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HPE Primera & Nimble Upgraded

by Michael Rink
HPE Primera

Today, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced several upgrades to HPE Primera and HPE Nimble. Hewlett Packard Enterprise was spun off from HP in 2015 to focus on enterprise computing. Since then, they’ve spun off several of their divisions and are now down to providing servers and cloud platforms, primarily on an as-a-Service basis.

Today, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced several upgrades to HPE Primera and HPE Nimble. Hewlett Packard Enterprise was spun off from HP in 2015 to focus on enterprise computing. Since then, they’ve spun off several of their divisions and are now down to providing servers and cloud platforms, primarily on an as-a-Service basis.

HPE Primera

HPE Primera is the company’s tier-0 data storage offering. HPE Primera six different models. Three models are all-flash versions, A630, A650, and A670. The other three models are converged flash versions, C630, C650, and C670. According to HPE, the company has upgraded the software for this service to self-correct system operations in real-time by dynamically optimizing resource utilization. By cutting humans out of the decision loop, HPE hopes to improve system performance and reduce costs. HPE also says the new software upgrades in their InfoSight service offers cross-stack analytics Hyper-V environments. The new cross-stack analytics should help to identify that performance issues between storage and VMs, and underutilized virtual resources.

HPE’s container team hasn’t been idle either. According to the company, HPE Primaera joins HPE Nimble Storage in now supporting the CSI Driver for Kubernetes.

HPE Nimble storage solutions have been architected for SCM cache with SSD persistent storage to deliver response times with an average of sub-250μs latency. The solutions are very resilient to damage and offer 3-site replication, including to the cloud, providing protection against a significant disaster along with the flexibility of the cloud to enable data to be used for test, development, and analytics.

HPE Primera

HPE Nimble

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