Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today said it will acquire hybrid cloud automation vendor Morpheus Data LLC for an undisclosed amount. HPE said the acquisition’s technology will add multicloud automation and orchestration to its GreenLake hybrid cloud and complement the observability capabilities it picked up with its acquisition of OpsRamp Inc. last year.
The Greenwood Village, Colo.-based Morpheus Data provides multi-vendor, multicloud application provisioning, orchestration and automation, as well as Financial Operations, a practice that combines financial management with operational and engineering efforts to optimize cloud spending and financial accountability. Its platform unifies existing tools and standardizes processes across multiple clouds with application lifecycle management, provisioning, backup, logging, monitoring, reporting, and access control.
Combined with OpsRamp, HPE said it is the first vendor to provide a full suite of capabilities and services across the hybrid cloud stack, including infrastructure, networking, storage, hybrid cloud management, network virtualization and segmentation, data mobility, a full set of runtime environments, security, observability, FinOps and a unified control plane.
Morpheus Data’s platform is “about a way of doing IT that represents public cloud, private cloud, hosted cloud, edge clouds, developers, security, finance and operations,” said Brad Parks (pictured), Morpheus Data’s chief product and marketing officer, in an interview on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE earlier this year. “It is all coming together in a melting pot, and that is what platform operations is all about.”
Any workload
HPE said it aims to evolve GreenLake into a future-proof platform for managing virtualized, cloud-native and artificial intelligence workloads. Morpheus Data’s orchestration capabilities will enable HPE GreenLake users to provision and manage almost any workload across traditional and modern cloud environments including brownfield private and public infrastructure.
Brownfield cloud infrastructure refers to existing IT environments that are being migrated to the cloud as opposed to “greenfield” projects that are built for the cloud from scratch. Brownfield environments typically include legacy systems, applications, and data that need to be integrated, transformed or updated to work in a cloud environment.
Morpheus Data’s FinOps capabilities provides insights into cloud spending across multiple cloud environments, including breakdowns by cloud provider, department, project or application. Users can set budgets and forecast future cloud spending based on historical patterns. Cloud costs can be allocated to specific business units, teams or projects and automated policies can be used to control costs. The platform also provides recommendations for optimizing cloud spending.
“This acquisition focuses on a key problem organizations face, which is that heterogeneous cloud computing environments are complex to manage,” wrote Maribel Lopez, founder and principal analyst of Lopez Research, in a post on X.
Founded in 2015, Morpheus Data has raised $30.8 million in funding, according to Crunchbase. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year.