VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Fidelma Russo to join in HPE as the new CTO:  Hewlett Packard Enterprise   announced that   Fidelma Russo   has been named Chief Technology Officer for the company. Fidelma will lead the innovation agenda and technology roadmap for HPE and manage the design and development of the HPE Greenlake edge-to-cloud platform. The appointment of Russo comes with HPE in the midst of a “massive acceleration” of the GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service development effort.   “We are excited for Fidelma to join the HPE team in this important role,” said  Antonio Neri, President and CEO of HPE . “Fidelma brings deep expertise in cloud services, software, and infrastructure built on an extensive career in technology. Her diverse experience makes her distinctively suited to drive innovation as we accelerate our transformation and bring differentiated solutions to the market.”   "I am thrilled to be joining Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a company with a deep herit...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced new features to HPE 3PAR, so that users can focus on unlocking the economic value of their data. HPE InfoSight is a cloud-based AI platform built on a unique approach to data collection and analysis, predicting and automating resolution to problems and continuously improving to make HPE storage smarter and more reliable. HPE InfoSight delivers HPE 3PAR customers a predictive analytics framework to anticipate and prevent issues across the infrastructure stack. This is in addition to the cross-stack analytics made available to HPE 3PAR customers, which provides IT the ability to resolve performance problems and pinpoint the root cause of issues between the storage and host virtual machines. Since releasing these capabilities, HPE InfoSight has already predicted and auto-resolved 85% of more than 1,500 complex, priority cases across the HPE 3PAR installed base. HPE InfoSight enables a new and better product experience that...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that HPE OneView has reached one million licences, helping thousands of customers worldwide improve and simplify their cloud experience and speed the delivery of applications and services through automation, allowing them to move faster, and be more responsive to critical business needs. In addition, HPE continues to add capabilities to HPE OneSphere to enable Azure public cloud. Leveraged by leading enterprises, small and medium businesses and in every major geography, HPE OneView enables customers to deploy infrastructure and workloads faster, deliver policy-based management and increase efficiency through workflow automation. “As enterprise cloud adoption continues to mature, organizations are developing a comprehensive strategy for managing both on- and off-premises infrastructure,” said Vikram K, Senior Director, Hybrid IT, HPE India. “HPE OneView brings together all aspects of everyday lifecycle management across comp...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced HPE SimpliVity 380 with Microsoft Hyper-V and new SimpliVity integration partner solutions as a Citrix WorkSpace Appliance Partner. The new offerings expand customer hypervisor options and simplify and enhance the ability to provide high-performance virtual applications and desktops, making it faster and easier to deliver secure digital workspaces in today’s hybrid cloud world. HPE SimpliVity 380 with Microsoft Hyper-V provides businesses with an easier IT infrastructure solution, simplifying the data center by converging servers, storage and storage networking into one simple to manage, software-defined platform. The result is increased business agility and economics of the cloud in an on-premises solution. The pre-integrated, all-flash, hyperconverged building block simplifies IT by combining all infrastructure and advanced data services for virtualized workloads, including VM-centric management and mobility, data protection an...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced the HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack (Gen 10), leveraging Intel’s latest Purley-based Xeon processors to enable customers to run workloads more quickly and securely. The next-gen HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack solution delivers higher storage capacity, increased cache capacity, better performance, and increased security. Based on the HPE DL380 Gen 10 server, the solution enables customers to gain the benefits of a Microsoft Azure public cloud in an on-premises deployment. “IT departments are under huge pressure from lines of business to utilize new technologies that drive innovation and growth—while simultaneously reducing costs,” said Vikram K, Senior Director, Hybrid IT, HPE India. “Leveraging our long-standing partnership with Microsoft and joint R&D efforts, we are able to deliver a solution that fits the needs of our customers, enabling them to simplify IT implementation and reap the benefits associated wit...

ABB and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have entered into a strategic global partnership that combines ABB’s digital offerings, ABB Ability, with HPE’s innovative hybrid information technology (IT) solutions. The partnership will provide customers with solutions that generate actionable insights from vast amounts of industrial data to increase efficiency and flexibility of their operations and create competitive advantage. “This alliance between two global leaders is unprecedented in terms of breadth and depth, and it will be groundbreaking for the progress of the Industrial Internet of Things,” said Meg Whitman, CEO, HPE. “Together with ABB, we will shape a digital industrial future where everything computes, equipping machines with intelligence to collaborate, allowing plants to flexibly adapt to changing demands, and enabling global supply chains to instantaneously react to incidents. This partnership will create exciting business opportunities for our joint customers.”.......

