HPE Primera

The world’s most intelligent storage for mission-critical apps¹ that delivers extreme resiliency and performance with the agility of the cloud.

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Mission-critical redefined

Businesses need to accelerate everything, but traditional high-end storage can’t keep up. Now is the time for intelligent storage that manages itself for every mission-critical app of today and tomorrow. Introducing, HPE Primera, the world’s most intelligent storage for mission-critical apps that unlocks the agility of the cloud, so you can innovate without compromise. Built upon proven resiliency and powered by the intelligence of HPE InfoSight, HPE Primera delivers instant access to data with storage that sets up in minutes, upgrades transparently, and is delivered as a service. Plus, it’s backed by a 100% availability guarantee.³

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Innovate without compromise

You no longer have to sacrifice agility for resiliency. HPE Primera redefines high-end storage with global intelligence, simplicity, and extreme resiliency and performance.

INNOVATIONS

HPE Primera redefines mission-critical apps

HPE redefines mission-critical storage with a series of unique innovations across intelligence, hardware, and software. HPE Primera delivers an experience unmatched in the industry. These innovations deliver the foundation for instant app access, 100% data availability guaranteed³, and always-fast, ultra-low latency.¹

HPE Primera redefines mission-critical apps

HPE redefines mission-critical storage with a series of unique innovations across intelligence, hardware, and software. HPE Primera delivers an experience unmatched in the industry. These innovations deliver the foundation for instant app access, 100% data availability guaranteed³, and always-fast, ultra-low latency.¹

Global intelligence

All-active architecture

Services-centric OS

100% Availability Guarantee

As-a-service delivery

Timeless Storage

Global intelligence

Global intelligence

The industry’s most advanced AI for infrastructure, HPE InfoSight, is now embedded into HPE Primera to optimize performance and workload placement in real time — creating the industry’s only end-to-end AI pipeline for self-managing storage.

All-active architecture

All-active architecture

Features a unique, massively parallel, multi-node, all-active platform. Achieve limitless parallelization for consolidating traditional and next-gen mission-critical applications with all volumes active on all controllers, host ports, and media at all times.

Services-centric OS

Services-centric OS

A unique OS in its class, the HPE Primera OS allows for self-install and upgrades, drives up resiliency, installs in minutes with a single click, and enables faster access to new innovation.

100% Availability Guarantee

100% Availability Guarantee

Building on global intelligence and all-active architecture, HPE Primera raises the bar on mission-critical reliability. HPE Primera comes standard with a 100% data availability guarantee³, without requiring special contracts or onerous terms.

As-a-service delivery

As-a-service delivery

Consume HPE Primera with a fully managed, pay-as-you-go experience and scale data elastically with the needs of the business.

Timeless Storage

Timeless Storage

HPE Primera has a unique ownership experience with all-inclusive licensing, non-disruptive controller upgrades, efficiency and uptime guarantees, and flexible consumption options to suit your needs. Keep your storage always modern without costly rip-and-replace upgrades.

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HPE Primera Solutions

Deploy a hybrid-by-design data platform powered by global intelligence — where your data is always-on, always fast, automated, and on-demand. Accelerate everything. Embrace hybrid cloud. Unlock hidden insights with AI as-a-service. Drive innovation.

Tier 0 Storage

HPE Primera

The world’s most intelligent storage for mission-critical apps¹ that delivers extreme resiliency and performance with the agility of the cloud.

KEY BENEFITS

93

less time needed*

Deploy, manage, and scale storage more efficiently.²

100

availability guaranteed*

Predict and prevent disruptions across the infrastructure stack.³

122

faster Oracle performance*

Consolidate traditional and modern applications at scale, without risk.⁴

AI for Hybrid Cloud

HPE InfoSight

Our intelligent storage is powered by HPE InfoSight for AI and machine learning. Self manage and optimize your IT, reducing operating costs by up to 79%, while predicting and preventing 86% of problems before you even notice them³.

Key capabilities

79

lower expenses

AI-driven operations can benefit your IT support budget.⁵

85

more IT efficiency

And an increase like that means serious ROI.⁶

30

savings on storage costs

Eliminate overprovisioning, free-up staff, and save money.⁷

Hybrid Cloud Data Protection

HPE Cloud Bank Storage

Enable simple and efficient backup to the cloud for long term retention, disaster recovery, and archiving. Leverage the cloud platform of your choice, including AWS S3, Microsoft Azure, and Scality.

Learn more Read the blog

Key features

Economic

Protect more than 100 PB5 of data at 20X6 lower cost than cloud services.

Reliable

Mitigate risk with simple, encrypted, and reliable cloud disaster recovery.

Efficient

Reduce storage capacity requirement by 20X8.

Backup appliance

HPE StoreOnce Data Protection Backup Appliances

Backup appliances that offer simple affordable and flexible data protection with rapid recovery and application integration.

Learn more Watch the video

Key features

Simplify operations

Simplify with solution without a separate gateway or virtual appliance.

Deliver on SLAs

Achieve industry-leading ingest performance.

Protect your data your way

Use consumption-based backup as a service on premises.

Composable systems

HPE Synergy

World’s first platform architected for composable infrastructure, an adaptable Hybrid IT engine built for today’s workloads and tomorrow’s disruptors.

