HPE, Pure Storage unveil enterprise storage products

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Pure Storage each introduced new storage-related products and services targeted at high-performance workloads – which means AI.

HPE expanded its HPE GreenLake for File Storage offering with the addition of a new high-density, all-flash storage array, which the company said is aimed at large-scale enterprise AI and data lake workloads.

The new HPE product is an upgrade to the HPE Alletra Storage MP array introduced last year, with four times the capacity and twice the system performance per rack unit of the previous generation, according to HPE. The vendor also says the upgrade offers up to 2.3 times the performance density and up to 2.3 times the capacity of competitive offerings.

True to its name, the updated HPE GreenLake for File Storage line is aimed strictly at file-based data. It has a separate product line, HPE GreenLake for Block Storage, for scale-out block storage, which it released last month.

HPE GreenLake for File Storage is built to allow enterprises to scale performance and capacity independently. “Performance at scale limitations can be an issue for AI storage, particularly legacy scale-out NAS solutions,” said David Yu, HPE storage product marketing, in a blog post about the upgraded platform. “These solutions can scale capacity, but they can’t scale performance linearly to match that capacity.”

It’s designed to deliver sustained performance “that spans all the stages of AI – from data aggregation, data preparation, and training and tuning to inferencing,” Yu wrote. It achieves this by using a disaggregated, shared-everything, modular architecture that enables independent scaling of performance and capacity.