Software-defined infrastructure

Solutions that automate IT operations and streamline management of resources, workloads, and apps by deploying and controlling data centre infrastructure as code.

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Make your infrastructure intelligent

Run your infrastructure as code to integrate and automate IT operations. Software-defined infrastructure (SDI) will give you a simpler, faster and more efficient platform that operates with little human intervention and enables you to develop and deploy apps faster.

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SIMPLIFY AND AUTOMATE YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE

Eliminate IT silos and reduce complexity with software-defined intelligence. Streamline IT operations and lower costs by transforming servers, storage and networking into software-defined-infrastructure.

Optimise IT operations with continuous delivery

Improve data centre efficiency and empower IT operations with policy-driven automation that accelerates application and service delivery.

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Simplify operations and lower costs

Transform compute, storage and networking into software-defined infrastructure to automate tasks and accelerate your business.

Develop and deploy apps faster

Deliver a competitive edge to the business by continuously building, testing and deploying applications through a single interface that enables developers to compose infrastructure precisely, in just minutes, with a single line of code.

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GARTNER PEER INSIGHTS CUSTOMERS’ CHOICE

HPE named a March 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Hyperconverged Infrastructure.

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SOFTWARE-DEFINED INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS

Gain efficiency and control with software-defined solutions that let you manage all your infrastructure as code, using powerful software to deploy IT resources quickly, for any workload.

Infrastructure Management Software

HPE OneView

Integrated IT management that transforms compute, storage and networking into software-defined infrastructure to automate tasks and accelerate your business.

Benefits

68

Less unplanned downtime ¹

63

Faster server deployment ²

46

Faster storage deployment ³

PRIVATE CLOUD

HPE Composable Rack

Flexible deployment choices for rack-scale composability running mixed workloads on HPE ProLiant DL360/380/560 Gen10 servers.

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Benefits

Accelerate time to market

Automate IT operations to deliver apps and services faster and more efficiently.

Dynamically scale with ease

Compose and grow infrastructure on demand, and non-disruptively.

Unlock IT capital for innovation

Modernise and transform to focus on innovation.

Networking Fabric

HPE Composable Fabric

Software defined networking fabric purpose-built for workload-driven performance and scale.

Benefits

Agility and scale

Friction-free scale supercharges your DevOps velocity and application time-to-market.

Adaptability and performance

Serve your applications better with the isolation of critical workloads to ensure exclusive path access.

Visibility and control

Empower the admin to manage, provision and implement traffic from a single portal.

Hyperconverged

HPE SimpliVity

An enterprise-grade hyperconverged platform that speeds application performance, improves efficiency and resiliency, and backs up/restores VMs in seconds.

Key benefits

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Increase in time for innovation²

10:

Reduction in data centre devices³

52:

Reduction in storage²

Composable

HPE Synergy

Composable, software-defined infrastructure that speeds application delivery.

Benefits

Infrastructure for any application

Software-defined infrastructure for physical, virtual and containerised workloads.

Deploy at cloud-like speed and scale

Single interface that precisely composes infrastructure at near-instant speeds.

Automate everyday operations

Increase productivity and control across the data centre and reduce operational effort and cost.

HYBRID CLOUD

HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack

An integrated Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud that incorporates compute, storage and networking, enabling you to run Azure services on premises, for your clients or yourself.

KEY BENEFITS

Maximise agility

Rapidly provision and scale services with the same self-service experience as Azure.

Simplify your IT

Same management and automation services you use with Azure public cloud

Reduce costs

Financial flexibility of hybrid cloud to minimise infrastructure expenditures and reduce operational costs.

Services

HPE Pointnext Services

IT services that accelerate your digital transformation so you can create new customer experiences, optimise core business operations and deliver new products and services.

Capabilities

11

successful transformation engagements per year

25

of the brightest minds in IT, dedicated to your digital transformation

80

countries covering 30 languages, delivering global scale and expertise

Infrastructure Management Software

HPE OneView

Integrated IT management that transforms compute, storage and networking into software-defined infrastructure to automate tasks and accelerate your business.

Benefits

68

Less unplanned downtime ¹

63

Faster server deployment ²

46

Faster storage deployment ³

PRIVATE CLOUD

HPE Composable Rack

Flexible deployment choices for rack-scale composability running mixed workloads on HPE ProLiant DL360/380/560 Gen10 servers.

Explore HPE Composable Rack

Benefits

Accelerate time to market

Automate IT operations to deliver apps and services faster and more efficiently.

Dynamically scale with ease

Compose and grow infrastructure on demand, and non-disruptively.

Unlock IT capital for innovation

Modernise and transform to focus on innovation.

Networking Fabric

HPE Composable Fabric

Software defined networking fabric purpose-built for workload-driven performance and scale.

Benefits

Agility and scale

Friction-free scale supercharges your DevOps velocity and application time-to-market.

Adaptability and performance

Serve your applications better with the isolation of critical workloads to ensure exclusive path access.

