HPE Radically Simplifies Application Deployment in Manufacturing Plants

SINGAPORE, October
4, 2017 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced a new
platform that radically simplifies application deployment in manufacturing
plants and unifies the operation of legacy and smart-factory applications.
Express App Platform – Manufacturing is an on-premises solution that is integrated
with Cloud28+, the world’s largest cloud aggregator, and allows manufacturers
to accelerate digital factory transformation while avoiding disruption of their
ongoing operation.

Digitizing
manufacturing processes brings many benefits including operational savings,
improved flexibility and new revenue streams, but traditional applications such
as Manufacturing Execution Systems are often complex and difficult to
modernize. Conversely, applications hosted in the cloud can drive digital
innovation, but also lead to data protection, cost and latency issues. By
hosting both old and new applications on one single platform in factory
premises, the Express App Platform – Manufacturing eases the transformation and
dramatically reduces the need for separate hosting of legacy and bespoke
applications.

“Traditional
manufacturing applications support a stable, yet rigid automation of production
processes”, said Volkhard Bregulla, Vice President, Global Manufacturing
Industries at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “The Express App Platform –
Manufacturing helps customers integrate smart-factory applications into their
operations to create an adaptable factory without affecting the current
foundation of their ongoing business.”

Deploy Manufacturing
Applications with Only Six Clicks

Express App Platform –
Manufacturing allows customers to deploy applications from the Cloud28+
catalogue with only six clicks via a seamlessly automated process. Based on
hyper-converged infrastructure HPE SimpliVity 380, the
new platform features the Express App Platform Intelligent Agent which securely
downloads selected applications from the Cloud28+ catalogue and leverages
Docker container technology managed by Kubernetes to automatically deploy the
application in the Express App Platform environment on the factory floor.
Infrastructure automation software, HPE OneView, automates
the provisioning and management of the required compute, storage and fabric
resources. During operation, built-in backup and disaster recovery ensures the
highest levels of data integrity and availability.

Agile Automation with
Sensor-data Intelligence

Express App Platform –
Manufacturing is optimized to host applications that support a factory and its
productions lines, including Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM)
applications like Manufacturing Execution Systems or Advanced Planning and
Scheduling, as well as IoT applications. Running those applications directly on
the factory floor allows manufacturers to better integrate operations
management with machine control systems to leverage IoT sensor-data
intelligence for agile automation of production processes.

Express App Platform –
Manufacturing can be used in conjunction with HPE Edgeline IoT Systems which
provide real-time sensor data acquisition, analytics and control, operated
close to the production lines to deliver faster insights and agility.

The Right Expertise
for Digital Factory Transformation

HPE’s services
organization, HPE Pointnext, offers a
set of advisory, professional and operational services for the Express App
Platform – Manufacturing, including:

·       HPE Factory Deployment Service – helps
customers plan, architect, deploy and integrate the Express App Platform
environment

·       HPE Edge Applications Configuration and
Integration Service – helps customers integrate applications running on the
Express App Platform with enterprise applications and machine control systems

·       HPE
Flexible Capacity for
Express App Platform – offers an on-demand capacity and a pay-as-you-go
consumption model, giving customers the ability to scale up and scale down
capacity as needed and to pay only pay for what they consume, providing cloud
speed and economics on premises, at or below the cost of public clouds.

Availability

Express App Platform –
Manufacturing is now available from HPE in the EMEA region. Global availability
is planned for late 2017.

About Cloud28+

The mission of
Cloud28+ is to offer customers a seamless on- and off-premises experience,
based on a common platform of shared resources – services, tailored solutions
and knowledge. Recently named by 451 Research as the largest cloud aggregator
(1), Cloud28+ counts approximately 600 partners located in 56 countries –
service providers, solution providers, ISVs, distributors, system integrators,
universities and public sector organizations – contributing to a catalog of
more than 21,000 build and consume services. Through the Cloud28+ catalog,
customers and partners can easily find trusted, enterprise-grade services and
install the apps on-premises or connect directly with a local Service Provider
for deployment. The Cloud28+ community and cloud service catalog can be found
at: http://www.cloud28plus.com.

About Hewlett Packard
Enterprise

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.

(1) 451 Research:
“HPE’s Cloud28+ now has Azure Stack, in a bid to accelerate adoption of hybrid
IT,” 11 Aug 2017