Hey guys, huddle up! It's time for another Around the Storage Block Chalk Talk. In
this Chalk Talk I want to give you an overview of some huge news from HPE
Discover 2019. We're making a series of announcements at Discover, the most
significant announcements we've made in the last 10 years. I have a number of
Chalk Talks diving into most of the topics. I'm going to hit the highlights
and if you click the "i" at the top right of your screen you can see those Chalk
Talks that have more details. Intelligence changes everything. Look, IT
is really complex and getting a handle on everything is too complex for
humans to solve. We believe that intelligence is the key. Intelligence is
the key to infrastructure management - to find and resolve problems across the
stack not just storage. Intelligence is key to the hybrid cloud complexity
because hybrid cloud hasn't made things any easier. And intelligence is key to
data management - knowing where's the optimal place for data during its
lifecycle. Every enterprise will need an intelligent data strategy where your
data is always on and always fast; it's automated and on-demand hybrid by design
so data is accessible and usable across your cloud environments; and applies
global intelligence for visibility and lifecycle management. Our strategy is to
deliver an intelligent data platform that turns your data challenges into
business opportunities. It begins with workload optimized
composable systems. The global intelligence engine infuses the entire
infrastructure with intelligence and the automated application and data
management layer offers pre-built automation connectors as well as
application aware protection. Let me summarize what we announced - it starts
with our new next-generation mission-critical storage platform
HPE Primera. It extends into how we are providing customers with on-premises private cloud
that starts with some enhancements to HPE SimpliVity and a new platform HPE
Nimble Storage dHCI. Next we focused on enabling a true hybrid cloud solution
for containers with Google Cloud's Anthos and then for AI and machine learning,
we're helping make that mainstream with HPE BlueData and GPUs as a service.
Let's look at HPE Primera. Customers using traditional tier-0 storage like Dell
EMC PowerMax have to trade off easy to use and agility
to get resiliency and performance. We realized we had an opportunity to bring
together the ease of use of Nimble Storage, the predictive and AI
capabilities of InfoSight, and the proven resiliency and performance at scale of
3PAR to redefine mission-critical tier 0 storage. Introducing the world's
most intelligent storage for mission-critical apps, HPE Primera. It
delivers an on-demand experience of storage is instantly available. App-aware
resiliency backed with 100% availability guarantee. And predictive
acceleration so apps aren't fast some of the time but fast all the time with
embedded AI. There's a Chalk Talk with a lot more on HPE Primera. Next, let's
look at what's new with HPE SimpliVity. First is delivering on our promise to
manage our infrastructure with InfoSight and we're bringing InfoSight to
HPE SimpliVity. InfoSight started with Nimble Storage and we continue to extend it
across our infrastructure. InfoSight on HPE SimpliVity is an amazing combination
of the AI driven insights from InfoSight gained by observing, learning, predicting,
recommending, and acting with the ease of use of HPE SimpliVity. Check out the
Chalk Talk I have to learn more. A couple other things to mention with HPE SimpliVity:
the new HPE SimpliVity 325 that's ideal for remote offices in a
scaleable 1u enclosure with AMD EPYC processor and all flash storage and the
new HPE SimpliVity 380 storage optimized node, for long-term storage
in a large capacity system. Next is HPE Nimble Storage dHCI. Again I have a
chalk talk with more but let me summarize what it is. Nimble Storage dHCI
is the simplicity of hyper-converged infrastructure with the
flexibility of converged. It combines the world's most secure server, HPE ProLiant
with the self managing experience of Nimble Storage. Its intelligently simple with
native full stack intelligence from storage to VMs and policy based
automation. It's absolute resiliency with over six nines of measured data
availability and consistent high performance.
Built for efficient scale with the ability to independently scale compute
and storage non-disruptively. Here's the next bit of news many new generation
applications are being developed with containers so the announcement with HPE
and Google Cloud addressed this. With the HPE and Google Cloud solution we're now
able to deliver a true hybrid cloud optimized for container based workloads.
There's a data plane that can deliver bi-directional data mobility and
consistent data services. This is delivered in partnership with Google Cloud's Anthos
with HPE Nimble Storage on- premises and HPE Cloud Volumes in the
cloud. HPE Cloud Volumes already connects to Azure and AWS compute and
now Google Cloud Platform compute giving you multi cloud flexibility. And using Google Cloud's
Anthos, built on Google Kubernetes Engine, brings along the container based
workloads flexibility. Next is multi cloud flexibility - to be
able to leverage the multi cloud compute with HPE ProLiant on-premises. And the
third layer is an application control plane so that your apps are portable. The
unified hybrid management is through Google Service Mesh. We also offer the
HPE and Google hybrid cloud with HPE GreenLake so it can be optionally
delivered as a service. The final topic is AI and machine learning.
HPE is helping make AI easy and real with BlueData software that we acquired
in late 2018. This is enabling an as-a- service experience so data scientists
can stitch together pipelines in a matter of minutes.
This is game-changing think of blue data as a hypervisor for containers; a fully
orchestrated container stack. It taps into the existing data pools instead of
requiring new silos of data lakes. It also virtualizes the underlying
hardware including making GPUs as-a- service and those GPU cycles are very
expensive so this is pretty cool. The BlueData software is now available on
HPE Apollo systems as well as third-party hardware and natively in the
public cloud. I don't have a Chalk Talk on this but we do have blog posts on
Around the Storage Block where you can learn more as well as hpe.com/info/BlueData.
Intelligence era is important for customers to consider and to
transform from operators to a strategic partner
the business. HPE is uniquely positioned to address the requirements of the
intelligence era. The announcements I've shared show that HPE is laser focused on
doing that with innovations around global intelligence, workload optimized
composable systems, true hybrid cloud, and AI and machine learning for the
mainstream. Be sure to visit our Around the Storage Block blog as we dive deeper
into the news I shared on this overview. To learn more go to hp.com/storage/blog.
Always love to hear from you on twitter where you can find me as
@CalvinZito. You can find my blog at hpe.com/storage/blog.
Until next time thanks for joining me on this Around the Storage block Chalk Talk