Why the skepticism, you may ask.
Well, I don’t like manufactured words. And ‘composable’, seemed to the the real-world manifestation of the product of some PR shill’s agile imagination, so I wanted no part of it.
However, I was brought around.
In this instance, HP is using the word composable to describe the ability datacenter architects have to take parts of already-installed devices, and use them to create a “virtual physical infrastructure”.
As mentioned above, I dislike manufactured words, unless it is a name. or descriptive.
As it turns out, HPE Composable architecture is both a name, and quite descriptive, of the functionality it innovates for the datacenter.
The road here, for HPE
HP Composable Infrastructure
At HPE, their Composable Infrastructure is defined as seen in the images below
To do so, HPE has embraced the following design principles:
- A Unified API. The HPE Composable API, where a single line of code can be used to abstract every element of infrastructure for full infrastructure programmability. Bare-metal interface for Infrastructure as a Service
- Software-defined Intelligence. Utilizing HPE OneView Composer, HPE Image Streamer, to enable template-driven workload composition with frictionless operations.
- Fluid Resource Pools. The power of Composable compute, storage, and fabric to build a single infrastructure of disaggregated pools, giving users physical, virtual, and containers, and auto-integrating of resource capacity
What it all means
Simply: hybridization of your IT operations are now cloudified within your own data center.
As I see it….
The huge potential for the dynamic orchestration and deployment of a ‘virtual physical infrastructure’ by HPE Composable cannot be overemphasized.
With Composable, HP is allowing datacenter admins to come up with, and use as varied a physical configuration for their needs as they want, not restricted to the physical constrains of the architecture in their actual physical hardware.
Currently, this is limited to five physical racks. However, the variety within those racks is endless, and I fully expect that rack count barrier to fall very soon.
For these reasons and more, we are enamored with the potentiality of HPE Composable Infrastructure, and that is why HPE Composable Architecture was named one of the SmallBizWindows Most Exciting Future Products for 2016.
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