Visibility and control

Empower the admin to manage, provision and implement traffic from a single portal.

Composable

HPE Synergy

Composable, software-defined infrastructure that speeds application delivery.

Benefits

Infrastructure for any application

Software-defined infrastructure for physical, virtual and containerised workloads.

Deploy at cloud-like speed and scale

Single interface that precisely composes infrastructure at near-instant speeds.

Automate everyday operations

Increase productivity and control across the data centre and reduce operational effort and cost.

HYBRID CLOUD

HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack

An integrated Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud that incorporates compute, storage and networking, enabling you to run Azure services on premises, for your clients or yourself.

KEY BENEFITS

Maximise agility

Rapidly provision and scale services with the same self-service experience as Azure.

Simplify your IT

Same management and automation services you use with Azure public cloud

Reduce costs

Financial flexibility of hybrid cloud to minimise infrastructure expenditures and reduce operational costs.

Services

HPE Pointnext Services

IT services that accelerate your digital transformation so you can create new customer experiences, optimise core business operations and deliver new products and services.

Capabilities

11

successful transformation engagements per year

25

of the brightest minds in IT, dedicated to your digital transformation

80

countries covering 30 languages, delivering global scale and expertise

What's new

HPE OneView 5.0 introduces improvements to firmware compliance and support features

June 18, 2019 The newest version, HPE OneView 5.0, introduces enhancements to manage firmware compliance at scale for all HPE ProLiant Gen10 servers, HPE BladeSystem and HPE Synergy.

What's new

HPE OneView 5.0 introduces improvements to firmware compliance and support features

June 18, 2019 The newest version, HPE OneView 5.0, introduces enhancements to manage firmware compliance at scale for all HPE ProLiant Gen10 servers, HPE BladeSystem and HPE Synergy.

True hyperconvergence packs a powerful and efficient punch

Reducing infrastructure complexity: There has to be a better way

February 04, 2019

HPE Composable Cloud for ProLiant DL delivers rack-scale composability

November 26, 2018

HPE extends composable strategy with new capabilities to accelerate customer innovation

Take business beyond legacy IT with HPE Simplivity

Learn how to take business beyond legacy IT by combining IT infrastructure and data services for virtualised workloads into a single hyperconverged node.

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Featured case study

Transforming travel into a software-defined destination

Global travel industry technology provider Travelport deployed the composable infrastructure of HPE Synergy to accommodate exponential growth in transaction volumes and prepare for an AI-driven future.

Challenge

Booming volumes in online travel booking meant Travelport needed to re-imagine its proprietary commerce platform, where transaction latency, infrastructure scalability and fast app deployment are critical.

Solution

Travelport transformed its IT environment to align with business and IT goals. The company created a scalable, agile infrastructure to reach new levels of transaction performance; optimised deployment; supported Agile development; and set the stage for future innovations leveraging in-memory computing.

“Creating a seamless, personalised, streamlined traveller experience – those are the types of advances we can pursue with our platform now that we’ve removed the constraints on innovation.”

Jim Morris, group VP, technology CFO, Travelport

Result

Travelport now delivers its customers booking options with up to 30% faster response times, lowered its unit costs for transaction processing, and freed cash flow for innovations like AI and machine learning.

Travelport’s Solution Recipe

Infrastructure Management Software

HPE OneView

HPE Synergy

Data Centre and Hybrid Services

HPE Datacenter Care Services

IT Financing & Investment Solutions

HPE Financial Services

Related Case Studies

RioCan saves $300,000 by using composable infrastructure

RioCan Real Estate’s new composable infrastructure reduced host servers from 14 to eight while increasing total capacity of disk memory and CPU by 30%.

Streamlining infrastructure management for growing SMBs

Opus Interactive saves resources by automating deployment and management of multiple groups, devices and data centres through a single user interface.

Bechtle slashes server deployment times

Bechtle Hosting and Operations reduced provisioning from nine hours to 55 minutes and enabled self-service VM deployment by using composable computing.

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Leveraging the best of both worlds, at speed

Dutch cloud provider The Sourcing Company turned to hybrid cloud to provide its legal clients with confidentiality, accessibility and speed.

Composable Infrastructure for Dummies

Composable Infrastructure for Dummies

In a digitally-driven idea economy, IT is either an enabler or an obstructer. Discover the pitfalls of traditional IT infrastructure, how composable infrastructure can deliver new value instantly and continuously, and how to achieve the right service level to run any workload, anytime, anywhere. You’ll learn:

Why IT needs a single infrastructure for traditional and new apps.
How CI supports anytime, any workload computing.
Where CI fits into your data centre options.

¹"The Business Value of HPE OneView,” IDC, July 2017

²IDC Operational Efficiency White paper, August 2018

³ The Total Economic Impact™ of HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure,” Forrester Research, Inc., 2017.

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1,2,3 "The Business Value of HPE OneView", IDC, July 2017