An introduction to HPE IT Products

By | May 25, 2019
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise that is commonly referred to as HPE is an American Multinational Informational technology company that was founded in November 1, 2015 which is approximately 3.5 years ago. The former name of the company was just Hewlett Packard but in November 2015, the company was separated into 2 companies named Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Hewlett Packard Inc. Both the companies deal with different products. The HP Inc. deals with both personal and business desktop and also laptop products and also deals with the imaging division products such as printing and scanning. Whereas the HPE solely deals in providing a number of products and services that are related to the data center that includes servers, networking, enterprise software and enterprise storage. With that in March 2017, the company decided to merge with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to form a new company named DXC Technology. HPE’s focus is also toward providing professional services and consulting services to their clients.

HPE has always tried to provide high quality products and services to their clients thereby leading their clients to do a better job. By providing high quality servers, IT systems and other professional services HPE maintains their quality standard and continue to develop a strong goodwill for the company.  As we know that there are a number of products that HPE has to offer to their clients. So let us find out what kind of products are provided by the company to its clients. Collectively HPE has 4 product categories

  • Networking
  • Servers and server system
  • Software
  • Storage

These 4 product categories contain thousands of products in it thereby letting a client or an organization to choose from it according to their needs. If we talk about networking system of HPE, there are two types in it Campus and branch networking, data center networking. Both these types have different functions of their own and possess different technicalities in it. Access points and controllers, efficient switches, network security and management and location services are the specifications of networking.

These 4 product categories contain thousands of products in it thereby letting a client or an organization to choose from it according to their needs. If we talk about networking system of HPE, there are two types in it Campus and branch networking, data center networking. Both these types have different functions of their own and possess different technicalities in it. Access points and controllers, efficient switches, network security and management and location services are the specifications of networking.

  • Aruba central.
  • Aruba Airwave.
  • Intelligent Management Centre.
  • Arista EOS.

These above mentioned are the network management products that an organization can use.

Servers and server system contains a variety of servers that HPE has to offer. So let us find out the names of these servers.

  • Rack servers.
  • Tower servers.
  • HPE synergy.
  • Hyperconverged systems.
  • Moonshot
  • Converged systems.
  • Blade servers and systems.
  • Server options.
  • Servers A-Z.

HPE introduces IT management software that can efficiently manage, optimize and monitor any business and their infrastructure whether small, medium or large scale.

  • HPE Workload Aware Security for Linux.
  • HPE Service guard.
  • HPE One Sphere.

Following are the storage products that HPE has to offer to their clients. These storage products can help an organization to unlock the full potential of their data.

  • All-flash and hybrid storage.
  • Data protection storage.
  • File and object storage.
  • Storage automation and management.
  • Storage for enterprise applications.
  • Storage for VMs and containers.

Among these 4 categories, HPE is also providing services that can help to implement improvements in cyber risk identification. As we all know that every organization whether big or small or even medium are always open up to the risk of being attacked by hackers that can jeopardize the whole security of the organization. So they need a product that can help them secure their edge. So HPE provides organizations with different products that can help them stay safe.

  • Security dashboards. (enables you to monitor the condition of your servers)
  • Aruba clear pass device insight. (automates the fingerprinting of IP enabled managed and unmanaged devices)
  • Security risk management and digital protection services. (helps you understand the risks that your business might be exposed to)

These above mentioned products can turn out to be really helpful in protecting any business from being harmed by potential hacker.

Now that we know what kinds of products HPE has to offer and how they can help different clients and organizations to improve their performance. Let us now take a look at one of the best product that HPE has to offer. We will give a brief introduction about what this product has to offer. How it works and how it can help organizations improve their efficiency.

HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10:

HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 is a compact, scalable 2U rack mounted building block that has been designed to deliver three types of services

  • Server
  • Storage
  • Storage Networking Services.

Main functions of this product’s  Part Number Q8D81A is to deliver world class performance that can improve the efficiency, management, protection and performance of the organizations. The product has been designed in such a way that is totally compatible with today’s complex infrastructure. It also provides advanced functionality and a complete set of instructions that can secure the organization’s infrastructure and make it run smoothly. It has the capacity to support for greenfield and brownfield deployments up to 16 nodes in just one single cluster. It also has parallel node deployments and upgrades and supports the latest VMware hypervisor release vSphere 6.7 U1 and vCenter 6.7 U1. Its memory is 192 GB and comes with a 3 year warranty with 24/7 assistance. If we take a look at the technical specifications of the product, we will find out that this is a 2U form factor product with processors ranging from 144 GB to 1536 GB per node selectable. Provides a network port of 1 GB Ethernet embedded. The server includes a 3 year parts warranty, 3 year labor warranty and a 3 year onsite support. This amazing product by HPE is a must buy and comes with a number of features with it.

Conclusion:

Our topic comes to a conclusion by saying that HPE has always strive to compete with other companies by introducing a wide range of products and services to their customers for years. The products that this company has to offer can help a business to flourish real quickly. Using a wide variety of these products can help with security issues, networking issues, storage issues, management issues and many more. The products are suitable for all types of business whether big or small and comes with a warranty and 24/7 assistance. So we can say that HPE products are worth having.