ArticlesFall 2018 Have you made the choice to go hybrid or are going hybrid? by Ryan Swango September 27, 2018 written by Ryan Swango [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]With impressive cost savings and workload flexibility, public cloud offerings have become an alluring approach for many enterprises. But, is it the best solution for your customers? Business and technical considerations, including compliance, security, cost, and application and data analytics performance issues have caused many organizations to reevaluate public cloud usage. That is why we have seen the explosion in popularity of hybrid cloud solutions that include both public and private (on-prem) cloud. It is all about finding the proper balance for your customers. Hybrid cloud improves efficiency, accelerates delivery of apps and services, and enables the flexibility to combine preferred cloud workloads to refreshed on-premises infrastructure in the ratio best suited to your customer’s organization. A truly Hybrid Experience – public and private Since 2008, Microsoft Azure public cloud services have enabled businesses to move faster and achieve more. Last year, Microsoft introduced Microsoft Azure Stack to provide the benefits of Azure public cloud – agility and scalability – with the control, performance, and security of the on-premises data center. However, perhaps the greatest benefit of the introduction was that it made hybrid even more attractive by allowing enterprises to use the same Azure platform for both public and private cloud. As an element of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Stack offers a consistent, flexible, and truly hybrid cloud environment. The MS Azure platform allows developers to leverage the same tools and processes to build apps and services, and then deploy these to either Azure public cloud or Azure Stack on-prem, selecting the optimal target platform that best meets workload requirements. Since Microsoft owns the hypervisor, the operating system, and other key elements of the solution, Azure Stack delivers a true Platform as a Service (PaaS) experience. Maximizing the power of Azure Stack HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack provides a fast and straightforward way to get the most from Microsoft Azure Stack. It delivers an integrated Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud that incorporates compute, storage, and networking, enabling Azure services to run on-premises, for your clients or yourself. With HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack, you can: Run Azure consistent services in the data center to meet security, data sovereignty, compliance, performance, and cost requirements (MS value-add) Deliver on-premises services with enterprise-class reliability, scaling, and performance (MS value-add) Have a consistent development environment for applications deployed to either on-premises Azure Stack and Azure public cloud (MS value-add) Enjoy the most configurable solution available with choices for flexibility with solution sizing between 4-16 nodes, selecting processor, memory, and storage options (HPE value add) Rely on a portfolio of professional services for planning and implementing Azure hybrid cloud projects including security, workload migration, identity management, backup and site recovery, and networking (HPE value-add) Ensure on-going top performance availability with global, enterprise-class support, remote monitoring and management, and single point of support (HPE value-add) Now available with HPE – ProLiant Gen10 HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack is now available with HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen 10 servers, bringing impressive configuration flexibility and unique new capabilities into the cloud world, including: Higher storage capacity, supporting up to 120TB raw capacity per node Higher cache capacity, supporting up to 19.2TB of cache per node Scalable solution sizing, configuration sizing anywhere between 4 and 16 nodes Higher workload performance, thanks to 66% boost in memory bandwidth and double the memory capacity, plus up to 28 cores and higher clock rates Higher networking bandwidth with up to 25GbE, resulting in a 150% increase in networking bandwidth over solutions based on 10GbE Reduced Costs thanks to HPE’s storage architecture that delivers an elegantly-balanced ratio of 2:1 capacity devices to SSD Flash devices, making it optimally designed to support Microsoft software-defined storage technology Increased Security checked and guaranteed on 3 levels: Protect, Detect, and Recover from attacks. Only HPE offers industry standard servers with major firmware anchored directly into the silicon (HPE Silicon Root of Trust) and managed by HPE iLO5 If you are a Tech Data HPE Channel Partner, you have access to MAX, our HPE Partner Enablement platform. Check out this brief for more information on why HPE ProLiant for MS Azure Stack beats the competition: HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack (Gen10) vs. Dell EMC Cloud for Azure Stack. In addition, HPE GreenLake is a suite of consumption-based services, which deliver IT outcomes in a pay-per-use model in your customer’s own environment or in the cloud. If you are a Tech Data HPE Channel Partner, you may login to MAX to check out the HPE Greenlake Infographic and HPE GreenLake – IT as a Service August 22, 2018 webinar slide deck for more information. For complete information, go to the HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack site.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row] September 27, 2018 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
