It’s time for another Around the Storage Block Chalk Talk. I’m your host and chalk
board writer Calvin Zito Today’s topic is HPE
Alletra – power your data from edge-to-cloud. Every organization today is looking to accelerate
what’s next. And data, cloud, and AI are the three forces that are at the heart transformation.
But it’s only at the intersection of these that can empower innovation and shape what’s next.
What are the challenges do you face with data infrastructure and transformation?
• Customers with modern apps still have traditional apps that are not going away
which is driving management complexity. • You need the cloud experience – from
edge, to core, and cloud. • And more than automation,
you need AI to make infrastructure invisible. The data infrastructure you choose and evolve to,
needs to be built with a cloud data architecture in mind. Because of the overwhelming scale, the
basic building block is AI-driven intelligence. • The intelligence is a must to power cloud
operations: automated, programmable, and elastic. • It has to be built for any app with no
tradeoffs and workload optimized for traditional or modern applications.
• And, it needs to provide data mobility and operations across a hybrid
cloud environment – that means one unified experience across public and private cloud.
• And to complete it, it needs to be delivered as a service to only pay for resources you are using.
That brings me to HPE Alletra – this is a bold paradigm shift for data infrastructure. It’s a
portfolio of cloud-native data infrastructure powered by Data Services Cloud Console.
Be sure to check out the Chalk Talk I have on it. There are three key values
that I’ll dive deeper now: • AI-driven for autonomous, self-managing.
• Built for cloud with cloud operations everywhere • And as-a-Service cloud ownership experience
Let’s look at these starting with AI-driven. • Predict and prevent problems with over
1.5 million hours saved. • Refine support experience
and predictive support automation • Pinpoint issues across the stack
with storage to VM visibility • And eliminate guesswork with
AI-driven recommendations. And of course, I’m talking
about HPE InfoSight – the most advanced AI for Infrastructure. I have a Chalk Talk about it that
you should watch if you’re not familiar with it. Next, built for cloud. Traditional storage
offerings typically require local on-premises management. This leads to a fragmented approach
where the instant you deploy a new system it automatically becomes a data silo.
This leads to complexity at scale, complex upgrade processes, and slow release cycles.
And that’s why we have a separate control plane from the data plane and move it to the
cloud in order to enable a single, consistent operational experience. Manage from anywhere,
with cloud scalability, always up to date and faster access to new features that are instantly
available through cloud-delivered self-upgrades. And delivering cloud operational agility with
Data Service Cloud Console. • It starts with simple
deployment. New devices automatically discovered, on-boarded and configured.
• Intent based provisioning. Intelligently provisions application workloads on infrastructure
best-suited for optimizing SLAs. • Invisible upgrades. New features
and enhancements instantly available. • And Manage from anywhere. Simple
global management driven through a consumer-simple, SaaS-based user experience.
To be more competitive and deliver better outcomes faster, more reliably, and more economically,
you need to find better ways to consume IT. That’s where HPE GreenLake comes in – the cloud
that comes to you. I have several GreenLake Chalk Talks you can watch to learn more.
Let’s look at the models of HPE Alletra that allow you to run any app without compromise.
There’s the HPE Alletra 9000 for mission critical workloads and the HPE Alletra
6000 for business critical workloads. Both of them are all-NVMe, AI-driven,
and eliminate forklift upgrades. The 9000 is optimized for extreme availability and performance
while the 6000 is optimized for best price for performance. And you get the added benefit with
Data Services Cloud Console where you shift from managing boxes to deploying services.
And these platforms are the next evolution of industry leading HPE Primera and HPE Nimble
Storage. We’ve re-engineered these for a cloud first design by tightly coupling them with Data
Services Cloud Console. Here are 3 numbers: 99,
100, and 40%. What do they mean? • Get a whopping 99% operational savings by
maximizing your agility with the cloud experience. • Run any application without compromise
with a 100% availability guarantee. • And free your data across hybrid
cloud with a 40% IT resource savings. HPE is focused on your data, your agility,
your innovation – unleashed at last! Check out my other Chalk Talks and to
learn more, go to hpe.com/storage/alletra. Always love to hear from you on Twitter
where you can find me as @CalvinZito. You can find our blog at hpe.com/storage/blog.
Until next time, thanks for joining me on this Around the Storage Block Chalk Talk.