Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has made significant strides in enhancing its private cloud offerings. The company has launched a new advanced private cloud portfolio, drawing from nearly a decade of experience with its HPE Morpheus Software. This development aims to deliver greater efficiencies and capabilities to customers.
Key Announcements from HPE
- The HPE Private Cloud Business Edition now incorporates HPE Morpheus VM Essentials. This combination can reduce virtual machine (VM) license costs by as much as 90%. The Business Edition is designed to lower total cost of ownership (TCO) by a factor of 2.5 when leveraging disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI).
- The HPE Morpheus software suite includes VM Essentials focused on virtual workloads and Morpheus Enterprise Software for comprehensive cloud management. Both solutions feature the HPE hypervisor and are licensed per-socket for cost efficiency.
- New services have been introduced to ease virtualization modernization for diverse customer sizes.
Transformative Impact of HPE Private Cloud Business Edition
HPE Private Cloud Business Edition aims to significantly decrease costs and streamline operations. This offering, available as either dHCI or hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), allows organizations to customize their architecture for virtual machines, whether at the edge or in data centers. VM Essentials facilitates management of both HPE and traditional VMs, providing flexibility for users.
- Enterprise-grade solution: VM Essentials supports global deployment and is backed by extensive enterprise services.
- AI-powered optimization: The solution automates setup and lifecycle management, while AIOps can mitigate up to 86% of potential issues.
Roberto Valenta, corporate technology and operations IT manager at Aeropuertos Argentina, highlighted that HPE Private Cloud Business Edition has recouped its costs through savings in legacy support, as-a-service consumption, and energy efficiency. The solution is vital for managing mission-critical workloads, enhancing service delivery at airports.
Morpheus Software for Unified Cloud Management
HPE’s new Morpheus Enterprise Software aims to centralize cloud management for larger enterprises. It allows users to govern virtualized, containerized, and third-party applications across various environments, enhancing deployment speed by up to 150 times and reducing cloud costs by up to 30% through analytics-driven optimization.
Both Morpheus Enterprise and VM Essentials are standalone solutions that are now validated for operation on Dell PowerEdge servers and NetApp AFF arrays, in addition to HPE ProLiant Compute Gen11 and Gen12 servers. HPE’s latest ProLiant Gen12 servers deliver additional cost savings and efficiency improvements.
Simplifying Virtualization Transformation
The introduction of HPE Cloud Platform Services aims to streamline virtualization modernization processes. These services encompass comprehensive assessments, workload re-platforming, and team training to lower operational costs. HPE has recently been recognized as a leader in the IDC MarketScape for Hybrid IT infrastructure consulting and integration services.
Availability of New Offerings
- The HPE Private Cloud Business Edition with Morpheus VM Essentials is currently available, with new systems featuring SimpliVity set to launch in the third quarter of 2025.
- Morpheus Software integration for Alletra Storage MP B10000 will be available in June, along with HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000.
- Morpheus Enterprise Software is also available as a standalone solution.
With these advancements, HPE is positioned to redefine private cloud capabilities, offering enterprises greater choice, efficiency, and innovation potential.