Podcast #119: New HPE GreenLake File, Block and Data Protection Offerings

Brian flew down to Houston to attend HPE GreenLake Day for Storage, where he caught up with Patrick Osborne, amongst many others, to gain insight into new HPE GreenLake solutions. Patrick has been with Hewlett Packard Enterprise for over 13 years with a laser focus on storage technology, Cloud Infrastructure, and Big Data.

Patrick holds the SVP & GM position running the Cloud and Data Infrastructure Platforms business for HPE. Before this, Patrick was VP Storage Business Unit and, before that, VP & GM, Big Data, Analytics, and Scale-out- Platforms. Patrick describes himself as a technology and business leader focused on growth and scaling teams.

In this podcast Brian and Patrick cover off on a lot of what’s new at HPE GreenLake like files services from VAST Data, new block storage options and even new data protection and replication offerings. The guys also get into what’s new with Alletra MP hardware, which underpins the new block and file services and how Alletra MP will impact HPE’s traditional SAN storage arrays in the near future.

We timestamped this podcast to help you navigate the show.

00:00 Introduction

GreenLake Day for Storage Intro
What’s new
GreenLake Cloud Platform
- Block Storage
- GreenLake for Block Storage
- Features
- New OS
- Alletra MP

05:00 Alletra MP

What’s in the Alletra MP Platform
Collect customer attributes
Assess data and plug it into the sizing model
Cloud physics
- Review APIs
- Deliver SLAs
- RFPs are less focused on specs
Are workloads really that different between customers
Using the telemetry database
Storage teams are smaller

10:00 Managing and protecting customer

Data Protection
- IP protection
- Government requirements
- Data Sovereignty
Using Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS
New services
- Web experiences
- Mobile
Acquisition integration
GreenLake For File Storage
Partnering with VAST Data
- Partnering with known vendors
- Bespoke hardware
- Making it easy for customers
- Shipping in volume
- Space is the new edge
Curated partnerships for GreenLake platform consumption

14:00 HPE Partnerships

Open ecosystem
Partner friendly
Building the most modern partnerships for customers
File storage
Data services
Zerto
Protection for VMs
Ransomware

18:00 Demos and Roadmaps

HPE release cadence
Waterfall release methodology
GreenLake Cloud Platform
- releases can happen more often
Continuous delivery of improvement

25:00 Shift in investments

CapEx vs. OpEx
Flexibility

29:00 Wrap Up

That’s a wrap

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