To keep pace with the rapidly changing business environment, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has introduced industry’s first enterprise-grade Kubernetes-based container platform called HPE Container Platform. This platform has been especially designed with persevering storage for both cloud-native applications and monolithic applications, wherein, 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. With proven innovations from HPE’s acquisitions of BlueData and MapR, along with 100 percent open source Kubernetes, HPE Container Platform is truly a next-generation solution which will drastically reduce cost and complexity by running containers on bare metal which ensures flexibility to deploy on virtual machines and cloud instances, thereby delivering customers greater efficiency, higher utilization, and improved performance by collapsing the stack and excluding the need for virtualization. Moreover, from machine learning, edge analytics to CI/CD pipelines and application modernization, this platform will look upon all the requirements for large-scale enterprise Kubernetes deployments.

“Application development is migrating to containers, and Kubernetes is the de facto standard for container orchestration,” said Rajesh Dhar, Senior Director, Hybrid IT, HPE India. “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 modernization, optimized for bare-metal and extensible to any infrastructure from edge to cloud,” adds Rajesh.  

HPE also says that IT team can manage multiple Kubernetes clusters with multi-tenant container isolation and pre-integrated persistent storage, and even developers can have secure on-demand access to their environments and can develop apps and release code faster, with the portability of containers to build once and deploy anywhere. Along with world-class advisory, consulting, deployment, and support services from HPE, this platform software will be readily available in the market by early 2020.

Furthermore, as addressing key considerations including security, multi-cluster management and load balancing has become the current need of the hour for organizations that are using containers and Kubernetes beyond development and testing to production environments, this platform can be regarded as a turnkey solution which will aid businesses in addressing these challenges to the fullest; BlueData software as the control plane for container management; MapR distributed file system for persistent data with containers; Kubernetes for container orchestration.  Furthermore, HPE says that it will go beyond cloud-native micro- services architected applications, and will provide ability to containerization of cloud-native monolithic applications.