Another new royal arrival: HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack (Gen 10)

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By Urs Renggli 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Microsoft are definitely royalty in the IT world. And when they join forces to create joint new IT solutions, the results are keenly awaited and universally acclaimed.  That’s definitely the case with the newest offspring of the HPE – Microsoft Alliance: HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack (Gen 10).   

With its availability announced this week, this new arrival has already taken the world by storm. It is definitely royalty, joining a family of solutions that allow organizations to run Azure-consistent services in their data center. Even more important, they let businesses maintain data sovereignty, run high performance analytics, big data and low-latency applications, support edge and disconnected applications, and deploy applications to either Azure public or private cloud. An amazing lineage, that! 

But the true regal excitement is that this solution features HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen 10 servers, bringing impressive and unique new capabilities into the cloud world, including:

• Higher storage capacity, supporting up to 120TB raw capacity per node
• Higher cache capacity, supporting up to 19.2TB of cache per node.
• Higher workload performance, thanks to 66% boost in memory bandwidth and double the memory capacity, plus up to 28 cores and higher clock rates
• Higher networking bandwidth with up to 25GbE, resulting in a 150% increase in networking bandwidth from Gen 9 or other solutions based on 10GbE.
• Reduced Costs thanks to HPE’s storage architecture that delivers an elegantly-balanced ratio of 2:1 capacity devices to SSD Flash devices, making it optimally designed to support Microsoft software-defined storage technology.
• Increased Security checked and guaranteed on 3 levels: Protect, Detect and Recover from attacks. Only HPE offers industry standard servers with major firmware anchored directly into the silicon (HPE Silicon Root of Trust). 

Put this regal solution to work for your noble purposes

For enterprises like yours, the HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack (Gen 10) solution basically rules … making it easy for you to:Run Azure consistent services in their data center to meet security, data sovereignty, compliance, performance and cost requirements

• Deliver on-premises services with enterprise-class reliability and performance running on an integrated solution
• Have a consistent development environment for applications deployed to either on-premises Azure Stack and Azure public cloud
• Enjoy the most configurable solution available with choices for selecting processor, memory and storage options, as well as rack options and third party power supplies
• Rely on a portfolio of professional services for planning and implementing Azure hybrid cloud projects including security, workload migration, identity management, backup and site recovery and networking
• Ensure on-going top performance availability with global, enterprise-class support, remote monitoring and management, and single point of support
• Select options such as unified billing for Azure Stack and Azure public cloud services, as well as analytics-driven, autonomous operations management 

You can even provision for what you need and pay only for what you consume with HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity. 

Welcome this solution to your royal house   

If you’re looking to implement an on-premises private cloud that is compatible with Microsoft Azure to meet key use cases like modern application development and compliance, then HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack (Gen10) is probably an excellent match for you.   

For more information about this new arrival, read the availability press release.  

For additional information on the HPE – Microsoft royal family, check out the HPE – Microsoft Alliance web page. 

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Urs Renggli is the Global Marketing Lead for the Microsoft Alliance, directing all aspects of HPE's global alliance marketing strategy and partner marketing. He is responsible for developing and implementing end-to-end sales and marketing Initiatives and programs. Urs has spent a number of years at both HPE and Microsoft and understands both the power and importance of this strategic alliance in terms of the solutions it delivers to customers.