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HPE continues to expand its platformbased strategy to enable enterprises to shift from daily management of individual storage arrays to a unified data management experience that delivers a cloud operational model , AI-driven automation and seamless data mobility .

“ While our competitors continue to sell storage as a service , we are offering a truly transformative platform-based approach for hybrid cloud management and data storage ,” said Jim O ’ Dorisio , Senior Vice President and General Manager of HPE Storage .

“ The truth is multi-vendor data centres are complex to manage and difficult to scale ,” said Kristinn Elvar Arnarsson , CTO at Opin Kerfi . “ When we looked at consolidating our data centres on one vendor , we really wanted both scale up and scale out compute and storage and unified storage management . Now we have HPE GreenLake for Block Storage with Alletra MP as a showcase solution for our customers to see how we can deliver future-proof innovation to them .”

Customers can achieve an average savings of 30 % of TCO for storage by avoiding one forklift upgrade . The new programme includes HPE ’ s 100 % Data Availability Guarantee and HPE StoreMore data efficiency guarantees . HPE Timeless Programme provides customers predictable multi-year economics and guaranteed services levels for data availability and efficiency .

HPE is a recognised provider in AIOpsenabled workload management and observability with HPE Infosight and OpsRamp . Now fully integrated into the HPE GreenLake cloud , new cross-stack analytics streamline management of storage to help users proactively avoid latency issues that reduce workload performance .

Full-stack correlation of resources combined with the AIOps engine enables customers to observe , predict and mitigate disruptions across virtual machine , storage , network , compute and cloud infrastructure . In addition , HPE Alletra MP customers will now be able to observe energy consumption

HPE GreenLake for Block Storage and carbon emission trends though the HPE Sustainability Insight Centre .

HPE Alletra MP now delivers mission-critical resiliency with midrange economics , scaling up to 5.6PB with support for up to 16 JBOF expansion shelves , double the previously available capacity . New advanced builtin global protection supports three-site replication for enhanced data protection .

With the introduction of HPE GreenLake Block Storage for AWS , HPE is simplifying data management and workload placement on the cloud through software-defined storage . HPE GreenLake Block Storage for AWS is designed to deliver a seamless , unified storage management experience across hybrid cloud with faster time to value and enterprise-class resiliency .

GreenLake Block Storage for AWS is ideal for enterprises that want to optimise data management as well as application development and deployment across onprem and public cloud environments . p

With the new HPE Timeless Programme , HPE is transforming the storage ownership experience with new investment protection and a seamless infrastructure lifecycle path . Customers that choose block storage on HPE Alletra MP and participate in the programme will qualify for an upgrade to a next-generation controller , delivered non-disruptively , when they renew their subscription .

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