Patrick Terminals Selects HPE GreenLake to Reinvent How Shipping Containers Move from Ship to Shore
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) partners with Patrick Terminals, Australia's largest container terminal operator, to implement the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform. This collaboration aims to enhance automation and agility in terminal operations by leveraging a private cloud model. Patrick Terminals seeks to address aging IT infrastructure issues and improve operational efficiency across its terminals located in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Western Australia. The partnership also emphasizes scalability, allowing the company to adapt to changing business demands while managing costs effectively.
- HPE GreenLake enhances automation and agility for Patrick Terminals.
- Implementation of a private cloud allows real-time data management.
- The as-a-service model provides flexibility and cost efficiency.
- Aging IT infrastructure showed signs of increased failure rates, indicating a potential risk before the partnership.
- Patrick Terminals is Australia’s largest container terminal operator
- HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform delivers mission-critical compute power on-site with zero latency
- The combined solution spanning HPE compute, storage, networking, and services allows Patrick Terminals to respond dynamically to changing customer demands and industry requirements
Patrick Terminals is a gateway for trade and investment, delivering exceptional consistency and efficiency for shipping customers across its container terminals in
Patrick Terminals’ engineers also require their automation technologies to work with the complex information systems and software applications they rely on to keep the terminal running smoothly. The company’s private cloud needs to manage all the information coming in from shipping lines, exporters, importers, and industry regulators. Data is fed in real-time and the automation systems then perform all the necessary calculations to direct the equipment in the terminal yard. These data computations must be nearly instantaneous, which require on-site compute power to avoid latency and delays.
“One of the things we liked about HPE GreenLake is the ability to easily adapt to new business requirements. The HPE GreenLake platform gives us all the advantages of the cloud but with our systems on-premises,” explained
“The agility of HPE GreenLake helps us handle new business demands as they emerge, whether it’s ensuring compliance, improving our labor systems, or enabling greater automation,” added
HPE Pointnext Services managed the end-to-end installation and configuration of the compute, storage, and networking platforms that run Patrick Terminals’ core data center applications. The installation of
“This total HPE solution demonstrates the flexibility of the HPE GreenLake cloud services portfolio and its ability to deliver innovation and modernization for our customers. It means that Patrick Terminals has full control, backed by HPE expertise and support,” said
Patrick Terminals engaged one of HPE Australia’s fastest growing partners,
“We’re pleased to work with Patrick Terminals and deliver a HPE GreenLake solution that meets their compliance, security and transformation needs and is scalable for when these needs inevitably change,” said
Read the full HPE case study on Patrick Terminals here.
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