Virtualisation demands smarter storage
As organisations modernise their infrastructure, the boundaries between compute, storage, and cloud are becoming less defined. Traditional storage models often struggle to keep up with the scale and speed of today’s virtual environments. This can lead to operational inefficiencies, increased costs, and security risks.
That’s why your storage strategy needs to evolve alongside your virtual estate. Telefónica Tech works with organisations to modernise and optimise virtual infrastructure using flexible solutions that support a wider cloud strategy. With platforms like HPE Alletra MP and HPE Private Cloud Business Edition, we provide enterprise performance, cloud-native control, and simplified scalability — without locking you into rigid architectures.
Why HPE Alletra MP for your virtualisation estate?
If you’re looking to modernise the data infrastructure that supports your virtual estate, HPE Alletra MP is a compelling choice due to its unique architecture and comprehensive feature set. Here’s a breakdown of why we feel you should consider it:
HPE Alletra MP is managed through the HPE GreenLake cloud platform, offering a unified and intuitive cloud experience for on-premises storage management. This simplifies tasks such as provisioning, monitoring, and data protection, potentially saving significant time in day-to-day operations. The Data Services Cloud Console (DSCC) provides a single pane of glass for managing your data infrastructure across edge to cloud, offering visibility and control from anywhere. Your storage administrators are going to love it!
HPE Alletra MP features a disaggregated, scale-out architecture, allowing you to scale performance and capacity independently. This provides greater flexibility and cost efficiency as your storage demands evolve. You can scale and upgrade components without disrupting operations, including non-disruptive data-in-place upgrades and even a free next-gen controller upgrade with the HPE Timeless program.
Integrated AI predicts and prevents infrastructure disruptions across storage, VMs, and even identifies underutilised resources. Intelligent provisioning using AI-driven recommendations help select the optimal system for your workloads, ensuring performance and adherence to SLAs. AI is also embedded in the automation of predictive support and assists in resolving issues and provides direct access to experts, streamlining support processes.
The architecture of HPE Alletra MP leverages NVMe technology for significantly lower latency and higher IOPS, accelerating the most demanding of applications. Designed to ensure consistent and predictable high performance, even under heavy loads.
HPE’s ‘100% Data Availability Guarantee’ provides peace of mind for your mission-critical workloads. All components of HPE Alletra MP actively participate in I/O processing, eliminating single points of failure and maximising performance and availability. Features like immutable snapshots and integration with Zerto for continuous data protection real-time anomaly detection in data streams further enhance resilience against data loss and ransomware.
It’s called the Alletra Multi-Protocol (MP) for a very good reason. It has been designed to unify native block (iSCSI, FC, NVMe/FC), file (NFS, SMB), and object (S3) services on a single architecture, simplifying management and eliminating storage silos.
In summary
The HPE Alletra MP offers a modern, cloud-managed, and high-performing storage solution with exceptional scalability, availability, and built-in intelligence. In our opinion it’s an excellent choice if you’re looking to:
- Support demanding, mission-critical applications with stringent performance and availability requirements.
- Simplify storage management with a cloud-like experience.
- Optimise storage costs and improve efficiency through disaggregated scaling and AI-driven operations.
- Enhance your data resilience and protect against ransomware threats.
- Consolidate block and file workloads onto a unified platform.
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Right-size your virtual estate with HPE Private Cloud Business Edition
Complementing HPE Alletra MP, HPE Private Cloud Business Edition gives you a right-sized private cloud that helps reduce virtualisation sprawl and licensing pressure.
Minimise licensing overhead:
Decouple compute and storage to optimise VM density and avoid unnecessary costs.
Simplify private cloud management:
Combine the control of on-prem with the experience of public cloud — no need for over-engineered solutions.
Align with your hybrid strategy:
Deploy across on-prem, co-lo, or cloud with consistent visibility and control.