HPE introduces cloud service for file storage that accelerates workloads with performance at scale, delivers an intuitive cloud experience, and enhances productivity with faster time to insights.
–By David Yu, HPE Storage Product Marketing
HPE GreenLake for File Storage accelerates your most data-intensive workloads with enterprise performance at scale while simplifying file data management.
Managed through HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform, and built on HPE Alletra Storage MP, it provides an intuitive cloud experience, enhancing productivity with faster time to insight.
Data: the life force and challenge of the modern enterprise
In today’s enterprise, data powers the insights, innovation, and competitive advantage that move your business forward, faster. Data is now central to every organization’s success, but the exponential growth of file data has overwhelmed enterprises with the burden of managing, processing, and extracting value from that data. And, as data growth continues to accelerate, the problem is only getting worse. Despite efforts to achieve data-first modernization across hybrid cloud, your IT organization cannot keep up with – much less scale – your current data infrastructures.
To accelerate data-first modernization, enterprises need to resolve the challenges that currently slow them down: complex management, storage infrastructure silos, poor performance scaling, and low productivity across edge to cloud.
For file-based, data-intensive applications, IT leaders need a different approach to storage – one that delivers a cloud experience everywhere, runs all workloads on a single infrastructure, maximizes performance at scale, and expedites setup and job completion. HPE GreenLake for File Storage uses precisely this approach to empower organizations to speed data-first modernization.
A unique architecture
HPE GreenLake for File Storage brings together the HPE GreenLake cloud experience and VAST Data software running on HPE Alletra Storage MP hardware. The service features a disaggregated, shared-everything, highly resilient, flexible modular architecture that’s designed for exabyte scale. This unique architecture produces a highly differentiated file storage service that avoids tradeoffs, makes storage simple, delivers performance at scale, and helps eliminate hardware silos and islands of data. Let’s look at the key benefits of the solution.
Supercharge your data-intensive apps
HPE GreenLake for File Storage accelerates your most data-intensive applications with enterprise performance at scale. What does that really mean? Enterprise performance at scale isn’t simply flat-out performance that reaches a peak, at an instant in time, for a small data set. Rather, it’s fast, sustained performance that spans the entire scale of your data and supports workloads that process high volumes of data. These workloads include artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), Big Data, deep learning (DL), high-performance computing (HPC), large data lakes, and high-speed access to data archives, spanning a wide range of industry verticals – life sciences, financial analytics, and media and entertainment.
As an analogy, think of several vehicles. One, a racecar, is a complex, highly customized system driven by a solitary, highly skilled driver. It can set a record by reaching a breakthrough speed for a few seconds, but it has no practical, day-to-day transportation value. On the other hand, a vehicle that is also fast but can transport many people easily is much more effective even if it doesn’t set a land speed record.
Likewise, HPE GreenLake for File Storage can process a lot of file data very quickly. With all-NVMe speed for fast, predictable performance and no front-end caching or data movement between media, you can supercharge your most data-intensive apps with a read performance that is 80x faster than legacy NAS1 and a read throughput of 100s of GB/sec.2 In addition, you get six 9s data availability3 (with no rebuild times for controller failures), independent scaling of performance and capacity, and the flexibility of multiprotocol NFS and SMB access to the same data.
Simplify with an intuitive cloud experience
HPE GreenLake for File Storage offers radically simple file data management with automatic discovery, onboarding, and configuration of new devices for easy file share creation. The service offers a unified cloud operating experience for file sharing and lifecycle management alongside a rich set of over 70 cloud data services, including hybrid cloud backup and disaster recovery. HPE GreenLake for File Storage delivers centralized, unified storage management, monitoring, and protection of global storage environments – across your hybrid cloud from a single cloud console. Upgrades are non-disruptive, maintenance is easy, and HPE offers proactive support.
Extending that vehicle analogy, now picture a vehicle that is very fast but also offers all the creature comforts and luxury features of a modern SUV. It’s easy to operate and delivers an outstanding driving and travel experience. That simplicity and performance capture the IT experience of HPE GreenLake for File Storage.
Enhance productivity with faster time to insights
Last but not least, HPE GreenLake for File Storage enhances productivity with faster time to insight, which can foster discovery, innovation, and quicker time to market for new products. Unlock more value from all your file data for a competitive advantage, keeping in mind that the value of your data in aggregate grows over time, with historical trends and associations revealing themselves as you analyze large volumes of amassed data.
With HPE GreenLake for File Storage, you can increase the productivity of data scientists and line of business application owners with simple setup and fast job completion. Unburdened by cumbersome, legacy file systems that require technical expertise and intricate setup processes just to run, your teams can get faster results. And highly compensated subject-matter experts no longer need to expend valuable time and effort performing IT tasks; instead, they can focus on strategic initiatives with the enhanced collaboration provided by a single global namespace for the storage system.
In addition, the superior file data infrastructure of HPE GreenLake for File Storage delivers high ROI from capital investments. The similarity data reduction algorithm, unlike compression and deduplication, reduces data with both a global and fine-grained approach. As a result, savings are 2:1 reduction for life sciences data; 3:1 for pre-reduced backups, pre-compressed log files, and HPC and animation data; and 8:1 for uncompressed time-series data.4 Finally, HPE GreenLake for File Storage helps to eliminate any performance imbalance between compute and storage resources as you scale compute and storage nodes independently as needed.
In the end, your data scientists and line of business application owners are like passengers on a vehicle. They simply want to get from point A to point B without having to deal with vehicle breakdowns and maintenance. When they work, they want to get insights and unlock value from data quickly rather than deal with setup and maintaince on complicated file systems. HPE GreenLake for File Storage gets them to where they want to go – and to the results they’re looking for, faster.
Unleash radical simplicity and faster time to insight
Your success depends on data-first modernization because data is the life force of your business. HPE GreenLake for File Storage can help you to expedite your modernization journey.
Imagine propelling your data-intensive workloads with enterprise performance at scale, simplifying your file data management with an intuitive cloud experience, and enhancing your competitive advantage with faster time to insight. HPE GreenLake for File Storage makes it all possible.
If you want to learn more
Check out the HPE announcement press release:
Watch these new videos:
- HPE GreenLake for File Storage – three-minute demo
- HPE GreenLake for File Storage – technical demo
- HPE GreenLake for File Storage – explainer video
- HPE GreenLake for File Storage – chalk talk
And read the new solution brief and brochure:
- Top 12 reasons to choose HPE GreenLake for File Storage
- HPE GreenLake for File Storage solution brief
Interested in learning about the latest in enterprise block storage? Check out the HPE GreenLake for Block Storage blog: HPE GreenLake for Block Storage: Mission-critical storage service at midrange economics
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