Infosys has partnered with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to offer a joint end-to-end mainframe modernization solution, which will provide global enterprise customers robust hardware and advanced software architecture.   Ravi Kumar, President & Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Infosys, said, “Digital transformation is being embraced by enterprises across various industries. Infosys, through this partnership with HPE, aims at co-creating and enabling clients to simplify their IT landscape by redeploying existing mainframes on modern architecture. Customers will be able to re-host and re-engineer their business critical enterprise applications on modern hardware and software architecture to scale and accelerate the business impact in a secure manner. This will lead to enhanced productivity for customers across industry segments. This partnership with HPE will help clients modernize their mission-critical infrastructure with confidence.”   Infosys' Mainframe Moderniz...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has transformed into a smaller, nimbler company, and announced that the company will move its corporate headquarters to Santa Clara, California from its current Palo Alto location by the end of 2018. There are plans to sell its Palo Alto building and relocate employees to newer, nearby sites including San Jose, Milpitas and the company’s state-of-the-art HPE Aruba offices in Santa Clara, which will become the new global headquarters. The HPE Aruba Office was recently built as a showcase for Aruba’s intelligent workplace technologies. The building is a next-generation digital workplace that provides innovative tools to enable employees to quickly and efficiently locate each other find appropriate meeting spaces and use technology to collaborate seamlessly. Aruba designed a new 230,000 sq. ft. campus with an open floor plan. Housed in a new LEED Silver building, it includes multiple types of community spaces, quiet zones, collaboration areas, ...

Micro Focus has announced the finalization of its merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) software business to create the seventh-largest pure-play enterprise software company in the world. This merger brings together two leaders in the software industry to form a new, combined company uniquely positioned to help customers maximize existing software investments and embrace innovation in a world of Hybrid IT. Following merger, Chris Hsu, formerly COO of HPE and Executive Vice-President and General Manager of HPE Software, was appointed CEO of Micro Focus. “Today marks a significant milestone for Micro Focus, and I am honoured to be leading this team,” said Chris Hsu, Chief Executive Officer of Micro Focus. “We are bringing together a powerful combination of technology and talent uniquely positioned to drive customer-centred innovation at enterprise scale – enabling organizations to maximize the RoI of existing software investments while embracing the new hybrid model fo...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) at VMworld has announced a composable platform for VMware Cloud Foundation, based on HPE Synergy. This solution will enable IT organizations to simplify their transformation to a hybrid IT infrastructure, deploy infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and private clouds in minutes and lower virtual machine (VM) costs compared to public clouds and traditional server racks.  Today, IT is under pressure to respond to line of business and developer initiatives with cloud speed, optimize their right mix of IT, including on-premises, hosted and public cloud, all while lowering capital and operational expenditures (CapEx and OpEx). The combination of HPE Synergy with VMware Cloud Foundation will enable customers to:... Read More

At Microsoft Inspire, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has formed a go-to-market alliance with Microsoft through Cloud28+, the world’s largest, open community dedicated to increasing enterprise cloud adoption. Microsoft joins Cloud28+, an initiative led and sponsored by HPE, as a premier Microsoft Azure Stack technology partner. By becoming a Cloud28+ member, Microsoft will join forces with HPE to provide partners with new business opportunities and tools, while accelerating customer business outcomes powered by a rich hybrid IT ecosystem.  Through Cloud28+, HPE and Microsoft will create a joint Azure Stack ISV onboarding program focussed on connecting software vendors to HPE and Microsoft solution and service providers, helping them to grow their market visibility and develop new revenue streams. In turn, HPE and Microsoft solution and service providers will benefit from dedicated lead generation campaigns and sales enablement activities to bolster their Azure Stack sales. Custo...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Wipro have signed a new global go-to-market agreement to provide joint customers with on-premises IT infrastructure at flexible consumption-based pricing. This collaboration will leverage HPE’s Flexible Capacity and Wipro’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings to address the increasing customer demand for consumption-based IT.  IT organizations are under pressure not only to ensure that day-to-day operations run smoothly, but also to deliver new applications, processes and services that allow businesses to innovate. Some enterprises have turned to the public cloud to fulfil these new demands, attracted by the IT-as-a-Service model that allows customers to pay as they go only for the technology resources that they use. While some workloads may be right for the public cloud, others – which may require higher security, compliance and service levels – are best kept on-premises. Through the new HPE and Wipro partnership, customers can take a...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has announced a generation of High Performance Computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) systems, software and services to accelerate scientific, engineering and business innovation. The HPE Apollo 6000 Gen10, HPE SGI 8600 and HPE Apollo 10 Series systems are workload-optimized to deliver faster, more efficient insights while reducing vulnerability to cyber-attacks and improving economic control.  HPE is announcing the following: HPE SGI 8600 System – The HPE SGI 8600 is a liquid cooled petascale system, based on the legacy SGI ICE XA architecture, purpose-built to solve the most complex scientific, engineering and national security challenges and: * Delivers industry’s fastest parallel processing performance * Scales to more than 10,000 nodes without additional switches using integrated switches and hypercube technology * Offers more choice and flexibility based on industry standards HPE Apollo 6000 Gen1...

