File Storage and Object Storage

Secure, tailored, and economic solutions demanded by the evolving unstructured data landscape to address storage requirements for NAS, file storage, and object storage.

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Harness unstructured data at any size

Drive value to your organization with the right infrastructure for unstructured data. HPE file storage and object storage solutions span your needs, from affordable NAS for file sharing to durable petabyte-scale storage for Big Data & software-defined storage.

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INNOVATIONS

Innovations in file storage and object storage

Built for the evolution and growth of unstructured data, HPE file storage and object storage solutions address requirements with data protection, cloud extensions, future-proof flexibility, and software-defined architecture.

Innovations in file storage and object storage

Built for the evolution and growth of unstructured data, HPE file storage and object storage solutions address requirements with data protection, cloud extensions, future-proof flexibility, and software-defined architecture.

Protected

Cloud-ready

Software-Defined

Timeless

Protected

Protected

Safeguard unstructured data with resilient and self-protecting platforms. Reduce security risks through native capabilities such as data encryption, sophisticated access controls, file access auditing, file immutability, and deletion prevention.

Cloud-ready

Cloud-ready

Reap the benefits of a scalable infrastructure with data mobility between systems, sites, and the public cloud. Small and midsize businesses to enterprises gain on-site connectivity to Microsoft Azure and AWS for off-site tiering, archives, and backup.

Software-Defined

Software-Defined

Software-defined storage architectures—with purpose-built hardware platforms, rolling software upgrades, and seamless scalability—let organizations take advantage of the latest server technology and storage trends while lowering cost and complexity.

Timeless

Timeless

Meet today’s unstructured data requirements with diverse storage architectures and financial flexibility. Easily adapt to changes in your organization’s workloads and take advantage of emerging technologies with solutions built to be futureproof.

Scale with unstructured data workloads

Solve your unique data storage challenges and economically keep pace with human, sensor, and business-generated unstructured data growth.

Entry NAS

HPE StoreEasy Storage

Flexible, affordable file storage appliances and gateways for small and midsize businesses plus the branch offices of distributed organizations.

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Capabilities

Capacity-optimized

Scales to 16 LFF drives in just 2U, lowering expansion costs.

Affordable

Enable applications and users to get more done, faster.

Radically simple management

A modern and agile approach for monitoring and managing file storage.

Unified file services

HPE 3PAR File Persona

Unified file services for user workloads and block-adjacent data preservation included as a standard feature within flash-optimized 3PAR arrays.

Benefits

Maximize your primary storage efficiency

Use the right place for the right file data at the right time.

Simplify deployment and administration

Straightforward integration into a broad range of IT infrastructure.

Deploy file shares with confidence

Autonomic configuration of File Provisioning Groups and Virtual File Servers.

Servers

HPE Apollo 4200 Server

2U ultra-dense and rack-scale system providing the right balance of capacity, performance, and security for your data storage intensive workloads.

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Features

Ultra-dense and rack scale

Highest data storage density in a unique, easy-to-service 2U standard chassis.

Workload-optimized with accelerated performance

Balanced system architecture with higher bandwidth.

Data secure by design

Includes firmware protection, malware detection, and firmware recovery.

Servers

HPE Apollo 4200 with Qumulo

The HPE Apollo 4200 Gen9 Server with Qumulo File Fabric (QF2) software is a modern, highly scalable file storage solution that runs in the data center and is fully inter-operable with the public cloud. More economical and higher performing than legacy file storage systems, the solution also provides real-time analytics to let administrators easily manage data no matter how large the footprint or where it’s located globally.

File and Object

HPE Scalable Object Storage with Scality RING

A software-defined storage platform designed to lower the costs of today’s petabyte-scale storage needs as well as accommodate future data growth.

Features

Boundless scale in less footprint

Scale up to trillions of objects in a single namespace.

Maximum simplicity

Reduce the manpower required to manage petabytes of data.

Timeless flexibility

Elliminate the need to purchase new licenses with each platform refresh.

Hyperconverged secondary storage

HPE ProLiant and HPE Apollo with Cohesity Data Platform

Simplify secondary data and apps with one scale-out, software-defined platform for all use cases, including backup and recovery, archive, files and objects test/dev, and analytics.

