Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its Container Platform – an enterprise-grade Kubernetes-based container platform designed for both cloud-native applications and monolithic applications with persistent storage.
The big idea is that enterprise customers can accelerate application development for new and existing apps – running on bare-metal or virtualized infrastructure, on any public cloud, and at the edge.
The HPE Container Platform is built on HPE’s acquisitions of BlueData and MapR, together with Kubernetes. This next-generation solution dramatically reduces cost and complexity by running containers on bare-metal – while providing the flexibility to deploy on virtual machines and cloud instances. Customers benefit from greater efficiency, higher usage, and improved performance by “collapsing the stack” and eliminating the need for virtualisation.
HPE senior vice president and chief technology officer of Hybrid IT Kumar Sreekanti said: “Application development is migrating to containers, and Kubernetes is the de facto standard for container orchestration. We’re combining our expertise and intellectual property from recent acquisitions together with open-source Kubernetes to deliver an unmatched enterprise-class container platform. Our container-first approach will provide enterprises with a faster and lower-cost path to application modernisation, optimised for bare-metal, and extensible to any infrastructure from edge to cloud.”
Gartner estimates that more than 75 percent of global organisations will be running containerised applications in production by 2022, up from less than 30 percent today
IDC research shows that 55 percent of large U.S. enterprises have standardized on Kubernetes.
HPE Container Platform software will be available in early 2020, along with advisory, consulting, deployment, and support services from HPE.
