HPEs new container platform now generally available
Summary
HPE states that this solutions is in demand as more organisations are seeking to modernise and containerise applications, and they want to do so without significant refactoring and with production grade security and persistent data storage. In addition with increased density per hardware platform businesses can run more containers on a given physical host than VMs, removing multiple copies of guest OSes and their requirements for CPU, memory and storage. It is an integrated turnkey solution with BlueData software as the container management control plane and the MapR distributed file system as the unified data fabric for persistent storage. HPE senior vice president and chief technology officer of Hybrid IT Kumar Sreekanti says, “The next phase of enterprise container adoption requires breakthrough innovation and a new approach. "The new HPE Container Platform is designed to help customers as they expand their containerisation deployments, for multiple large-scale Kubernetes clusters with use cases ranging from machine learning to CI / CD pipelines,” says Sreekanti.