Hewlett Packard Enterprise launches solutions for SMBs

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced new end-to-end solutions to provide small and midsize businesses (SMBs) the tools they need to increase productivity, reduce costs and grow their businesses. The new solutions are engineered specifically for SMBs and are available through the HPE Just Right IT Program. The new solutions include ProLiant Tower and Rack Gen9 servers featuring Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 series and Xeon E3-1200 v5 series, pre-engineered and configured Flex Solutions and the Small Business Marketplace e-commerce platform. “Small and midsize businesses have to embrace major enterprise technology trends but with a fraction of the resources and budget,” said Barun Lala, Director, Indirect Sales, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India. “Hewlett Packard Enterprise is launching new tools that will allow our SMB customers to easily and affordably adapt to the changing technology landscape without comprising quality, efficiency and flexibility.” To address the multiple workloads of SMB customers, HPE is expanding its ProLiant 10 series Compute portfolio. The new servers are designed to provide small businesses on a budget with the right balance of memory, storage, performance and manageability to drive business growth. They include ProLiant DL20 Gen9 – an entry-level compact rack server designed for companies that need to manage their servers both onsite and remotely, and require a scalable solution. Also available, ProLiant ML30 Gen9 is a standalone unit for small businesses and home offices featuring a compact design and a wide range of storage expandability for growing businesses and service providers running IT infrastructure workloads in space-constrained environments. These two new servers are part of our purpose-built ProLiant 10 and 100 series family that address priority workloads to run small and mid-sized businesses. To address SMB needs to increase productivity, HPE is introducing new offerings that integrate server, storage, networking and services financial services and options, which helps enable workplace productivity. They include Hewlett Packard Enterprise Flex Solution for My First Server that enables employees to work from anywhere, anytime and with any device, while protecting critical business data. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Flex Solution for Secure Encryption protects critical customer data at rest on any hard disk drive, solid state drive or cache memory connected to the server. Targeted to SMBs, HPE’s Small Business Marketplace will pull direct feeds from participating partners’ online inventory so that customers can easily compare pricing and availability at a glance Hewlett Packard Enterprise will pilot the Marketplace in the U.S. starting this year, and will commence a pilot in India in early January 2016, followed by Australia and New Zealand in February 2016.