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Cloud

Extension of HPE InfoSight across infrastructure highlights flurry of intelligent storage news at HPE Discover

November 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Extension of HPE InfoSight across infrastructure highlights flurry of intelligent storage news at HPE Discover
Several other significant intelligent storage announcements were also made, including a new Workload Planner utility for InfoSight, new Docker and Kubernetes support for HPE Cloud Volumes, the extension of Peer Persistence from HPE 3PAR to HPE Nimble – and the introduction of HPE Memory-Driven Flash, first for 3PAR, and for Nimble next year.

Cloud

HPE extends hybrid cloud composable strategy with HPE Composable Cloud

November 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE extends hybrid cloud composable strategy with HPE Composable Cloud
The big announcement is that the composable capabilities of HPE Synergy has now been extended to rack server environments, but there are several other related goodies, including the expansion of the InfoSight predictive analytics from HPE Nimble beyond storage to all of the infrastructure.

Backup

Commvault continues deepening strategic alliances with extension of HPE relationship to StoreOnce

October 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault continues deepening strategic alliances with extension of HPE relationship to StoreOnce
Commvault is making several extremely significant strategic partnership announcements at their GO event. The one with HPE extends an existing relationship, so in terms of new business, may not be as significant in terms of new revenues, but it is still important as clear statement of their go-to-market strategy.

Storage

Addition of InfoSight predictive analytics to HPE 3PAR highlights new 3PAR enhancements

July 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Addition of InfoSight predictive analytics to HPE 3PAR highlights new 3PAR enhancements
In addition to completing the full integration of the analytics capabilities HPE acquired last year with Nimble, HPE also expanded their tools and integrations to automate 3PAR in the cloud, DevOps, virtualization and container environments.

Backup

Veeam to see major benefits from upgrade in strategic relationship with HPE

June 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam to see major benefits from upgrade in strategic relationship with HPE
Veeam has been promoted to HPE’s top partner category, Global Supply Chain, and named a Gold Partner in the HPE Global Partner Program and an HPE Pointnext storage partner. The latter allows them to be sold as an HPE consumption service, which Veeam sees as having great potential for them.

Cloud

HPE CEO Neri announces doubling down on Intelligent Edge with $4 billion R&D commitment

June 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE CEO Neri announces doubling down on Intelligent Edge with $4 billion R&D commitment
The new HPE CEO used his introductory keynote as HPE’s top exec to articulate a vision of the future where HPE will deliver next-generation technologies to customers today – a process which has already begun and where product is available today.

Backup

Veeam CEO says aggressive strategic partnering strategy central to recent – and future – growth

May 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam CEO says aggressive strategic partnering strategy central to recent – and future – growth
Veeam CEO Peter McKay credited Veeam’s expansion of their strategic relationships as critical to their success in 2017, and indicated they plan significant further expansion here going forward.

Storage

New HPE Nimble arrays feature enhanced price-performance, inline always-on dedupe and Store More guarantee

May 7, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New HPE Nimble arrays feature enhanced price-performance, inline always-on dedupe and Store More guarantee
The new Nimble arrays are also fully enabled for SCM and NVMe for when HPE supports them on these models, but the support is not yet there out of the gate.

Backup

Commvault continues expanding existing alliances, joining Hewlett Packard Enterprise Complete

March 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault continues expanding existing alliances, joining Hewlett Packard Enterprise Complete
The expansion of Commvault go-to-market abilities with HPE comes on the heels of the expansion of theirInfinidat technology integration into a go-to-market relationship, and last year’s similar agreement with Cisco.

Networking

HPE makes flurry of new solutions up and down SMB portfolio

September 29, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE makes flurry of new solutions up and down SMB portfolio
In addition to new SMB-focused server, storage, networking and hyper-converged product, HPE has brought their Consume IT OPEX pricing model from the enterprise to SMBs as well.