Last February #HewlettPackardEnterprise Co. plunked down $650 million in cash to buy hyper-converged server and storage systems provider #SimpliVity Corp. How did SimpliVity command that price from the hardware legacy with its own portfolio of servers and storage? SimpliVity is not like other #hyperconverged infrastructure for sale today, according to Paul Miller (pictured, left), vice president of software defined and cloud group marketing, at HPE, during an interview at HPE Discover in Las Vegas, Nevada. SimpliVity user Danny Yeo (pictured, right), computer systems administrator at Brigham Young University, joined Miller for the discussion. “A lot of people started at, ‘I’m going to simplify the VM management layer.’ [SimpliVity] said, ‘No, I’m going to make the most robust virtualization data services platform in the world,” Miller told John Furrier (@furrier) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio. (* Disclosure below.) Once HPE decided to progress into the hyper-converged market, it shopped around gingerly, testing every system on the market — SimpliVity beat them all, Miller stated. SimpliVity’s made a host of guarantees such as 90 percent capacity savings, which HPE will perpetuate, said Miller. HPE is integrating SimpliVity into new offerings that blur the line between hardware and software. One of these is its Synergy composable infrastructure platform, which Miller described: “Just think about the ability to compose and recompose highly scalable software-defined storage for enterprise applications at enterprise scale.” Quirky use-cases such as running containers [a virtual method for running distributed applications] on bare metal give SimpliVity reach beyond IT; developers are expressing interest in the systems too now, according to Miller.
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