HPE expands private cloud portfolio

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise has expanded its private cloud portfolio with new tools aimed at meeting increasing demand for unified virtualisation and cloud management capabilities.

The expansion includes the launch into general availability of the HPE Morpheus Software family, including HPE Morpheus VM Essentials for managing virtualised workloads and HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software for unified cloud management. Both new software tools include HPE’s Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM) hypervisor and are licensed per socket to give enterprises greater deployment flexibility.

The Morpheus enterprise software automated application provisioning to speed up deployment of apps into a wide range of hypervisors or clouds. They are hardware-agnostic, but when running on HPE Proliant Gen12 servers they enable users to consolidate and save up to 27% on virtualisation software, 65% on power per year and a 7:1 reduced data centre footprint, HPE estimates.

Meanwhile, HPE has integrated the HPE Private Cloud Business Edition offering with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, which promises to reduce up to 90% of virtual machine licence costs while providing multi-hypervisor support and self-service cloud consumption.

HPE said its disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure offering already offers an estimated 2.5 times lower total cost of ownership compared to existing virtualisation licensing. The combined offering also includes AI-powered automation for setup and lifecycle management, while AIOps functionality promises to help predict and prevent up to 86% of IT issues.

The enhanced portfolio also includes a range of new services aimed at simplifying virtualisation modernisation for organisations of all sizes.

The HPE Cloud Platform Services for Virtualisation Modernisation include functions such as dedicated assessments, re-platforming workloads, modernising infrastructure, migrating data and managing infrastructure to reduce overhead.

HPE CTO and EVP of Hybrid Cloud Fidelma Russo said the new portfolio aims to help enterprises address escalating management complexity and growing virtualisation costs to free investments for core growth areas.

“We are the leader in disaggregated infrastructure and our private cloud combines that leadership with new software for unified virtualisation and cloud management,” she said. “HPE is giving customers the choice, simplicity and cost efficiencies to outpace the competition and re-invest in innovation.”

HPE Private Cloud Business Edition with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials and HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software are available now, while new Business Edition systems with HPE SimpliVity will be available in the third quarter of 2025.

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