The rise of hybrid and distributed environments—spanning on-premises, cloud, and edge—has redefined how enterprises manage and extract value from data.

Today, data is not just an asset; it is the foundation for intelligence, automation, and innovation. As organizations embrace AI and machine learning, the need for trusted, high-quality, and context-rich data has never been greater.

Market Overview

The rise of hybrid and distributed environments—spanning on-premises, cloud, and edge—has redefined how enterprises manage and extract value from data. Today, data is not just an asset; it is the foundation for intelligence, automation, and innovation. As organizations embrace AI and machine learning, the need for trusted, high-quality, and context-rich data has never been greater.

Traditional data architectures struggle to keep pace with these demands. The proliferation of data silos, inconsistent governance, and fragmented security models hinder visibility and slow decision-making. To compete in an AI-driven world, enterprises require a unified, intelligent data fabric—one that ensures secure access, consistent governance, and continuous insight across all environments.

The modern Data Lakehouse addresses these challenges by providing a single platform to store, process, and analyze structured and unstructured data at scale. When extended with AI-powered governance, policy automation, and metadata intelligence, it evolves into a true data fabric—enabling trusted analytics, accelerating AI adoption, and transforming data into a strategic differentiator.

Challenges of the Modern Data Landscape

Enterprises today face mounting challenges as data environments grow in scale, distribution, and complexity. Data sprawls across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures, often trapped in incompatible formats and isolated silos that limit accessibility and reuse. Managing this sprawl introduces operational friction—rising storage costs, inconsistent performance, and increased administrative overhead. Governance and compliance add further pressure, with regulations demanding granular visibility and auditable control across every data source. At the same time, emerging AI workloads require low-latency, high-context access that legacy systems were never designed to deliver. The result is a landscape where agility, trust, and efficiency are difficult to achieve—underscoring the need for a unified, intelligent data fabric that can seamlessly bridge these divides and enable AI-ready data operations at scale.

Product Overview

HPE Data Fabric Software is a next-generation data platform that unifies data management, governance, and intelligence across hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments. Designed for the AI-era, it transforms complex, distributed data ecosystems into a single, secure, and context-aware fabric—enabling organizations to access, govern, and utilize data with unprecedented efficiency and trust.

The platform provides a unified, location-independent view of data, simplifying access to files, objects, streams, and databases while maintaining enterprise-grade security and policy control. Integrated metadata intelligence supports advanced lineage, auditability, and governance—empowering teams to make informed, compliant, and timely decisions. It’s AI-powered control plane further automates data discovery, access, and compliance. This intelligent layer ensures data is consistently governed and readily available for both analytics and AI workloads. These capabilities form the backbone of a modern data platform that simplifies operations while driving greater business agility.

In essence, HPE Data Fabric Software delivers measurable cost savings and productivity gains by consolidating data from on-premises, cloud, and edge environments into a single logical store. By minimizing data movement and duplication, it optimizes resource utilization and operational efficiency—allowing businesses to focus on innovation rather than administration, and to accelerate their journey toward data-driven and AI-enabled outcomes.

Business Outcomes

Drives Business Agility with Data Lakehouse: HPE Data Fabric Software enables organizations to create a robust data lakehouse that supports structured and unstructured data, facilitating advanced analytics. This vendor-agnostic, location-independent solution drives business agility by simplifying the integration of new technologies and promoting data reuse across various projects, resulting in cost savings and increased efficiency.

Accelerates Data-Driven Insights: By unifying diverse data types such as files, objects, NoSQL databases, and real-time/batch streams into a unified data backbone, HPE Data Fabric Software provides a comprehensive view of data crucial for analytics, AI, and ML initiatives. This unified data environment empowers businesses to rapidly identify trends, anomalies, and relevant datasets for faster decision-making and strategic planning.

Streamlines Data Access & Management: HPE Data Fabric Software simplifies data management and control with a single pane of glass view and a global namespace for effortless data discovery, for data across multiple locations and formats, including on-premise, public cloud, and edge devices. By providing a comprehensive 360-view of your data landscape, HPE Data Fabric Software ensures streamlined data governance, improves compliance with data security and privacy regulations.

