Research Note: HPE’s New Storage SLAs and Edge-Ready Backup Appliances
HPE recently introduced new service-level guarantees and product innovations focused on cyber resilience, energy efficiency, and zero data loss for its flagship HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 platform.
It also expanded its StoreOnce data protection portfolio with new appliances tailored to remote offices and SMBs.
HPE Strengthens Cloud and Edge Security Posture
HPE rolled confidently into RSAC Conference recently, and, I must say, they brought some interesting tech to the table. HPE has been around the network security block a time or two. But these latest moves, especially around GreenLake and the Aruba Networking gear, show that they’re serious about stepping up their security game.
NAND Insider Newsletter: Week of April 28, 2025
Each week NAND Research puts out a newsletter for our industry customers taking a look at what’s driving the week, and what happened last week that caught our attention. Below is a excerpt from this week’s, April 28, 2025.
NAND Insider Newsletter: April 21 2025
Each week NAND Research puts out a newsletter for our industry customers taking a look at what’s driving the week, and what happened last week that caught our attention. Below is a excerpt from this week’s, April 21, 2025.
Research Note: UALink Consortium Releases UALink 1.0
The UALink Consortium recently released its Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) 1.0 specification. This industry-backed standard challenges the dominance of NVIDIA’s proprietary NVLink/NVSwitch memory fabric with an open alternative for high-performance accelerator interconnect technology.
Research Note: HPE Updates Aruba Networking Central
Hewlett Packard Enterprise recently announced significant enhancements to its HPE Aruba Networking Central platform, which expand its deployment options and strengthen AI and analytics capabilities. The platform now supports four distinct deployment models: public cloud SaaS, virtual private cloud, on-premises, and network-as-a-service.
NAND Insider Newsletter: March 24, 2025
Every week NAND Research puts out a newsletter for our industry customers taking a look at what’s driving the week, and what happened last week that caught our attention. Below is a excerpt from this week’s, March 24, 2025.
Research Note: IBM Content-Aware Storage for RAG AI Workflows
At the recent NVIDIA GTC event, IBM announced new content-aware capabilities for its Storage Scale platform, expanding its AI infrastructure offerings to support more efficient, semantically rich data access for enterprise AI applications.
Research Note: HPE’s New Full-Stack Enterprise AI Infrastructure Offerings
At the recent NVIDIA GTC 2025, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NVIDIA jointly introduced NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE, full-stack AI infrastructure offerings targeting enterprise deployment of generative, agentic, and physical AI workloads.
The solutions span private cloud AI platforms, observability and management software, reference blueprints, AI development environments, and new AI-optimized servers featuring NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture.
MWC 2025 Playbook: Enterprise IT’s Big AI & 5G Moment
If you blinked, you might have missed the tidal wave of AI, 5G, and cloud announcements at Mobile World Congress 2025. But don’t worry—we’ve got the cheat sheet.
Research Note: NVIDIA AI Storage Certifications & AI Data Platform
At its annual GTC event in San Jose, NVIDIA announced an expansion of its NVIDIA-Certified Systems program, including the new NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, to include enterprise storage certification to help streamline AI factory deployments.
Research Note: HPE Storage Enhancements for AI
At NVIDIA GTC 2025, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a slew of new storage capabilities, including a new unified data layer. These capabilities are designed to accelerate AI adoption by integrating structured and unstructured data across multi-vendor and multi-cloud environments.
Research Note: WEKA & HPE Set SpecStorage Records
WEKA and HPE recently announced record-breaking results across all five benchmark workloads in the SPECstorage Solution 2020 suite. The results were achieved using the WEKA Data Platform on the HPE Alletra Storage Server 4110, powered by Intel Xeon processors.
The results show the system’s ability to handle data-intensive workloads, including AI, genomics, software development, and video analytics, with high efficiency and low latency.
NAND Insider Newsletter: February 17, 2025
Every week NAND Research puts out a newsletter for our industry customers taking a look at what’s driving the week, and what happened last week that caught our attention. Below is a excerpt from this week’s, February 17, 2025.
Research Note: HPE ProLiant Gen12 Servers
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently introduced eight new ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers for enhanced security, performance optimization, and AI-powered management. These servers will feature the upcoming Intel Xeon 6 processors and are built for data centers and edge environments.
