After more than a decade of pioneering the definition of what private cloud can deliver to customers, HPE today announced that the industry’s most advanced private cloud portfolio (Note 1) is now even stronger with the addition of HPE Morpheus Software. HPE is committed to transforming how businesses modernize hybrid IT to deliver cost efficiency, performance and simplicity, with the following key advancements:
HPE Morpheus VM Essentials is now available on HPE Private Cloud Business Edition. With multi-hypervisor support and self-service cloud usage, you can reduce virtualization license costs by up to 90% (Note 2). The cost savings from deploying this system are significant, with an estimated 2.5 times lower total cost of ownership (TCO) (Note 4) than the industry-leading distributed HCI (dHCI) (Note 3).
The HPE Morpheus Software family includes HPE Morpheus VM Essentials for virtualized workloads and HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software for unified cloud management. Both software products include HPE’s HVM hypervisor and are licensed per socket, helping to lower TCO. VM Essentials customers can upgrade to the full version of HPE Morpheus Enterprise.
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“HPE is committed to delivering on our vision for the next generation of enterprise cloud services,” said Fidelma Russo, executive vice president, general manager and CTO, Hybrid Cloud, HPE.
“Enterprises are at a critical crossroads in their IT modernization journey, facing increasing management complexity and rising virtualization costs to free up investment for key growth areas. HPE is the leader in distributed HCI, and our private cloud combines distributed HCI with new software for unified virtualization and cloud management. HPE is delivering choice, simplicity and cost-efficiency to help our customers gain a competitive advantage over their competitors and reinvest in innovation.”
HPE Private Cloud Business Edition delivers significant cost savings and simplicity with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials
As many IT infrastructure providers realize the cost benefits of distributed infrastructure, HPE is redefining the full-stack private cloud with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials delivered with HPE Private Cloud Business Edition. HPE Private Cloud Business Edition is available on dHCI or HCI, allowing organizations to choose the architecture that best suits their virtualized environment, from the edge to the data center. VM Essentials manages HPE VMs and traditional VMs, allowing customers to mix and match their virtualized environment to suit their needs.
Proven enterprise-grade virtualization solution: VM Essentials is designed for global deployment and supported by comprehensive enterprise services available from infrastructure to workload.
AI-enabled experience from start to finish: HPE automates infrastructure setup and lifecycle management for HPE Private Cloud Business Edition and AIOps predicts and prevents up to 86% of issues, helping to reduce the strain on IT resources.
HPE Morpheus Software unifies cloud management to help reduce costs
The new HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software unifies cloud management for leading enterprises and service providers. From a simple interface, customers can manage and control virtualized, container-based and third-party runtimes across their entire infrastructure, spanning bare metal, on-premise and public cloud. HPE Morpheus Enterprise automates application provisioning, accelerates application deployment to virtually any hypervisor or cloud by nearly 150x, and reduces cloud costs by up to 30% with analytics-driven right-sizing.[6]
Morpheus Enterprise and VM Essentials are hardware agnostic, standalone software that has been newly validated to run on HPE ProLiant Compute Gen 11 and Gen 12 servers, as well as Dell PowerEdge servers and NetApp AFF arrays. With the new HPE ProLiant Gen 12 servers, you can consolidate virtualization software and reduce annual power consumption by up to 27%, while reducing your data center footprint by up to 7x.
The combination of VM Essentials and HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 delivers up to 48% lower TCO(8), up to 10x better performance(9), micro-segmentation, accelerated DPUs (Data Processing Units) and enhanced security. VM Essentials also enables simple and detailed storage management for the HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.
Simplify virtualization transformation and modernization with enterprise-grade services from HPE
Virtualization modernization is made easy with a new HPE Cloud Platform Services offering: Virtualization Modernization. HPE Services delivers end-to-end processes for a robust landing zone, replatforming workloads, modernizing infrastructure, migrating data, training, and assessment services that help reduce the overhead of managing infrastructure. HPE was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hybrid IT Infrastructure Consulting and Integration Services 2025 Vendor Assessment10.
SOURCE: PRTimes
