HPE has launched a new private cloud portfolio that combines flexible enterprise-grade software for virtualised workloads and unified cloud management to modernise how end users work.
Private cloud has grown in popularity over the past decade as customers have realised the benefits it provides, but increasingly customers are looking for solutions that are simplified and cost effective to maintain competitiveness.
With the competition in the market for private cloud products growing, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced its latest releases, which are what it calls “a generational leap forward” for the company’s private cloud portfolio, and that seek to redefine what a private cloud delivers to customers through nearly a decade of leadership and HPE Morpheus Software.
“Enterprises are at a pivotal moment in IT modernisation where they must address escalating management complexity and increasing virtualisation costs to free investments for core growth areas,” says said Fidelma Russo, executive vice president and general manager of Hybrid Cloud and CTO at HPE. “We are the leader in disaggregated infrastructure and our private cloud combines that leadership with new software for unified virtualisation and cloud management. HPE is giving customers the choice, simplicity and cost efficiencies to outpace the competition and re-invest in innovation,”
Radical savings and simplicity
While many IT infrastructure providers are now recognising the cost benefits of disaggregated infrastructure, HPE is seeking to redefine the full-stack private cloud through HPE Private Cloud Business Edition with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials. Business Edition, available as dHCI or HCI. This enables organisations to choose optimised architecture for VMs from the edge to the data centre. VM Essentials manages HPE VMs and traditional VMs, allowing customers to mix and match VMs to suit their needs.
VM Essentials is designed for global deployment and supported by comprehensive enterprise services available from the infrastructure to the workload.
In addition, HPE is using AI to drive the experience from setup to operations by automating infrastructure setup and lifecycle management for Business Edition and AIOps predict and prevents up to 86% of issues, freeing IT resources.
“HPE Private Cloud Business Edition has paid for itself with what we are saving on legacy support contracts, as-a-service consumption, datacentre space and energy efficiency,” said Roberto Valenta, corporate technology and operations IT manager at Aeropuertos Argentina. “The performance, scalability and reliability are the backbone of our mission-critical workloads from flight tracking to airport arrivals and departures. Business Edition powers our vision to deliver faster, stress-free services that reduce waiting, check-in, and security times for flyers.”
Cyber resilience and data protection solutions provider Commvault is the first VM Essentials ecosystem partner to support image-based VM backup and recovery.
Unified cloud management and lower costs
New HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software unifies cloud management for larger enterprises and service providers. From a simple interface, organisations can manage and govern virtualised, container-based and third-party runtimes across bare metal, on-prem and public cloud infrastructure. HPE Morpheus Enterprise automates application provisioning to deliver approximately 150X faster deployment of apps into virtually any hypervisor or cloud plus up to 30% lower cloud costs with analytics-powered rightsizing.
Morpheus Enterprise and VM Essentials are hardware-agnostic, standalone software and are newly validated to run on Dell PowerEdge servers and NetApp AFF arrays, in addition to HPE ProLiant Compute Gen 11 and Gen12 servers. New HPE ProLiant Gen 12 servers enable customers to consolidate and save up to 27% on virtualisation software, 65% on power per year and a 7:1 reduced data centre footprint.
The combination of VM Essentials and HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 lowers TCO by up to 48%, increases performance by up to 10X, and provides microsegmentation, data processing unit acceleration and enhanced security. VM Essentials also provides simple, granular storage management for the HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.
Simplifies virtualisation transformation
New HPE Cloud Platform Services – Virtualization Modernization ease virtualisation modernisation. HPE Services provides a dedicated assessment, an end-to-end process for robust landing zones, and services for re-platforming workloads, modernizing infrastructure, migrating data, educating team members, and managing infrastructure to reduce overhead. HPE was recently named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hybrid IT Infrastructure Consulting and Integration Services 2025 Vendor Assessment.
All of the HPE products mentioned above are available now.