Quick Take: Juniper Network’s Q4 Earnings
While waiting for its pending acquisition by Hewlett Packard Enterprise to become unstuck by recent regulatory scrutiny, Juniper Networks reported strong earnings that showa return to revenue growth, posting a 3% year-over-year increase and a 5% sequential jump.
NAND Insider Newsletter: February 4, 2025
Every week NAND Research puts out a newsletter for our industry customers. Below is a excerpt from this week’s, February 4, 2025.
Infrastructure News Roundup: January 2025
January isn’t usually a big month for announcements related to enterprise infrastructure, but then this isn’t a normal January. Let’s look at what happened.
NAND Insider Newsletter: January 21, 2025
Every week NAND Research puts out a newsletter for our industry customers. Below is an excerpt from this week’s.
Research Note: HPE Aruba Introduces Retail-Specific Offerings at NRF
At NRF, HPE showed off advancements to securely connect IoT devices, deliver real-time AI insights at the edge, and provide reliable pop-up and backup connectivity for critical applications like credit card processing.
IT Infrastructure Round-Up: Emerging Trends in Infrastructure and Connectivity (Nov 2024)
November was a busy month of announcements in infrastructure and connectivity, revealing a convergence of innovation to meet the stringent demands of AI-driven workloads, scalability, and cost efficiency.
SC24: Shaping the Future of IT with High-Performance Computing and AI
Last week’s Supercomputing 2024 (SC24) conference in Atlanta brought together IT leaders, researchers, and industry innovators to unveil advancements in HPC and AI, with even a little quantum computing thrown in.
NAND Insider Newsletter: Week Ending Nov 17 2024
Every week we send a newsletter to our list of tech industry insiders. Here’s an excerpt of what we shared for the week ending November 17.
Research Note: HPE Alletra Object Storage
At its recent HPE Discover Barcelona event, HPE announced its new Alletra Storage MP X10000, an object storage platform integrated with its HPE GreenLake cloud. This release introduces a multi-protocol, software-defined architecture consolidating block, file, and object storage into a single, cloud-managed system.
Research Note: Supermicro’s New Datacenter Scale Liquid Cooling
Supermicro recently announced a comprehensive, end-to-end liquid cooling solution for data centers. The solution encompasses critical hardware components such as Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs), cold plates, Coolant Distribution Manifolds (CDMs), cooling towers, and integrated management software.
HPE Aruba Central: The Multi-Vendor Network Management Solution You’ve Been Waiting For
HPE exited the multi-vendor network operations business in 2017 by divesting its OpenView platform to Micro Focus (now part of OpenText). However, times have changed, and HPE is back in the multi-vendor game with the latest release of their OpsRamp-integrated network management system, Central.
Research Note: HPE Aruba NDR
HPE Aruba has expanded its enterprise security portfolio by introducing a new Network Detection and Response (NDR) platform. The solution integrates AI-driven behavioral analytics to enhance threat detection, particularly focusing on the growing security challenges posed by IoT devices.
Research Note: HPE Q3 FY2024 Earnings
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) delivered a strong Q3 FY2024 earnings report, beating Wall Street estimates with its $7.7 billion in net revenue, up 10% year over year and exceeding guidance. The company saw growth across AI systems, hybrid cloud, and networking.
Research Note: HPE Acquires Morpheus Data to Simplify GreenLake Management
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Morpheus Data, a company known for its innovative software in hybrid cloud management and platform operations. This acquisition is part of HPE’s broader strategy to simplify the complexity of IT environments by enhancing its HPE GreenLake cloud platform.
Research Note: HPE OpsRamp Enhancements
Hewlett Packard Enterprises introduced several enhancements to its OpsRamp solution at its recent HPE Discover event in Las Vegas that bolster its autonomous IT operations vision.
HPE Networking- Not quite ready to take over the world and that’s okay.
An AI wave is soon to hit enterprise shores and is bringing a need to totally rethink enterprise network design, support models, and functional capabilities. HPE is spending billions to develop offerings for IoT, distributed computing, and artificial intelligence (AI).The years-long build is leading to HPE’s realization that a more advanced network offering is critical to the successful deployment of its AI portfolio, hence the pending Juniper acquisition.
