Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has today unveiled an ambitious generational leap in its private cloud offering, integrating its experience in disaggregated infrastructure with the new HPE Morpheus software. The announcement marks a turning point for companies looking to modernize their hybrid infrastructure with greater cost efficiency, optimized performance, and unified, simplified management.
A New Era with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials
HPE Private Cloud Business Edition is now available with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, a solution that can reduce virtual machine licensing costs by up to 90% due to its multi-hypervisor support and self-service consumption model. This savings adds to an estimated reduction of up to 2.5 times in total cost of ownership (TCO) compared to traditional infrastructures, thanks to HPE’s leadership in disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI).
Morpheus VM Essentials allows the management of virtualized environments with both HPE and traditional hypervisors, providing flexibility from the edge to the data center. The solution is designed for global deployments and is supported by comprehensive enterprise services.
Additionally, artificial intelligence in operations is integrated: configuration automation and predictive maintenance of the infrastructure can prevent up to 86% of incidents before they impact the business.
Morpheus Enterprise: Unified Management for Hybrid Cloud
The HPE Morpheus software family expands with the general availability of Morpheus Enterprise Software, designed for large enterprises and service providers. From a single interface, it allows governance of virtual environments, containers, and third-party runtimes across bare-metal, on-premises, or public cloud infrastructures.
Notable features include application provisioning automation, which can be up to 150 times faster than in traditional environments, as well as a 30% reduction in cloud costs, thanks to smart analytics that optimize resource usage.
Morpheus VM Essentials and Enterprise are hardware-agnostic solutions, validated to operate not only on HPE ProLiant Gen11 and Gen12 servers but also on Dell PowerEdge and NetApp AFF storage systems.
Real Impact on Customers and Ecosystem
Roberto Valenta, Chief Technology Officer at Aeropuertos Argentina, stated that Business Edition has paid for itself through savings on legacy contracts, consumption as a service, data center space, and energy efficiency. He added that the solution is crucial for operating critical workloads such as flight tracking and managing departures and arrivals.
Moreover, Commvault, a leader in cyber resilience and data protection, will be the first partner in the VM Essentials ecosystem to offer VM image backup and recovery.
HPE also announced that integration with HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 can reduce TCO by up to 48%, improve performance by up to 10 times, and add capabilities for micro-segmentation, DPU acceleration, and advanced security.
Services to Transform Virtualization
Transformation is not limited to software. The new HPE Cloud Platform Services – Virtualization Modernization offers a full range of services to modernize virtualized infrastructures: initial assessment, architecture redesign, workload migration, staff training, and ongoing management.
These capabilities have led HPE to be recognized as a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hybrid IT Infrastructure Consulting and Integration Services 2025 report.
Availability
- HPE Private Cloud Business Edition with Morpheus VM Essentials is now available.
- New systems with HPE SimpliVity will be available in the third quarter of 2025.
- Integration with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is now active, and that with HPE Aruba CX 10000 will arrive in June.
- HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software is also available as a standalone solution.
With these updates, HPE is redefining the concept of private cloud, offering companies a robust, agile platform ready for the hybrid future. Attendees at the HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025 event, to be held from June 23-26, will be able to see these solutions in action.
via: HPE