HPE Advances Hybrid Cloud Leadership with New Releases

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced key advancements on the HPE GreenLake cloud that simplify management across complex, heterogenous hybrid IT environments and enable customers to increase agility and innovation.

• HPE VM Essentials (VME) Software. HPE VM Essentials is a unified virtual machine (VM) management experience that provides customers with choice and flexibility for managing their virtualised workloads across hybrid environments. The new solution simplifies management by integrating existing virtualised workloads with the new HPE VME hypervisor. VM Essentials supports leading storage protocols, distributed workload placement, high availability, live migration and integrated data protection. By modernising with GreenLake cloud and VM Essentials, enterprises can save up to 5x TCO.
• HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000. New object storage offers exceptional performance and massive scalability, enabling enterprises to store and retrieve data faster. The X10000 is designed for exabyte scale and achieves up to 6x faster performance versus the competition. HPE’s differentiated multi-protocol (MP) disaggregated architecture for block, file and object storage, simplifies fleet management across hybrid environments and saves customers up to 40%.
• New solutions for organisations in regulated environments. HPE will introduce disconnected management for its private cloud and block storage offering, enabling a cloud experience at sites that cannot have an internet connection. Qualified partners will also be able to deliver sovereign private cloud solutions powered by GreenLake.
• HPE Private Cloud AI co-developed with NVIDIA, expands partner ecosystem and supported use cases: HPE has added six new partners to the Unleash AI program to accelerate time to market with solutions for specialised AI use cases. In addition, Deloitte has expanded its collaboration with HPE and will deploy its AI solutions such as C-Suite AI with HPE Private Cloud AI.

“Today, we are proud to announce the most complete GreenLake portfolio to date. With these new offerings, HPE GreenLake cloud delivers a future-proof cloud operating model for virtualised, cloud-native and AI workloads.”

HPE VM Essentials Reduces Complexity and Cost of Virtualised Workloads

The recent acquisition of Morpheus Data enables GreenLake cloud to further unify and simplify IT operations for customers. HPE VM Essentials is the first step in utilising Morpheus across the HPE portfolio. Customers have the flexibility to manage existing virtualised workloads or re-platform to the VME hypervisor, while experiencing a simple VM-vending experience across both stacks.

• Reduce costs with HPE’s built-in KVM-based hypervisor. HPE VM Essentials reduces cost for customers with cost-effective per-socket pricing and built-in support for brownfield VM discovery and VM-as-a-service provisioning.
• Simplify management by integrating existing workloads. The software can also integrate customers’ existing hypervisor clusters to enable management and provisioning of VM workloads and kernel-based virtual machines (KVM) from one simple interface, along with basic VM image conversion to VM Essentials.
• Futureproof IT estates with flexible delivery and upgrade paths. VM Essentials will be available as standalone software and integrated into HPE Private Cloud solutions. Customers can also upgrade to full Morpheus PlatformOps to add extensive hybrid cloud management, governance and cost management capabilities.

VM Essentials is backed by HPE’s global support network and ecosystem of independent software vendors. Cohesity, a leader in AI-powered data security, and Commvault, a leader in cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, intend to support VM Essentials, providing VM backup and recovery services.

“VM Essentials provides a real alternative to the status quo. With support for my existing hypervisor and a flexible path for future workloads, we can modernise our business for operational and resource efficiency,” Chris Macken, Vice President of IT Operations and Security at Cambrian Credit Union.

New Fast Object Storage Offers Exceptional Performance and Massive Scalability

The new HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 object storage is designed for exabyte scale and optimised to enable enterprises to store and retrieve object data faster. The X10000’s exceptional performance is ideal for high-speed data lakes and modern data protection.

With this new offering, HPE further simplifies storage management through a single disaggregated architecture for block, file and object storage and the intuitive cloud management of GreenLake cloud.

• Access object data faster at massive scale. All-flash fast object storage leverages HPE’s disaggregated, shared-everything MP storage architecture, which allows enterprises to scale capacity and performance independently. The X10000 incorporates HPE’s new simplified branding alongside the HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, formerly GreenLake for Block Storage.
• Rapidly recover with modern data protection. The X10000 provides massive restore bandwidth, enabling faster data restore for rapid backup and recovery of mission-critical applications. The S3-compatible object-storage interface and deduplication supports up to 20x data reduction and streamlines integration with any backup solution. The X10000 is certified for backup by industry-leading vendors including Commvault and Veeam® and is being validated with other leading vendors

HPE is collaborating with NVIDIA to enable a direct data path for direct memory access (DMA) transfers between GPU memory, system memory and the X10000, which is critical for AI applications. This direct path will further increase system bandwidth, decrease latency and improve GPU utilisation.

Disconnected Management Delivers Cloud Experience for Regulated Environments

With the acceleration of AI innovation, data has become even more vital to national security and economic competitiveness. Many nations, cities, healthcare organisations, infrastructure providers and research labs want a cloud operating model without exposing sensitive data or IP to open networks. HPE addresses these challenges with new HPE Private Cloud Enterprise Disconnected and Alletra Storage MP Disconnected. These air-gapped private cloud and block storage solutions provide a cloud experience with disconnected management.

Authorised HPE Partner Ready Vantage partners will be able deliver sovereign private cloud services powered by  GreenLake. Starting in Europe, partners can create sovereign cloud capabilities that meet local, regional and industry-specific regulations. These partners can earn the HPE Sovereignty competency which demonstrates expertise using HPE GreenLake cloud to provide secure private clouds within a hosted environment or within customers’ own data centers.

HPE Expands AI Ecosystem with New Partners and Use Cases

Artificial Intelligence is a complex hybrid workload that is difficult and expensive for enterprises to deploy and scale. In September, HPE announced the Unleash AI program to accelerate time to value for enterprise customers through validated solutions for HPE Private Cloud AI. HPE has added six new partners to Unleash AI: Codeium, Contextual.AI, Dataiku, IronYun, Securiti and Writer. These partners will enable a variety of high-value use cases including AI-powered software development, advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), intelligent video analytics, and solutions for building safe and secure GenAI systems.

Availability

• VM Essentials as standalone software is planned to be generally available in December and qualified to run with recent HPE ProLiant Compute and Alletra Storage. HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 object storageM Essentials with HPE Private Cloud Business Edition is expected to be available in Spring 2025.
• Alletra Storage MP X10000 will be generally available in December 2024. The X10000 with direct memory access to NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure is planned to be generally available in Summer 2025.
• HPE Private Cloud Enterprise Disconnected along with partner-enabled sovereign cloud services is expected to be available in Spring 2025. HPE Alletra Storage MP Disconnected is expected to be generally available in the first half of 2025.