In the hyperconverged world to meet your regular IT needs today which is the future and it is also fact that Data problem is going increase in the coming days. Virtualized workloads with different IO streams are sharing the physical resources of the host. This results in random IO streams competing for resources—and the emergence of new efficiency requirements as the IOPS required to service virtual workloads has increased.  To address the transformational technologies for delivering on the future needs of end users and targeting a bigger share in the HCI space. HPE acquired SimpliVity, data management platform for $650 million in cash. a leading provider of software-defined, hyperconverged infrastructure. Simplify IT operations with one control platform to deploy, monitor, analyse and update, all by a single IT generalist.  SimpliVity provides SDDC (software-defined data center) architecture and HCI technology. Though SimpliVity was founded in 2009, it began produ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced plans for a spin-off and merger of its non-core software assets with Micro Focus in a transaction valued at approximately $8.8 billion. The combination of these software assets which includes HPE’s Application Delivery Management, Big Data, Enterprise Security, Information Management & Governance and IT Operations Management businesses and Micro Focus’ highly complementary portfolio will create one of the world’s largest pure-play software companies. The move enables Hewlett Packard Enterprise to realize its vision of being the industry’s leading provider of hybrid IT, built on the secure, next-generation, software-defined infrastructure that will run customers’ data centers today, bridge them to multi-cloud environments tomorrow, and enable the emerging intelligent edge that will power campus, branch and IoT applications for decades to come.... Read More

The Government of Jharkhand has launched its maiden investment promotion campaign branded “ Momentum Jharkhand “. Meant to promote a “ Digital Jharkhand “, the event opened with the unveiling of the brand logo and launch of the campaign website  momentumjharkhand.com Hon’ble Chief Minister of Jharkhand Raghubar Das said in his opening remarks, “Jharkhand is the most investment-ready state with crystal-clear vision and a robust roadmap. We rank among the best in terms of business reforms and have instituted best practices to fast-forward investments, based on DIPP (Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion) guidelines. It is my privilege to work in tandem with our Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi ji, on the Central Government’s vision of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikaas .” Chief Minister Raghubar Das also holds charge of the industry ministry in Jharkhand... Read More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has come up with OneView 3.0 to provide software-defined intelligence across HPE’s family of infrastructure solutions, including HPE ProLiant, HPE BladeSystem, HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Hyper Converged solutions, and HPE Synergy. “Organizations need tools that enable them to simplify IT operations, respond to business demands at cloud speed and increase productivity, ultimately freeing up IT resources required to deliver new and innovative services to their customers. Our mission is to make IT simple for customers. Whether they are managing and maintaining infrastructure, running traditional applications or developing new revenue-generating services on cloud native applications, HPE OneView is the infrastructure automation engine built to make that all possible,” said Vikram K, Director – Servers, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India . .. Read More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has unveiled the Edgeline EL1000 and Edgeline EL4000 . These systems integrate data capture, control, compute and storage to deliver heavy-duty analytics and insights at the edge to enable real-time decision making. In addition, HPE has announced enhanced IoT security capabilities, new services and an industry-leading partner ecosystem to advance the adoption and impact of the Internet of Things. “Organizations that take advantage of the vast amount of data and run deep analytics at the edge can become digital disrupters within their industries. HPE has built machine learning and real-time analytics into its IoT platforms, and provides services that help customers understand how data can best be leveraged, enabling them to optimize maintenance management, improve operations efficiency and ultimately, drive significant cost savings,” said Vikram K, Director – Servers, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India . .. Read More

A surprise announcement made on Tuesday saw Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) spinning off its technology services division by merging it off with Computer Sciences Corp (CSC), an American company. The outsourcing and management services deal that follows the split of Hewlett-Packard Co. last October will have HPE owning half of the new company. HPE CEO Meg Whitman will be on the new company’s board, and HPE and CSC will each nominate half of the board members. CSC’s current CEO, Mike Lawrie, will become CEO of the new company. HP got into the IT services business by acquiring EDS for $14 billion in 2008... Read More

In line with technology solutions, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has expanded its portfolio of products and services to help customers transform to a hybrid infrastructure. Technology innovations include solutions that deliver agility, performance advantages and overcome business complexity enabling customers transform their IT departments using SAP HANA . “Customers today need to respond quickly to critical demands in this rapidly-evolving business environment. The latest products and solutions from HPE and SAP will provide customers access to tightly integrated, full-stack solutions that will give them real-time business analytics and applications, managed in a secure, scalable, cost-effective cloud environment,” said Vikram K, Director – Servers, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India . .. Read More