HPE introduces software-defined storage and AI-driven automation

Source: HPE. Screen capture, HPE GreenLake Block Storage for AWS.
Source: HPE. Screen capture, HPE GreenLake Block Storage for AWS.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced new solutions across the HPE GreenLake cloud to simplify how enterprises manage and optimise their storage, data and workloads across on-prem and public cloud environments.

New or expanded offerings include:

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

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

• HPE Timeless Program offers 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 introduced the industry’s first modular scale-out block storage* on a single operating system, supporting both small and medium-sized businesses and enterprise customers running business-critical and mission-critical workloads. HPE continues to expand its platform-based strategy to enable enterprises to shift from daily management of individual storage arrays to a unified data management experience that delivers a cloud operational model, AI-driven automation, and seamless data mobility.

“While our competitors continue to sell storage as a service, we are offering a truly transformative platform-based approach for hybrid cloud management and data storage,” said Jim O’Dorisio, Senior VP and GM of HPE Storage. 

“With our innovations across HPE Alletra and HPE GreenLake, we continue to set the standard for simpler, more cost-effective IT and storage management.”

"The massive data surge is forcing businesses to rethink data management across their entire infrastructure, with increasing preference for flexible and efficient solutions that bridge the gap between on-prem and cloud environments," said Justin Chiah, VP and GM, Data Services and Storage, Asia Pacific, HPE. 

"With HPE's advancements in hybrid cloud storage, like HPE GreenLake Block Storage for AWS, we aim to empower enterprises to unlock a new era of data management. This translates to greater flexibility and scalability, allowing businesses to optimise costs and resources while driving innovation and success."

HPE is also simplifying data management and workload placement on the cloud through software-defined storage with HPE GreenLake Block Storage for AWS. The solution is designed to deliver a seamless, unified storage management experience across hybrid cloud with faster time to value and enterprise-class resiliency.

Enterprises can consistently manage and protect global storage environments and move data,
workloads and backups for optimal performance and costs, HPE said. HPE GreenLake Block Storage for AWS is ideal for the data management optimisation 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.

With the new HPE Timeless Program, HPE is transforming the storage ownership experience with new investment protection and a seamless infrastructure lifecycle path. Customers that choose block storage on HPE Alletra MP and participate in the programme will qualify for an upgrade to a next-generation controller, delivered non-disruptively, when they renew their subscription.

Customers can achieve an average savings of 30% on TCO for storage by avoiding one forklift
upgrade.* The new programme includes HPE’s 100% Data Availability Guarantee and HPE StoreMore data efficiency guarantees.* HPE Timeless Program provides customers predictable multi-year economics and guaranteed services levels for data availability and efficiency.

Alletra MP simplifies management with expanded AI-driven intelligence and analytics, HPE said. HPE is known for AIOps-enabled workload management and observability with HPE Infosight and OpsRamp. Now fully integrated into the HPE GreenLake cloud, new cross-stack analytics streamline management of storage to help users proactively avoid latency issues that reduce workload performance. 

Full-stack correlation of resources combined with the AIOps engine enables customers to observe, predict and mitigate disruptions across virtual machine, storage, network, compute, and cloud infrastructure. In addition, HPE Alletra MP customers will now be able to observe energy consumption and carbon emission trends though the HPE Sustainability Insight Center.

HPE Alletra MP now delivers mission-critical resiliency with mid-range economics, scaling up to 5.6 PB with support for up to 16 'just a bunch of flash' (JBOF) expansion shelves, double the previously available capacity.

New advanced built-in global protection now supports three-site replication for enhanced data protection. Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault now integrates HPE Alletra MP, providing customers with secure, immutable data copies and enabling rapid air-gapped recovery after a cyber attack. Customers can protect, audit, and securely vault their most critical applications while providing the availability to rapidly restore services in the event of service disruption or breaches.

HPE Alletra MP and HPE SimpliVity Gen11 are now available as offerings with HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition. This agile, self-service private cloud simplifies virtual machine (VM) management and mobility across on-prem 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.

Details

- HPE GreenLake Block Storage for AWS is available to order from the end of May 2024.

- HPE Timeless Program will be available in Q324.

- HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition with the choice of HPE Alletra MP or HPE SimpliVity Gen11 is available in July.

*Download the HPE Storage Substantiation document at https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a00058506enw (PDF)

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