StorONE Announces Partnership, Validation with HPE

StorONE has validated its enterprise storage platform through the HPE Partner Ready for Technology Partner Program, confirming full compatibility with HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers and giving customers a supported deployment path on HPE infrastructure.

Storage efficiency meets enterprise hardware standardization

The validation positions StorONE as a certified software-defined storage option for enterprises standardizing on HPE hardware, while also opening new opportunities for HPE partners and resellers looking to address rising storage costs, hybrid cloud complexity, and growing performance demands.

As enterprises contend with surging data volumes and evolving workloads, storage platforms are under pressure to deliver higher performance without locking organizations into expensive, all-flash architectures. StorONE is positioning its unified storage software to bridge that gap.

The StorONE architecture converges block, file, and object storage services into a single platform. Its AI-driven Smart Auto-Tiering dynamically places data across media types to balance performance and cost, while integrated data protection features aim to simplify resilience and recovery at scale.

Running on HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers, the combined solution is designed to support demanding workloads while giving IT teams flexibility in configuring and refreshing infrastructure. 

StorONE supports any CPU, any drive type, and any network card, which the company says helps extend hardware lifecycles and increase overall return on investment.

GreenLake integration targets hybrid operations

StorONE’s validation also includes integration with HPE GreenLake, aligning the platform with HPE’s broader hybrid cloud strategy. 

Through GreenLake, enterprises can manage StorONE deployments alongside other HPE resources, helping standardize operations across data centers and cloud-adjacent environments.

For organizations pursuing hybrid models, the ability to maintain consistent storage management while scaling capacity on demand is becoming a key requirement. 

StorONE and HPE are positioning this combination as a way to reduce operational complexity while maintaining performance and control.

Data protection and cost control as differentiators

StorONE highlights several technical capabilities it believes differentiate the platform in enterprise and channel conversations. 

These include: 

• direct-to-disk writes 
• per-volume erasure coding 
• support for more than 100,000 immutable snapshots per volume

On the economics side, StorONE claims its AI-enabled Smart Auto-Tiering can reduce storage costs by up to 60 percent and drive utilization as high as 95 percent by minimizing reliance on premium flash media.

“HPE validation reflects what customers are demanding from modern storage,” said Gal Naor, CEO of StorONE. “Flash prices are climbing, budgets are not, and enterprises need performance without being forced into all-flash architectures.”

Naor added that the joint solution is designed to deliver flash-like performance with HDD economics, while maintaining hardware flexibility and supporting a wide range of workloads.

Channel availability and partner implications

Enterprises can deploy StorONE on HPE ProLiant systems through their preferred HPE reseller or engage StorONE directly for architecture design, sizing, and procurement assistance. 

For channel partners, the validation provides a new certified storage option to bring into HPE-centric accounts, particularly where customers are pushing back on cost or looking to consolidate storage platforms.

As storage efficiency, hybrid flexibility, and hardware choice continue to shape buying decisions, validated software-defined platforms like StorONE are likely to play an increasingly important role in partner-led enterprise infrastructure strategies.

We spoke with a Canadian MSP leader earlier this year about his own experience working with StorONE’s technology. To Storage Guardian’s Founder, Omry Farajun, StorONE’s solutions are crucial to how Storage Guardian builds and provides services.

“We looked around for different partners that would give us the flexibility in storage and high availability but also provide a return on investment, and eventually we chose StorONE and their platform because it met all of those requirements,” Farajun said.