HPE has announced a strategic alliance with Docker that enables organizations to build, ship, and run distributed applications on any infrastructure.
Through a joint worldwide enterprise alliance agreement covering sales, go-to-market, engineering, support, services and knowledge sharing, HPE and Docker are collaborating to help customers transform and modernize their datacenters to benefit from a more agile development environment. At the heart of this alliance is HPE’s Docker ready server program, unique to the server industry, which ensures HPE servers are bundled with Docker Engine and support. This enables customers to create distributed applications that are portable across any infrastructure. By combining the strength of the number one cloud infrastructure provider with the leader in containerization, HPE and Docker will deliver hybrid infrastructure solutions and an application portfolio ranging from legacy to micro-services applications, fully supported by HPE.
Vikram K, Director, Servers, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India commented, “In order to survive and thrive in the idea economy, companies must transform the IT experience so that lines of business and developers can innovate faster, smarter and fearlessly. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is innovating across its entire datacenter portfolio to help customers with that transformation. Together with Docker, we are making it easier for IT to deploy and manage containers, while giving organizations solutions that optimize their investments and power a new generation of applications that are the business. By 2018, more than 50 percent of new workloads will be deployed into containers in at least one stage of the application life cycle.”
The joint HPE and Docker solutions will help fuel this trend by delivering HPE’s Composable Infrastructure combined with Docker’s Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) approach to provide the kind of predictability and management enterprise IT expects. This will be accomplished by the creation of a bi-directional application lifecycle that fosters a shared partnership between developers and operations teams.
Ben Golub, CEO of Docker said, “The default availability of Docker’s technology on every HPE server and HPE’s hyper-converged platform enables enterprises to take advantage of the benefits of containerization while leveraging their investments in existing systems and process. Having a strategic alliance that starts with Docker Engine but extends to include our commercial end-to-end platform Docker Datacenter provides HPE customers with a comprehensive solution that covers all of their requirements over time. Enterprises leveraging this joint solution can achieve immediate efficiencies while focusing on existing applications, which can include a 20X optimization on their infrastructure, while shipping their applications 13X faster.”
As part of the strategic alliance, HPE and Docker will deliver unique, value-added, commercial solutions and services through all major HPE channels, including Docker ready HPE Servers, Docker ready Converged and Composable HPE Systems, Joint go-to-market for Docker Datacenter and Enterprise-grade Docker support and consulting services.
In addition, HPE and Docker are collaborating to introduce new HPE container-enabled technologies that are integrated and tested with Docker, including HPE Reference Configuration for Docker Datacenter on HPE Hyper Converged 380, HPE Reference Architecture for Docker Datacenter for the Converged Architecture 700, Docker-integrated Native Volume Plugin for HPE 3PAR StoreServ all-flash arrays, Docker-integrated Networking, Docker-integrated HPE SiteScope, Docker-integrated HPE OneView and HPE Linux Docker support.
Finally, HPE is making investments to Docker-enable its cloud and software portfolio through the use of application programming interfaces (APIs), the Docker plugin framework and Docker Datacenter development licenses, including HPE AppDefender, HPE Operations Bridge monitoring, CMS and Universal Directory configuration management and HPE Helion Cloud Suite.
As per the release, general availability of the Docker ready HPE Servers including HPE ProLiant, HPE Apollo and HPE Cloudline and Docker-integrated Converged and Composable HPE Systems are targeted for the fourth quarter of 2016.
