In addition to data access, the data fabric provides governance and security capabilities
HPE recently unveiled GreenLake for Data Fabric, a new hybrid cloud data management solution designed to reduce challenges associated with data silos. The latest offering, which piggybacks on a new private cloud solution HPE unveiled at its annual Discover conference, is based on technology HPE obtained with its 2019 acquisition of MapR.
“What we have seen with our customers and what we’re hearing for them as well is, as they have adopted cloud, they have created one more problem, which is they have created more silos for data now. So some data resides in AWS, some data resides in Azure, and some data resides in their premises. So again they’re not getting the optimal business value from their data across multiple silos. It enables hybrid data management and analytics for customers with data in the cloud, on-premises, or in data centres. We are enabling them to get business value from that data by being able to look at their data in a unified fashion versus looking at it silos that typically they see today. One of the key use cases for the data fabric is enabling customers to run analytics and AI/ML workloads across the data. Wherever it resides, which is a huge use case and business value,” said Vishal Lall, Senior Vice President and General Manager, HPE GreenLake Cloud Services.
HPE is addressing the dilemma with several new solutions unveiled at its Discover conference, which is taking place this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. One of those is a new HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise, which gives customers access to 70 GreenLake compute and storage services from the comfort of their data centre or co-location facility.
Another key announcement is HPE GreenLake for Data Fabric, which the company says addresses the data silo dilemma by giving customers a single control plane through which to manage all of their data, no matter if it runs in one or more public cloud, in the customers’ data centres, in co-location facilities, on edge, or anywhere in between.
The new data fabric offering is built on technology developed by MapR Technologies, the former Hadoop distributor that HPE acquired in a fire sale in 2019. MapR innovation was previously sold as Ezmeral, which now forms the basis of HPE’s GreenLake for Data Fabric offering. According to Flynn Maloy, HPE’s vice president of HPE Green Lake cloud services, it’s all about taking a data-centric approach to data management.
In addition to data access, the data fabric provides governance and security capabilities. Customers will get resiliency features like data tiering, snapshots, and mirroring. Customers will be able to scale the solution up and down as needed, and HPE will bill for GreenLake for Data Fabric on a per-gigabyte basis.
