HPE Debuts Framework, Ezmeral Unified Analytics, Cloud Data Protection

Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Tuesday debuted the Edge-to-Cloud Adoption Framework and new platforms for hybrid cloud deployments. Ezmeral Unified Analytics will address the surge in organizations’ data, while new services will take aim at cyberattacks. All in all, the vendor intends to help customers enact digital transformation, modernize their data practices and protect assets from cyberattacks. Throughout all of that, it remains focused on the hybrid and on-premises markets, rather than public cloud.

HPE’s Keith White

“While the majority of data still resides on-premises, and not in the public cloud, other types of data that is collected, processed and managed at the edge – outside of traditional data centers or public clouds – is expected to grow to more than 50% at the edge by 2023, according to Gartner,” said Keith White, senior vice president and general manager, HPE GreenLake Cloud Services Commercial Business Group.

With that in mind, HPE released its Edge-to-Cloud Adoption Framework.

“HPE is providing organizations with the industry’s most comprehensive set of proven methodologies that identify the critical capabilities required to achieve an optimal hybrid cloud operating model for their business needs,” White said.

The framework applies regardless of where an organization lies in its cloud journey, White said.

Importantly, HPE is emphasizing business outcomes rather than specific technologies, through the use of its framework. The longtime hardware vendor, though, will indeed push the its infrastructure products in sales opportunities, representatives conceded during a Q&A with journalists. Certainly that bodes well for HPE channel partners seeking to help customers do hybrid cloud deployments with the brand.

What Makes Edge-to-Cloud Adoption Framework Different?

HPE developed the framework after more than a decade of helping organizations implement cloud. And it stands out from rivals’ approaches, White said.

“Unlike other frameworks, which are largely focused on transitioning to public cloud environments, our framework specializes in broader transformations across private cloud, public cloud and the edge,” White said.

Domains within the HPE Edge-to-Cloud Adoption Framework include Strategy and Governance, People, Operations, Innovation, Applications, DevOps, Data and Security. Partners can help clients assess their maturity levels across these fields and benchmark themselves against peers.

“In addition, it provides organizations with a common vernacular and aids in developing an actionable roadmap to meet critical digital imperatives to support a path to modernization,” White said.

HPE’s GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform targets on-premises environments with services including support for storage, AI, machine learning, high-performance computing and container management.

Moving Over to Data: Ezmeral Unified Analytics

Meanwhile, on the data side, Vishal Lall, senior vice president and general manager of HPE GreenLake Cloud Services, said Ezmeral Unified Analytics represents the first cloud-native solution on-premises. It’s also open source, so enterprises avoid proprietary technologies.

“Until now, organizations have been stuck with legacy analytics platforms that were either built for a pre-cloud era and lack cloud-native capabilities, or require complex migrations to public clouds, risking vendor lock-in, high costs and forcing adoption of new processes,” Lall wrote in a Sept. 28 blog.

Ezmeral Unified Analytics will solve those problems, Lall said. It will do so by …