PARTNER CONTENT: HPE makes its “unified storage” claim real as B10000 R6 hits GA
PARTNER CONTENT: Pairs block and adjacent file workloads with independent scaling of performance and capacity
Storage vendors have been calling things “unified” for years. Sometimes that means one architecture. Sometimes it means several products sharing a management screen and a marketing budget. The term has accumulated enough baggage that a little skepticism is warranted.
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 Release 6, announced in May, is now generally available. It brings block and file onto the same disaggregated scale-out architecture and OS code base, with independent scaling of performance and capacity and native ransomware detection across both.
That’s important because enterprise storage is becoming less of an array decision and more of an architectural one. HPE was recently named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™for Enterprise Storage Platforms, which provides useful context, but a quadrant is still a snapshot. GA code is where the architecture has to prove...
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