Hybrid Security Simplified: HPE Data Fabric Software seamlessly integrates with existing IAM systems for authentication and authorization, offering a single security management system for hybrid environments. This integration, along with advanced features like automated policy management, minimizes risks associated with manual security management and reduces the cost.

Improved Intelligence with Advanced Analytics Support: HPE Data Fabric Software supports continuous intelligence and advanced analytics through seamless integration with certified open-source tools and offers native support for CSI drivers and other HPE containerization platforms. By leveraging NVIDIA GPU Direct technology, the software accelerates AI and machine learning workloads, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and data-driven innovation for businesses seeking to enhance operational efficiency and decision-making.

Enables AI-Ready Operations: Through its AI-powered control plane and intelligent metadata governance, HPE Data Fabric establishes a trusted foundation for next-generation AI workloads. Data remains discoverable, governed, and context-rich—allowing enterprises to operationalize AI securely and at scale with confidence and agility.

What’s New:

HPE Data Fabric 8.0 introduces next-generation capabilities that unify AI interoperability, strengthen metadata intelligence, and extend real-time analytics across the hybrid data landscape.

• – AI-Powered Fabric (Model Context Protocol Integration) – Embeds a built-in MCP server to enable secure, zero-trust model-to-data connectivity and seamless interoperability with any MCP-compliant AI tool or framework. This foundation empowers organizations to operationalize AI governance, compliance, and automation natively within the fabric.
• – Enhanced Metadata Intelligence with Apache Polaris– Integrates Apache Polaris forunified metadata governance and cross-engine catalog visibility, improving lineage tracking, auditability, and policy enforcement across the Lakehouse ecosystem.
• – Apache Flink Integration for Real-Time Analytics – Introduces native Flink support for high-velocity data processing and streaming analytics, enabling faster event-driven insights and powering next-generation AI and operational workloads.

Apache Airflow 2.9.1.0

Facilitates the creation, management, and scheduling of complex data pipelines within Data Fabric by enabling users to define and execute Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) of tasks using Python.

Apache Ranger 2.4.0.0

Ensures data protection and compliance across diverse data sources and applications within Data Fabric through centralized security administration and access control.

Apache NiFi 1.19.1.100

Offers efficient data management for Data Fabric users by providing a robust data integration and processing platform that supports dataflow automation, stream processing, and real-time data ingestion.

Apache Flink 2.0.0

Delivers real-time stream processing and event-driven analytics through a distributed processing engine that enables low-latency insights and continuous data computation at scale.

For more details see: https://docs.ezmeral.hpe.com/datafabric-customer-managed/78/c_ecosystem_intro.html

Ordering Information

HPE Data Fabric File and Object Store subscriptions include an electronic license to use on one terabyte of storage, Customer's license capacity under management is defined in the Additional Licensing Authorizations (ALA) for

Notes:

• – Each subscription SKU includes a term license to use on one core plus the associated 24x7 HPE Tech Care support.
• – HPE Data Fabric is licensed by the number of unique cores available to the kernel in the OS on which the HPE software is directly installed, regardless of the number of threads in each core.

All HPE Data Fabric Software subscriptions include support with 24x7 coverage.

HPE Services HPE Tech Care Service

HPE Services HPE Tech Care Service is the operational service experience for HPE products. Tech Care goes beyond traditional support by providing access to product specific experts, an AI driven digital experience, and general technical guidance to not only reduce risk but constantly search for ways to do things better. HPE Services HPE Tech Care Service has been reimagined from the ground up to support a customer-centric, AI driven, and digitally enabled customer experience to move your business forward.

HPE Data Fabric Software products are covered by HPE Services HPE Tech Care Service Essentials, providing 24x7 global support coverage.

Notes:

• – The following end user information is required at the time of order to receive the electronic license:

  • End-user organization name
  • End-user organization address
  • End-user contact name
  • End-user email address
  • Reseller and distributor organization name and address