This article packages HPE Alletra features and benefits into three key areas: 1 - Data is driving the need for modernisation of storage infrastructure, 2 - Going cloud-native exploits the advantages of the cloud computing delivery model, ensuring that IT resources are always-on and instantly available, and 3 - Security – the foundation for transformation success.
We’ll talk you through the most common pain points your customers face every day, and give you the insights and info you need to ease their discomfort, with smart solutions that streamline vital workflows and processes. Why not use this as a neatly packaged way to explain to your customers how HPE Alletra can transform their IT journey.
1 - A new generation solution built for data applications
Pain point
A data-driven world is upon us. Data is at the core of every business decision, interaction, and process. Storing, protecting, and analysing data is key to delivering sustainably differentiated offerings and experiences.
The demands of data-intensive workloads are constantly evolving, mainly due to the relentless growth in data volume, generation sources, and new applications that extract value from data in different ways,
Your general-purpose data infrastructure is ill-equipped to meet new data demands These infrastructures lack optimal data processing speed, throughput, and capacity, forcing inevitable trade-offs such as:
· Squeezing the time it takes to realise the success of data-driven initiatives
· The overconsumption of scarce data centre and other resources
Painkiller
HPE Alletra is built for data applications, today and for the future. (1)
It also:
· Can be optimised across multiple dimensions—capacity, performance, economics, density, service, and support
· Accommodates both ends of the data-centric workload spectrum—from deeper data lakes and archives to high-throughput and in-place analytics and AI/ML workloads
· Is a perfect fit for real-time data processing, ransomware protection, compliance and e-discovery, video surveillance, medical imaging, and more
2 - Delivered with an intuitive cloud experience
Pain point
Legacy data storage infrastructure is usually made up of multi-vendor solutions, requiring multiple management tools. It’s not joined up. As a result, IT teams spend too much of their already scant time troubleshooting and managing the platforms. And many businesses will know that their IT teams can often be under-resourced and lacking skilled professionals.
Painkiller
HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management transforms operations with:
· One cloud console to manage your server-based data infrastructure
· Agility by automating key lifecycle operations
· Instant access to new features—up-to-date management console
Plus, simplify operations everywhere. With HPE Alletra, IT pros can effortlessly self-manage data storage servers, regardless of physical location, and consume them as a service. Furthermore, previously time-consuming management operations can be automated with a simplified experience that slashes time-to-value.
Also, HPE GreenLake enables as-a-service consumption with monthly payments. This means no huge upfront capex to modernise and enjoy cloud-enabled flexibility and scalability.
3 - Secured end to end, by design
Pain point
Cyber attacks are on the up. In fact, 39% of UK businesses identified a cyber attack in 2022. (2) General purpose infrastructure is harder to secure, especially when working with multiple management tools. It creates countless vulnerabilities across your infrastructure and data. Organisations must modernise their infrastructure to close security gaps.
Painkiller
HPE Alletra is secured end to end by design - from silicon, to software and factory, to cloud.
It’s also engineered with zero trust security for systems and data, securing the supply chain from boot-up to decommissioning of the system.
With HPE Alletra 4000 data storage servers, you can benefit from end-to-end security for systems and data, with an uncompromising core that provides integrated, scalable IT security and increased business agility.
And finally, cloud-based management ensures systems are automatically kept up-to-date with the latest features, security patches, and firmware versions.
If you’d like to know more about the HPE Alletra opportunity, get in touch with the Ingram Micro’s team. HPE Business Manager, Jack Savage: jack.savage@ingrammicro.com
REF
1 https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50007914enw?jumpId=in_psnow_5c6583d6-92d7-461d-b3c8-710f7bcf220e_gaiw
2 (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/cyber-security-breaches-survey-2022/cyber-security-breaches-survey-2022)