Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced a next generation compute portfolio that delivers a cloud operating experience designed to power hybrid environments and digital transformation.
HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers offer businesses with accurate, dependable, and optimised compute resources, suitable for many modern applications, including artificial intelligence, analytics, cloud-native applications, graphic-intensive applications, machine learning, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and virtualisation.
According to Neil MacDonald, executive vice president and general manager, Compute, at HPE the foundation of any hybrid strategy is compute.
“HPE Compute brings businesses closer to the edge, where data is created, where new cloud experiences are delivered, and where security is integral.”
“The new HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers are engineered for the hybrid world to deliver an intuitive cloud operating experience, trusted security by design, and optimised performance for workloads.” he said
Intuitive cloud operating experience
On HPE ProLiant servers, an HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management, subscription provides a cloud-native management console. This increases operational efficiency by securely automating the process to access, monitor, and manage servers, no matter where the compute environment lives.
The console provides simple, unified, and automated capabilities to allow customers to control their compute with global visibility and insight.
Customers can also easily onboard thousands of distributed devices and benefit from faster server firmware updates to focus efforts on business operations, and not on managing complex IT infrastructure.
HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management also includes carbon footprint reporting for customers to view emission metrics, from individual servers to full compute environments, to monitor energy usage.
Roger Hilton, Technical Advisor of Global Deployment, Infrastructure, & Integration, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) says we partnered with HPE and worked closely with their engineering team to help bring HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management to life.
“It allows me to rest easy as an IT professional because I no longer have to worry about a component failing or a firmware update breaking our infrastructure.”
“Imagine being on vacation and pushing out firmware without interrupting your holiday. That’s what you get.” says Hilton.
Trusted security by design
With the HPE Silicon Root of Trust, which protects over a million lines of code from malware and ransomware, starting at the silicon level, HPE leads in providing secure infrastructure, from the edge to the cloud.
Next-Gen HPE ProLiant servers build on this security innovation with the following new features to protect data and systems:
- Ensure verification and authentication for device components with the new version of the HPE Integrated Lights-Out (iLO), with iLO6. ILO isa remote server management software that enables customers to securely configure, monitor, and update HPE servers seamlessly.
- The latest version features new authentication using the Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM), a key security capability in servers for authenticating and securely monitoring devices in an open standards-based approach.
- Prevent alterations to unique server identity access with the inclusion of platform certifications and Secure Device Identity (iDevID) by default.
- Gain an additional layer of authentication by monitoring a secure boot and system state through the Trusted Platform Module (TPM).
- Adopt the highest level of security through the HPE Trusted Supply Chain. The HPE Trusted Supply Chain advances end-to-end security with certified servers that feature hardened data protection during the manufacturing process. Recently, HPE extended options for certified servers, from US-based factories, to produce and ship worldwide.
Michael Taylor, IT Director, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team says we don’t have the luxury of time to relay data back to the factory to process and send results back to the track.
“We need the ability to process data and make those decisions faster, at the edge, and that is why the team deployed a mobile data centre, based on HPE ProLiant servers, to provide our engineering team with the processing power required to compute and visualize data at-scale.”
“There is no doubt that next-generation HPE ProLiant servers will provide the same level of reliability with even greater performance and capabilities to process data-intensive workloads at the edge to unlock insights in real-time,” says Taylor.
As organisations run more demanding workloads, including AI, machine learning, and rendering projects, they require optimal compute and accelerated compute performance.
The next-generation HPE ProLiant servers are optimised to deliver high performance on an organisation’s most data-intensive workloads and support a diverse set of architectures, including:
- 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ processors,
- 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
- Ampere® Altra® and Ampere® processors
- Altra® Max Cloud Native processors.
HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers provide twice as much I/O bandwidth for the most demanding applications, 50% more cores per CPU for improved workload consolidation, and 33% more high-performance GPU density per server to support AI and graphic-intensive workloads than the previous generation.
HPE announced in June 2022 that it would be the first tier-one server provider to offer cloud-native silicon optimised for cloud-native workloads, based on the Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max cloud-native processors in the new HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server.
Service providers and organisations embracing cloud-native workloads require dedicated, cloud-native computing to deliver agile and extensible capabilities that drive innovation.
HPE GreenLake is an on-demand platform that allows customers to accelerate data-centric modernisation by providing over 70 on-premises, edge, colocation, and public cloud cloud computing options.
HPE is offering organisations looking to move from one generation to the next a choice between traditional infrastructure acquisition or HPE GreenLake pay-as-you-go compute.
Additionally, through HPE Financial Services (HPEFS), customers can convert existing technology assets into capital to purchase new or upgraded technology.
HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers featuring 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ processors will be available to order worldwide starting on November 10, and available through the HPE GreenLake cloud platform.
