Simplify storage management across hybrid cloud

[StorageExperts]

HPE offers storage options for AWS that help you simplify storage management across your hybrid cloud. Find out how.

– By Vinay Jonnakuti, Director, Product Management, HPE Storage

Data-first companies are leaving competitors behind by a wide margin. Research shows that data-first leaders introduce new products and services 13.5x faster, driving 37% more innovation and 31% more reduction in infrastructure costs than organizations that are slower to transform.[1]

If your journey to data-first, hybrid cloud modernization is going more slowly than you anticipated, it’s time to remove the management complexity, storage silos, scale-out limitations, and app disruptions that are slowing you down. Inconsistent management tools and workflows between on-prem and cloud storage can create operational silos, low visibility, and cost inefficiencies at scale. In addition, limited data mobility across hybrid cloud makes it difficult to move data and workloads to where they need to be, negatively impacting business and IT agility.

With HPE storage options, you can integrate both on-prem and cloud storage for AWS, simplifying management across your IT environment. HPE Alletra Block Storage for AWS brings the proven capabilities of HPE’s on-prem block storage to AWS, so you can run business-critical apps in the cloud and quickly move data while maintaining security and compliance across your hybrid cloud.

In addition, if you’re an AWS Outposts user, you can use HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 (formerly known as HPE GreenLake for Block Storage built on Alletra Storage MP) with AWS Outposts as external storage to improve scale and performance. The choice is yours. 

Manage, monitor, and protect with HPE Alletra Block Storage for AWS

HPE Alletra Block Storage for AWS offers a seamless, unified storage management experience across hybrid cloud with faster time to value and enterprise-class resiliency. It allows you to manage, monitor, and protect global storage environments across your hybrid cloud data estate consistently and securely at scale—all from a single cloud console on the HPE GreenLake cloud and a common OS platform across on-prem and AWS environments. 

Here's how HPE Alletra Block Storage for AWS can also help you. 

• Get seamless data mobility: Move data, workloads, and backups everywhere as your business requirements evolve, optimizing performance and costs. For example, you can easily migrate VM and container workloads to and from the cloud without rebuilding or redesigning your architecture.
• Simplify deployment: Deploy new apps and services quickly and easily, not just in the cloud but on-prem too. HPE Alletra Block Storage for AWS makes it easy to deploy new instances in AWS in minutes—directly from the HPE GreenLake cloud. At less than 12 minutes, deploying HPE Alletra Block Storage instances in AWS is fast.
• Speed up time to value: Empower line-of-business owners and app admins with intent-based provisioning so they can deploy apps faster. AI-driven intelligence automatically analyzes your HPE storage instances in AWS and provides a deployment recommendation, without the need for storage expertise.
• Automate storage with AI-managed service: HPE Alletra Block Storage for AWS brings the cloud experience to your on-prem storage—simplifying operations across the lifecycle, from deployment to provisioning to unified management to upgrades. Industry-leading AIOps for infrastructure drives autonomous operations and helps ensure your apps are always-on and always-fast, and can drive up to 98% operational time savings.[2]

HPE Alletra Block Storage for AWS also brings your multilayered on-premises data protection and business continuity capabilities to AWS with enterprise-grade snapshots, replication, and backups. Protect on-premises and cloud-native workloads with native replication to AWS for disaster recovery (DR)—mitigating the need for secondary DR sites.

Scale up or out using HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 with AWS Outposts

As you migrate workloads to the cloud, some of your workloads need to remain on-premises to meet low latency, local data processing or data residency requirements. To support these use cases, you can use HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 with AWS Outposts. Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience. The HPE storage solution, when enhanced with AWS Outposts, brings efficient and flexible scaling, extreme resilience and performance, and a simplified AI-driven hybrid cloud management experience to your enterprise workloads.

Here’s how you can benefit.

Scale with ease using a modern storage architecture

• Scale performance and capacity independently with industry’s first disaggregated scale-out block storage, enabling more flexibility, efficiency, and lower costs for evolving workloads.
• Start small, scale big with one architecture spanning mid-range to enterprise. Get non-disruptive, data-in-place upgrades—including a free controller refresh with the HPE Timeless Program.
• Maximize efficiency and cost savings with single controller node performance scaling.

Run any app without compromise

• Rely on a 100% data availability SLA for mission-critical apps—guaranteed as a standard benefit for every array.[3]
• Leverage a shared everything architecture that can tolerate multiple node failures and deliver consistently fast performance and ultra-low latency at scale.
• Harness industry leading ransomware detection and recovery that enables real-time ransomware detection, RPOs of seconds and RTOs of minutes-to radically reduce data loss and downtime after a cyberattack.

Simplify management with an AI-driven hybrid cloud experience

• Boost agility and speed time to value with a consistent AI-driven cloud experience across on-prem and cloud that simplifies operations across the lifecycle—from install to upgrade.
• Put your storage on auto pilot with industry-leading AI-Ops that prevents disruptions before they occur, eliminates guesswork with cross-stack analytics, and transforms the support experience with predictive support automation.
• Experience the same enterprise-class storage data services between on-prem and cloud, while also benefiting from seamless data mobility and unified management across hybrid cloud.

Streamline operations and innovate faster

Unleash your potential and drive innovation with HPE. Accelerate your journey to data-first modernization by simplifying data management. Choose from the industry’s most comprehensive solutions to seamlessly store, manage, and protect your data across hybrid cloud environments for a smarter, more agile future.

Did you know that you can retire your AWS Enterprise Discount Program commit by purchasing HPE Alletra Block Storage for AWS through AWS Marketplace?

Ready to learn more?

HPE Alletra Block Storage for AWS

Solution brief – HPE Alletra Block Storage for AWS 

Chalk Talk video  – HPE Alletra Block Storage for AWS  

Demo video – HPE Alletra Block Storage for AWS  

HPE GreenLake Block Storage for AWS setting up and using replication  

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000

Solution brief – HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 

Brochure – Top 12 reasons to choose HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 

ESG Analyst tech validation paper 

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Meet Storage Experts blogger Vinay Jonnakuti, Director, Product Management, HPE Storage

Vinay leads product management for HPE GreenLake Block Storage for AWS, HPE SimpliVity, and Ecosystems for Storage. Before this Vinay led teams dedicated to driving solutions, go-to-market, and technical marketing teams. He is eager in gathering insights from field and customer interactions to enhance products and drive execution. Connect with Vinay at @vinaymohan. Or on LinkedIn.

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[1] Comparison of infrastructure lifecycle management of HPE Alletra vs. ESG Market Research, April 2021.

[2]  HPE Storage Substantiation

[3] TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group, Custom Research Commissioned by HPE, Data and Infrastructure Management Market Maturity Survey, April 2023.