HPE Integrates Intelligent Storage Into Its Composable Infrastructure Portfolio

HPE has built intelligent storage into its composable infrastructure, enabling partners to deliver the cloud experience to their on-premises customers through a highly automated data center environment. The hardware powerhouse told attendees of VMworld Barcelona on Monday that it has integrated AI sourced from its Primera Storage platform into both its rack and blade composable solutions, Lauren Whitehouse told CRN. "We're taking that AI capability and having it really permeate our portfolio," Whitehouse said. Primera AI capabilities are based on the InfoSight data platform obtained through HPE's 2017 acquisition of Nimble Storage. HPE started by integrating that technology into ProLiant servers before launching Primera to extend operational intelligence across its data center portfolio. AI-powered composable solutions allow HPE's on-premises infrastructure to operate closer to a cloud model, delivering comprehensive automation, flexibility and scalability of the kind that is driving customers to the public cloud, Whitehouse said.