But applied correctly it can make IT infrastructure disappear. But Ronak Chokshi, who leads product marketing for InfoSight at HPE, argues that when considering how to better manage their infrastructure, tech leaders need to consider what services like Uber or Google Maps have achieved. The IT infrastructure behind the delivery of these services is immaterial to the rest of the world – except perhaps for frazzled tech leaders in other sectors who wonder how they could achieve similarly seamless operations. "The consumers don't really care how it works, as long as the service is available when needed, and it's easy to manage," he says. Or, to put another way, says Chokshi, InfoSight worries about the infrastructure, so tech teams can be more application-centric.

But applied correctly it can make IT infrastructure disappear. But Ronak Chokshi, who leads product marketing for InfoSight at HPE, argues that when considering how to better manage their infrastructure, tech leaders need to consider what services like Uber or Google Maps have achieved. The IT infrastructure behind the delivery of these services is immaterial to the rest of the world - except perhaps for frazzled tech leaders in other sectors who wonder how they could achieve similarly seamless operations. "The consumers don't really care how it works, as long as the service is available when needed, and it's easy to manage," he says. Or, to put another way, says Chokshi, InfoSight worries about the infrastructure, so tech teams can be more application-centric.

"Figuring out when I needed more space or capacity--it was a mess before. We needed to get information from so many different points when we were planning. We never got the number correct," says Cardoso. "Now, I have an entire view of the infrastructure and visualization from the virtual machines to the final disk in the rack." AIOps brings visibility over the whole environment. Before deploying the technology, Cardoso was where countless other organizations find themselves: snarled in an intricate web of IT systems, with interdependencies between layers of hardware, virtualization, middleware, and finally, applications.

Two announcements from Hewlett Packard Enterprise highlight the potential for artificial intelligence to make systems more autonomous and adaptable to changing workload demands. HPE has beefed up its SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform and its Primera storage system to include AI capabilities and composability features from HPE Synergy and HPE Composable Rack. HPE defines a composable infrastructure as one that abstracts compute, storage, and networking resources from their physical locations and can be managed by software through a web-based interface. The idea is to make data center resources as readily available as cloud services and is the foundation for private and hybrid cloud solutions. Combine the agility and economics of HPE storage with HPE GreenLake and run your IT department with efficiency.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced advancements to HPE SimpliVity, the company's flagship hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform, ushering in a new generation of HCI powered with artificial intelligence to simplify virtual machine (VM) management and free IT staff to focus on innovation. Building upon its software-defined architecture, HPE SimpliVity is enhancing its customer experience with HPE InfoSight, one-click cluster upgrades, and the integration of HPE StoreOnce. Today's enterprises are under relentless pressure to streamline operations and accelerate innovation, but in order to achieve this agility, they require an intelligent underlying architecture for virtualized environments that automatically speeds time to market and eliminates complexity. While HCI inherently accelerates service delivery and resource efficiency, traditional HCI offerings still require IT to react to unexpected disruptions and application delays, and make tradeoffs as enterprises scale their environments. HPE SimpliVity goes beyond software-defined, ushering in AI-driven infrastructure, infusing artificial intelligence to transform IT operations by predicting and preventing issues.

The next phase of software-defined infrastructure is artificial intelligence (AI) powered hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), according to Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). And to this end, the vendor announced it started shipping its HCI product SimpliVity with Infosight, its AI-management tool, as well as one-click cluster upgrades and integration with its data protection software StoreOnce. "HCI already represents simplicity for the VM [virtual machine] administrator," said David Wang, director of product marketing for storage at HPE. "You're going to have faster time to market, you're going to have easier management because you're eliminating silos. But HCI hasn't solved that problem of day two and beyond." HCI improves resource efficiency by scaling compute and storage.

As you may remember from HPE Discover in June, HPE announced that InfoSight is being integrated into HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). HPE InfoSight is a SaaS portal with the intelligence to predict and even prevent infrastructure problems before they happen. I know, I can hardly believe it myself. Now the HPE SimpliVity platform, which includes features such as always-on inline deduplication and compression, and built-in data protection, will be the first HCI solution to include artificial intelligence (AI) using HPE InfoSight. In this blog series, I am going to walk you through the benefits of InfoSight in an HPE SimpliVity environment.

Digital transformation requires companies to be nimbler, more proactive, and more responsive to customers. Our always-on culture has begotten the need for always-available data. Meanwhile, the tolerance for downtime continues to plummet. Whether it's a bank customer conducting a financial transaction or a salesperson submitting an order, a processing delay is no longer acceptable. An interruption like this sets off an IT scramble to determine how to fix that "app-data gap" -- i.e., what's causing delays in data delivery to applications.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced the refresh of the entire Nimble portfolio, moving into "gen five" all-flash and adaptive flash arrays that boast a 3x performance boost versus the previous generation. How to plan, manage, and optimize enterprise storage to keep up with the data deluge. Speaking with ZDNet ahead of the launch, Jean Paul Bovaird, who runs HPE's storage and incubation business in the APAC region, said the new HPE Nimble Storage platform is backed by a guarantee to "deliver the best storage efficiency of any all-flash array". It is also designed to take advantage of Storage Class Memory (SCM) and NVMe, in what he said is "protecting customer investments" over the long term. HPE announced that it was acquiring Nimble Storage for $1 billion in cash in March last year.

In late November, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced the industry's first artificial intelligence (AI) recommendation engine designed to simplify and reduce the guesswork in managing infrastructure and improve application reliability. HPE InfoSight is an industry-leading predictive analytics platform that brings software-defined intelligence to the data center with the ability to predict and prevent infrastructure problems before they happen. Leveraging advanced machine learning, the new capabilities for HPE InfoSight pave the path toward an autonomous data center. HPE also announced the first release of HPE InfoSight for HPE 3PAR, which makes cross-stack analytics and global visibility available, and provides the foundation for predictive support. This declaration sets in motion the promise to extend machine learning across the HPE storage and server portfolio.