Today's businesses face relentless pressure to optimize operations and accelerate innovation. To achieve these goals, they need an intelligent virtualization architecture that speeds up time to market for their products and services while also eliminating process complexity. While Human-Centered Infrastructure (HCI) inherently accelerates service delivery and improves resource efficiency, traditional HCI offerings still require IT departments to react to unexpected incidents and application delays, balancing workloads as businesses scale their environments. HPE SimpliVity goes further, introducing an AI-powered infrastructure to simplify IT operations by predicting and preventing problems.
 
HPE SimpliVity was created to deliver an unprecedented experience for virtual environment administrators through automation and efficiency. Over the past few years, HPE SimpliVity has helped thousands of customers worldwide simplify and optimize their infrastructures and eliminate underutilized infrastructure. With these new features, HPE SimpliVity enables a new experience for its customers.
 
Intelligently simple
, HPE SimpliVity makes it easy for any VM administrator to deploy, manage, scale, and upgrade their infrastructure. HPE SimpliVity intelligently self-manages efficiency, performance, and redundancy without requiring manual adjustments, load balancing, or configuration changes.

Current advancements in HPE SimpliVity include:
 
The first version of HPE InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity enables customers to predict and plan resource usage, eliminating guesswork in capacity management. HPE InfoSight provides HPE SimpliVity customers with comprehensive visibility and analytics into detailed system information, performance, and capacity utilization, along with automated support through automatic alerts and the detection of complex issues via signatures.
 
One-click cluster upgrades for HPE SimpliVity enable a simplified, non-disruptive software upgrade process that reduces risk. Customers can now upgrade HPE SimpliVity firmware, hypervisor, and software across all nodes in an HPE SimpliVity cluster with a single click, providing enhanced security when performing upgrades on both local and remote nodes, easily and without disruption. 
 
The hyper-efficient
HPE SimpliVity uniquely combines compute, storage, and networking with a powerful integrated backup and recovery system, enabling consolidation and cost savings. HPE SimpliVity delivers up to 90% savings in storage requirements across all primary virtual machines and their backups. These savings are guaranteed with the HPE SimpliVity HyperGuarantee.

Enhanced data protection with HPE StoreOnce integration.
Customers are looking to improve their data protection strategy. Therefore, HPE is now announcing the integration of HPE StoreOnce into HPE SimpliVity, enabling improved data protection and mobility. The integration of HPE StoreOnce with HPE SimpliVity provides a data protection solution with rapid recovery and policy-based automation for simple and cost-effective management. This solution complements HPE SimpliVity's built-in backup and recovery capabilities for long-term retention and compliance.   
 
Optimized edge computing.
HPE SimpliVity customers benefit from an intelligent, optimized HCI system for multi-location deployments, allowing virtual machines to benefit from a high-performance, efficient, and redundant environment in any location.
For remote locations, zero administration is possible thanks to centralized and unified management, enabling customers to seamlessly manage workloads regardless of location, where human resources are often limited. To improve business continuity, customers can quickly migrate workloads from any location to another in the event of a disaster, leveraging mobility and one-click edge-to-cluster VM recovery. Orchestration is fast and efficient, enabling rapid recovery of all workloads and minimizing business downtime.
 
Hybridization and cloud resource consumption:
Customers gain the ability to bring the benefits of the cloud to their data centers through HPE GreenLake, with the option to consume SimpliVity as a service. HPE has extensive experience and reach through HPE GreenLake, offering a wide range of pay-as-you-go services, including private cloud, public cloud, and backup. Furthermore, HPE SimpliVity is certified to support Google Cloud's Anthos, providing a true hybrid cloud for containers in a consumption-based solution.
 
Extending HCI to Business-Critical Applications.
Announced in June 2019, HPE expanded its HCI product portfolio with the introduction of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, a disaggregated HCI platform built with the simplicity of HCI and the flexibility of convergence. Powered by HPE InfoSight, Nimble dHCI enables businesses to deploy applications faster, support demanding workloads, and optimize time and resources. Customers benefit from the flexibility to scale resources and simplify management for business-critical applications, such as databases and database storage.
 
Together, HPE SimpliVity and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI provide customers with an intelligent hyperconverged environment for every virtual machine, enabling them to run a wide variety of workloads from the edge and ROBO to high-performance, business-critical applications with HPE Nimble Storage dHCI.
 
Pricing and Availability
· HPE InfoSight is available worldwide to all HPE SimpliVity customers with a current platform service agreement. 
· HPE StoreOnce for HPE SimpliVity will be available in the first half of 2020 to customers with the latest HPE SimpliVity and HPE StoreOnce v3.x and v4.x software versions.
· HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is available worldwide now.