Discover how HPE is extending mission-critical storage into the midrange with the industry’s first disaggregated, scale-out block storage service with a 100% data availability guarantee.
– By Simon Watkins, Senior Manager, Worldwide Product Marketing for HPE Storage and Cloud Data Services
Delivered and managed via the HPE GreenLake cloud platform, this enhanced cloud data service brings an intuitive cloud experience, efficient scale, and extreme resiliency and performance to your mission-critical apps – at a midrange price point.
Data is the lifeforce of modern business: It powers the insights, innovation, and competitive advantage that move your business forward, faster. Yet while data-driven modernization is a top priority, achieving it requires confronting a host of data storage challenges that slow you down: management complexity and silos, scale-out limitations, and price-performance tradeoffs.
To truly modernize today, you need more than a faster, more powerful box. You need to break away from legacy infrastructure and elevate your storage experience with a platform that unlocks agility by delivering the cloud experience everywhere, maximizes infrastructure efficiency at scale, ensures apps are always-on and always-fast, and eliminates price-performance compromises.
This is where the expanded HPE GreenLake for Block Storage comes in. Consider how your organization could transform faster by accelerating the following outcomes.
Simplify management with an intuitive cloud experience on-prem
The public cloud has set the standard for agility, with an operational model that enables customers to deploy new apps and services quickly and easily. But public cloud isn’t right for every workload. Case in point: Most enterprise apps and data remain on-premises today because of security, data sovereignty, and latency concerns – to say nothing of the complexity of migrating and rearchitecting apps for the public cloud.
As a result, the technology ambitions of many enterprises have moved on from “cloud first” to embrace “cloud everywhere.” Organizations seek to harness the benefits of the cloud operational experience wherever their workloads live – not just in the public cloud but also from edge locations to on-prem data centers to co-location facilities.
Enter HPE GreenLake for Block Storage, a cloud data service available through the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform which brings the speed and agility of the cloud experience to your on-prem storage. HPE GreenLake for Block Storage simplifies operations across the lifecycle – from rapid deployment to automated provisioning to invisible upgrades. You manage and monitor your global block storage environment from a single cloud console and effortlessly protect your data with seamless, integrated backup and disaster recovery across your hybrid cloud. This frees up your organization to simplify operations and move faster – while maintaining on-prem control of your data.
By leveraging an AI-driven cloud experience, HPE GreenLake for Block Storage makes underlying infrastructure invisible, eliminating silos, complexity, and the burden of day-to-day storage administration – while shifting your operations from infrastructure-focused to app-focused. And unlike traditional storage management, with HPE GreenLake for Block Storage you get a cloud operational experience that not only delivers the self-service provisioning agility that your line-of-business owners and developers need to accelerate app deployment, but it also frees IT resources to work on strategic, higher-value initiatives.
Better performance and better economics with disaggregated, scale-out storage
Legacy storage systems are unable to flexibly and cost-effectively scale-out to keep pace with the growing and unpredictable demands of traditional, modern, and consolidated workloads. That’s why organizations are seeking to maximize infrastructure efficiency and cost savings at scale – with the ability to configure a storage system that meets the specific capacity and performance requirements of current workloads, while letting you non-disruptively upgrade resources as needed.
The new release of HPE GreenLake for Block Storage is deployed on an expanded HPE Alletra product line with innovation from its latest member, HPE Alletra Storage MP. This disaggregated, scale-out storage architecture enables you to scale capacity and performance independently, for greater efficiency and lower costs. You gain the flexibility to fine-tune, adapt, and elastically scale storage environments in line with workload requirements and evolving business needs.
You can start small with cost-efficient two-node entry level configurations. Then scale-up and scale-out to multi-node configurations with granular performance and capacity upgrades. And you can maximize ROI via non-disruptive, data-in-place upgrades without repurchasing existing storage.
