We just talked about some of the optimizing work that we're doing.
But it's also about evolving.
Here at HPE in the compute business,
we're the custodians of a decades long legacy
of world-class innovation,
working with amazing partners like VMware,
and with many of you.
So many of what we expect,
so many things that we expect in our servers and our compute infrastructure
are things that HPE brought to market.
And building on that history
is critically important to us moving forwards.
You go back to the beginning of this journey,
we introduced the System Pro.
And we called it the industry standard server.
Later, we converged a whole set of technologies
of networking, and control, and power and thermals
and drove bladed form factors.
We've also been the first vendor, if you go back in time,
to create fully redundant systems in an industry standard format.
We were the first with management,
from the first BMC, our integrated lights-out management platform.
And now as a result of that,
the lights in the data center are actually out
with all the value that we've delivered on top of that.
We brought smart array technology,
making RAID easy to use,
and making data access and the distribution of
data onto the server platforms pretty universal.
And more recently, we've delivered embedded Silicon Root of Trust in our
management platforms, giving you secure boot chains and
advanced cryptography embedded in the hardware.
But if we fast forward to now,
HPE compute is the foundation
for many of our customers' worlds.
We have been the leaders and innovators for 30 continuous years in an ocean of followers.
And that's driven by never-ending,
deeply rooted desire to partner with you,
to co-innovate with you, and solve the problems of the future
as you continue to evolve your businesses and your infrastructure.
And we're really excited to continue that journey.
Imagine for a moment,
if you could evolve your business
by building the right infrastructure
for cloud native digital first workloads.
Well, you can.
Because the next generation of compute is here.
For too long, performance and efficiency have been on divergent paths in the data center.
And that ends today.
The future of compute has to rise to the relentless pace of our data,
deliver major improvements in energy efficiency.
And today we are going to bring you another choice that you can add
to the portfolio of options that we deliver as HPE compute.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce you to
the HPE ProLiant RL 300 Gen11.
Once again, HPE is innovating and enabling you to modernize without compromise.
Please welcome to the stage my friend Renee James, the founder and CEO of Ampere.
Thank you. Hi. it's so great to have you here
and it's so great to be able to share some exciting news with our guests.
I agree.
So Renee and I and a very select few
have been holding this news very tightly.
But today, I'm thrilled to be able to publicize
the partnership between HPE and Ampere
and proudly announce the first of our Gen11 servers,
the HPE ProLiant RL 300 Gen11.
Have a seat, please, Renee. - Thanks.
So maybe you'd like to take a moment
and give the audience here a brief introduction to Ampere
and what motivated the approach that you're bringing to some
of the challenges in the data center.
Thanks.
Ampere, for those of you that don't know,
Ampere computing is a four-and-a-half year old semiconductor company
that was founded to build microprocessors for cloud native software workloads
and really move the industry forward into the future, addressing the two twin
issues that you just outlined, which is the need for linear scalable performance,
the unrelenting need for performance in the data center,
and power efficiency. And that was the thesis of our company.
And as a result, we have two products in market, our 80-core,
we called Ampere Altra 80-core and an Ampere Altra Max 128-core cloud native processors.
So, Renee, when you think about the new workloads,
how are they shifting the requirements?
And what's the philosophy that Ampere brought
to designing your cloud native silicon?
Yeah, we were really fortunate. I mean, it's not that often in this business, right,
we both have been in a long time, you get a clean sheet of paper
and you say, "I'm gonna go and solve what we think's happening now."
And so we solved for new workloads, cloud native workloads,
by using single core performance, single threaded,
multiple cores per socket, if you will.
And an attention to that consistent linear scale performance.
And that's what cloud native software really wants.
Because there's services like GreenLake and on demand.
So, many of you probably don't know that
my background originally is in
performance engineering and high-performance compute.
And as you scale systems,
it's often a challenge to continue to get great performance as you scale.
