Pensando Launching Distributed Services Platform

Pensando Systems, Inc. announced the availability of its Distributed Services Platform (DSP) as a factory-supported option on Hewlett Packard Enterprise infrastructure solutions in addition to availability through HPE GreenLake platform.

Delivered as an option for HPE ProLiant servers, HPE Apollo systems, and HPE Edgeline Converged Edge systems, the DSP is designed to work in existing customer environments, and can be utilized in combination with many common network virtualization, security and orchestration frameworks. It provides scalable networking, security and storage functions, always-on, end-to-end telemetry, guarantees security through centralized policy management and simplifies IT operations. The solution enables pervasive network visibility using its hardware bi-directional flow streaming and traffic mirroring capabilities offering an enhanced experience and delivering additional value to HPE customers.

“We’re very excited with the progress we’ve made in the last 6 months, in particular what we’ve done with HPE,” said Prem Jain, CEO, Pensando. “As of today, our mutual customers can order truly integrated Distributed Services Platforms based on the industry-leading servers and backed by single-call HPE hardware and software support, all with a single purchase order. This vastly simplifies the purchasing process making it easier than ever for existing businesses to transform their current infrastructure into a cloud-like environment with unprecedented functionality, performance, cost-savings, scale, and observability.“

Pensando Distributed Services Platform – Powering Cloud and Enterprise Computing
The explosion of data generated by applications inside and outside of the data center has enterprises of all sizes facing stark choices-scale up capacity with a traditional IT architecture or move more workloads to public clouds. Either approach means IT staff often end up spending more time managing complexity and infrastructure than they do innovating for the business.

Pensando has created a third option that overcomes the constraints of the other 2, with a secure, programmable, edge-accelerated platform that directly addresses the generational shift occurring as data pushes to the edge of the cloud. The foundation of the platform is a custom, programmable processor optimized to execute a software stack delivering cloud, compute, networking, storage and security services wherever data is located:

• Powers software-defined services at every node with cloud performance
• Creates simple datacenter architectures that integrate with existing frameworks and feature always-on, end-to-end telemetry and centralized security policy management
• Guarantees security – inherited from existing infrastructure – and compliance for all traffic, scaling across every host, preventing unauthorized root access to compute infrastructure
• Hosting model agnostic empowering enterprises to deploy new services
• Available as a standard option on servers

Creating this third option has been validated by growth in demand for firm’s platform, and the start-up has sales at over 150% of year to date goal despite the pandemic and subsequent economic slowdown. 6 Fortune 50 companies have PoC deployments using Pensando with HPE servers, in addition to multiple top-tier public cloud providers and SP’s.

“Pensando Systems was founded on the belief that there has to be a better way to address the complex issues facing IT today,” said Soni Jiandani, chief business officer. “As a result of the ongoing global pandemic we have seen unexpected demand from both our enterprise and public cloud customers as they build out new infrastructure to meet the demand for increased remote access and cloud capabilities. Thanks in part to our partnership with HPE, we have been able to scale our supply chain to meet that demand and are readily prepared for even further growth this year.“

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About Pensando Systems
Founded in 2017, the firm is pioneering distributed computing designed for the new edge, powering software-defined cloud, compute, networking, storage and security services to transform existing architectures into the secure, fast environments demanded by next gen applications. Its platform was developed in collaboration with the large cloud, enterprise, storage, and telecommunications leaders and is supported by partnerships with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NetApp, Equinix, and multiple Fortune 500 customers. The company is led by Silicon Valley’s “MPLS” team – Mario Mazzola, Prem Jain, Luca Cafiero, Soni Jiandani and Randy Pond – who have a record of innovation having already built $8 billion/year businesses across storage, switching, routing, wireless, voice/video/data, abd software-defined networking. The firm is backed by investors that include Goldman Sachs and JC2 Ventures.