HPE to Expand Private Cloud Portfolio

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently announced the expansion of its advanced private cloud portfolio to combine flexible, enterprise-grade software for virtualized workloads and unified cloud management for customers through HPE Morpheus Software.

Among the features of the expansion are:

• HPE Private Cloud Business Edition is now available with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, which reduces up to 90 percent of VM license costs with multi-hypervisor support and self-service cloud consumption.
• HPE Morpheus Software will be generally available, including HPE Morpheus VM Essentials for virtualized workloads and HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software for unified cloud management. Both offerings include HPE’s HVM hypervisor and are licensed per socket to reduce TCO. Additionally, VM Essentials customers will be able to upgrade to full HPE Morpheus Enterprise.
• New services to simplify virtualization modernization for customers of all sizes.

“Customers are looking for flexibility. Customers are looking for choice to position and deploy workloads on a cloud based on the needs of the workload– either its price, its performance, or privacy,” said Rajeev Bhardwaj, VP, Chief Product Officer for Private Cloud and Flex Solutions, HP. “In this hybrid world, we are introducing HP Morpheus Enterprise Software, giving customers the flexibility to run any workload on any cloud.”

HPE Private Cloud Business Edition

This software offers organizations savings and simplicity through HPE Morpheus VM Essentials and enables enterprises to choose optimized architecture for VMs from the edge to the data center.

VM Essentials manages HPE VMs and traditional VMs, which allows customers to mix and match VMs to suit their needs.

“HPE Private Cloud Business Edition has paid for itself with what we are saving on legacy support contracts, as-a-service consumption, data center space, and energy efficiency,” said Robert Valenta, corporate technology & operations IT manager for Aeropuertos Argentina. “The performance, scalability, and reliability are the backbone of our mission-critical workloads from flight tracking to airport arrivals and departures. Business Edition powers our vision to deliver faster, stress-free services that reduce waiting, check-in, and security times for flyers.”

Cyber resilience and data protection solutions provider, Commvault, will be the first partner for the VM Essentials ecosystem to support image-based VM backup and recovery with an upcoming May release.

HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software

This software unifies cloud management for larger enterprises and service providers. Through a simple interface, organizations can manage and govern virtualized, container-based, and third-party runtimes across bare metal, on-prem, and public cloud infrastructure.

HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software automates application provisioning to deliver roughly 150 times faster app deployment into virtually any hypervisor or cloud, plus up to 30 percent lower cloud costs with analytics-powered rightsizing.

Further portfolio expansions

HPE is also introducing a disaggregated architecture built on HPE Alletra Storage MP that is delivered through the GreenLake Cloud Platform.

“We’ve embarked on this journey to simplify storage through a common hardware platform and operating model,” said Sanjay Jagad, VP of structured data for HPE Storage. “This architecture allows our customers to deploy different personas now … to cater to diverse needs.”

Through this architecture, customers have already seen up to 40 percent cost savings, driven by the ability to scale granularly and consolidate infrastructure. 

Additionally, HPE will expand its Data Protection portfolio, focusing on cyber resilience, by adding an edge-to-cloud data protection strategy built on handling increasing complexity.

“Data protection challenges are only increasing,” said the Vice President of Data Protection at HPE, Stephen Bacon. “Traditional data protection challenges are only persisting and this really requires a comprehensive approach that can successfully address both established, evolving, and emerging challenges.”

To address threats from bad actors, new workloads, and regulations, new HPE StoreOnce 3720 and 3760 backup and recovery appliances have been introduced. These appliances are ideal for remote and branch offices, as well as small—and medium-sized businesses.

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