So what is it about Ampere's approach here
that aims to solve that and continue to deliver great scalability?
Yeah, so that is a challenge.
And the way that we went about solving that challenge is not only the single core,
the single threaded cores and as many cores per socket.
But we added a couple other things which is large, low latency private caches.
And then in addition to that, a high band with high performance matrix
to connect everything together in the mesh to be able to deliver this,
if you will, 100% utilization
at a given frequency, which is not the history of the industry.
Really an innovative way to look at it.
And then bringing in and thinking about what the right knife's-edge, if you will,
on power so that we can start that journey on power.
So tell me a little bit more about that
efficiency per core and why that matters so much.
It matters for a bunch of reasons.
None the least of which, many of our customers have ESG goals. And it's a journey.
and the industry needs to be on that journey. So what we said was,
there is a point at which you can get better performance
through different architectural choices,
and you can actually lower the power budget
but get that consistent frequency and scalability
that you need for cloud native workloads. And we did that.
And it's a journey. We're all gonna be on it.
But what it does is, it moves us closer towards the power constraints with
the ability to give more dense solution in the same power footprint.
And that's gonna be super important to so many people.
So we're thrilled about the newest member of our industry-leading ProLiant family.
But I think it's important also to talk about
what's needed to take advantage of this technology,
and this platform, and the workloads that this serves well.
Yeah, I think that's super important.
It is a general purpose microprocessor.
it runs Linux stack, it runs all of the
existing software that people would expect for cloud native.
It's very performance-optimized for things like web servers like Nginx,
and databases like mySQL, and AI workloads, and Cassandra.
But it is very much about the software that people use today for cloud native and for
being able to deploy in this microservices environment
using the open source community.
So pretty much anybody that's doing full stack in-house,
cloud native development,
whether they're in the service providing business,
whether they're in the SAS business or increasingly,
as many enterprises are doing, adopting that development model
for their own digital first initiatives.
That's right.
And that's why, in fact, when we started the company, we said,
we see that this trend of people wanting to adopt across the board,
this cloud native approach,
you really want a different kind of microprocessor. That's Ampere.
Well, and now we've done it and it's in [ProLiant?].
So if we think about the context for doing this, it's about serving our customers.
And we've had the opportunity to get this product in the hands
of some of our customers. And we wanted to share with you today
what Robert Jenkins, the CEO of CloudSigma had to say.
CloudSigma is a provider of IaaS and PaaS services all around the world.
And what Robert shared is that, based on their benchmarking,
the ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server with Ampere
processors is delivering a significantly higher power efficiency.
And this is allowing us to both meet our improved sustainability goals
and provide a lower cost of delivery to our end customers.
So those are interesting goals for you, as I know they are for many people in the organization.
We'd love to tell you more about what we're doing with the platform
and the first step on our journey together here with Ampere
as we add some new choices to the ProLiant family.
So, Renee, thanks so much for giving us that insight into the platform.
And kudos for innovating, seeing a challenge and getting after it.
We are so excited to have you and Ampere join the ProLiant family.
Well, of course, we are delighted. Who wouldn't be delighted to be in the ProLiant line?
And we're so happy to be part of the HPE family.
I should say that HPE is the first
tier one OEM to deliver systems based on the
Ampere Altra Max processor and we're super excited about how
forward leaning you have been in following that tradition of innovation.
And I want to share with the audience,
I mean it's a very big day for our company, obviously.
But for me personally to be part of the Ampere family again.
My dad was an HP engineer,
I grew up in Silicon Valley going to HP family picnics.
And being part of HP and part of the HPE family is
a wonderful and a very exciting thing for me personally as well.
Well, we're thrilled to have Ampere join the family and join ProLiant.
So maybe we should unveil this. - I think we should. I'm excited.
Ready.
Okay,
There we go. -There it is.
So great.
There it is.
Thank you so much, thank you so much, Renee.
Thank you.