The HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen 11 server: A game-changer for CloudSigma

[ComputeExperts]

CloudSigma, an early adopter of the HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11, finds the perfect complement of speed, flexibility, and efficiency with HPE's server designed for cloud native workloads. As one of the most customizable cloud providers in the marketplace, CloudSigma understands the importance of giving their customers full control over cloud resources by eliminating restrictions on how users deploy their computing resources.

Today’s reality finds cloud service providers and cloud-native enterprises in need of a modern cloud-native infrastructure to keep pace with growth. Across industries, and at almost any scale, digital transformation is no longer a luxury, a “nice-to-plan-for” somewhere down the road; it has become critical to competitiveness and growth.

Across industries:

• Adopting cloud native application models for service providers and digital-first enterprises is imperative.
• Both service providers and digital-first enterprises are racing to rapidly overhaul and change their business processes, culture, and customer experience to meet changing business and market requirements.
• Successful business leaders have come to understand that data – and the right compute solution – are key drivers of innovation and value creation. In our hybrid, digital-first world, those who thrive are those who have come to embrace this evolution.

HPE Compute launches first optimized cloud-native silicon for service providers and digital-first enterprises

The HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11, compute engineered for a hybrid world, is a purpose-built server that was designed with service providers and enterprise customers in mind and was first announced in the marketplace in June of 2022. This product brings together the perfect blend of performance, flexibility, and efficiency.

The HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server is a significant offering from HPE – one that delivers high performance and power efficiency to support a wide range of evolving applications. 

Powered by Ampere® processors, these servers are ideally suited for customers that offer digital services, media streaming, social platforms, e-commerce, financial, or online services, and cloud-based services such as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

Corporate leaders now understand that resource efficiency is a brand priority, a societal imperative, and a financial necessity. As a key consumption driver—and as data volumes grow exponentially—compute is central to the sustainability conversation. The HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 meets expectations as a solution that can help these leaders achieve their goals of lowering energy consumption and carbon footprint output.

Ultimately, we're building a seriously cool processor. Not only in terms of the attention it’s getting as the first Cloud Native Processor, but also in the way it draws very little power while delivering massive performance", says Sean Varley, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Ampere. "This gives us power efficiency that is unparalleled in the industry. We're talking about 4x more performance per watt than legacy x86 processors on typical cloud-native workloads.

CloudSigma signs on as early adopter

CloudSigma, a pure-cloud IaaS and PaaS provider, delivers advanced hybrid hosting solutions from datacenters located around the globe, enabling new servers to become available to their customers. They pride themselves on executing resource requests in real-time so their clients can build dynamic cloud infrastructures that always performs.

CloudSigma understands the importance of giving customers full control over their cloud and eliminating restrictions on how users deploy their computing resources. When they started their search for an agile and open platform to deliver predictable cost and high-performance, they discovered that the HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server met their exacting standards.

The HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server with Ampere processors is delivering a significantly higher power efficiency,” said Robert Jenkins, CEO, CloudSigma. "Using it will allow is to meet our improved sustainability goals and provide a lower delivery cost to our end customers”, he continued. “We hope its performance on a day-to-day computing basis will allow customers to buy a whole lot more computing on the same budget.

Like CloudSigma, other service providers are now focusing their infrastructure on performance per watt and economy of scale to address revenue and profitability. They want to support their sustainability goals while relying on predictable, linear-scaling performance and flexible management choices.

The current market presents enormous opportunity–and competitive pressure–for these service providers. To compete they must deliver a differentiated customer experience while maximizing economy of scale through high infrastructure utilization. With the relentless explosion of data, greater computing power with less energy consumption is more crucial than ever.

A server “ARMed” for performance

The HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server is built with processors that support up to 128 cores per socket. The performance of these power-efficient Ampere® ARM-based processors rival that of traditional CPUs while consuming far less energy. This translates to the ability to achieve unprecedented price-performance per watt and enables service providers to compete more effectively against hyperscalers, while still maximizing profit potential. An added advantage of power-efficient ARM processors is that they help service providers meet their sustainability goals through lower energy consumption.

Service providers want to deliver great end-user experiences for their customers, especially as data volumes and workloads intensify. That is why the HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server is designed to sustain predictable high performance, low latency, and maximum utilization for massively scaled-out cloud environments. In fact, our testing has shown the HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server can achieve 100% utilization while maintaining optimal performance and power efficiency at full cloud scale!

With pretty much the same cost of a system, The HPE RL300 can produce somewhere between three and four times as much revenue on basically the same footprint in the data center." states Peter Groth, HPE Vice President, General Manager and Chief Technologist for service providers. "That’s same amount of carbon, same amount of water, and same amount of operator time.

Taking control of management

What is just as important, the HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server offers flexible management options. With the HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11, service providers get a choice of management: HPE iLO with HPE’s high security Silicon Root of Trust capabilities; or, the option to enable OpenBMC, for those customers who wish to expand their open-source strategy.

Your choice of compute matters

Why should you choose HPE ProLiant?

• The HPE ProLiant RL300 is a secure, efficient, optimized and sustainable server, and it’s specifically engineered for hybrid environments.
• The HPE ProLiant RL300 server supports distributed approaches, moving compute out of centralized datacenters and deploying it as a backbone throughout your operations—across multiple clouds, multiple datacenters, and at the edge.
• The HPE ProLiant RL300 server is simple to operate, with location-agnostic, cloud-based compute management ensuring visibility and consistency despite increasingly diverse compute locations and workloads.
• The HPE ProLiant RL300 server unifies operations across the lifecycle and throughout your environment, while empowering security and automation.

The HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server is now available, worldwide, for purchase for on-premises deployment, and will soon be available as-a-service, through HPE GreenLake.

Look to the HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server for trusted security by design that is fundamental, uncompromising and protected. It will deliver optimized performance for your workloads that is accelerated, efficient and open.

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Blogger Arun Sadashiva is a Senior Manager, Product Management for the Compute business at HPE. He is passionate about bringing the best server technology to his customers, and has more than 11 years of experience successfully introducing multiple server products to the market. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Technology and a Post Graduate diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

You can connect with Arun on LinkedIn. 

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