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早上刚起来，就看到朋友发了一则震撼SDS领域的消息：

HPE to Acquire SimpliVity and Expand Leadership in Growing Hybrid IT Industry

同样的消息其实在去年也曾出现过。不过，这次是真的了，因为在HPE和SimpliVity 的官网上宣布了。文章末尾会附上，HPE官网的英文全文。

有趣的是，在微信公众号 "乐生活与爱IT"上，上周六发起了一个投票，“你心目最好的HCI品牌是？”，我记得Simplivity好像还没有在中国开展业务，竟然有了27票。有朋友评论说，可能是华为的朋友投的，因为华为宣布与Simplivity合作。我不知道是否属实？

参与《赠书和投票 | 你知道中国有哪些Server SAN厂商吗？ 投票:你心目最好的HCI品牌是？》投票的人已经超过500，还在继续进行中，欢迎您投票或者转发，把您心目中的HCI品牌选出来。不过，我的主要目的是想收集国内在售的有哪些Server SAN厂商，如果留言与此相关，并且比较详细，而且是我从未听说过的厂商或品牌，我会追加赠书，或者SDS，或者VMware桌面虚拟化，或者运维管理方面的书籍。下面是目前的投票的结果：

---HPE宣布收购Simplivity---

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/news-archive/press-release/2017/01/HPE-to-Acquire-SimpliVity-and-Expand-Leadership-in-Growing-Hybrid-IT-Industry.html

•Advances HPE’s strategy in the fast-growing, high-margin hyperconverged market •Makes possible the most complete, “built-for-enterprise” hyperconverged infrastructure offering for customers •HPE to pay $650 million in cash

PALO ALTO, California, January 17, 2017 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire SimpliVity, a leading provider of software-defined, hyperconverged infrastructure, for $650 million in cash.  The hyperconverged market was estimated to be approximately $2.4 billion in 2016, and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 25 percent, to nearly $6 billion, by 2020.  By bringing together HPE’s best-in-class infrastructure, automation and cloud management software with SimpliVity’s industry leading software-defined data management platform, HPE and its partner ecosystem will deliver the industry’s only “built-for-enterprise” hyperconverged offering.    

“This transaction expands HPE’s software-defined capability and fits squarely within our strategy to make Hybrid IT simple for customers,” said Meg Whitman, President and CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.  “More and more customers are looking for solutions that bring them secure, highly resilient, on-premises infrastructure at cloud economics.  That’s exactly where we’re focused.”

 

SimpliVity: A Leader in Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Many enterprises have legacy IT environments that are not well suited for today’s cloud-based services and on-demand applications.  Modern data management platforms need simple, user-friendly interfaces that give developers the tools they need to easily develop, scale and protect data.  A hyperconverged system integrates compute, storage and networking into a pre-configured system, managed by a user-friendly software platform that doesn’t require extensive IT staff for set up and management.

SimpliVity, which is privately held, was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Westborough, MA. The company’s software-defined, hyperconverged infrastructure is designed from the ground up to meet the needs of enterprise customers who require on-premises technology infrastructure with enterprise-class performance, data protection, and resiliency, at cloud economics.  

The combined HPE and SimpliVity portfolio will offer a rich set of enterprise data services across hyperconverged, 3PAR storage, composable infrastructure and multi-cloud offerings..

Adding SimpliVity’s innovative technology to HPE’s hyperconverged portfolio provides significant additional benefits to customers, including:

 

• Built-in enterprise data protection and resiliency that simplifies backup and enables customers to more quickly restore operations.    

• Enterprise storage utilization and virtual machine (VM) efficiency that helps customers control cost and performance. 

• Always-on compression and de-duplication that guarantees 90 percent capacity savings across storage and backup.  

• Policy-based VM-centric management that simplifies operations and enables data mobility, making development teams and end-users more productive.

 

“Over the past 8 years we’ve been on an incredible journey and joining HPE is the logical next step for SimpliVity,” said Doron Kempel, Chairman and CEO, SimpliVity.  “HPE’s broad sales reach, extensive partner channel, complementary technology and commitment to innovation will accelerate SimpliVity’s journey and significantly strengthen our ability to deliver the best-in-class hybrid IT solutions our customers are looking for.”

 

A Strong Combined Roadmap

Software-defined infrastructure is at the heart of HPE’s Hybrid IT strategy and this move accelerates the company’s ability to deliver a modern, multi-cloud, multi-IaaS platform, powered by automation software and composable infrastructure. 

For current HPE customers and partners, the company will continue to offer its existing hyperconverged products, the HC 380 and the HC 250.  For SimpliVity customers and partners, there will be no immediate change in the product roadmap and HPE will continue to support existing SimpliVity customers and platforms. 

Within 60 days of closing the transaction, HPE intends to offer the SimpliVity Omni Stack software qualified for its ProLiant DL380 servers. In the second half of 2017, the company will offer a range of integrated HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged systems based on HPE ProLiant Servers.  

Looking forward, HPE customers can expect to see their hyperconverged experience continue to improve with new innovations like “workspace” controls, which provide business leaders and developers with simple self-service portals to compose virtualized and containerized resources, and accelerate application development and deployment.   Additionally, HPE will provide enhanced business insight, including predictive analytics, which will give IT managers the tools they need to increase resource utilization and proactively respond to needs for new resources.

 

Impact to Financial Performance

HPE and SimpliVity believe that by bringing together their complementary product portfolios and leveraging HPE’s expansive go-to-market capability, partner ecosystem, and consumption model offerings, they will be able to significantly accelerate the financial performance of the combined business. 

HPE expects the acquisition to be accretive to earnings in the first full fiscal year following close. 

The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of HPE’s fiscal year 2017, subject to regulatory review and approval, as well as other customary closing conditions and adjustments.

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