Posts by Richard Christopher

Welcome to the final installment in my blog series! Let’s pick up where we left off and delve into the performance-based insights I discovered on the array. Just as our loan unit arrived with us at Nexstor, HPE announced to partners the latest release of GreenLake for Block Storage. GreenLake for Block is being released…

In this third blog of the series, I want to cover the management features of the HPE Alletra array. There are two options here: the on-system GUI or the GreenLake Data Services Cloud Console (DSCC). I think it’s fair to say that DSCC is the preferred array management method. As time passes, more functionality and…

Following the success of HPE Alletra dHCI, the term ‘disaggregated’ has resonated strongly with HPE customers.  With this new storage architecture, HPE is taking a step further with Disaggregated Storage infrastructure to separate an array’s storage capacity from storage compute resources. These disaggregated ‘nodes’ can be tailored for each customer’s use and combined into a…

Earlier this year, HPE announced their new “store, manage, protect” strategy. As part of these announcements was the release of HPE GreenLake for Block Storage and HPE GreenLake for File Storage, both powered by a newly HPE-developed storage architecture — Alletra MP.   This new architecture was seen internally within HPE storage leaders as revolutionary to…