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 unleash the power of data with the Intelligent Data Platform.
Every organization today is looking to accelerate what’s next.
And data, cloud, and AI are the three forces that are at the heart of the transformation.
But it’s only at the intersection of these that can empower innovation and shape what’s next.
This changes everything for storage, yet storage hasn’t changed much in 20 years.
You still deal with complexity, the need for domain experts, and nonstop
firefighting – leaving no time for innovation. The new imperative for IT needs to shift from
managing storage to unleashing data. With data as the most valuable resource, IT needs
to unlock their data by streamlining access to the data innovators, developers, and analysts
who create value from data, protect their data by safeguarding it against threats and disruptions,
and mobilize their data by accelerating their data and freeing it across every cloud.
Data and infrastructure complexity have slowed down transformation. And this complexity is
slowing down access to data and data utilization, it’s tying up IT resources managing data
infrastructure, and it’s creating risk through a lack of data visibility across its lifecycle.
Now is the time to reimagine data management and infrastructure.
This requires a new vision – to break down the silos and complexity to accelerate data-driven
transformation. This is a vision we call Unified DataOps. Unified DataOps re-imagines the data
experience for organizations at the intersection of DATA, CLOUD, and AI. Let’s explore it.
Unified DataOps takes a holistic, data-centric approach to managing data and infrastructure
across the data lifecycle. Policies should be data centric policies and automated.
Unified DataOps should be cloud-native – Abstracting the management of data and
infrastructure from physical infrastructure through a cloud-native control plane. This
eliminates the complexity of keeping on-premises software maintained.
Unified DataOps should be AI-driven – True autonomous operations requires AI-driven insights
and intelligence to watch over your data and your infrastructure to make your operations invisible.
Unified DataOps is a game changer across your organization: for line of business,
IT management, data innovators, and data managers – to deliver a better data experience
and drive more value. It will eliminate the silos and complexity across organizations.
This is a bold vision – and Unified DataOps delivers a new data experience
that impacts everyone from IT to database managers, to developers. Unified DataOps:
• Simplifies data infrastructure • Empowers data innovators
• Integrates data management • Protects data everywhere and
• Eliminates application disruptions Recognizing the need for Unified DataOps,
HPE has architected the answer with the Intelligent Data Platform. The
platform connects applications to infrastructure, innovators to data, and automation to policies.
The architecture relies on AI-driven global intelligence and starts with Cloud-Native data
infrastructure optimized for every app and cloud. Next are Cloud Infrastructure Services to deliver
cloud operations. And at the top, unified, cloud data services to manage the lifecycle
of data - all delivered as a service experience. This is one in a series of Chalk Talks looking
at our huge news on May 4th. I have a playlist of Chalk Talks that you can
watch by clicking the i at the top right of the screen to see those other Chalk Talks.
Now I want to briefly show you the innovations that make up the Intelligent Data Platform
starting with how we are delivering cloud infrastructure services and cloud data services.
I want to introduce you to Data Services Cloud Console – the cloud console for unified DataOps
as-a-service. When I talked about Unified DataOps should be cloud native that was the
architecture of Data Services Cloud Console. It brings the cloud experience to where ever data
lives and transforms complex data operations into a simplified experience across clouds.
Next is 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. It enables IT to shift
from owning and maintaining data infrastructure to simply accessing and utilizing it on-demand.
HPE Alletra spans workload-optimized systems to deliver architectural flexibility without
the complexity of traditional storage management. And key is HPE InfoSight – AI-Driven intelligence.
It’s a cloud-based AIOps platform that applies advanced machine learning to transform how
infrastructure is managed and supported. The summary statement for this vision is
HPE is delivering Unified DevOps as-a-Service. And this is an extremely bold and comprehensive
vision. You’ll hear a lot about it from us going forward. HPE is focused on your data,
your agility, your innovation – unleashed at last! There’s so much that I couldn't cover here so to
learn more, go to hpe.com/storage/dataservices. 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.