Use Cases

Do you require 100% uptime on your data center storage infrastructure without compromising performance, scale, or flexibility?

The HPE XP8 Storage array (Gen2) is the newest addition to the HPE XP storage family that has achieved 10-years of 100% data availability¹ across the entire installed base. There is no room to improve on 100%, but HPE XP8 is raising the bar by delivering industry leading 8-nines⁵ of availability, nearly assuring continued 100% availability well into the future.

Without compromise means HPE XP8 Gen2 provides unrivaled performance, scale and flexibility. In terms of performance,  HPE XP8 delivers over 33 million IOPs², well beyond competitors. HPE XP8 enables scalability up to 69 PB of internal capacity, and up to 255 PB of external virtual capacity. Flexibility to configure Hybrid or Flash, SAS or NVMe, HDD, SSD, FMD, or SCM. Newly added HW Compression Accelerator and Front-End FC NVMe adds even more performance, scale, and flexibility.

Is your enterprise class storage holding you back because you are tied down administering, tuning, and supporting infrastructure? Are you looking to shift from managing disparate clouds to a cloud everywhere experience with the same agility, simplicity, and cloud consumption for every application?

HPE Alletra 9000 is a edge-to-core portfolio designed to deliver the cloud experience wherever data lives. For mission-critical workloads, HPE Alletra 9000 delivers extreme low-latency, reliability and maximum performance density in a 4U enclosure. It enables IT to shift from owning and maintaining data infrastructure to simply accessing and utilizing it on-demand and as-a-service. Built on a unique, massively parallel, multi-node, and all-active platform, HPE Alletra 9000 consolidates traditional and next-generation mission-critical applications at scale with predictable performance and ultra-low latency, backed by a 100% availability guarantee.¹

Is your enterprise class storage holding you back because you are tied down administering, tuning, and supporting infrastructure? Are you looking to shift to a cloud everywhere experience with the same agility, simplicity, and cloud consumption for every application?

HPE Alletra powers your data from edge-to-core with the cloud experience for all your apps. For business-critical workloads, HPE Alletra 6000 delivers fast, consistent performance and industry leading data efficiency. It enables IT to shift from owning and maintaining data infrastructure to simply accessing and utilizing it on-demand, as-a-service. Eliminate performance and efficiency trade-offs with no knobs or configurations to adjust and always-on data services. Get resilient storage with intelligence and a no single point of failure platform that together deliver 6x9s¹ availability guaranteed. Deliver on recovery SLAs with fast, integrated app aware backup and recovery, on-premises and in the cloud.

Is data growth resulting in increased backup times, missed service-level agreements (SLAs), and more management resources? Are you concerned about the threat from ransomware?

HPE StoreOnce Systems with HPE StoreOnce Catalyst provide a single, high-performance backup architecture that spans the entire enterprise.
Reduce the amount of backup data you need to store by 95%¹ and choose between powerful dedicated appliances for data centers and flexible virtual appliances for smaller deployments.
Industry-leading backup and restore speeds mean that you can meet shrinking backup windows and recovery SLAs. HPE StoreOnce Catalyst prevents exposure of backup copies to ransomware. With HPE StoreOnce you can dedupe anywhere and control the data movement across the enterprise using your backup application. Using HPE Cloud Bank Storage to cloud-enable your current backup and business applications, HPE StoreOnce Systems provide even more flexibility to reduce your cost, risk and complexity.

Do you need a fast disk-based backup and recovery solution that can be installed in a single server or branch office? The HPE RDX Removable Disk Backup System is a reliable disk-based backup and recovery solution with unmatched portability, fast recovery and easy integration into a single server or branch office environment. It is rugged, removable, easy-to-use, and cost-effective for small offices or home offices with little or no IT resources. The HPE RDX Removable Disk Backup System is designed for harsh work environments where businesses need to protect, manage, transport or capture large amounts of data in less than ideal locations.

The HPE StoreEver MSL Tape Libraries meet the demanding storage requirements of businesses needing unattended tape backup, disaster recovery, low cost long-term archive capability or protection against cyber attacks such as ransomware. The MSL Libraries offer a broad choice of storage capacities and technology including LTO-9, LTO-8, LTO-7 or LTO-6 Ultrium tape drives. Web-based remote management capabilities make the MSL Libraries easy to manage from across the room or across the globe. Quickly manage tape media both in and out of the library with the standard bar code reader and configurable mail slots. Protect important business data from unauthorized access with several data encryption options. Quickly increase capacity and/or performance with simple drive upgrades to manage data growth or move exiting MSL tape drive kits between MSL libraries for investment protection.

HPE StoreEver LTO Ultrium Tape Drives represent nine generations of linear tape open (LTO) technology capable of storing up to 45TB¹ per cartridge, with hardware data encryption, HPE StoreOpen with linear tape file system (LTFS) for ease of use at an unprecedented performance. Data hardware encryption using AES 256-bit provides easy-to-enable security to protect the most sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access of tape cartridges. LTFS is an open format for storing data on tape that makes LTO generation 5 and later tapes self-describing and file-based. Capable of data transfer rates up to 300 MB/s native, the data rate matching further helps optimize performance by matching host system speed to keep drives streaming, thus enabling a faster tape performance.

The HPE StoreEver Rack-mount Kit provides a high-density, rack-mountable tape drive and Removable Disk Backup System solution for both direct-attach USB or SAS backup and archiving applications, or a combination of both LTO drives and RDX docks in the same 1U rack-mount kit. Available in a generic format supporting both SAS and USB interfaces, the 1U HPE StoreEver Rack-mount Kit accommodates up to two half-height internal tape drives with a maximum capacity of 60 TB (compressed) using two HPE LTO-8 Ultrium 30750 drives. The 1U enclosure also supports up to two internal HPE RDX docks with a maximum capacity of 8 TB per backup session when using two HPE RDX 4 TB USB removable hard disk drives.

Are you struggling to keep pace with ever-increasing workloads on a never-increasing budget? Virtualization delivers the benefits of faster deployment and consolidation, yet it demands greater performance and scalability from data center networks.

The HPE B-series SN6500B Fibre Channel Switch meets the needs of hyper-scale, private cloud storage environments by delivering market-leading 16 Gb FC technology and capabilities that support highly virtualized environments. Designed to enable increased flexibility and investment protection, the SN6500B switch scales from 48 to 96 ports and supports 4, 8, 10, or 16 Gb/s speeds in an efficiently designed 2U package. It also provides a simplified deployment process and features a user-friendly, point-and-click interface. The SN6500B offers low-cost access to SAN technology while providing "pay-as-you-grow" scalability to meet the needs of an evolving storage environment.