HPE announces new enhancements to GreenLake aimed at easier hybrid IT management, faster storage performance and support for separate private clouds.

HPE is hosting its Discover conference in Barcelona this week and we can expect news about GreenLake. During the last edition of the conference, HPE took its first steps in virtualization and this new offering is now being further expanded. According to HPE, initial testing was successful and there was high demand from customers to expand virtualization capabilities.

This comes in the form of VM Essentials, which was announced today and will be generally available in December. The virtualization software is embedded in the private cloud, but can also run as standalone software on hardware and platforms from external providers. Hang Tan, COO Hybrid Cloud at HPE, explains this choice: “Which virtualization software you use should not be an isolated decision, but a platform decision.”

Essential

VM Essentials provides unified management for virtual machines in hybrid environments. The software supports various storage protocols, offers high availability, live migration and integrated data protection. This allows organizations to manage existing VM workloads or move to the HPE VME hypervisor.

HPE is also playing on the sensitive nerve of cost management and is trying to lure customers with a low price per socket. According to HPE, VM Essentials delivers cost savings of up to five times total cost of ownership.

In addition, HPE is launching a new object storage solution with Alletra Storage MP X10000. The X10000 is designed for exabyte-scale data storage and delivers up to six times faster performance. The storage solution is optimized for fast data access and offers tools for efficient backup and recovery. Using a common architecture for block, file and object storage further simplifies management.

Separated

For highly regulated sectors, HPE offers one separate administration-Solution. The idea is to bring the cloud experience to private environments that are not connected to the Internet for data security and/or regulatory reasons. With this solution, HPE aims to help companies build a sovereign cloud environment.

Finally, HPE continues to expand the AI ​​ecosystem. The company is expanding its AI collaboration program with six new partners and hiring Deloitte to market its private cloud AI offering, announced in June. In the triumvirate, HPE and Nvidia provide the hardware and software, while Deloitte helps customers find use cases.