Better still, this multi-protocol hardware architecture provides flexibility and high performance for both block and file storage needs. HPE Alletra Storage MP consists of standardized, composable building blocks – compute (node), capacity (JBOF), and switches – that can be configured for different software-defined storage personas and use cases. This enables you to deploy HPE GreenLake for Block Storage or HPE GreenLake for File Storage on common hardware and manage through the HPE GreenLake cloud platform with a unified cloud experience, eliminating silos and complexity and improving TCO/ROI.
Run any app without compromise with a 100% data availability guarantee
It’s time to forget the anxiety and disruption of unexpected downtime. HPE GreenLake for Block Storage is an always-on service that’s built on an AI-driven, disaggregated, no single point of failure platform to guarantee unrivalled 100% data availability for your mission-critical apps.[2] Meet any recovery-point objective (RPO) and recovery-time objective (RTO) strategy with transparent business continuity and automatic fail-over across multiple sites, while getting simple and efficient hybrid cloud data protection for on-prem and cloud native workloads.
And it’s always fast: HPE GreenLake for Block Storage accelerates time to insight with extreme speed and responsiveness for your most latency-sensitive modern, traditional, and consolidated mixed workloads. Its all-active architecture and massively parallel design mean data can simultaneously access all controllers and ports. All your physical components are active, and nothing is in standby mode. This ensures consistent, predictable performance and ultra-low latency at scale. And with an architecture optimized for all-NVME, HPE GreenLake for Block Storage is ideally suited for your most demanding mixed workloads.
Powering this always-on, always-fast storage is the industry’s most advanced AI for infrastructure. Why is that important? Because AI-powered autonomous operations mean your organization can say goodbye to endless firefighting. With an AI-managed service, you can predict and prevent disruptions before they occur. Your admins can rely on AI-driven recommendations to take the guesswork out of managing data infrastructure, and you can eliminate time-consuming escalations through predictive support automation and direct access to experts.
Mission-critical storage at midrange economics
Budget constraints often force midsize IT departments to compromise advanced capabilities for price, risking data availability and creating management complexity. With HPE GreenLake for Block Storage, you can eliminate the trade-offs that require you to sacrifice mission-critical performance, availability, and scalability for price. For example, as an HPE 3PAR 7000/8000 customer, by moving to HPE GreenLake for Block Storage built on HPE Storage Alletra MP, you get the mission-critical, “active-active” resilience and performance you value in your HPE 3PAR Storage, but with 100% data availability,[3] 2x faster performance,[4] 66% better price[5] performance, and a simple cloud management experience.
Moving to HPE GreenLake for Block Storage is easy and hassle free. HPE 3PAR Storage customers can take the risk and complexity out of switching to HPE GreenLake for Block Storage with quick, non-disruptive, data-in-place upgrades.
Your data, your agility, your innovation – unleashed
In the end, to fast-forward data-driven modernization, your organization must focus on eliminating the infrastructure management complexity that continues to slow you down. That’s precisely what makes HPE GreenLake for Block Storage – built on HPE Alletra Storage MP – so compelling. Unique among block storage offerings, it simplifies storage management and reduces risk with an AI-driven cloud experience, disaggregated scaling, and guaranteed 100% data availability. This all frees your organization to dramatically accelerate your digital transformation journey.
And keep in mind, the on-demand cloud data services of the HPE GreenLake platform don’t end at block storage. A comprehensive suite of cloud data services with a unified cloud operating experience enables organizations to modernize data management when and where they need it – all in just a few clicks.
If you want to learn more
Check out the HPE announcement press release:
Watch these new videos:
- HPE GreenLake for Blog Storage – three-minute demo
- HPE GreenLake for Block Storage – technical demo
- HPE GreenLake for Block Storage – explainer video
- HPE GreenLake for Block Storage – chalk talk
Read the new solution brief and brochure:
- Top Ten Reasons to choose HPE GreenLake for Block Storage
- HPE GreenLake for Block Storage solution brief
Interested in learning about the latest in enterprise scale-out file storage? Check out the HPE GreenLake for File Storage blog: HPE GreenLake for File Storage: Scale-out file storage to supercharge data-intensive apps
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Simon is Senior Manager, Worldwide Product Marketing for HPE Storage and Cloud Data Services.
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