Don’t let the title fool you. We love #VMware. Everybody loves VMware, even if they don’t want to admit it. VMware has created a world where virtualization is more than just part of a company’s ecosystem, it’s practically the cornerstone on which infrastructures are built. The first question asked in any sales meeting is usually, “What percentage of your infrastructure is virtualized?”
Hewlett Packard Enterprise ( #HPE ) and VMware have enjoyed a long, successful history together. It’s often been suggested that HPE is VMware’s biggest partner, biggest reseller, biggest integrator, etc. Think about it: What industry benefits most from virtualization if not servers? And who holds the #1 market share for servers?
There’s clearly no question how much VMware and HPE have helped each other and benefited from being BFFs, and it’s more than just servers. A vast majority of VMs are connected to shared storage, which is why the top conversations at VMworld are typically related to storage integration into that ecosystem.
We’re so tight with VMware in 2014, a full year before VVols were actually released, HPE was running demos on a #3PAR StoreServ storage array at VMworld. (See Calvin Zito’s postVMware VVols and HP 3PAR StoreServ at VMworld.).
But getting to the heart of the matter: virtualization
In spite of the lovefest, we do compete with VMware, and that’s OK. VMware competes with almost everyone on some level.
HPE StoreVirtual is at the heart of HPE Composable Infrastructure, our Hyper Converged systems, and ourComposable Data Fabric. While VMware offers VSAN as their software-defined storage, HPE StoreVirtual offers much more. It’s more flexible, more mature, more resilient. It offers unlimited replication targets – infinitely valuable where software-defined and hyperconverged products are used – and it isn’t limited to VMware only.
On to composability: making “IT” synonymous with “easy”
Composable infrastructure is removing the tedious planning and preparation that goes into traditional IT decisions. This way, admins can focus on the things that are really important: the business and the apps they need to keep it moving.
Remember, this is what composable infrastructure is:
Unified APIs across compute, fabric, and storageSoftware-defined intelligencePhysical, virtual, and container-fluid resource pools
We’re finally getting to the place where everyone’s been wanting to go since the dotcom era. No more complicated IT and no more wasted cycles on ensuring interoperability and deciding whose “XYZ feature” is best. The world today loves simple management interfaces. That’s why as part of our approach to composability, we made HPE OneView, the management platform, as simple as it gets – without sacrificing a smidgen of its robustness and power. (You’re welcome.)
Maybe one of the best assets composable infrastructure brings to the table is the depth of its partner ecosystem capabilities. It integrates Docker, Microsoft, and a whole slew of other automation technologies. Why bother picking between “XYZs” when you can simply say, “Yes, please” and enjoy all the latest, greatest technologies available with a composable infrastructure?
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