HPE Updates Partner Programs for AI
At HPE Discover 2024, HPE announced an ambitious new AI enablement program in collaboration with NVIDIA to boost profitability and deliver new revenue streams for partners. This program includes enhanced competencies and resources across AI, compute, storage, networking, hybrid cloud, sustainability, and HPE GreenLake offerings.
Research Note: NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE
At its HPE Discover event in Las Vegas, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NVIDIA announced a collaborative effort to accelerate the adoption of generative AI across enterprises.
The collaboration, branded as NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE, introduces a portfolio of co-developed AI solutions and joint go-to-market integrations to address the complexities and barriers of large-scale AI adoption.
What is Intent-Based Networking?
Intent-Based Networking (IBN) is an advanced approach to network management and operation that uses high-level business goals and policies to automate and manage the network. Unlike traditional network management methods that require manual configurations and constant monitoring, IBN focuses on the desired outcomes or “intent” and uses AI, machine learning, and automation to achieve those outcomes.
Research Note: UALink Alliance & Accelerator Interconnect Specification
UALink is a new open standard designed to rival NVIDIA’s proprietary NVLink technology. It facilitates high-speed, direct GPU-to-GPU communication crucial for scaling out complex computational tasks across multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) or accelerators within servers or computing pods.
Quick Take: HPE Zerto Updated Cyber Resilience Vault w/ HPE Alletra Storage MP
Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, enhanced its Cyber Resilience Vault with a new HPE Alletra Storage MP integration. The integration enhances the vault’s immutability features, ensuring that data copies remain inaccessible to threat actors. It also offers a 100% data availability guarantee for the landing zone within the vault.
Research Note: NEC & Partners Demonstrate Breakthrough in Open vRAN Technology
NEC Corporation, along with Arm, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Red Hat, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently showcased a successful demonstration of Open Virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) and 5G Core Virtual User Plane Function (vUPF) technology in Tokyo.
Quick Take: HPE to Acquire Juniper Networks
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced its definitive agreement to acquire Juniper Networks, Inc., a leader in AI-native networks, for approximately $14 billion in an all-cash transaction. This is a premium of approximately 32% over Juniper’s closing stock price on the day the deal was announced.
Research Note: HPE GreenLake for Block Storage Release 3
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced the general availability of Release 3 of HPE GreenLake for Block Storage, built on HPE Alletra Storage MP.
The new release represents a significant advancement in block storage technology. It offers the industry’s first disaggregated, scale-out block storage with a 100% data availability guarantee.
Research Note: HPE Intends to Acquire Juniper Networks
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced its definitive agreement to acquire Juniper Networks, Inc., a leader in AI-native networks, for approximately $14 billion in an all-cash transaction, a premium of about 32% over Juniper’s closing stock price on the day the deal was announced.
HPE Announces Top-Down Reorganization
In a move that includes multiple executive departures and reassignments, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is restructuring to accelerate its hybrid cloud sales offensive. CEO Antonio Neri announced the reorganization details in a public blog released today.
HPE Brings AI-as-a-Service to the Enterprise with Its GreenLake for LLMs
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has always taken a decidedly infrastructure-centric approach to delivering flexible consumption-based compute, storage, and networking to enterprise IT. HPE provides that flexibility through its popular HPE GreenLake offerings. Last week at its annual HPE Discover Event in Las Vegas, HPE introduced the first of what the company says will be many domain-specific […]
HPE Releases New GreenLake Storage Options, Partners with VAST Data
While HPE announced a set of compelling new storage-related offerings for GreenLake, we were most surprised by the news that HPE tapped VAST Data to deliver the engine behind its new File Services solution.
HPE Grows GreenLake with OpsRamp Acquisition
HPE has filled the gaps in its GreenLake offerings with an aggressive run of strategic acquisitions. Since announcing GreenLake in 2018, HPE has acquired nearly a dozen companies that directly contribute to GreenLake functionality. Today it added OpsRamp to that list.
The 2023 Enterprise Storage Agenda
2023 is going to be an exciting year in enterprise storage. Principal Analyst Steve McDowell walks us through his predictions for the storage industry over the coming calendar year.