HPE announces new enhancements for GreenLake aimed at simplifying hybrid IT management, faster storage performance and support for disconnected private clouds.
HPE is holding its Discover conference in Barcelona this week, and that’s when we can expect news around GreenLake. At the previous edition of the conference, HPE took its first steps into virtualization, and that new offering is now being expanded. According to HPE, the first tests were successful and there was great demand among customers to expand virtualization capabilities.
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It does so in the form of VM Essentials, announced today and generally available starting in December. The virtualization software is embedded in Private Cloud, but can equally well run as a standalone software around third-party hardware and platforms. Hang Tan, COO Hybrid Cloud at HPE, justifies that choice: “Which virtualization software you use should not be an isolated choice, it should be a platform choice.”
Essential
VM Essentials provides unified management for virtual machines within hybrid environments. It supports various storage protocols, provides high availability, live migration and integrated data protection. It allows organizations to manage existing VM workloads or move to the HPE VME hypervisor.
HPE is also playing on the sensitive string of cost management, trying to lure customers with a low price per socket. According to HPE, VM Essentials enables cost savings of up to five times the total cost of ownership.
In addition, HPE is launching Alletra Storage MP X10000, a new object storage solution. Designed for exabyte-scale data storage, the X10000 offers up to six times faster performance. The storage solution is optimized for fast data access and provides tools for efficient backup and recovery. The use of a shared architecture for block, file and object storage further simplifies management.
Disconnected
For highly regulated industries, HPE is coming up with a disconnected management solution. The idea is to transfer the cloud experience to private environments that, for data security and/or regulatory reasons, are not connected to the Internet. With this solution, HPE wants to help companies build a sovereign cloud environment.
Finally, HPE continues to expand its AI ecosystem. It is adding six new partners to its AI collaboration program and taking Deloitte under its wing to market its Private Cloud AI offering announced in June. In the triumvirate, HPE and Nvidia provide the hardware and software, Deloitte helps customers search for use cases.
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