HPE improves its private cloud solution, focusing on lower costs and simplified management of virtualized workloads.
HPE is fine-tuning its Private Cloud Business Edition, which combines HPE Morpheus VM Essentials and Morpheus Enterprise Software. VM Essentials has been available since February of this year. HPE now allows customers to upgrade this product to HPE Morpheus Enterprise for unified management.
The HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software is vendor-agnostic. The solution enables management on HPE hardware, as well as third-party hardware such as Dell. Furthermore, the tool supports public cloud services like AWS, Azure, and GCP.
SimpliVity and Alletra
The HPE Private Cloud Business Edition is available in both HCI (edge) and dHCI (data center) configurations. For private cloud environments, HPE is now bringing the solution to HPE SimpliVity and Alletra Storage MP.
The core of the combined offering is a predetermined cost saving, which according to HPE itself can reach up to 90 percent. When VM Essentials was introduced, it was already clear that HPE was targeting victims of the VMware acquisition by Broadcom. These customers are seeing support plummet and their license costs skyrocket, making an exit strategy from a party like HPE potentially attractive.
The HPE Private Cloud Business Edition with Morpheus VM Essentials is now available. Systems based on HPE SimpliVity are expected in the third quarter of 2025. The Morpheus integration with HPE Alletra Storage is available, as is the standalone version of Morpheus Enterprise.