Without the right infrastructure, IT admins won’t meet their SLAs in terms of availability, performance, and data efficiency. This increasingly impacts IT’s time, time-to-market, and business risk when you’re managing multiple systems in a dynamic business where workloads are ever-changing. But – there is a better option: data infrastructure that enables instant provisioning for IT admins, app owners, and developers – leveraging AI to optimally determine where your data should be stored.
The time element certainly makes provisioning storage difficult, but IT admins also have to make sure that they provision application workloads on infrastructure best suited for optimizing SLAs. Without the right infrastructure, IT admins won’t meet their SLAs in terms of availability, performance, and data efficiency. This increasingly impacts IT’s time, time-to-market, and business risk when you’re managing multiple systems in a dynamic business where workloads are ever-changing.
There is a better option: data infrastructure that enables instant provisioning for IT admins, app owners, and developers – leveraging AI to optimally determine where your data should be stored. This true cloud provisioning model accelerates application development cycles – without being bogged down by provisioning complexity – demanded by today’s fast paced DevOps and CI/CD pipeline processes.
HPE recently introduced HPE Alletra, powered by Data Services Cloud Console, with an industry-first provisioning capability: intent-based provisioning. We’ve reimagined storage provisioning where your organization can instantly provision on-premises storage at scale with the cloud experience. Intent-based provisioning determines where your data should be stored across your entire fleet – with real-time context to resource headroom and app-specific SLAs – to optimize your resources. It’s AI-driven and self-service, leveraging role-based access control, delivering a true cloud provisioning model for app owners and developers, without the need for storage expertise. Gone are the days of complex and time-consuming storage provisioning.
Let’s dive in and see how this works.
The experience is radically simple. All you do is select your workload description – the type of application, capacity, and performance. The service gives you the best fit recommendation, and provisions your workload.
But let me tell you what’s really happening in the background to make this service so simple.
Provisioning that’s intelligent
Intent-based provisioning leverages intelligence and real-time context across the entire fleet, predictive analytics, what-if simulations, and automated decisions. It abstracts away all the low-level details traditionally required for storage provisioning – such as having to specify and understand RAID types, block size, data reduction (compression, dedupe), and so on.
Workloads – even for existing apps – are constantly changing the CPU/MEM resource utilization in your systems. Intent-based provisioning relies on AI for the context of your entire fleet, to understand how your existing applications utilize resources in real-time. It predicts how performance and capacity resource utilization will grow based on historical workload patterns and knowing what headroom is free across the entire fleet.
Provisioning that’s self-service
The combination of intent-based provisioning and role-based access control enables self-service data infrastructure provisioning for app owners and developers – without the need for storage expertise. This delivers a true cloud provisioning model and accelerates app development cycles – enabling the effortless app provisioning experience demanded by today’s fast-paced dev-ops processes.
Provisioning that’s application-centric
Intent-based provisioning runs the new application requirements specified through what-if simulations across your entire fleet to determine how existing applications will behave and resources will be impacted with new applications on existing systems. The result is a predictive, context-aware recommendation for the right system to deploy the new application.
Intent-based provisioning ensures applications are deployed and maintained on the right resources to ensure business velocity, data availability, efficiency, and best economics. Gone are the days of worrying about if storage was provisioned on the most optimal array to meet even your most demanding SLAs. All the planning is done for you.
The intent-based provisioning in Data Services Cloud Console represents a paradigm shift in infrastructure management. Instead of IT admins having to through the process complexity and guesswork, they get to deploy storage resources just like they would in the public cloud.
Welcome to the evolution of storage provisioning. Reduce provisioning from days down to minutes. This means time savings for IT admins, as well as faster application cycle-time for your developers – which accelerates your data-driven transformation.
To learn more, check out this 5-minute demo.
[1] ESG Management Survey, April 2021. Commissioned by HPE.
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