Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced advancements to
HPE Primera and
HPE Nimble Storage,
including an AI-driven, self-healing and self-optimized system that
delivers real-time autonomous operations. This is part of a
comprehensive update to the Intelligent Data Platform that provides
customers with an AI-driven, built for cloud, as a service offering that
results in unmatched application availability and performance, agility,
and automation. New capabilities include:
"Now
more than ever, to maintain business continuity, organizations must
protect their data in order to operate efficiently and without
disruption," said Omer Asad, VP and GM of HPE Primera and HPE Nimble
Storage. "HPE Primera and HPE Nimble Storage customers are able to
accelerate innovation and adapt to the changing circumstances of their
businesses, while also preserving cash flow via HPE GreenLake, without
compromise to applications. HPE reduces risk, eliminates complexity and
lowers costs associated with data protection, and has the world's
smartest storage that utilizes AI to self-optimize in real-time, giving
customers the power to run their infrastructure with agility and
reliability."
"HPE
has been a collaborator in developing our storage strategy and moving
to HPE Primera has helped deliver solid infrastructure," said Scott
Hood, Senior Manager, Deloitte ITS, Deloitte Services LP. "We have
mission-critical applications using HPE Primera and having an
infrastructure that is simple to manage and self-optimized can save us
time managing our IT systems so we can better focus on serving our
customers."
Today,
businesses are looking to bring new applications to market rapidly,
while still supporting existing ones, in order to accelerate the speed
of business, agility and innovation. However, it is nearly impossible
for IT to keep up because they remain tied down administering, tuning
and supporting infrastructure that supports mission critical
applications and data. As a result, IT is forced to sacrifice agility
for reliability. Given this, customers now demand primary storage
solutions that deliver the cloud experience without compromising the
performance and availability of mission-critical applications and data.
HPE Primera and HPE Nimble Storage overcome the agility versus
reliability tradeoff between the public cloud and traditional enterprise
storage by providing a modern, as-a-service experience through HPE
GreenLake, combined with intelligence and automation that ensures
applications are always-on and available.
"At
Grove City College, we use technology to deliver unsurpassed learning
capabilities, such as engaging video lectures and online courses that
extend beyond the classroom," said Vince Distasi, Chief Information
Officer, Grove City College. "Availability is paramount to us so as a
HPE 3PAR customer, we were excited to hear about HPE Primera and its
100% availability guarantee. It gives us the peace of mind we need, and
we loved the fact we could keep our existing HPE 3PAR array and move it
to a disaster recovery site for additional protection."
"So
far, our experiences with HPE Primera have exceeded our expectations,"
Distasi continued. "The set-up and implementation process was
transparent and seamless, and since we've had it in production, it's
accelerated our ability to deliver new and better services to our
constantly-changing campus community."
"As
a customer owned public utility, we are committed to getting the most
out of our IT resources while offering our customers the same level of
innovation as our larger utility competitors," said Mike Harris, CIO,
Clark County Public Utilities. "That's why we love our HPE Nimble
Storage, because we don't have to waste valuable time managing and
fighting fires. HPE InfoSight's excellent predictive analytics
capability is integral to giving us peace of mind knowing we won't have
surprises from our storage environment."
"Keeping
our apps always on and always fast is also a big priority," Harris
continued. "We are excited about the new innovations for HPE Nimble
storage to drive performance and business continuity."
Avoid disruptions with autonomous operations and cross-stack analytics
In
today's fast-paced markets, IT teams and businesses cannot afford to
lose time reacting to fire drills and issues in the data center. HPE InfoSight,
the industry's most advanced AI for infrastructure, helps IT teams
focus on business priorities by predicting and preventing disruptions
from storage to virtual machines (VM). HPE is taking intelligence to the
next level by automatically acting on intelligence in HPE Primera to
ensure mission-critical apps are always-on and always-fast.
HPE
Primera is architected with an embedded AI engine that processes
globally trained machine learning models to deliver real-time
predictions into application behavior and performance patterns. Now, HPE
Primera takes action on the predictions to self-optimize system
operations in real-time by intelligently and dynamically optimizing
resource utilization to ensure fast and predictable performance.
In
addition, the complexity of virtualized infrastructure makes
application performance and resource management challenging and
time-consuming for IT. HPE InfoSight for HPE Nimble Storage is now the
first to radically simplify VM management and enable customers with
Hyper-V environments with cross-stack analytics that pinpoints abnormal
performance issues between storage and VMs, and underutilized virtual
resources.
