HPE Synergy with HPE HelionCloudSystem10 and new hyper-converged enhancements powered by composabletechnologies help make hybrid ITsimple
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announcedan expansion of itscomposable initiative with the addition of a new hybrid cloud offering 
and technology extensions to HPE hyper-converged systems.By extending HPE Synergy’s fully programmable infrastructure to HPE’s multi-cloud platform and through software enhancements to the HPE Hyper Converged 380, HPE is enabling IT operators to deliver software-defined infrastructure as quickly as customers’ businesses demand. The new solutions include
• HPE Synergy with HPE HelionCloudSystem 10 brings full composabilityacross compute, storage and fabric to HPE’sOpenStack® technology-based hybrid cloud platform to enable customers to run bare metal, virtualized, containerized and cloud-native applications on a singleinfrastructure and dynamically compose and recomposeresources for unmatched agility and efficiency.
• HPE Hyper ConvergedOperating Environment software updateleveragescomposable technologies to deliver new capabilities to the HPE Hyper Converged 380, including new workspace controls that allow IT managers to compose and recompose virtualized resources for different lines of business, making it easier and more efficient for IT to act as an internal service provider to theirorganization.
“Customers’business needs can change quite rapidly, and they need an infrastructure platform that can support that rapid change,” said Vikram K, Director, Datacenter and Hybrid Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India. “With HPE Synergy we delivered a new class of infrastructure providing the speed, efficiency and flexibility of the public cloudon-premises, so IT can focus on being an internal service provider instead of maintaining infrastructure. Now we’re extending composable infrastructure to ourcloud and hyper-convergedofferings, makinghybrid IT simple for customers.”
Today’s enterprise developers are increasingly building new, cloud native applications using more agile microservices and containers. At the same time they are transforming traditional applications to “as-a-service” models, requiring an infrastructure that can support both operating environments. HPE Synergy delivers the industry’s first composable infrastructure platform, treating infrastructure as code, enabling developers to accelerate application delivery. HPE Synergy has nearly100 early access customers that have successfully implemented it across a variety of industries, and is now broadly availablefor order in all regions.
“In order to meet the ever-changing needs of our mobile, television and broadband customers across Europe, our organization turned to HPE for help,” Colin Miles, VP DatacentreTechnology, at Liberty Global said. “As a HPE Synergy early access customer, our team was able to quickly explore the innovative solution to help us deliver infrastructure as code, working towards giving us the cloud-like experience we were looking for in our datacentre.
HPE Synergy with HPE HelionCloudSystem 10– providing the industry’s first private cloud built on composable infrastructure
HPE Synergywith HPE HelionCloudSystem 10 gives organizations the ability to operate a single IT environment on-premises that supports both traditional applications and cloud-native applications.With HPE HelionCloudSystem 10, IT operators now have the abilitytocompose resources in minutes, making it easier for enterprises to migrate from traditional to hybrid IT. Through better management automation and improved infrastructure utilization customers can deliver more effective cloud services at lower cost.
HPE Synergy and HPE HelionCloudSystem 10 both incorporateHPE OneView, HPE’s infrastructure automation management software, providing the ability to discover, manage and designate infrastructureresources using a single, unified interface. This enables more efficient infrastructure utilization by empowering IT to target the right infrastructure for the right workloads, accelerating development cycles while maintaining control and compliance.
In addition, customers can take advantage of the broad ecosystem HPE has developed through the Composable Infrastructure Partner Program. This includeswith partnerships based on tools like Chef, Docker, SaltStack and Puppet, as well as traditional partners like Microsoft, VMware, SUSE and RedHat through integration with the HPE OneView API.
HPE Synergy with HPE HelionCloudSystem 10 will be available from HPE and channel and distribution partners in the first quarter of calendar year 2017.
HPE Hyper ConvergedOperating Environment – deliveringcomposable managementcapabilities for hyper converged systems
The HPE Hyper Converged Operating Environment software updateintroduces new composable management capabilities to the HPE Hyper Converged 380,HPE’s all-in-one software-defined virtualization solution. The enhancementsenable IT operators to become an internal service provider to their organization’s different lines of business, delivering virtualized applications with cloud efficiency.
The updateintroduces newmulti-tenant workspacesthat enable IT operators to quickly and easily compose and recompose virtualizedenvironments instantly from a single resource pool. Now IT managers can provide for an individual’s or workgroup’s immediate use based on their unique needsand allowing line of business managers to more efficiently utilize resources available to them. The updatealso integratesanalytics, providing IT managers with insights to ensure thatrequired resources are available when needed and to predict future needs, so IT can add capacity before developers even know they need it.
As an internal service provider, IT can now provide an intuitive self- service portal, making it easier for lines of business to access the resources they need to develop and deploy their applications in their own virtualized environment at cloud speed.
The update will be available to HPE Hyper Converged380 customers in the first quarter of calendar year 2017.
For more information on how HPE is using composable infrastructure to simplify hybrid IT visit: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/news-archive/featured-article/2016/11/Taking-Composable-Infrastructure-to-the-Next-Level-HPE-Unveils-Software-Defined-Upgrades-to-Simplify-Hybrid-IT.html
HPE Services – helping customers adopt and consume composable infrastructure
Customers can not only deliver cloud capabilities easily, they can also consume these solutions with cloud economics through HPE Flexible Capacity Service. This gives customers the ability to scale-up and scale-down capacity as needed, while only paying for what they consume.Flexible Capacity also helps customers with cloud native applications using agile microservices with pricing based on usage of the commercially supported Docker Engine. By utilizing HPE Flexible Capacity this way customer can now charge on-premises service provisioning per VM as is typical with cloud provisioning.
To enable customers to accelerate time to value from these new solutions, HPE now offers newHPE Technology Services to help customers quickly adopt and capture the benefits of composable infrastructure and hyper converged solutions.The new HPE Synergy Rapid Advisory Service explores use cases that fully exploit composable infrastructure capabilities matched to current IT challenges and the HPE Software-Defined Infrastructure workshop and strategic architecture services help accelerate customers’ journey.
Cloud28+ expansion– enabling a hybrid ecosystem ofglobal cloud providers
HPE also announced plans to expand Cloud28+, an open community of commercial and public sector organizations with the common goal of removing barriers to cloud adoption. Cloud28+ will open to partners across all HPE regions. Supported by HPE’s channel program, Cloud28+ unites service providers, solution providers, ISVs, system integrators and government entities to share knowledge, resources and services aimed at helping customers build and consume the right mix of cloud solutions for their needs. For more information visit: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/news-archive/featured-article/2016/11/HPE-Expands-Cloud28-Community.html
