can create value, protect the environment and improve our standard of living. With its digitalization expertise, KBC therefore wants to make a significant contribution to promoting the European data economy in the coming years.

About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent technology solutions as a service. With offerings spanning Cloud Services, Compute, High Performance Computing & AI, Intelligent Edge, Software, and Storage, HPE provides a consistent experience across all clouds and edges, helping customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information, visit: www.hpe.com