In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, enterprises are facing a myriad of challenges when it comes to managing their IT infrastructure. From rising costs and licensing shifts to the growing demand for hybrid cloud solutions, organizations are rethinking their workload deployment strategies. HPE (NYSE: HPE) has stepped up to the plate, expanding its GreenLake cloud portfolio to help enterprises modernize their virtualization strategy and accelerate their AI outcomes.
Comprehensive Cloud Portfolio for Enterprises
"Enterprises modernizing for AI, cloud, and virtualization take different paths—some race to accelerate time to market, others double down on security and compliance, while many zero in on cost efficiency and simplicity," said Fidelma Russo, executive vice president of hybrid cloud and CTO at HPE. "We offer a comprehensive cloud portfolio engineered to solve the challenges that matter most to our customers, while giving them the confidence to move fast and stay ahead of their competition."
Unified Enterprise-Grade Alternative for Virtualization
Driven by the evolving virtualization market, HPE is rapidly innovating and delivering new capabilities to HPE Morpheus Software to give customers an agile, secure enterprise-grade virtualization alternative. HPE Morpheus VM Essentials reduces up to 90 percent of VM license costs with multi-hypervisor support and self-service cloud consumption. The new innovations include:
Zero-Trust Security with Software-Defined Networking
Building on proven HPE Juniper Networking technology, HPE is introducing software-defined networking for VMs hosted by the HVM hypervisor in HPE Morpheus VM Essentials and HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software. The zero-trust security with built-in micro-segmentation delivers agility, enhanced networking performance, and multi-layered security for virtual machines.
Fast, Reliable Network Provisioning
HPE Juniper Networking's Apstra Data Center Director will be integrated into HPE Morpheus, enabling automated switch configuration and seamless, secure connectivity between virtual machines and hosts. Consistent VLAN and security policy enforcement across physical and virtual networks eliminates human error when moving or migrating virtual machines.
Resilient, Uninterrupted Operations
HPE Morpheus will offer stretched cluster technology with synchronous replication for VMs on the HVM hypervisor, keeping critical applications running across metro areas—even if a data center or storage system goes down. In conjunction with HPE Alletra Peer Persistence, this feature enables automatic failover between geographically distributed sites for organizations that need near-zero downtime.
Application Modernization with Kubernetes and Containers
HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software now offers full support for Kubernetes and containerized workloads on top of the HVM hypervisor. This enhancement gives customers a modern, flexible, and cost-efficient foundation to run cloud-native applications alongside traditional virtual machines—all with consistent operations, security, and lifecycle management.
Always-On Data Protection
To safeguard critical workloads and enable instant recovery, HPE is integrating HPE Zerto Software with HPE Morpheus to provide continuous data protection for VMs within HPE Morpheus VM Essentials and HPE Morpheus Enterprise. Additionally, HPE Morpheus VM Essentials will work seamlessly with Veeam Data Platform v13 to deliver hypervisor-based image-level backup and rapid recovery for VMs across private cloud environments, including HPE Private Cloud Business Edition.
Unify, Govern, and Protect Data and Operations
HPE announced new innovations with NVIDIA to help organizations adopt AI securely and manage data more effectively. The HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 Data Intelligence Nodes uses the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design to create an active data layer that enriches information in real time for AI pipelines. Alongside this, HPE Private Cloud AI added NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs across every configuration, STIG-hardened and FIPS-enabled NVIDIA AI Enterprise software in air-gapped environments, and tools to simplify AI operations.
To protect the AI data with speed and scale, HPE announced next-generation data protection and security capabilities, including:
Faster Recovery and Stronger Data Protection
HPE StoreOnce 5720 and 7700 are new next-gen backup appliances designed for resilient, high-performance data protection. The hybrid 5720 balances speed and capacity, while the all-flash 7700 delivers up to 300 TB/hour ingest for rapid protection of critical workloads, helping cut recovery time in half and avoid up to $1 million per incident placing it among the fastest scale-up backup systems available. Both models integrate directly with HPE Alletra Storage MP and HPE SimpliVity to let customers mount copies directly, making it easy to reuse protected data for forensics, analysis, or testing.
Unmatched Data Security for Sensitive Workloads
HPE is advancing Confidential Computing with AMD and Intel for CPUs and with NVIDIA Confidential Computing for GPUs; this helps ensure that data, models, and operations are encrypted end-to-end. HPE will work with the partners to create an advanced defense against insider threats, and enable compliance for regulated industries by keeping data encrypted at all times on HPE Private Cloud AI and the HPE ProLiant Compute DL380a Gen12 server.
Accelerating Hybrid Cloud Adoption
To further support enterprises in their journey to the hybrid cloud, HPE has introduced new updates for GreenLake, including the availability of CloudPhysics Plus, Cloud Commit, and an enhanced GreenLake Marketplace. These new enhancements give customers greater transparency and minimize total cost of operation with new ways to plan, purchase, and unlock value through GreenLake.
HPE Financial Services (HPEFS) is also extending existing financing programs for HPE CloudOps Software and HPE Alletra Storage, allowing customers to spread the costs over three years with no additional cost for HPE CloudOps, and standalone HPE Morpheus Software, OpsRamp, and Zerto. Customers for HPE Alletra Storage—including HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000—are eligible for up to 10% savings versus traditional purchasing plus no payments for the first two months.
As enterprises navigate the evolving IT landscape, HPE's expanded GreenLake cloud portfolio offers a comprehensive solution to modernize virtualization, accelerate AI outcomes, and simplify hybrid cloud operations. By providing enterprises with the tools and support they need, HPE is empowering organizations to stay ahead of the curve and thrive in the digital age.