HPE Foundation for Next-Gen Data Management with SDS and AI-Driven Automation

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

New or expanded offerings include:

GreenLake Block Storage for Amazon Web Services (AWS), a new SDS offering to manage block storage across hybrid cloud environments.
Release of GreenLake for Block Storage built on Alletra MP now supports NVMe capacity scaling up to 5.6PB and Infosight AIOs with cross-stack analytics to enable workload visibility, improved performance, higher availability and optimized resource utilization.
Timeless Program transforms the storage ownership experience with new investment protection that provides operational agility and financial flexibility, lowering the TCO for customers choosing block storage on Alletra MP.
GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition now supports Alletra MP and SimpliVity Gen 11.

In 2023, The company changed hybrid cloud storage by introducing the industry’s first modular scale-out block storage ⁽¹⁾ on a single OS, supporting both SMBs and enterprise customers running business-critical and mission-critical workloads. It 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, SVP and GM, HPE Storage. “With our innovations across Alletra and GreenLake, we continue to set the standard for simpler, more cost-effective IT and storage management.”

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Data and application mobility with SDS for AWS
With the introduction of GreenLake Block Storage for AWS, the company is simplifying data management and workload placement on the cloud through SDS GreenLake Block Storage for AWS is designed to deliver a unified storage management experience across hybrid cloud with faster time to value and enterprise-class resiliency.

Traditional Vs. Greenlake For Blog Storage With Alletra MP Storage Design

Enterprises can consistently manage and protect global storage environments and move data, workloads and backups for optimal performance and costs. GreenLake Block Storage for AWS is for enterprises that want to optimize data management as well as application development and deployment across on-prem and public cloud environments. The SDS offering also delivers simple, cost-effective hybrid cloud data protection and disaster recovery.

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

Customers can achieve an average savings of 30% of TCO for storage by avoiding one forklift upgrade ⁽²⁾. The new program includes firm’s 100% Data Availability Guarantee and StoreMore data efficiency guarantees ⁽³⁾. Timeless Program provides customers predictable multi-year economics and guaranteed services levels for data availability and efficiency.

“The truth is multi-vendor data centers are complex to manage and difficult to scale,” said Kristinn Elvar Arnarsson, CTO, Opin Kerfi. “When we looked at consolidating our data centers on one vendor, we really wanted both scale up and scale out compute and storage and unified storage management. Now we have HPE GreenLake for Block Storage with Alletra MP as a showcase solution for our customers to see how we can deliver future-proof innovation to them.”

Alletra MP simplifies management with expanded AI-driven intelligence and analytics

HPE is a recognized provider in AIOs-enabled workload management and observability with Infosight and OpsRamp. Now integrated into the 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 AIOs engine enables customers to observe, predict and mitigate disruptions across VM, storage, network, compute and cloud infrastructure. In addition, Alletra MP customers will now be able to observe energy consumption and carbon emission trends though the Sustainability Insight Center.

Alletra MP delivers mission-critical resiliency with midrange economics, scaling up to 5.6PB with support for up to 16 JBOF expansion shelves, double the previously available capacity. New advanced built-in global protection supports 3-site replication for enhanced data protection.

Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault now integrates 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 breach.

“GreenLake aligns perfectly to our hybrid cloud strategy enabling us to be cloud-sensible, instead of cloud-first. GreenLake for Block Storage is the right solution to replace our HPE 3PAR arrays because it gives us a 100% data availability for our mission-critical workloads and the flexibility to scale performance and capacity as our data needs expand,” said Alan Harper, director, corporate technology, Shawbrook Bank Limited.

Private Cloud solutions optimize edge workloads and simplify VM mobility
Alletra MP and SimpliVity Gen11 are available as offerings with GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition. This agile, self-service private cloud simplifies VM management and mobility across on-prem and public cloud environments.

GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition provides a disaggregated hyperconverged architecture. New support for Alletra MP provides mission-critical VM workloads with mid-range economics and the 100% Data Availability Guarantee.
New support for SimpliVity Gen11, based on ProLiant Gen11 servers, enables customers to run edge and general-purpose VMs with 99.999% data availability and built-in data protection.

Availability:

GreenLake Block Storage for AWS is available to order from the end of May.
Timeless Program will be available in 3Q24.
GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition with choice of Alletra MP or SimpliVity Gen11 is available in July.