HPE pioneers Next-Gen Data Management with Software-Defined Storage and AI Automation

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) introduces a suite of new solutions within the HPE GreenLake cloud, streamlining enterprise storage, data, and workload management across on-premises and public cloud environments. Key offerings include:

          HPE GreenLake Block Storage for Amazon Web Services (AWS), a new software-defined storage offering to seamlessly manage block storage across hybrid cloud environments.

          New release of HPE GreenLake for Block Storage built on HPE Alletra MP now supports NVMe capacity scaling up to 5.6PB and HPE Infosight AIOps with cross-stack analytics to enable workload visibility, improved performance, higher availability and optimized resource utilization.

          HPE Timeless Program transforms the storage ownership experience with new investment protection that provides operational agility and financial flexibility, lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) for customers choosing block storage on HPE Alletra MP.

          HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition now supports HPE Alletra MP and HPE SimpliVity Gen 11.

In 2023, HPE transformed hybrid cloud storage with the introduction of the industry’s pioneering modular scale-out block storage on a single operating system. This innovation caters to both small and medium-sized businesses as well as enterprise customers managing business-critical and mission-critical workloads. HPE maintains its commitment to advancing its platform-based approach, empowering enterprises to transition from managing individual storage arrays daily to a cohesive data management solution. This solution offers a cloud operational model, AI-driven automation, and effortless data mobility.

Kamal Kashyap, Director, India – Storage Business Unit, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India, said, “In an era defined by exponential data growth and digital transformation, effective storage solutions have emerged as the cornerstone of enterprise success,”

Kashyap further stated, “Our latest HPE GreenLake advancements enhance managing storage, data, and workloads across on-premises and public cloud environments. We are committed to scaling innovation and empowering businesses with simplified and cost-efficient IT and storage management.”

Seamless data and application mobility with software-defined storage for AWS

HPE’s launch of GreenLake Block Storage for AWS streamlines data management and workload deployment in the cloud through software-defined storage. This solution ensures a smooth, integrated storage management experience across hybrid cloud environments, offering quicker time to value and enterprise-grade resilience.

Enterprises gain the ability to efficiently manage and safeguard global storage infrastructures while optimizing performance and costs through the flexible movement of data, workloads, and backups. HPE GreenLake Block Storage for AWS is ideal for enterprises that want to optimize data management as well as application development and deployment across on-prem and public cloud environments. The software-defined storage offering also delivers simple, cost-effective hybrid cloud data protection and disaster recovery.

HPE Timeless Program readies enterprises for continuous next-generation innovation

HPE Timeless Program: Paving the Way for Continuous Next-Generation Innovation in Enterprises

With the introduction of the HPE Timeless Program, HPE is revolutionizing the storage ownership journey by offering new investment protection and a seamless infrastructure lifecycle path. Customers opting for block storage on HPE Alletra MP and enrolling in the program become eligible for a non-disruptive upgrade to a next-generation controller upon subscription renewal.

By avoiding the need for a disruptive forklift upgrade, customers can realize an average savings of 30% in total cost of ownership (TCO) for storage. This innovative program encompasses HPE’s commitment to a 100% Data Availability Guarantee and HPE StoreMore data efficiency guarantees, ensuring customers predictable multi-year economics and guaranteed service levels for data availability and efficiency

Alletra MP Enhances Management Efficiency with Extended AI-Driven Intelligence and Analytics

HPE maintains its leadership in AIOps-enabled workload management and observability through renowned platforms like HPE Infosight and OpsRamp. Now seamlessly integrated into the HPE GreenLake cloud, new cross-stack analytics streamline storage management, empowering users to preemptively address latency issues that could impede workload performance. Leveraging full-stack correlation of resources alongside the AIOps engine, customers can anticipate, detect, and mitigate disruptions spanning virtual machines, storage, networks, computing, and cloud infrastructure. Furthermore, HPE Alletra MP users gain insight into energy consumption and carbon emissions trends through the HPE Sustainability Insight Center.

In addition to delivering mission-critical resiliency at midrange economics, HPE Alletra MP now scales up to 5.6PB and supports up to 16 JBOF expansion shelves, doubling the previous capacity. Enhanced built-in global protection now enables three-site replication for heightened data security.

The integration of Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault with HPE Alletra MP equips customers with secure, immutable data copies, facilitating swift air-gapped recovery post-cyber attack. This collaboration ensures the safeguarding, auditing, and secure vaulting of critical applications, while providing rapid service restoration in the face of disruptions or breaches.

New Private Cloud solutions optimize edge workloads and simplify VM mobility

HPE Alletra MP and HPE SimpliVity Gen11 are now part of the offerings within HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition. This agile, self-service private cloud simplifies the management and mobility of virtual machines (VMs) across on-premises and public cloud environments.

          HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition provides a modern disaggregated hyperconverged architecture. New support for HPE Alletra MP provides mission-critical VM workloads with mid-range economics and the 100% Data Availability Guarantee.

          New support for HPE SimpliVity Gen11, based on HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers, enables customers to run edge and general-purpose VMs with 99.999% data availability and built-in data protection.

Availability

HPE GreenLake Block Storage for AWS is available to order from the end of May 2024. HPE Timeless Program will be available in Q32024. HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition with choice of HPE Alletra MP or HPE SimpliVity Gen11 is available in July.