Hedvig Bundled Solution With HPE Apollo 4200 Servers

Hedvig, Inc., in private and hybrid clouds, bundled a solution with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (HPE).

The Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform combines Hedvig software-defined storage with HPE Apollo 4200 servers and is available in 48- and 96TB configurations. The pretested, validated solution is a rack-scale infrastructure designed for private, hybrid, and multi-datacenter cloud solutions. Joint customers benefit from improved time-to-market and lower the costs associated with data-driven, digital business services.

“Our customers-including some of the largest Fortune 50 companies-have requested we develop end-to-end solutions with HPE,” said Avinash Lakshman, CEO and founder, Hedvig. “Partnering with HPE Pathfinder and HPE Complete teams allowed us to integrate Hedvig quickly with HPE hardware and meet these customer requirements. Our partnership with HPE and resulting collaboration on this solution is yet more validation of the increasing momentum we’re seeing in software-defined storage.“

The Distributed Storage Platform delivers the architecture needed to store, manage, and protect data in dynamic, cloud-based environments. Hedvig software-defined storage builds on HPE workload-optimized servers to enable enterprises to grow and tailor data services in lockstep with changing business requirements.

“We are proud to support Hedvig as an HPE Complete partner as it expands to new markets,” said Milan Shetti, CTO of the data center infrastructure group, HPE. “Hedvig’s mission to create highly scalable and flexible storage for cloud infrastructures aligns with our vision for hybrid IT. Together we will better serve large enterprises worldwide.“

The initial solution is available on Apollo 4200 servers, with Apollo 4500 and ProLiant server variants to follow.

Joint Hedvig-HPE solution offers:

• Multi-protocol support to collapse disparate tiers of storage: Unify block, file, and object interfaces in a single platform. Eliminate the need for disparate SAN, NAS, and object storage and collapse traditional tiers by selecting workload-optimized servers.
• App-specific data services for VMs and containers: Fine-tune data services such as replication, deduplication, and compression on a per-application basis. Provision storage from any hypervisor or container system.
• Native, multi-site replication for active data across any cloud: Replicate data across any private or public cloud site. Build highly available infrastructures that allow failover of applications, even among different public cloud providers.

Building on initial enterprise demand for the joint solution, the Distributed Storage Platform simplifies the management of data across hybrid IT infrastructures. With the availability of the platform through HPE Complete, customers benefit from the HPE suite of hardware, software, and services to build rack-scale infrastructure to provide multi-petabyte:

• Private cloud storage for vSphere, XenServer, Hyper-V and Linux KVM.
• Hybrid cloud storage-as-a-service, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Stateful container storage for Docker, microservices, and DevOps.

This is the first joint solution since Hedvig announced its strategic investment from Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, HPE’s venture investment and partnership program. Now through HPE Complete, customers can purchase perpetual and subscription licenses to Hedvig in addition to receiving support for the solution directly from HPE and the HPE partner ecosystem. HPE Complete combines third-party branded products with the added reliability of HPE’s interoperability assurance for a validated solution-all via one HPE purchase order.

By 2021, more than 30% of enterprise datacenter storage capacity will be deployed on software-defined or hyperconverged architectures (2017 Strategic Roadmap for Storage, Pushan Rinnen, et. al., Gartner, March 8, 2017). The expanded relationship with HPE helps meet this demand, giving customers and members of the Hedvig CloudScale Partner program access to world-class HPE hardware and Hedvig software in pretested, supported products.

The HPE Complete and Hedvig joint solution will be available on June 5, 2017.

Pricing starts at $115/TB/year plus associated HPE hardware costs.