HPE Enhances SimpliVity

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP announced enhancements to SimpliVity for the enterprise edge, including advancements in data protection with native backup to cloud and centralized backup for compliance.

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Additionally, it is announcing support for containers to run cloud-native applications at the edge, and drive business transformation.

New capabilities include:

SimpliVity with HPE Cloud Volumes Backup enables flexible backup directly to the cloud from multiple edge sites
SimpliVity enhanced integration with StoreOnce protects distributed edge sites with automated, app-aware policies to replicate apps and data directly to a centralized StoreOnce appliance for compliance and long-term retention
Kubernetes CSI Plugin for SimpliVity provides streamlined management and resilient, all-in-one HCI to run both container and VM workloads on a unified platform at the edge

“If you’re a retail company or a business with many stores and locations, I would highly recommend HPE SimpliVity for your branch offices and warehouses,” said Aleh Sadaunichy, infrastructure solutions architect, Staples Solutions. “The simplicity, scalability, reliability, transcendent speed, and the ease of the restores are why we choose this product. The comprehensive data protection capabilities that include native backup to public cloud are very compelling.“

Organizations are witnessing application and data growth at the edge, creating new opportunities to extract value from data by running applications and processing data locally. They are also bringing new, cloud-native applications to the edge, while still supporting existing virtualized applications at edge sites.

To harness this opportunity, the company has delivered a complete edge solution, including Aruba secure wireless and wired networking, and workload-optimized infrastructure, to address the varying performance, resiliency, scale, and data requirements at the edge.

The enterprise edge is a critical segment represented by distributed sites including retail, hospitals, financial services, and manufacturing. Organizations need edge computing infrastructure that is simple to manage, with built-in resiliency and efficient data protection to ensure apps are always-on and able to rapidly recover data across sites.

SimpliVity is a HCI solution optimized for the enterprise edge, with an all-in one appliance form factor. The solution provides built-in data protection with zero administration enabled by centralized management and automation, along with guaranteed data efficiency for better economics. The firm is enhancing data protection and its flexibility to run containers alongside VMs at the edge.

“Our customers with businesses in edge environments turn to SimpliVity for its ease of use and outstanding economics,” said Omer Asad, VP and GM, HCI, primary storage and data management services, HPE. “We’re continuing to invest in and develop new capabilities for SimpliVity that enable customers to leverage edge and container based data to innovate, accelerate delivery of new applications, and provide differentiated experiences to customers.”

Edge to cloud data protection
SimpliVity is architected with resiliency and data protection capabilities that deliver HA and instant recovery for workloads at the edge, including databases and general virtualization. Built-in, remote backups across a multi-site, SimpliVity federation enable rapid recovery for applications across distributed sites. With SimpliVity, VM data is rapidly and automatically backed up to another node, so if one node goes down, businesses never experience a disruption. In fact, a 1TB VM can be backed up or restored in <60s ⁽¹⁾. This is critical in ensuring BC in the event of natural disasters or protecting data vs. security threats such as ransomware.

With the introduction of cloud backup and a centralized, backup store, SimpliVity delivers a data protection solution for the edge.

Extending data protection to cloud
SimpliVity with HPE Cloud Volumes Backup delivers flexible backup directly to the cloud. This solution enables multiple edge sites to backup to cloud securely in three simple clicks or via policy automation directly from vCenter without additional backup software or hardware infrastructure required. Backups can be restored to multiple, edge sites without any egress charges, unlike other clouds. Cloud Volumes Backup optimizes costs with consumption-based pricing, minimal data transfer for bandwidth usage, and storage in the cloud.

Centralized, cost effective backup for long-term retention and compliance
SimpliVity enhanced integration with StoreOnce reduces complexity, cost, and risk by protecting distributed edge sites with automated, app-aware policies to easily and efficiently replicate apps and data directly to a centralized StoreOnce appliance. SimpliVity with StoreOnce is for customers with compliance or long-term retention SLAs on data. Businesses can create or update edge to core backup policies in less than 1mn for thousands of VMs across dozens of sites ⁽²⁾, backup and restore data in 3 clicks, and routinely achieve 20:1 de-dupe ratios resulting in data efficiency ⁽³⁾.

Application modernization for edge
Across industries, organizations are transforming how they develop and deploy applications across hybrid cloud – with IT needing infrastructure to be more agile, more automated, and policy-driven to support evolving virtualization and container-based architectures. For cloud native applications and containers, organizations need persistent storage for stateful applications, requiring software-defined infrastructure that enables self-service automation for developers. Container-based frameworks, such as Kubernetes, are not only built and deployed in the data center, but at the edge as well.

SimpliVity supports the Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver for Kubernetes to run container-based workloads at the edge. The company offers a simple and unified experience across SimpliVity to Kubernetes to accelerate the journey to a container-based architecture. Having support for CSI and persistent volumes enables both VMs and container workloads to run on the same HCI platform at edge sites, which eliminates the need for dedicated infrastructure for containers. For edge and remote sites, customers gain a simplified management experience and differentiated data protection with the ability to backup or restore persistent volumes in less than one minute ⁽⁴⁾, enhancing cloud native applications deployed on containers. Customers can now modernize applications at the edge with a unified HCI solution while ensuring apps are always-on and always-protected.

Availability:

The SimpliVity 4.1.0, is WW available at no additional charge for SimpliVity customers with valid support contracts. All new features and capabilities announced are supported with vSphere 7.0.
Cloud Volumes Backup support is available in the Americas, Europe and Asia.