Storage integrated data protection

HPE Recovery Manager Central

Leverage flash-integrated and cloud-ready data protection with converged snapshot, replication, backup, copy data management, and data mobility services at the speed of all-flash.

Learn more Read the brochure

Benefits

Realize flash speed protection

Deliver on your SLAs with fast, efficient, simple and reliable protection.

Take the time and stress out of data protection

Create and automate backup and archival policies with just a few clicks.

Get more from your backups

Transform backup into a proactive value-add service.

Consumption Based IT

HPE GreenLake

Deliver the outcomes your business demands. Our suite of consumption-based IT solutions—designed, delivered, and operated by HPE Pointnext—offers a simple, industry leading pay-as-you-go IT financial model, leveraging HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity.

Key capabilities

30

CAPEX savings due to eliminated need for overprovisioning ¹³

65

shorter time span to deploy global IT projects ¹³

40

increased IT team productivity by reducing the support load on IT ¹³

Tier 0 Storage

HPE Primera

The world’s most intelligent storage for mission-critical apps¹ that delivers extreme resiliency and performance with the agility of the cloud.

KEY BENEFITS

93

less time needed*

Deploy, manage, and scale storage more efficiently.²

100

availability guaranteed*

Predict and prevent disruptions across the infrastructure stack.³

122

faster Oracle performance*

Consolidate traditional and modern applications at scale, without risk.⁴

AI for Hybrid Cloud

HPE InfoSight

Our intelligent storage is powered by HPE InfoSight for AI and machine learning. Self manage and optimize your IT, reducing operating costs by up to 79%, while predicting and preventing 86% of problems before you even notice them³.

Key capabilities

79

lower expenses

AI-driven operations can benefit your IT support budget.⁵

85

more IT efficiency

And an increase like that means serious ROI.⁶

30

savings on storage costs

Eliminate overprovisioning, free-up staff, and save money.⁷

Hybrid Cloud Data Protection

HPE Cloud Bank Storage

Enable simple and efficient backup to the cloud for long term retention, disaster recovery, and archiving. Leverage the cloud platform of your choice, including AWS S3, Microsoft Azure, and Scality.

Learn more Read the blog

Key features

Economic

Protect more than 100 PB5 of data at 20X6 lower cost than cloud services.

Reliable

Mitigate risk with simple, encrypted, and reliable cloud disaster recovery.

Efficient

Reduce storage capacity requirement by 20X8.

Backup appliance

HPE StoreOnce Data Protection Backup Appliances

Backup appliances that offer simple affordable and flexible data protection with rapid recovery and application integration.

Learn more Watch the video

Key features

Simplify operations

Simplify with solution without a separate gateway or virtual appliance.

Deliver on SLAs

Achieve industry-leading ingest performance.

Protect your data your way

Use consumption-based backup as a service on premises.

Storage integrated data protection

HPE Recovery Manager Central

Leverage flash-integrated and cloud-ready data protection with converged snapshot, replication, backup, copy data management, and data mobility services at the speed of all-flash.

Learn more Read the brochure

Benefits

Realize flash speed protection

Deliver on your SLAs with fast, efficient, simple and reliable protection.

Take the time and stress out of data protection

Create and automate backup and archival policies with just a few clicks.

Get more from your backups

Transform backup into a proactive value-add service.

Consumption Based IT

HPE GreenLake

Deliver the outcomes your business demands. Our suite of consumption-based IT solutions—designed, delivered, and operated by HPE Pointnext—offers a simple, industry leading pay-as-you-go IT financial model, leveraging HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity.

Key capabilities

30

CAPEX savings due to eliminated need for overprovisioning ¹³

65

shorter time span to deploy global IT projects ¹³

40

increased IT team productivity by reducing the support load on IT ¹³

Featured resource

Redefining high-end storage with mission-critical resiliency and cloud agility

Discover why businesses undergoing digital transformation need a new approach for high-end storage — one that frees IT resources to perform more innovative and strategic tasks. In this IDC white paper on the evolving enterprise storage market, learn why organizations ready for a more resilient, simpler, high-end storage experience for every mission-critical app should take a close look at HPE Primera.

Scale-out architecture supports limitless parallelism
A modular, service-centric design for the storage OS
AI/ML-driven self-optimizing systems management
Streamlined hardware design

¹ HPE Storage Substantiation

² Based on HPE internal testing of a leading Tier-1 storage system versus HPE Primera

³ HPE 100% Availability Guarantee

⁴ Based on HPE internal testing, compared to HPE 3PAR 8450, April 2019

^{5, 6}Assessing the financial impact of HPE InfoSight predictive analytics

⁷Based on a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, The Total Economic Impact^TM of HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity, May 2018

⁸ HPE Get 6-Nines Guarantee, HPE Nimble Storage, September 2017

⁹ HPE Business White paper "Redefining the standard for system availability", August 2017

¹⁰ HPE Store More Guarantee for HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays solution brief

¹¹ IDC WW Disk Storage Systems Tracker CQ4 2016, March 2017

¹³ Based on a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, The Total Economic Impact^TM of HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity, May 2018

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