HPE signed a $2 billion contract with the NSA

On September 1, 2021, Hewlett Packard Enterprise entered into a 10-year contract worth $2 billion with the National Security Agency (NSA).

The US Intelligence Agency plans to use HPE high-performance computing technologies on the HPE GreenLake platform. GreenLake is a platform that is needed for public cloud service and infrastructure needs, as a tool for operational tasks in a local environment and on the periphery, both at the service provider and in the data center.

HPE signed a $2 billion contract with the NSA

Within the new transaction HPE will create and will operate the complete solution of HPC including the HPE Apollo systems and ProLiant serveryNRa, capable to process large volumes of data and to support deep training and possibilities of AI. The system is planned to be located in one of the QTS data centers. The new service will begin to be used in early 2022.

Delivering AI, machine learning, and analytics capabilities on huge arrays of data increasingly requires high-performance computing (HPC). Clients demand service of whenever possible high-performance calculations for the most exacting projects to data in combination with easy, simple and flexible management, - Justin Hotard said in the statement SVP HPE.

The contract will run until 2032 to provide HPE technologies as a service through the HPE GreenLake platform. The collaboration will enable the NSA to better utilize the growing AI and data needs to build in-depth analysis networks and other required forecasts with good performance on servers from HPE.

The GreenLake project was launched in 2017. HPE CEO Antonio Neri said the service should eventually become synonymous with HPE. According to HPE, as of June 2021, GreenLake had more than 1.2 thousand customers, the total value of whose contracts was $4.8 billion.^[1]

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