Key features

Web-scale simplicity and efficiency

Leverage web-scale benefits pioneered by hyperscalers such as Google.

Easy, cloud-ready deployment

Take advantage of public cloud elasticity and economics.

One platform, endless possibilities

A patented distributed file system architecture.

Storage Servers

HPE Apollo 4000 Systems

Proven, capacity density-optimized servers and systems that are purpose-built for big data analytics, software-defined storage, backup and archive, and other data storage-intensive workloads.

Entry NAS

HPE StoreEasy Storage

Flexible, affordable file storage appliances and gateways for small and midsize businesses plus the branch offices of distributed organizations.

Learn more Watch the video

Capabilities

Capacity-optimized

Scales to 16 LFF drives in just 2U, lowering expansion costs.

Affordable

Enable applications and users to get more done, faster.

Radically simple management

A modern and agile approach for monitoring and managing file storage.

Unified file services

HPE 3PAR File Persona

Unified file services for user workloads and block-adjacent data preservation included as a standard feature within flash-optimized 3PAR arrays.

Benefits

Maximize your primary storage efficiency

Use the right place for the right file data at the right time.

Simplify deployment and administration

Straightforward integration into a broad range of IT infrastructure.

Deploy file shares with confidence

Autonomic configuration of File Provisioning Groups and Virtual File Servers.

Servers

HPE Apollo 4200 Server

2U ultra-dense and rack-scale system providing the right balance of capacity, performance, and security for your data storage intensive workloads.

Learn more See product tour

Features

Ultra-dense and rack scale

Highest data storage density in a unique, easy-to-service 2U standard chassis.

Workload-optimized with accelerated performance

Balanced system architecture with higher bandwidth.

Data secure by design

Includes firmware protection, malware detection, and firmware recovery.

Servers

HPE Apollo 4200 with Qumulo

The HPE Apollo 4200 Gen9 Server with Qumulo File Fabric (QF2) software is a modern, highly scalable file storage solution that runs in the data center and is fully inter-operable with the public cloud. More economical and higher performing than legacy file storage systems, the solution also provides real-time analytics to let administrators easily manage data no matter how large the footprint or where it’s located globally.

File and Object

HPE Scalable Object Storage with Scality RING

A software-defined storage platform designed to lower the costs of today’s petabyte-scale storage needs as well as accommodate future data growth.

Features

Boundless scale in less footprint

Scale up to trillions of objects in a single namespace.

Maximum simplicity

Reduce the manpower required to manage petabytes of data.

Timeless flexibility

Elliminate the need to purchase new licenses with each platform refresh.

Hyperconverged secondary storage

HPE ProLiant and HPE Apollo with Cohesity Data Platform

Simplify secondary data and apps with one scale-out, software-defined platform for all use cases, including backup and recovery, archive, files and objects test/dev, and analytics.

Key features

Web-scale simplicity and efficiency

Leverage web-scale benefits pioneered by hyperscalers such as Google.

Easy, cloud-ready deployment

Take advantage of public cloud elasticity and economics.

One platform, endless possibilities

A patented distributed file system architecture.

The business value of HPE Scalable Object Storage with Scality RING

Are you facing data sprawl, data silos, traditional and next-generation workloads, dispersed locations, and budget reductions? IDC has some info for you.

Read the white paper

Success in action

Tennessee Data Systems transforms to stay relevant and competitive

Tennessee Data Systems delivers optimized software-defined storage at petabyte scale—without worrying about capital or refresh cycles.

Challenge

Provision a highly scalable but affordable object storage solution to stay relevant and increase marketshare.

Solution

Private-label NTT infrastructure-as-a-services, in a single operationalized lease with a 48-month term for delivering storage services across the United States.

"The solution gives us the flexibility, availability, and performance required to drive down the cost of storage at petabyte-scale."

Fabrizio Bortolon, Chief Operating Officer, TNDSYS

Result

Freed up CAPEX for future investments to grow the business, boosted agility and scalability to compete more effectively and aggressively, and grew from Tier 1 regional to domestic Tier 3 and 4 data centers with full compliance.

Solution Recipe

Scality RING software

HPE Pointnext

HPE Datacenter Care

HPE Apollo 4510 System

High Performance Router

HPE HSR6602 routers

Data Center Switch

FlexFabric switches

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