Near-instant data recovery and automatic protection across global sites
Ensuring
applications are protected requires data to be located in multiple
places, with flexible options across sites to meet every service level
agreement. HPE Primera raised the bar in the industry for
mission-critical storage with 100% data availability guaranteed, and now
includes enhanced HPE Peer Persistence that delivers transparent
business continuity along with flexibility to replicate to a third site
to recover from a metropolitan area disaster, and near-instant
asynchronous replication over extended distances with a one minute
recovery point objective.
With
HPE Nimble Storage, enterprises have a highly available platform with
six-nines of measured availability, HPE Peer Persistence with automatic
failover across 2-sites, and asynchronous replication on-premises or to
the cloud for extended distances. Now, multi-site replication enables
3-site replication - including to the cloud - delivering protection
against a metro-wide disaster along with the flexibility in the cloud to
use data for test/dev and analytics.
For
both HPE Primera and HPE Nimble Storage, replication can be configured
in minutes with no specialized storage skills, no additional software
fees, and no professional services required.
Accelerating Applications with All-NVMe and Storage Class Memory
In
order for enterprises to achieve the fastest data response times for
demanding workloads, the right underlying storage architecture is
required to maximize the benefit and economics of next-generation
protocols and solid-state media - including NVMe and storage class
memory (SCM). HPE Primera is designed with a multi-node, all-active
architecture that delivers ultra-low latency with 75% of I/O within 250
μs latency.
Now, HPE Primera supports all-NVMe, bringing its massively parallel
architecture to deliver higher performance density. For SAP HANA, HPE
Primera with all-NVMe now supports 2X the number of SAP HANA nodes at
half the price.
SCM
brings the disruptive potential of the speed of memory - but is cost
prohibitive as a persistent storage tier. Unlike other vendors, HPE
Nimble Storage is uniquely architected with a cache accelerated file
system that efficiently optimizes read performance in hybrid
configurations. This architecture has been optimized for SCM cache with
SSD persistent storage to deliver 2X faster response times, with an
average of sub-250 μs latency, at near the price of an all-flash array.
Accelerate application development with automated, on-demand storage
Across
industries, organizations are transforming how they develop and deploy
applications across hybrid cloud - with IT needing storage
infrastructure to be more agile, more automated, and policy-driven to
support evolving virtualization and container environments. For
virtualization, virtual volumes (vVols) streamlines storage operations
with VM-centric data services and policy-based automation. HPE Primera
now supports vVols, joining HPE Nimble Storage, to deliver a
comprehensive set of vVols capabilities, including disaster recovery
with support for Site Recovery Manager.
"VMware
and HPE are working together to make storage easier to manage as the
pace of application development accelerates," said Lee Caswell, VP
Marketing, VMware. "HPE Storage is the leading partner in VMware Virtual
Volumes (vVols) adoption, helping customers across the world automate
storage provisioning for modern applications in VMware vSphere
environments across the hybrid cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation.
For
containers, organizations need persistent storage for stateful
applications, requiring software-defined storage that enables
self-service automation for developers. HPE Primera now supports the CSI
Driver for Kubernetes, joining HPE Nimble Storage, to deliver a
developer-centric storage experience for dynamic provisioning and
enterprise data services. This enables persistent storage for
mission-critical applications deployed on container orchestration
platforms, including the HPE Container Platform.
Availability
The
HPE Primera next-generation operating system, Primera OS 4.2, is
available worldwide in Q3 2020 at no additional charge for HPE Primera
customers with valid support contracts.
HPE Primera All-NVMe is now available for order globally direct and through channel partners.
HPE CSI Driver for Kubernetes 1.1.1 is now available for HPE Primera.
HPE
Nimble Storage 1.5TB Storage Class Memory Adapter Kits are globally
available now (direct and through channel partners) for existing or new
HPE Nimble Storage AF60 All Flash Arrays and HPE Nimble Storage AF80 All
Flash Arrays.
HPE
Nimble Storage 3 Site Replication is globally available now as part of
NimbleOS 5.2 release for any HPE Nimble Storage customer with an active
support contract
HPE
InfoSight Cross Stack Analytics for Hyper-V will be globally available
in July 2020 for any HPE Nimble Storage customer with an active support
contract.