HPE launches new storage and compute offerings to capitalize on HPC and AI

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced new high-density compute and storage solutions that enable enterprises to harness the power of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The new and enhanced solutions are part of the industry-leading HPE Apollo compute platform, designed to simplify HPC and AI adoption for enterprises of all size.

HPC and AI play an increasingly important role in digital transformation, enabling organizations to leverage modelling, simulation and deep learning to drive business innovation in areas like financial trading; computer-aided design and engineering; video surveillance and text analytics. These areas require the parallel processing of large, unstructured data sets that only extreme compute solutions can deliver. In addition, the growing volume, velocity and variety of data increase the importance of efficiently storing the data and reducing application latency for parallel processing applications.

To address these trends and help companies adopt new technologies, HPE is introducing purpose-built solutions that deliver extreme performance and capacity with a reduced data center footprint, lower cost and improved serviceability.

“HPC and AI applications are not exclusive to big research organizations and corporations; they can drive efficiency and innovation in the day-to-day business of every company,” said Vikram K, Senior Director, Data Center and Hybrid Cloud, HPE India. “Today, HPE is augmenting its proven supercomputing and large commercial HPC and AI capabilities with new high-density compute and storage solutions to accelerate market adoption by enabling organizations of all sizes to address challenges in HPC, big data, object storage and AI with more choice and flexibility.”

The new and enhanced HPE offerings introduced include:

- HPE Apollo 2000 Gen10 System: This next-generation dense, multi-server platform with a “plug-and-play” system configuration is ideal for customers with limited data center space who are looking to support enterprise HPC and deep learning applications. This platform expands easily with a scale-out architecture while leveraging the efficiencies of a shared infrastructure. HPE Apollo 2000 Gen10 supports NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU accelerators to enable deep learning training and inference across a wide variety of usages such as real-time video analytics for public safety.

- HPE Apollo 70: This dense, scalable platform – and HPE’s first ARM-based HPC system – brings more choice and flexibility to HPC customers. It provides easy access to HPC technology with support for standard HPE provisioning, cluster management and performance software.

- HPE Apollo 4510 Gen10 System: This next-generation system is purpose-built for object storage and delivers one of the highest storage capacities in any standard depth 4U server, with up to 600TB per system. The platform is ideal for customers looking to optimize the retention and placement of massive amounts of data, using object storage as an active archive with immediate access to structured and unstructured data.

- HPE LTO-8 Tape: Tape is seeing resurgence in its use as an added layer of protection against cybercrime and ransomware attacks to lower data center risk with reliable offline and off-premises data protection. HPE’s new long-term retention solution allows customers to offload primary storage to tape while reducing the cost of storing data overtime.

The HPE Apollo 2000 and HPE Apollo 4510 are available now. The HPE LTO-8 Tape will become available in December 2017 and the HPE Apollo 70 in 2018.

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