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In 2016, HPE Data Center Infrastructure received several awards for products and solutions within our server, storage, high performance computing, and mission critical portfolios. We are honored to receive these accolades, and would like to thank the people that made it possible – our customers and partners.
At HPE, a passion for serving our customers is at the core of our moral fabric. Every day we strive to deliver innovations that help our customers tackle some of their biggest business challenges. Being nominated, and awarded, is an added bonus!
Thank you for the opportunity to join forces with you in 2016 – we hope you’re as excited as we are for what lies ahead.
"The HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 is basically a workhorse," said Dan Molina, chief technology officer of Nth Generation Computing, San Diego. "It can truly accelerate certain workloads like databases. … And it has 3 terabytes of memory in a single server -- that's amazing. That's ideal for virtualized environments and scale-out architectures."
Storage – Midrange | HPE StoreVirtual
“The StoreVirtual platform allows partners to deliver "enterprise-class capabilities such as the ability to accelerate apps with flash or increase system resiliency combined with software-defined flexibility for an incredibly low starting point," said Cary Dahl, principal architect at Somerset, N.J.-based SHI International.
| | Storage Review praises HPE Apollo 4530 server “What makes the 4500 Series unique, though, is while other vendors might position a single server with vast storage resources or an HA JBOD with two servers, HPE covers that swath and takes it a step further with the 4510 (one node), 4520 (two nodes) and 4530 (three nodes) models. This offers exactly what the object storage guys want depending on how they configure their platforms. “ wrote Storage Review Enterprise Lab, contributor to StorageReview.com |
 | HPE and SGI Receive Six Prestigious HPCwire Awards for HPC Innovation HPE and the newly acquired SGI are joining forces to tackle some of the world’s largest challenges, while conserving time, money, and valuable IT resources. |
Readers' Choice Award - Best Use of HPC in Entertainment
Producing an animated film requires a sophisticated production platform which connects hundreds of artists across a network, from user desktops to large-scale processors in the data center and the cloud. DreamWorks Animation utilizes HPE-enabled, scalable multi-core processing to produce lifelike animations that detail muscle, fur, feathers, and cloth.
Learn more about the partnership and the new feature film - Trolls
Editors' Choice Award - Best Application of Energy-Efficient HPC
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) joined forces with the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) to create the most energy efficient supercomputer in the U.S. Hikari, an HPE Apollo 8000 system, combines solar power and liquid cooling to reduce power consumption and operating costs.
Editors' Choice Award - Best Data-Intensive System
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) Bridges system was named the best data-intensive system by HPCwire editors. Backed by a powerful HPE server platform, Bridges is designed to support data-heavy analytics.
Editors' Choice Award - Top 5 Vendors to Watch
HPE is innovating rapidly to deliver a new and highly sophisticated generation of HPC solutions, securing its spot in the Top 5 Vendors to Watch.
Editors’ Choice Award - Best Use of HPC Application in Life Sciences
The Earlham Institute utilizes the SGI UV 300 to analyze living organisms with computational science and biotechnology. This flexible SGI platform promotes massive improvements in speed and performance, enabling scientists to accelerate time-to-discovery.
Editors’ Choice Award – Best HPC Server Product or Technology
The SGI UV 300 is a high-performance, in-memory multiprocessor designed for data-heavy workloads. This revolutionary system optimizes data analytics, visualization, and real-time streaming, making it the Best HPC Server.
Susan Blocher
Vice President Global Marketing, Data Center Infrastructure
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Susan Blocher is the Vice President Global Marketing for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Center Infrastructure, including Servers, Storage, Data Center Networking, and the Communications Solutions Business. As the global leader of the HPE Data Center Infrastructure Marketing team, Susan is responsible for building and executing an end-to-end marketing strategy encompassing: strategic marketing and demand generation activities, portfolio positioning, and customer-centric solutions for the HPE Data Center Infrastructure portfolio. Under Susan’s leadership, the organization will drive value-based business outcomes to customers and partners to address their data center objections with agility and flexibility.
