How next-generation hyperconverged infrastructure redefines remote work

[StorageExperts]

Turning challenges into opportunities, it’s often said, is a mark of good leadership. If that’s true, the post-COVID world is one big opportunity for IT. Here is one way to address your IT infrastructure challenges: simplify infrastructure management with secure VDI out of the box, the power of 2nd-Gen AMD EPYC processors, and pay-as-you-use financing.

The business and organizational challenges that became evident during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic are well known to us now.

• Remote work. Long-term mandated quarantine orders necessitated adapting tools and work practices rapidly. Transitioning from in-person to virtual required more VPN and virtual desktop (VDI) capacity to support more virtual interactions – between employees, suppliers and customers.
• A year-plus later, many businesses are planning long-term work-from-home practices.
• Financial protection. Managing costs became paramount during the pandemic period. It remains a challenge to organizations – in what the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is calling “a long and difficult ascent” back to normal.
• Data Security. Your organization is sharing sensitive data over more networks, and cyber threats are targeting businesses that moved to the cloud due to COVID-19.

But what about the opportunities that arose during this same time period?

Defining your new normal

If IT was complicated, time consuming, and vulnerable before the pandemic, it became even more so during the months of working remotely. The good news is that now you have the chance to simplify and change your IT management – even as you continue to tackle working remotely.

Organizations need to accelerate innovation and time to market these days, and that requires agility, resilience and IT workload consolidation. With an intelligent hyperconverged infrastructure from HPE – that is now within reach.

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) combines compute, storage, and storage networking into one “building block” system that’s easy to manage and scale. And HCI is ideal for delivering VDI, which enables remote working.

To give you more choice, we offer a complete portfolio of HPE SimpliVity HCI solutions powered by AMD processors. They come with built-in data protection, global intelligence for predictive and preventative infrastructure troubleshooting, and new financing models, including pay-as-you-use, to help you manage and control spending.

With our HCI portfolio, you can deliver secure VDI and complete hyperconvergence out of the box, without making a big capital investment – a new normal that businesses can appreciate. And there’s more.

What’s new in HPE SimpliVity 325

Small and mid-sized businesses may be most interested in the HPE SimpliVity 325, a 1U rack-mounted building block powered by 2nd-Gen AMD EPYC 7002 series processors. It’s built on the HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen10 server, which was purpose-built for virtualized workloads.

The power of AMD EPYC processors allows for a 50% reduction in socket-based hypervisor licensing costs, so you get 2-processor performance with the TCO of a 1-processor system.

Management is simplified by HPE InfoSight for SimpliVity, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that predicts and prevents problems before they arise across your infrastructure. With InfoSight, HPE SimpliVity delivers self-managing, self-optimizing, and self-healing infrastructure. You no longer need to react to issues with limited visibility across siloed infrastructure. HPE InfoSight delivers AI-powered autonomous operations that ensure your environment is always-on, always-fast, and always-agile.

With dense compute in a compact form, significant TCO savings, and centralized AI management that simplifies operations, smaller organizations can easily scale out as needs grow.

So, what does all this mean for VDI and remote working? What does it really change on the ground?

Quite a lot, actually. With HPE SimpliVity, you can:

• Easily deploy secure, end-to-end VDI for more than 200 users, with just two SimpliVity 325 appliances running either VMware Horizon View or Citrix. It works out of the box, but you also have remote and on-site support from HPE.
• Manage everything in one place, and let AI-powered HPE InfoSight handle most tasks for you. It observes thousands of data points and can act automatically, but you’re always in control.
• Acquire your infrastructure with a minimal up-front investment with consumption-based finance. Your costs are aligned with IT usage. And you can scale out this way too, whenever you need to.

In other words, you make IT easier, less time consuming, and less costly. An economic assessment of SimpliVity 325 by ESG found it delivered savings of 28% to 66% over three years, compared to public cloud.

Extend hyperconvergence – and scale compute and storage independently

If you need the most flexible control over IT, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI provides another choice – one that enables you to scale compute and storage independently.

HPE Nimble Storage dHCI radically simplifies infrastructure for applications by reimagining HCI without limitations. It’s an intelligently simple solution that provides automated and on-demand apps, with full-stack intelligence and policy-based automation.

Designed for 99.9999% availability with all-flash speed and sub-ms latency, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is efficiently scalable, allowing you to grow compute and storage independently, across a hybrid cloud, with industry-leading efficiency.

HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is now available through HPE GreenLake, delivering virtual machine as-a-service that accelerates time to value, and simplifies your IT management. As a cloud consumption experience, your business will pay monthly for what you use, so you can convert capital to operating expense, and react to demand, as needed.

Experience the Intelligent Data Platform

HPE delivers an intelligent data platform for your hybrid cloud, built on the HPE workload-optimized flash portfolio to provide the ultimate destination for all data types, and an architectural foundation for seamless data mobility. This portfolio includes HPE Synergy with HPE Primera, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, and HPE SimpliVity. Designed for 99.9999% availability, you can achieve up to an 85% increase in IT efficiency with AI powered by HPE InfoSight.

If you are facing post-pandemic challenges today, why not seize the opportunity to make life – and your IT – more manageable? Compare platforms and learn more about the foundation that is right for your business.

Meet HPE blogger, Mathieu Celary. Mathieu is a sci-fi loving tech enthusiast who likes to discuss new trends and technologies – and explore how fiction is rapidly becoming reality. He has spent the last 10 years working at HPE, helping organizations leverage IT solutions for business development. He started blogging to encourage open discussion about the choices and alternative solutions we can employ in our increasingly complex IT world.

Connect with Mathieu on LinkedIn.

Storage Experts
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

twitter.com/HPE_Storage
linkedin.com/showcase/hpestorage/
hpe.com/storage