OpsRamp and HPE—One Year Later: An Analyst’s Perspective

In March 2023, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (‘HPE’) announced the acquisition of OpsRamp, subsequently closing the deal in May that year. Founded in 2014, OpsRamp is an award-winning solution that enables IT operations, site reliability engineeering (SRE), cloud operations, and DevOps teams, and other stakeholders to better detect, remediate, predict, and prevent slowdowns and outages across physical, virtual, and cloud systems. With OpsRamp, HPE gained mature functionality and improved CloudOps credibility, especially for customers of HPE GreenLake, their flagship cloud management platform.

New Product Development and Integration

Today, in a very positive (and somewhat unusual) sign, the OpsRamp team remains largely intact, augmented by additional resources and strategic focus as part of HPE. As a result, the OpsRamp product has added many new capabilities, such as application tracing (added last summer) and network observability (announced in June at HPE Discover), evolving into a full-stack ‘Day 2’ observability and monitoring solution for AI-enabled event management and intelligent automation.

As part of a broader solution, the OpsRamp team is leveraging the resources of HPE to deliver new integrations and innovations while reinforcing core strengths. OpsRamp is now integrated with the HPE GreenLake platform, adding key capabilities for observability, AIOps, and IT automation, including new Generative AI features, sustainability insights, cross-stack analytics, and full-stack correlation, to address significant requirements for decision-makers and use cases for end users.

More Go-to-Market Options

In addition, HPE has made it easier for customers to buy and deploy OpsRamp, including as an add-on subscription for GreenLake customers, in new bundles like HPE Complete Care Service for ITOps and Hybrid Observability in GreenLake Flex, broader availability through HPE’s partner program, and with deployment and other services from HPE Consulting. With insight, knowledge, experience, and skills also now available from both HPE Complete Care and HPE GreenLake Managed Service teams, HPE has smoothed OpsRamp adoption. Especially given the challenges in deploying observability and AIOps technologies, bringing these skills and insights into ‘known good practices’ will certainly help customers accelerate time to value for OpsRamp.

Meanwhile, OpsRamp remains available as a standalone SaaS offering for both new and existing customers.

With new capabilities, new routes to market, new service teams, new acquisition options, and an ongoing commitment to support physical and virtual storage, network, and compute across on-premises, multi-cloud, and multi-vendor infrastructure, application, and network layers, OpsRamp on HPE GreenLake today is a highly competitive observability and AIOps solution, with sustainable advantage especially against competing offers from traditional network, compute and storage vendors.

Looking Ahead

HPE should not rest on these laurels. There is always a need to innovate and execute. For example, integration of OpsRamp with the recently acquired Morpheus Data will make for even better hybrid cloud management. We also expect deeper integration between OpsRamp and Aruba in the future. Nevertheless, one year later, the acquisition of OpsRamp looks like a great success for HPE’s enterprise cloud and MSP customers, as it continues to add innovation to the GreenLake platform.