HPEがコンテナ、クラウドバックアップをエッジのHCIにプッシュ

Hewlett Packard Enterprise（HPE）は、ハイパーコンバージドインフラストラクチャ（HCI）SimpliVity製品を更新し、クラウドストレージへのネイティブバックアップと、エッジでクラウドネイティブアプリケーションを実行するためのコンテナーのサポートを提供しました。Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) updated its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) SimpliVity product with native backup to cloud storage and support for containers to run cloud-native applications at the edge. HPE SimpliVity with HPE Cloud Volumes Backup provides backup directly to the cloud from multiple edge sites in three clicks or via policy automation from VMware’s vCenter without additional backup software or hardware infrastructure required. Backups can also be restored to multiple edge sites without any egress charges. Additionally, HPE Cloud Volumes Backup uses consumption-based pricing, so companies only pay for storage they use. SimpliVity also updated its HPE StoreOnce integration, which targets customers with strict compliance or long-term retention service level agreements (SLAs) on data. This integration protects distributed edge sites with automated, app-aware policies to replicate apps and data directly to a centralized HPE StoreOnce appliance. The vendor claims that businesses can create or update edge-to-core backup policies in less than one minute for thousands of VMs across dozens of sites and achieve 20:1 deduplication ratios resulting in high data efficiency. And finally, in a move to support both virtual machines (VMs) and containers at the edge, HPE SimpliVity now supports the Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver for Kubernetes. This means customers can now run both VMs and container workloads on the same HCI platform at edge sites. “We’re continuing to invest in and develop new capabilities for HPE SimpliVity that enable customers to leverage edge and container-based data to innovate, accelerate delivery of new applications, and provide differentiated experiences to customers,” Omer Asad, VP and GM for HCI, primary storage, and data management services at HPE, said in a statement. The HCI updates come as HPE has been steadily gaining market share in this hot market segment. HPE beat out Nutanix for the No. 2 spot in IDC’s most recent quarterly market tracker for branded HCI systems. Dell Technologies, per usual, won the No. 1 spot in the ranking. However, for the second consecutive quarter both Dell’s and Nutanix’s revenues declined during the third quarter of 2020, while HPE’s grew twenty-five times faster than the overall market with 16.3% year-over-year revenue growth.