Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has debuted eight new HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers, the latest additions to a new generation of enterprise servers that introduce industry-first security capabilities, optimise performance for complex workloads and boost productivity. The new servers will feature upcoming Intel Xeon 6 processors for data centre and edge environments.
“Across Asia Pacific, enterprises are grappling with unprecedented data growth and increasingly complex workloads,” said Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Loh Khai Peng. “Our new HPE ProLiant Gen12 servers directly address this need for greater computer performance and workload management while focusing on two critical priorities in our region: security and sustainability.”
“With quantum computing-resistant capabilities and HPE’s secure enclave technology, we’re providing enterprise customers industry-leading protection against existing and emerging threats,” he added. “Critically, the portfolio’s exceptional energy efficiency delivers up to 65% power savings annually to help ease power demands on data centres.”
The HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 portfolio has built-in safeguards at every layer and every phase of the server lifecycle. HPE Integrated Lights Out (iLO) 7 introduces an improved and dedicated security processor called secure enclave engineered from the ground up as HPE intellectual property.
HPE ProLiant Compute servers with HPE iLO 7 will help organisations safeguard against future threats as the first server with quantum computing-resistant readiness and to meet the requirements for a high-level cryptographic security standard, the FIPS 140-3 Level 3 certification.
The improved security features of HPE iLO 7 uniquely distinguish HPE ProLiant servers from other vendors. Embedded into the server hardware, secure enclave establishes an unbreakable chain of trust to protect against firmware attacks and creates full line-of-sight from the factory and throughout HPE’s trusted supply chain.
This extends to the end of the product lifecycle with HPE Onsite Decommission Services, which collects equipment and transports it to an authorised sorting and recycling facility.
HPE Compute Ops Management is a cloud-based software platform that helps customers secure and automate server environments. Proactive and predictive automation, now with AI-driven insights, helps organisations improve energy efficiency by forecasting power usage and enabling enterprises to set thresholds to control costs and carbon emissions on a worldwide level. A new global map view simplifies management so customers can instantly identify server health issues across distributed IT environments and multi-vendor toolset integration reduces downtime by up to 4.8 hours per server every year.
Automated onboarding simplifies server set-up and ongoing management, particularly in remote or branch-office deployments where local IT resources are not available. All new HPE Compute Ops Management features, including AI-informed insights, new map-based visibility and third-party tool integration, will be available to HPE ProLiant Compute Gen10 servers and newer.
To aid customers evaluating future purchases, a standalone tool called HPE Power Advisor estimates environment performance metrics such as energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
New additions to the HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 portfolio are right-sized to address demanding workloads that include AI, data analytics, edge computing, hybrid cloud and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions. Addressing the exponential growth in power demands placed on data centres, the HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 portfolio is engineered to optimise performance, energy efficiency and cost with up to 41% better performance per watt compared to legacy enterprise systems.
HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers deliver up to 65% in power savings per year and enable organisations to free up data centre capacity with one Gen12 server providing the same compute performance as seven Gen10 servers.
To meet customer demand for more energy-efficient data centres, HPE is offering optional direct liquid cooling on Intel-based HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 one-socket and two-socket rack servers. Liquid removes heat more efficiently than air, removing more than 3,000 times more heat based on volume.
Six of the eight new HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers featuring upcoming Intel Xeon 6 processors will be available this quarter. This includes HPE ProLiant Compute DL320, DL340, DL360, DL380, DL380a and ML350 Gen12 servers.
HPE Synergy 480 and HPE ProLiant Compute DL580 Gen12 servers are expected later this year. The HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 portfolio will be available standalone or via HPE GreenLake, offering scalability, cost efficiency and service agility. These solutions can be purchased through an authorised channel partner.
