HPE Integrating AI and ML-Driven Primera Storage Platform With Composability in Synergy and HPE Composable Rack

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (HPE) announced combined intelligence and composability offerings by integrating its AI and ML-driven Primera storage platform with the composability in Synergy and HPE Composable Rack⁽¹⁾, helping customers rapidly deliver new apps and innovations to propel their businesses forward.

Primera storage system

This combination allows customers to deliver services on an intelligent cloud platform, offering the flexibility to support any application and SLA with cloud-like agility, extreme resiliency, and seamless scalability. . .

Additionally, expanding on the recent introduction of Synergy support for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), Composable Rack, the company’s composable rack-scale solution, supports VCF for hybrid cloud deployments. This offering provides cloud management services to run enterprise applications in both private and public environments with a resilient and operationally efficient approach.

Enterprises today want to accelerate everything – their apps, data, and innovation. This requires the ability to manage traditional bare-metal and virtualization applications, while also supporting containerized applications and cloud stacks with software-driven automation, and a fluid pool of resources that they can flexibly custom fit to the specific needs of applications. And, as organizations transition from a software-defined data center to an autonomous one, IT teams need to put the insights gathered about the infrastructure and workloads into action to ensure an environment that is always-fast and always-on.

“Customers want more than table stakes software-driven automation, and only HPE offers the combination of software- and intelligence-driven automation in a composable solution, transforming on-premises infrastructure to be more cloudlike,” said Mat Mathews, VP and GM, composable networking, HPE. “And, as customers leverage VCF to provide integrated software-defined data center and cloud management services for their applications, it becomes critical to rely on an underlying platform that has matching characteristics. Only HPE’s intelligent and composable infrastructure delivers the automation and flexibility needed for today’s changing workload demands.“

HPE Composable Rack

Composable infrastructure
The company is a pioneer in composability, initially introducing composable infrastructure in Synergy, a bladed, modular architecture. With disaggregated compute, storage, and fabric, the firm’s composable infrastructure provides independent scaling of resources and on-demand provisioning to support any workload, and any SLA – all while delivering CapEx savings. Its software-defined automation improves IT efficiency and reduces OpEx costs, while its unified API allows developers to integrate infrastructure commands directly into development and deployment processes, as well as integrate with third-party applications and tools. Similarly, Composable Rack provides disaggregated compute, storage and fabric resources in a rack form factor, supporting bare metal, containerization, virtualization, and private and hybrid clouds.

“Combined, HPE Synergy and our current storage solution, HPE 3PAR, have created a formidable capability for us to deliver industry leading services on composable and reliable infrastructure with a few clicks,” said Christopher Horvat, VP, information technology, Skyview Networks Corp. “We can virtualize all our audio in digital format without the traditional analog-to-digital latency and without a single physical backplane connection. Using this technology has made our organization more agile in delivering premier services to our long list of clients, so I look forward to the impact HPE Primera combined with HPE Synergy will have for mission-critical apps.“

Intelligent infrastructure
Primera leverages an advanced AI platform for operations, InfoSight, to deliver breakthroughs – including 93% less time spent on managing storage ⁽²⁾, the ability to predict and prevent issues, and accelerate application performance. Primera lets organizations innovate without compromise, with the resiliency and performance businesses need combined with the agility of the cloud.

Integration of Primera in composable portfolio allows Synergy and Composable Rack customers to benefit from:

• Agility and faster time-to-market

  • • Develop and deploy applications faster with infrastructure as code to automate and streamline resource management, including reduced time to deploy for Oracle databases by 89% ⁽³⁾.

    • Eliminate disruptions and wasted time reacting to problems with the AI-driven full-stack intelligence.

    • Enable self-sufficiency and eliminate lag time with provisioning requests.

• Extreme resiliency

  • • Through cloud-based ML and AI, HPE InfoSight in ProLiant servers, Synergy, and Primera storage, predicts and prevents problems before they occur.

    • Mission-critical reliability is built into Primera, which is architected for HA with its multi-node design, transparent BC with Peer Persistence, and data replication-backed by the Primera 100% data availability guarantee.

    • The company further protects systems vs. service disruption and risk, with its silicon root of trust that prevents system boots with compromised firmware; and Cyber Catalyst designation that provides enhanced terms and conditions on cyber insurance policies.

• Dynamic scaling

  • • The firm’s composable offerings allow organizations to compose disaggregated resources on demand and non-disruptively.

    • The auto-discover and -configuration capabilities enable incremental scale and integration of resources.

    • The instant visibility into how resources are consumed by applications improves insights for capacity planning.

Through the combination of intelligence and composability, the company provides an cloud foundation that unites the IT environment with a common software-defined and AI-driven operating model that can be optionally delivered as a Service via GreenLake to align costs with consumption.

Availability:
Synergy and Composable Rack integration with Primera; and support for VMware Cloud Foundation on Composable Rack will be available in November 2019.

⁽¹⁾ HPE Composable Rack was formerly known as HPE Composable Cloud for ProLiant DL
⁽²⁾ Based on HPE internal testing, compared to previous gen storage arrays
⁽³⁾ Compared to traditional deployment of database instances. HPE internal testing, June 2019

Resources:
Blog: Just Announced: New Capabilities to HPE Composability Offerings Improve Cloud Experience     
Blog: Composability and intelligence are accelerating the self-driving data center      
Blog: HPE Primera advances the cloud experience with HPE Synergy and HPE Composable Rack