HPE unveils major upgrades to GreenLake cloud platform

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced significant enhancements to the HPE GreenLake cloud platform, aimed at simplifying management across complex hybrid IT environments and enabling customers to increase agility and foster innovation.

The advancements include the HPE VM Essentials Software and the Alletra Storage MP X10000 technologies, which introduce a hybrid-by-design cloud operating model. This model also sees an expanded partner ecosystem for the Unleash AI program and new offline and private cloud solutions designed to reduce complexity and costs in heterogeneous IT environments.

HPE VM Essentials Software offers a unified virtual machine (VM) management experience, providing customers with choice and flexibility for managing virtualised workloads across hybrid environments. The software simplifies management by integrating existing virtualised workloads with the new HPE VM Essentials hypervisor, supporting various protocols and features including high availability and live migration. HPE's executive vice president and general manager of Hybrid Cloud, Fidelma Russo stated, "To realise the full potential of hybrid cloud and AI, enterprises need a hybrid-by-design approach. Today, we are proud to announce the most complete HPE 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."

The HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 is introduced as an object storage system designed for exabyte scale and optimised for faster data retrieval, featuring a performance profile that is up to six times faster compared to competitors. It also simplifies storage management with a multi-protocol disaggregated architecture integrating block, file, and object storage management, potentially saving customers up to 40% in costs.

HPE will also roll out disconnected management for its private cloud and block storage offerings, facilitating a cloud experience for organisations constrained by the need to avoid internet connections. This solution allows partners to provide sovereign private cloud services, particularly in regulated environments across Europe, and aligns with local and industry-specific regulations.

HPE has extended its Unleash AI program, adding six new partners — Codeium, Contextual.AI, Dataiku, IronYun, Securiti, and Writer — to enable diverse AI use cases. Deloitte has expanded its collaboration with HPE by deploying its AI solutions, including C-Suite AI, with HPE Private Cloud AI.

The company emphasized that its recent acquisition of Morpheus Data will further support HPE GreenLake cloud users by unifying and simplifying IT operations. Chris Macken, Vice President of IT Operations and Security at Cambrian Credit Union, shared his confidence in the new solution, saying, "HPE 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."

HPE's advancement in fast object storage with the X10000 also includes developments in collaboration with NVIDIA to improve AI application performance by enabling direct data paths for memory access, enhancing system bandwidth and decreasing latency.

The availability timeline for these solutions includes HPE VM Essentials as standalone software, set for December 2024, and HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 available the same month. HPE's disconnected private cloud offerings, and partner-enabled sovereign cloud services, are anticipated for the first half of 2025.