HPE Discover: HPE Hybrid Cloud Strategy by Extending AI, Composability and Partnership Across Portfolio

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (HPE) announced the expansion of its hybrid cloud portfolio with enhanced automation, more choice, workload-optimized solutions, and a consistent experience across clouds.

These updates include extending AI-driven operations and composability across its portfolio, adding workload-optimized infrastructure, and expanding choice of clouds through a partnership with Equinix, Inc.

Businesses embracing digital transformation are moving critical workloads to the cloud, and are looking to tap an increasingly diverse portfolio of intelligent and automation services, and infrastructure platforms that simplify choice to improve their cloud experience. Organizations are making investments in multiple clouds, but they’re lacking operational consistency. In addition, all this data and technology, regardless of deployment model, needs to be managed and organizations are rapidly approaching limitations without automation. They need to bridge the physical and multiple cloud worlds to achieve agility and scale, and keep pace with today’s data-driven businesses.

“HPE has been at the forefront of this new data paradigm,” said Phil Davis, president, hybrid IT and chief sales officer, HPE. “To scale and grow without bounds, HPE provides the hybrid cloud path for customers with advanced analytics and machine learning that removes the burden of managing infrastructure, enables digital transformation, and accelerates growth. Together, automation and composability can support business objectives, increase efficiency, and enable organizations to be more competitive.“

Broadening composable portfolio

Synergy system

The company introduced composable infrastructure three years ago and has achieved tremendous growth with its Synergy offering-with 78% Y/Yr growth and over 3,000 customers. This infrastructure provides an operating model for virtualized, containerized, and bare-metal applications, to enable customers to compose fluid pools of compute, storage and networking with their choice of software stacks.

Customers using Synergy benefit from:

25% lower IT infrastructure costs by eliminating over-provisioning and stranded capacity
71% less staff time per server deployment and 30% higher application team productivity by increasing operational efficiency and rapid deployment of IT resources
60% more efficient IT infrastructure teams by reducing complexity and manual tasks ⁽¹⁾

ProLiant DL560 Gen10 server

The company is extending its composable strategy to enable IT organizations to transform existing ProLiant DL380/360/560 Gen10 rack-based servers into composable infrastructure to deliver automated deployment, scale, and management for any workload. The firm’s enhanced Composable Cloud solution, built on OneView IT infrastructure management and Composable Fabric networking solution, will enable existing and ProLiant DL customers to deploy and scale workloads across a composable rack environment, and support their choice of cloud, virtualization, or container stacks. This allows customers to protect their investment in their infrastructure platforms.

In addition to providing customers the ability to deploy their choice of the firm’s physical storage or VMware, Inc.‘ vSAN software-defined storage, the company’s composable portfolio supports SimpliVity HCI. With SimpliVity, customers can deploy a pool of HCI nodes alone or alongside other storage, benefitting from SimpliVity’s always-on deduplication and compression that drives capacity and bandwidth efficiency, and built-in backup/recovery and DR.

Enhancing and expanding HCI
SimpliVity is a hyperconverged infrastructure platform for data center virtualization and edge workloads, with 70.3% year-over-year growth ⁽²⁾. The company is enhancing its premier SimpliVity HCI offering, as well as extending a hyperconverged experience to a converged architecture.

The firm is integrating InfoSight AI operations into SimpliVity to simplify VM management and free IT staff to focus on innovation. Together, SimpliVity and InfoSight, an advanced AI for infrastructure, provides customers with global visibility into detailed system, performance, and capacity utilization-enabling predictive data analytics and recommendations for system and performance optimization.

Simplivity 380 appliance

Announcement follows several enhancements for edge and remote office
use cases in SimpliVity, including:

SimpliVity 325 model that’s for remote offices or space-constrained locations and provides a dense, scalable 1U enclosure with an AMD EPYC single CPU processor and all-flash storage
SimpliVity 380 storage-optimized node that provides long-term storage, with a large-capacity system to centrally aggregate copies from multi-site SimpliVity implementations
Automated configuration of Aruba switches during deployment of SimpliVity HCI nodes

For organizations with demanding applications, such as business-critical database and data warehouse applications, the company is introducing Nimble Storage dHCI, a disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI) platform that brings the simplicity of hyperconverged with the flexibility of a converged system. The new solution integrates hyperconverged control with the self-managing experience of Nimble Storage and ProLiant server.

Nimble Storage dHCI

dHCI simplifies VM management with the flexibility to independently scale compute and storage, and a resilient architecture that delivers 99.9999% data availability and sub-milliseconds of latency. Powered with InfoSight, it is an intelligent platform that enables enterprises to deploy apps faster, support demanding apps, and optimize time and resources.

As part of an ongoing collaboration between the company and Equinix, Inc. customers using Equinix colocation facilities who are seeking cloud-based test and development, backup and recovery, or DR capabilities, will be able to transact in the Equinix Marketplace to get Data-as-a-Service based on HPE Cloud Volumes. It will be available over high-speed connectivity to compute in Equinix colocation centers.

HPE and Google Cloud expand strategic partnership
to deliver true hybrid cloud for containers

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HPE and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership to provide customers with hybrid cloud solutions. Building on the HPE Validated Designs that were announced in April 2019, the two companies are unveiling a collaboration to deliver a true hybrid cloud for containers – with choice for as-a-Service delivery. In addition, the firm will offer advisory and professional services to accelerate hybrid cloud adoption.

The hybrid cloud solution features Google Cloud’s Anthos in combination with the company’s on-premises infrastructure, HPE Cloud Data Services, and GreenLake.

The combined offering brings together Google Cloud’s Anthos with ProLiant and Nimble Storage on-premises. And, coming in 3QFY19, HPE Cloud Volumes to provide a storage service for Google Cloud Platform and other public clouds. In addition, the company plans to offer GreenLake for Google Cloud’s Anthos to provide the entire hybrid cloud, as-a-Service.

This true hybrid cloud solution brings value to IT with bi-directional data and application workload mobility, multi-cloud flexibility, unified hybrid management, and the choice to consume the hybrid Cloud-as-a-Service.

True hybrid cloud enables key use cases including modernizing applications into container-based deployments, empowering developers to develop in the cloud with the flexibility to deploy the application on-premises, protecting to the cloud and recovering in the cloud, and delivering the flexibility to run applications in multiple clouds.