HPE Discover 2021 may
already be a distant memory for some but the messages that were coming out of
the event will be resonating with the industry for quite some time. Looking
beyond the “age of insight” and even HPE becoming “a world leading edge to
cloud platform as a service company,” it is now very much a case of HPE
bringing the cloud experience to the enterprise.
Not surprisingly, the
byline for this story is the bigger message that the enterprise data center
will be with us for a long time. This isn’t to say that cloud service providers
will not be making their presence felt in these same data centers, one way or
the other, but rather recent events have further reinforced the value
proposition of being your own IT master.
With the cloud experience
coming to a data center near you, enterprises can benefit from the best of both
worlds. The security and robustness from on-prem computing together with all
the flexibility that comes with cloud experiences. For the NonStop community
this is becoming the message of the day even as we are hearing that there are moves
afoot to ensure NonStop is a participant in the most important initiative of
all for HPE - GreenLake.
For NTI, HPE Discover 2021
also provided additional insights that support its mission. Even as work
continues in support of the platform-as-a-service model (PaaS) that HPE is championing
with GreenLake, HPE highlighted it’s pursuit of PaaS with two images that
aligned with the messaging now being developed by NTI for DRNet®:
Our big take away
from the HPE event was the prominence of GreenLake in everything HPE did – its
new products and platforms were all in support of GreenLake. It will continue
to provide an alternate path to building out your data center with your own
servers but it is now very much central to everything HPE is funding. Imagine
NTI’s surprise that the highlight was the introduction by the GreenLake team of
Lighthouse. Imagine too our pleasant surprise to hear GreenLake management
talking about Lighthouse as a “unified platform!”
If you missed reading the
latest post to the June 2021 issue of NonStop Insider, DRNet®/Unified for HPE Customers – It’s all about data and your data will
need real time processing you would have missed reading the
observation above. GreenLake opens a second option for all enterprises deploying
NonStop in support of their mission critical applications. NTI customers have options already and today
these include deploying DRNet® in a traditional manner on-prem or turning
to NTI to support DRNet®
where the GreenLake platform has been chosen.
“Recent
news coming out of Australia concerning GreenLake deals that have been
negotiated with major banking and retail enterprises, have seen these
enterprises choose to go with DRNet®”
said NTI’s Global Director
Worldwide Sales, Tim Dunne.
“They recognize the value that comes with interacting directly with vendors supporting
solutions critical to meeting their business continuity goals.”
Enterprise data centers aren’t going anywhere. The cloud experience will continue to grow in importance and having an ability to seamlessly move between data center resources and those provided by cloud service vendors will gain in importance and indeed relevance. When it comes to the important issue of business continuity, it’s not so much a case of having flexibility in provisioning as business continuity isn’t something you turn on and then off again but rather, depend upon as your business continuity solution, running 24 x 7 x 365.
Having
a direct line of sight with the NonStop vendor providing such a solution will
become increasingly important in the future even as HPE unveils further NonStop
inclusivity. “Our relationship with our NTI customers is such that no disruption
to the way we interact with each other is something that our NonStop customers
find extremely beneficial,” said Dunne. “With our branding of the NTI product
suite as DRNet® /Unified
for HPE Customers we are confirming for the NonStop community that whatever
option they chose, with respect to deploying NonStop in the future, we have
already made it possible for them to depend upon DRNet®.
Should
you be unable to access the latest article posted to NonStop Insider using the
above hyperlink then simply cut and paste this url into your favorite browser:
Furthermore,
should you have any questions related to DRNet® /Unified for HPE Customers and how it unifies the NTI product
suite under one brand, or if you have any questions at all about meeting your
data needs no matter the deployment model chosen, then give us a call or email us directly and we will
be happy to share with you more about the DRNet® product suite.
Email: Sales@network-tech.com
Phone:
+1 (614) 794-6000
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