HPE Adds Intelligent Storage Capabilities With AI and Cloud Automation to 3par Systems

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (HPE) announced features to 3PAR, so users can focus on unlocking the economic value of their data.

Updates to 3PAR include:

• Predictive support automation with InfoSight, an industry experienced AI for the data center, to drive even higher levels of application availability for 3PAR environments

• Enhanced application automation for on-premise infrastructure with 3PAR to accelerate DevOps for increased productivity and efficiency

As businesses look to innovate faster, IT agility is critical. Intellistorage approach, coupled with flexible, consumption-based IT, eases the burden of administration and enables IT teams to focus on revenue generating priorities. These capabilities of 3PAR announced help businesses accelerate digital transformation by delivering a self-improving infrastructure and self-service storage.

“HPE 3PAR offers customers a flexible storage platform that easily adapts to any environment, which is critical as companies embrace new technologies and cloud native applications,” said Ivan Iannaccone, VP and GM, 3PAR, HPE. “The new functionalities announced build on 3PAR’s tier-1 all-flash foundation, and provide the agility needed to keep pace with growing business demands.“

InfoSight predictive analytics
InfoSight is a cloud-based AI platform built on an approach to data collection and analysis, predicting and automating resolution to problems and continuously improving to make the company’s storage smarter and more reliable. It delivers 3PAR customers a predictive analytics framework to anticipate and prevent issues across the infrastructure stack. Users will now benefit from the InfoSight capabilities to predict problems and automate resolution. This is in addition to the cross-stack analytics made available to customers, which provides IT the ability to resolve performance problems and pinpoint the root cause of issues between the storage and host VMs. Since releasing these capabilities, InfoSight has already predicted and auto-resolved 85% of more than 1,500 complex, priority cases across the 3PAR installed base.

“As a financial institution focused on delivering exceptional client service, the availability of our applications is crucial, and we’ve achieved 100% uptime for more than five years with HPE 3PAR storage,” said Ryan Burgess, manager, technology infrastructure, BlueShore Financial. “HPE InfoSight makes this experience even better by pinpointing issues between our storage and virtualized environment. Now that InfoSight predicts and prevents complex problems, it reduces our time spent on infrastructure and allows us more time for innovation and delivering a better experience to our clients.“

InfoSight enables better product experience that applies data science and intelligent case automation to help minimize the possibility of a known issue ever being experienced in the installed base. It observes, learns and predicts in real time, bringing the most experienced AI to the data center.

“InfoSight, the industry’s first and most mature cloud-based predictive analytics platform for enterprise storage, was one of the crown jewels of the Nimble Storage acquisition in 2017,” said Eric Burgener, research VP, IDC. “As they promised in the wake of the acquisition, HPE has now extended InfoSight coverage to the HPE 3PAR StoreServ product line. This is a big win for 3PAR customers, who can expect to benefit from InfoSight’s artificial intelligence- and machine learning-informed real-time optimizations to drive higher performance, better availability, lower cost, and improved system-level efficiencies – just as Nimble’s customers have. Cloud-based predictive analytics platforms like InfoSight are the future, and the InfoSight pedigree offers compelling value to HPE customers.“

Enhanced integration with any automation framework
for 3PAR provides operational with self-service storage
Enterprises need to develop both mainstream, mission-critical applications and newer, cloud-native applications on the same infrastructure in order to scale and save costs due to multiple storage systems. 3PAR is a DevOps and container-friendly platform, allowing users to run both mainstream and containerized applications on the same enterprise-grade infrastructure.

Also announcing:

• Toolsets to automate and manage 3PAR for the cloud, DevOps, virtualization and container environments. In addition to existing integration with Docker and Mesosphere DC/OS, 3PAR works with Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift to offer automation and integration with the leading container platforms.

• Plug-in for VMware vRealize Orchestrator, which empowers users with self-service storage automation through pre-built workflows to quickly deploy, and streamline storage management.

• Enhanced native infrastructure management toolchains to empower DevOps teams to be more agile. New pre-built blueprints for configuration management tools available for 3PAR users – Chef, Puppet and Ansible, as well as language software development kits in Ruby and Python – enable DevOps teams to automate storage functions in native programming languages for faster application deliveries.

“With more than one million guests shopping our stores each week, we need infrastructure that enables us to constantly create new, innovative solutions to enhance the shopping experience and speed time to market,” said Jeff Bridges, manager, IT enterprise architecture, security, compliance, and licensing, United Supermarkets. “With HPE 3PAR, we can be more advanced and modern in our approach, taking advantage of the speed and flexibility of containers orchestrated by Kubernetes running alongside our traditional applications. As a result, we’ve been able to better support our customers by creating and deploying new guest services faster-like loyalty apps and online shopping options.“

Customers expect the same experience on-premise as they do with the public cloud, including a high degree of automation, no upfront investment by only paying for what is consumed, elasticity of infrastructure, and a secure multi-tenant platform for onboarding unpredictable and heterogeneous workloads. 3PAR has an architectural advantage to deliver these same capabilities on-premise by enabling customers to serve multiple user groups and applications while payin,nly for what they use via the company’s GreenLake Flex Capacity.

• InfoSight predictive support automation is available to all 3PAR customers with an active support contract at no additional charge.

• Extended application automation features are available to all 3PAR cutomers at no additional charge.

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3PAR application automation tools