Storage “needs intelligence”, we are told, as HPE unveils Alletra, their offering which promises to help speed up enterprise transformations by unleashing data, rather than just managing storage.

As it stands right now, the complexity of current enterprise infrastructure tends to greatly hamper transformation while by creating bottlenecks to agility and innovation.

And with research data showing that 93% of IT decision makers view complexity as impeding digital transformation, 95% of them viewing better data utilization as a Top-10 priority, and 94% of them wanting the smoothness of their cloud experiences on-premises.

HPE’s aim is the following: simplify the data infrastructure, integrate data management, globally protect data, and eliminate disruptions.  

AI. AI. AI!

To do this, HPE is introducing AI into the mix.

The vision here is to use AI-driven global intelligence to deliver a new set of cloud data services, crowd infrastructure services, and cloud-native data framework.

HPE Alletra and HPE Data Services Cloud Console

HPE is delivering a hardware+software solution to deliver on their vision.

The hardware component is HPE Alletra.

HPE Alletra

Alletra is HPE’s hardware component.

It consists of two models, the Alletra 6000 developed for business-critical workloads. It comes with a ‘6-nines’ availability as standard, delivering up to 1 million IOPS, and flexible scaling.

Mission-critical workloads are the forte of the high end Alletra 9000, utilizing NVM Express, delivers all-active, multi-node parallelization, comes with a 100% availability standard, and is also certified already for 96 SAP Hana nodes in a 4U configuration.

HPE Data Services Cloud Console

The power of Alletra is unleashed by the HPE Data services Cloud Console.

The Data Services Cloud Console – which I will call DSCC going forward – allows for the deployment, management, upgrading, and optimization of Alletra hardware.

Using the DSCC, users can access data, protect it, search that data, and use it from anywhere.

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