Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced its acquisition of cloud management company Morpheus Data, though financial details have not been disclosed.
Since its establishment in 2010, Morpheus has gained recognition for its cloud-neutral management tools which aid organizations in managing resources across various environments. This includes both on-premises operations and major public clouds like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
HPE intends to integrate Morpheus’ technology into its GreenLake hybrid cloud platform to offer enhanced services such as multicloud application provisioning, orchestration, automation, access control, plus backup and resource monitoring. Furthermore, Morpheus will continue to be available as standalone software, according to HPE.
Additionally, HPE GreenLake plans to incorporate Morpheus’s financial management software designed to assist organizations in making economical decisions regarding cloud services. HPE commented, “We will combine our extensive multicloud IT data with the FinOps solutions from Morpheus to help customers comprehend their cloud expenditure, establish usage guidelines, and optimize workloads to reduce costs.”
More than 90% of enterprises utilize a variety of cloud services, and managing these resources has become an increasing difficulty, as highlighted in a recent IDC report, Worldwide Intelligent CloudOps Software Forecast, 2024–2028. This report projects that the global market for intelligent CloudOps software will expand to $40 billion by 2028.
“Companies are seeking uniform control and standardization across both public and private cloud settings. Hybrid clouds will persist for the foreseeable future, thus enterprises require tools to navigate this complexity today,” IDC mentioned. “The aim with multi-cloud support is to apply code from infrastructure-as-code provisioning across any cloud platform. Additionally, there is a demand for enhanced transparency in cloud costs with suggestions for automatically shifting and reprovisioning workloads depending on the lowest cost and most efficient cloud available to the customer.”
The acquisition of Morpheus by HPE might also help tackle forthcoming talent challenges, as organizations aim to govern their complex cloud infrastructures with fewer personnel, according to experts.
“By the conclusion of 2025, as enterprises finish implementing various digital transformation initiatives and continue to transfer workloads to cloud-native technologies like containers and serverless, Global 2000 companies will face even greater difficulties in sourcing skilled personnel to manage the growing complexity across multiple clouds,” IDC remarked.
“A significant portion of a digital enterprise’s revenue is tied to how responsive, scalable, and resilient its infrastructure, applications, and data resources are. This encompasses applications on public clouds, hybrid on-premises setups, and proprietary edge locations,” stated IDC.
The collaboration between HPE and Morpheus aims to challenge competitors in the CloudOps market, including major vendors such as Red Hat and VMware by Broadcom, alongside cloud giants like AWS and Google Cloud. The deal is anticipated to be finalized in the early part of the fourth quarter of HPE’s 2024 fiscal year.
