HPE and Spark New Zealand have completed a major hybrid cloud modernisation program aimed at improving the speed, reliability and resilience of digital services across New Zealand’s largest telecommunications provider.
The multi-stage transformation has overhauled Spark NZ’s legacy cloud management environment, replacing it with a unified hybrid cloud architecture built around HPE GreenLake and HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software. The initiative responds to rapid growth in digital consumption across New Zealand and rising expectations for always-on connectivity, performance and service reliability.
Spark NZ undertook the program to address increasing operational complexity across its infrastructure estate, where traditional on-premise and public cloud environments were becoming harder to manage at scale. The new hybrid cloud environment consolidates compute, block storage and object storage into a single platform, providing a more consistent operational model and enabling greater automation and governance.
The first phase of the project established HPE GreenLake as a core platform within Spark NZ’s internal operations, creating a scalable foundation designed to adapt to changing business and customer requirements. This unified infrastructure layer was intended to reduce fragmentation while improving efficiency and service consistency.
In the second phase, Spark NZ deployed HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software to centralise control of private and public cloud resources. The platform provides cost analytics, policy-based governance and automation, giving Spark greater visibility across its cloud estate and the ability to orchestrate change more quickly in response to business demands.
The third phase expanded Spark NZ’s managed services capability, strengthening management of core platforms, hypervisors and backup environments. This has improved Spark’s ability to design and deliver new managed IT services while maintaining operational stability across critical systems.
HPE said the project demonstrates how hybrid cloud architectures can support large-scale service providers operating distributed national infrastructure. The New Zealand telecommunications sector faces unique challenges due to geographic spread, critical infrastructure requirements and rising demand for digital services across enterprise, government and consumer markets.
Spark NZ said the move away from reliance on either standalone public cloud or traditional on-premise infrastructure was driven by the need for greater flexibility, control and performance. The hybrid approach allows Spark to balance cost efficiency with security, governance and service reliability, while positioning the business to adopt emerging technologies, including AI-driven services.
The transformation highlights a broader trend among large service providers toward hybrid and multicloud operating models that prioritise automation, observability and policy-driven management. For Spark NZ, the modernised environment is intended to support continued growth in managed services and digital offerings, while improving operational resilience across New Zealand’s national communications infrastructure.