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HPE announces HPE Alletra 4000: the next generation of data storage servers

HPE Alletra 4000 expands the HPE Alletra portfolio into server-based, cloud-native data infrastructure. HPE Alletra 4000 is built for data applications, secured end to end by design, and delivered with an intuitive cloud experience.

-By David Yu, HPE Storage Product Marketing

HPE Alletra 4000-blog-HPE_data_slice_02_800_0_72_RGB.jpgArchitected to accelerate data-driven initiatives at any scale and with ideal economics, the HPE Alletra 4000 family represents the first server-based offering within the HPE Alletra portfolio of cloud-native data infrastructure solutions. 

HPE Alletra 4000 delivers the next generation of data storage servers previously built under the HPE Apollo 4000 brand, providing modern data infrastructure that is specifically built to keep pace with data demands securely, economically, and with operational simplicity. This empowers you to focus scarce people and capital resources on your data-driven initiatives.

The data challenge

Common sense tells us that if we aim at nothing, we are sure to achieve it. On the other hand, if we aim at everything, the resulting trade-offs will cause us to fall short of specific goals. Thatโ€™s certainly the case in todayโ€™s data-driven world โ€“ where enterprises seek to extract value from their data but confront unavoidable trade-offs using general-purpose data infrastructure. The truth is these systems are simply not designed for optimal data processing speed, throughput, and capacity. Instead, your data-driven organization needs data infrastructure purpose-built to efficiently store valuable data, protect it, and reveal its value without cumbersome management overhead.

Built for data applications

You can now extract the business value of data at any scale, and with ideal economics, via data storage servers optimized across multiple dimensions: capacity, performance, economics, density, serviceability, and supportability. Powered by 4th Gen Intelยฎ Xeonยฎ Scalable processors, HPE Alletra 4000 data storage servers accommodate both ends of the data-centric workload spectrum โ€“ from deeper data lakes and archives to high-throughput and in-place analytics and AI/ML, data-heavy hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), and cache-intensive workloads.

Applicable uses cases include real-time data processing, ransomware protection, compliance and e-discovery, video surveillance, medical imaging, machine learning training and inferencing, stream and batch analytics, ready-to-share content repositories, consolidation and data off-load, and more.

Secured end to end by design

With HPE Alletra 4000 data storage servers, you can benefit from end-to-end security for your systems and your data. This starts with HPE helping secure the supply chain and extends from boot-up to decommissioning of the system. From silicon to software and factory to cloud, HPE Alletra 4000 data storage servers are engineered with zero trust security at their uncompromising core and provide integrated, scalable IT security and increased business agility. 

Delivered with an intuitive cloud experience

Easily self-manage your HPE Alletra 4000 data storage servers on the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform via HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management. With an intuitive cloud experience, you can leverage REST APIs to automate otherwise complex management operations.

HPE Alletra 4000 systems can also be consumed as a service with HPE GreenLake to shorten project deployment times, free up capital and IT resources, align spending with business needs, and boost both financial flexibility and operational speed.

Choose from two models: HPE Alletra 4110 and HPE Alletra 4120

HPE Alletra 4110HPE Alletra 4110The Alletra 4110 is a 1U all-NVMe data storage server featuring dual 4th Gen Intelยฎ Xeonยฎ Scalable processors and up to 3TB DDR5 memory. It is designed for the most performance-demanding data-centric workloads, including data stores for machine learning, distributed and NoSQL databases, high-performance software-defined storage, and data-heavy hyperconverged infrastructure.

HPE Alletra 4120HPE Alletra 4120The Alletra 4120 is a 2U hybrid-NMVe data storage server featuring one or two 4th Gen Intelยฎ Xeonยฎ Scalable processors and up to 6TB DDR5 memory. It takes on the broadest range of data-centric workloads, spanning active analytics data lakes, software-defined storage, converged data protection, and deep archives.

Capacity and performance

HPE Alletra 4000 systems support Enterprise and Data Center Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) and SFF solid-state drives (SSDs). In addition, HPE Alletra 4120 supports SAS/SATA LFF drives for higher density and capacity. 

  • HPE Alletra 4110 โ€“ Up to 20 EDSFF or SFF NVMe SSDs with up to 315 GB/s of PCIe Gen5 bandwidth for the SSDs
  • HPE Alletra 4120 โ€“ Up to 24 LFF drives in front with 4 LFF, 12 EDSFF or 6 SFF drives in the rear, or up to 48 SFF drives in front with 12 EDSFF, or 6 SFF drives in the rear; up to 225.6 GB/s of bandwidth to PCIe Gen5 NVMe, 24 Gb SAS, or 6 Gb SATA drives

Additional highlights

The introduction of cutting-edge technology with processors, memory, I/O, media, and security makes HPE Alletra 4000 a great investment in the future of your data.

Both HPE Alletra 4110 and HPE Alletra 4120 offer GPU and FPGA support to accelerate many different workloads. They also provide security with a physical bezel lock, logical Configuration Lock, Secure Boot, FIPS 140-2 Smart Encryption and Self-Encrypting Drives, and Secure Erase.

HPE Integrated Lights Out 6 (iLO 6) extends the hardware root of trust from protecting server firmware to now also protecting select storage and network controller firmware. In addition, a 5-factor authentication model ensures the secure connection of your devices to the HPE GreenLake Cloud Platform while AES-256 encryption secures customer data within it.

Reap greater success from data-driven initiatives

HPE Alletra 4000 data storage servers are built for data applications, secured end-to-end by design, and delivered with an intuitive cloud experience. They accelerate data-driven initiatives and empower organizations to glean valuable insights from data to drive innovation and business advantage.   

Learn more

For more information on the HPE Alletra 4000 systems, go to www.hpe.com/alletra4000


Meet Storage Experts blogger David Yu, HPE Storage Product Marketing

David Yu_Picture_Cropped.pngDavid has a key product marketing role in HPEโ€™s storage business, covering such areas as file-and-object storage, scale-out storage, cloud-native data infrastructure, and associated cloud data services.

 


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