HPE Alletra 4000: Next-generation server-based data infrastructure is here

[StorageExperts]

Digital transformation is driving the move to modern infrastructure. Discover how HPE Alletra 4000 offers a server-based architecture well suited to data-intensive applications.

–By Erik Ottem, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager, HPE

Modern data infrastructure must support the growing number of uses, sources, and types of data alongside significant growth in the amount of data. It must do so in a landscape of heightened cyberthreats coupled with the desire for simplified operational experiences. Even as progress is made creating a suitable infrastructure for your data-driven initiatives, your business may demand more. Your business needs will continue to push infrastructure boundaries. Modern data infrastructure needs to enable you to:

• Accomplish more for your data-driven initiatives as they grow and evolve
• Protect your customers, organization, and valuable data from cyberthreats
• Simplify and transform your data infrastructure operations

It's time for modern data infrastructure

HPE offers a compelling portfolio for implementing modern data infrastructure allowing application requirements to guide your choice. HPE Alletra 4000 data storage servers enable you to deploy a cloud-native data infrastructure keenly optimized for your application requirements as they grow and evolve over time. For instance, data storage intensive workloads that need high performance compute can employ powerful processors, accelerators, and generous amounts of high-speed memory.

Those requiring high throughput can take advantage of the latest NVMe flash storage and Ethernet/InfiniBand networking technologies over PCIe Gen 5. Where the most economic storage is desired, high capacity nearline hard drives can be employed. Scale is flexible as well since data storage servers can be deployed as individual nodes or scale-out clusters of any scale including exabyte scale for the largest applications. HPE Alletra 4000 data storage servers provide an ideal mix of storage, networking, and compute technologies for your data storage intensive workloads as they grow and evolve.

Another critical requirement for today’s workloads is a highly secure architecture to protect valuable data and your operations that depend upon it. HPE Alletra 4000 is designed to be secure end-to-end from silicon to software and factory to cloud. Finally, HPE Alletra 4000 is delivered with an intuitive cloud experience that enables you to transform operations, including both a cloud console for interactive and policy-based operation and rich REST APIs for automation.

Explore what HPE Alletra 4000 can do for you

Let’s take a look what HPE Alletra 4000 data storage servers can do for you across a range of example data storage-intensive workloads.

• HPE Alletra 4000 data processing and data throughput are a great fit for distributed and NoSQL databases in contrast to general purpose servers. For example, HPE Alletra 4110 within HPE Solutions with Aerospike delivers the low latency and high throughput needed by real-time applications with the economics of a hybrid memory architecture for outstanding productivity results.
• HPE Alletra 4110 complements data stores for machine learning such as HPE Solutions with WEKA. Powered by the latest industry-standard and HPE technologies, HPE Alletra 4110 boasts support for multi-hundred gigabit per second Ethernet and InfiniBand networking with multi hundred gigabyte per second aggregate throughput from up to twenty PCIe Gen5 E3.S NVMe SSDs, all in just 1U for a powerful and space-efficient solution.
• Broad purpose block, file, and object software-defined storage (SDS) is another workload area where data storage servers bring compelling data throughput from new Enterprise and Data Center Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) NVMe SSDs and PCIe Gen5. HPE Solutions with Qumulo provide advanced file services to store, manage, and curate active unstructured data anywhere. It takes advantage of the leading performance and capacity of the HPE Alletra 4110 to accelerate file performance to the level demanded by data driven initiatives today and in future.
• Another workload type that benefits from HPE Alletra 4000 capabilities are active archives where large datasets and optimized performance are critical. HPE Solutions with Scality have a sophisticated object storage with file capability for big data. It benefits from the ability to configure the HPE Alletra 4120 for exceptional cache-intensive application performance with up to a one to two ratio of superior performance PCIe Gen 5 E3.S NVMe SSDs and superior economics large capacity nearline HDDs – all in a very dense standard 2U rack mount chassis.
• Analytic data lakes are increasingly important to realize the value of different kinds of data. HPE Ezmeral is a fully curated open-source analytics environment for hybrid cloud that benefits from the flexibility of the HPE Alletra 4110. Its ability to deliver maximum performance for data fabric or unified analytics with highly parallel compute and storage addresses the throughput requirements of analytics workloads like HPE Ezmeral.
• Finally, data-heavy HCI leans on all three hardware design dimensions central to capable data storage servers like HPE Alletra 4000: data processing, data throughput and data capacity. In the Microsoft™ domain, Microsoft Azure Stack HCI is enabled by the HPE Alletra 4110 and 4120 whose ability to be configured the right combination storage, networking, and compute resources to get the most from data-heavy virtualized applications. 

Data storage intensive workloads find a happy home on the HPE Alletra 4000

It’s the most advanced data storage servers available today as detailed in HPE Alletra 4000 announcement. The HPE Alletra 4000 is an early adopter of next generation data storage technologies with the introduction of NVMe flash media based on the Enterprise and Data Center Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) specifications. This new form factor provides higher capacity density and next-generation data throughput over PCIe Gen5 with optimized power and cooling making for highly efficient storage to drive data intensive applications to success. What’s more, the advanced processing power from 4^th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors combined with DDR5 memory create a next generation data processing capability equal to new technologies found on the storage side for a well-balanced data storage server that can grow and evolve with your requirements over time.

It bears noting that security is essential, not an add-on. The HPE Alletra 4000 family is secured end-to-end from silicon to software and factory to cloud in design and execution. Starting at the factory, leveraging the HPE secure supply chain, HPE security includes multiple levels of protection against a wide and changing variety of threats. For example, HPE’s Silicon Root of Trust protects system firmware from tampering and can be extended to controller firmware as well. The result is a secure modern infrastructure.

Another consideration for a modern infrastructure is cloud management and automation, providing the ability to manage a portfolio of data storage servers or just a few with ease. HPE GreenLake provides an intuitive cloud experience to manage and automate tasks such as firmware updates. It uses a single cloud console to manage your data storage servers wherever they are located. Additionally, you get automatic updates so you’re always on the current version.

So, what’s the bottom line?

HPE Alletra 4000 data storage servers are a great way to service data storage-intensive workloads that benefit from optimizable data infrastructure to meet changing requirements. This next-generation of server-based cloud-native data infrastructure can help your business grow, adapt, and drive your initiatives to success.

Watch these two animated product tour videos to learn more:

HPE Alletra 4110

HPE Alletra 4120

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Meet Storage Experts blogger Erik Ottem, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager, HPE

Erik has over thirty years of experience in high-tech storage sales and marketing for systems, semiconductors, devices, and software. His experience includes large companies and startup companies in Silicon Valley.

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