ArticlesFall 2018 Energizing IT to Drive Business Growth:Real-Life Results from HPE Datacenter Care by Gerry Nolan September 27, 2018 by Gerry Nolan September 27, 2018 [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]With the economy firing on all cylinders and innovative business models common, companies are taking aim at lucrative new market opportunities. To succeed, they need to unlock a crucial resource – the ingenuity of their in-house IT talent. Many of the business leaders I talk to would love to … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
CloudFall 2018Security Top Two Hybrid Cloud Concerns?Spend & Security by Chris Purcell September 27, 2018 by Chris Purcell September 27, 2018 [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Businesses are embracing hybrid cloud in record numbers because it lets them choose a mix of applications, services and platforms — all tailored to their needs. Yet, many struggle with the complexity of operating different private and public clouds in conjunction with traditional infrastructure. Often, they don’t have the … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Fall 2018Security Three Ways of Looking at Security Operations by Travis Greene September 27, 2018 by Travis Greene September 27, 2018 [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]The term “security operations” is often interpreted to be synonymous with a security operations center (SOC). In fact, a web search on security operations results mostly in links to SOC content. But that’s a narrow view. How you view security operations will make a difference in how fast your … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Fall 2018Security 5 Creative Uses of Advanced Authentication by Kent Purdy September 27, 2018 by Kent Purdy September 27, 2018 [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Micro Focus’s Advanced Authentication (AA) is an open framework that allows just about any authentication type to be plugged into it. With its open architecture, AA allows organizations to future proof their environment so they can always have the freedom to adopt the latest without the fear of vendor … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
CloudFall 2018 WANTED:A Better Way to Manage and Optimize Hybrid Cloud Economics by Dana Gardner September 27, 2018 by Dana Gardner September 27, 2018 [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]IT leaders face complex choices when it comes to their cloud options. Literally, hundreds of thousands of services are available — and each business must decide what choice is best in terms of performance and price points. For the enterprise, a hybrid cloud environment is now the norm, which … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
DataFall 2018Security Protecting Your Enterprise – That’s Our Mission by Jonathan Deveaux September 27, 2018 by Jonathan Deveaux September 27, 2018 [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Our Story From connecting systems that never stop, to data protection comforte was founded in 1998 by the creators of a connectivity solution for mission-critical systems. Soon after becoming the most widely used terminal emulation solution for HPE NonStop systems, comforte realized the next logical step was to … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Education and TrainingFall 2018 Responses to HPE Digital Learner and blended technical training opportunities by Kelly Baig September 27, 2018 by Kelly Baig September 27, 2018 [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]HPE is on a journey with our customers, to introduce digital learning and blended learning experiences. The responses have been overwhelmingly positive – and surprisingly varied. In this article, I will share some of these responses as examples of how Education Services are changing shape as our customers change … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Fall 2018Uncategorized HPE IoT Innovation Labs:get started with your IoT or Intelligent Edge proof of concept (POC) by Tom Bradicich September 27, 2018 by Tom Bradicich September 27, 2018 [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] The role of Edge Experience Zones in ideation The edge, by definition, is anything that’s not a data center or cloud. The edge could be an assembly line, a windfarm, a submarine, a smart car, a smart city, a power plant, a smart grid, an industrial oil refinery, … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Fall 2018Uncategorized Around The Storage Block by Calvin Zito September 27, 2018 by Calvin Zito September 27, 2018 [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Most of my articles here have been looking at a topic and I write about it. In this quarter’s article, I wanted to highlight a couple of the blog articles by other experts on Around the Storage Block that have attracted a lot of attention – in other words, … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail