HPE InfoSight Pushes AI Into Data Center Servers

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) pushed artificial intelligence (AI) further into the data center by extending HPE InfoSight, its cloud-based AI management tool, to some servers. Specifically, InfoSight now supports HPE’s ProLiant servers, HPE Apollo systems for high-performance computing and big data analytics workloads, and Synergy compute modules. Synergy is HPE’s composable infrastructure. InfoSight collects operational intelligence from this infrastructure by analyzing millions of sensors across a global installed base. It then provides trend insights, forecasting, and recommendations to help predict and prevent problems. HPE acquired the InfoSight technology from Nimble Storage, which it bought for $1 billion last year. In January, it added an AI recommendation engine to the platform and expanded InfoSight across its 3PAR storage portfolio. At the time HPE executives said they planned to extend the machine learning capabilities beyond storage and across the company’s entire data center portfolio.