HPE Introduces Industry’s Broadest High Performance Flash Portfolio for Midsize Businesses

Singapore – September
26, 2017 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today
announced new infrastructure offerings to enable resource-constrained small and
midsize businesses (SMBs) to increase application performance and reduce risk
without added cost.

As the role of IT
continues to change from backend support to driving business value and
outcomes, customers of all size are trying to move faster and gain agility.
However, midsize businesses are often behind the curve due to budget
constraints, manpower issues, and other pressures.

To help these
customers more rapidly adapt and benefit from new technologies, HPE is
introducing the right mix of systems, networking solutions, storage and
financing programs, across the entire SMB spectrum ranging from 1 – 1,000
employees.

For midsize customers
looking to provide predictable acceleration of business applications, HPE
announced a flash portfolio update including a new, more powerful HPE MSA
storage array; HPE Nimble Storage flash arrays; and an even more affordable
all-flash HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen 10 hyperconverged system. Complementing these
new all-flash systems is the new HPE StoreFabric M-Series switch, which
provides industry-leading price and performance for Ethernet-based storage
network connectivity.

Additionally, for
midsize businesses looking to take advantage of the world’s most secure
industry standard servers portfolio, the HPE ProLiant ML110 Gen10, ProLiant
ML350 Gen10 and ProLiant DL580 Gen10 Servers are optimized for growing business
needs while providing a balance of performance, price and versatility.

HPE has also
introduced a new WiFi solution specifically designed for businesses with fewer
than 100 employees. The HPE OfficeConnect OC20 provides secure, reliable and
cost-effective business-grade Wi-Fi for businesses without dedicated IT
resources.

For the first time,
small and midsize businesses now have access to affordable all-flash storage
with the new HPE SimpliVity 380 hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). HPE is
announcing new entry-level SimpliVity 380 solutions that provide a 20% lower
cost than leading competitors. These solutions will offer the benefits of
all-flash storage—twice the performance of hybrid solutions with half the
latency. The HPE SimpliVity 380 HCI targets midsize businesses who want the
agility and economics of the cloud with the performance and protection of an
on-premises solution. Built-in capabilities — including data protection,
disaster recovery, deduplication, and compression — uniquely address key
requirements and provide additional opportunities for consolidation and
savings.

The HPE Nimble Storage
Predictive Flash platform includes the most advanced predictive analytics
engine in the industry for customers seeking a true next-generation all-flash
solution. InfoSight predictive analytics is capable of addressing over 86% of
storage issues before they occur and delivers six-nines measured
availability. This technology offers both superior performance and the
highest availability with options to scale to petabytes as a customer’s
business grows. HPE announced the acquisition of Nimble Storage earlier this
year and as of November 1, 2017, the full Nimble Storage portfolio of
adaptive and all-flash offerings will be available exclusively from HPE channel
partners worldwide.

SMB customers must often
choose between price and performance, but now these businesses are able to
enjoy enterprise-grade storage at an affordable cost. SMBs will no longer be
forced to put business priorities on the backburner due to high costs of
enterprise storage. The new MSA1050 hybrid storage array starts under $5.5K,
representing the lowest entry price point in the HPE shared storage portfolio.
The flagship MSA 2050/2052 models deliver two times more performance than its
previous generation for the same price1. HPE is enabling direct SAS
connectivity for ProLiant Gen10 servers to MSA1050/2050 storage, providing
access to flash storage without any network infrastructure required.

For many SMB customers,
the thought of deploying dedicated fibre channel network infrastructure for
their flash systems is cost prohibitive and adds complexity. The HPE
StoreFabric M-series switches enable SMBs to achieve an affordable,
high-performance network infrastructure built for flash. The new family of HPE
StoreFabric M-Series Ethernet switches provide flash-optimized networking over
standard iSCSI connections. MSA, Nimble, 3PAR and SimpliVity customers can
assure that their new flash solutions provide the maximum performance benefit
for apps and users by deploying on a network architected for extreme low
latency at an industry leading price point.

Security is a top
priority for all customers, and HPE is helping SMBs prevent attacks that
disrupt their business. The security features on the ProLiant ML110 Gen10,
ProLiant ML350 Gen10 and ProLiant DL580 Gen10 provide the ultimate protection
against firmware attacks. The ProLiant ML110 Gen10 and ProLiant ML350 Gen10
servers offer a balance of performance, capacity, and manageability, and are
the ideal choice for growing SMBs, remote offices and branch offices (ROBOs).
Combined with ClearOS, They make IT simple, secure and affordable for SMBs and
ROBOs. The ML110 Gen10 Server is the best performing single processor tower for
SMBs and ROBOs, delivering a 21% performance boost over the previous
generation. The ML350 Gen10 Server is ProLiant’s most powerful and versatile 2P
tower, delivering a 71% performance boost and a 27% increase in cores over the
previous generation. The secure HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen10 provides storage
expandability and performance scalability going from two to four processors to
support business critical applications for midsize businesses.

Small businesses are
going mobile and embracing new technologies such as cloud, mobility and unified
communications to increase business efficiency and customer engagement. While
Aruba is the mid-tier to large enterprise networking brand, HPE is extending
its networking capabilities to small business with HPE OfficeConnect OC20. The
HPE OfficeConnect OC20 is a cost-effective Wi-Fi solution designed for
businesses without dedicated IT resources, and provides secure and reliable
business-grade Wi-Fi that is easy to set up with an intuitive mobile app. With
OC20, small businesses across all vertical industries can rapidly deploy and
manage Wi-Fi. The HPE OfficeConnect OC20 Access Point is available to order now
at a retail price of $250.

Consume IT for SMB is
designed to simplify the procurement process and enable customers to pay for
their technology as they use it – over time. SMB businesses can now select a
complete solution from pre-defined options that include best-in class Gen10
servers, storage, and networking hardware, software, and support services, and
then pay  a predictable monthly subscription fee. To help SMBs compete in
the age of digital disruption, HPE Financial Services offers a range of
tailored IT investment solutions, including Consume IT for SMB.

·       HPE SimpliVity 380 hyperconverged infrastructure
is currently available to order

·       HPE Nimble Storage arrays are currently
available with US street pricing starting at $20,000

·       HPE MSA1050 is currently available with US
street pricing starting at $5,500

·       HPE StoreFabric M-series switch is currently
available with US street pricing starting at $7,990

·       HPE ML110 is currently available with US street pricing starting
at $1,299

·       HPE ML350 is currently available with US street
pricing starting at $1,899

·       HPE DL580 is currently available with US
street pricing starting at $15,449

·       HPE OfficeConnect OC20 is currently available
with US street pricing starting at $250

·       Hyperconverged Infrastructure For Dummies
eBook: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/resources/integrated-systems/hyperconverged-infrastructure-dummies.html

·       IDC White Paper: How HPE SimpliVity can
improve data protection https://www.hpe.com/us/en/resources/integrated-systems/hyperconverged-data-protection.html

·       HPE OfficeConnect OC20 product page: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/product-catalog/networking/networking-wireless/pip.hpe-officeconnect-oc20-802dot11ac-series-access-points.1010099011.html

Hewlett Packard
Enterprise is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to
go further, faster. With the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio, spanning
the cloud to the data center to workplace applications, our technology and
services help customers around the world make IT more efficient, more
productive and more secure.

1Est US Street Price (MSA 2050 SAN base unit,
1GbE iSCSI SFP+ modules, four 300GB HDDs); prices are subject to change without
notice