HPE lets loose VM Essentials to run on third-party platforms

HPE is continuing its GreenLake push with availability of its own virtualization product, plus disconnected operations for regulated environments, while touting an object storage platform intended to deliver greater performance and scale for modern workloads.

At the IT giant's Discover forum in Barcelona, the focus is once again on hybrid cloud and how HPE aims to meet its enterprise users' needs in such an environment.

Chief technology officer Fidelma Russo claimed the company has now assembled a comprehensive suite of tools to support end-to-end hybrid cloud operations, making it easier for IT teams to manage cloud-native and AI services alongside their traditional on-prem applications.

One recent acquisition was Morpheus Data and its cloud management capabilities, which HPE is now combining with its homegrown virtualization offering, disclosed at the company's Discover shindig in Las Vegas in June, into HPE VM Essentials, which is set to be available from December ...