HPE Unveils New Virtual Desktop Solutions in Wake of COVID-19 Impact

HPE Unveils New Virtual Desktop Solutions in Wake of COVID-19 Impact

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced a series of initiatives to help customers and support business continuity in the wake of COVID-19. Recognizing the growing need to deploy or scale remote workforce infrastructure to meet stay-at-home and social distancing policies, the company is releasing a more powerful virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution, and offering flexible financing terms and new pre-configured solutions to increase flexibility and accelerate delivery for customers.

HPE Financial Services is offering new, innovative financial and asset lifecycle options including short-term rentals and 90-day payment deferrals on VDI solutions. Those solutions are also available as-a-Service through HPE Greenlake to support customers who require financial flexibility in their remote workforce roll out.

The company is also offering new, pre-configured VDI solutions to support small, medium and enterprise customers. Built on either ProLiant or Synergy servers, these solutions can start as small as 80 users and scale to over 2,000 remote workers and are designed for Citrix and VMware environments.

HPE also announced a new, higher-performing VDI solution to support power users working remotely. Moonshot now ships with the new ProLiant m750 server blade and delivers more than a 70% performance advantage and consumes 25% less power than the previous generation. In virtualized desktops and applications where density and efficiency are paramount, the new ProLiant m750 server blade can support nearly 33% percent more remote workers on 25% less power.

The urgent global response to COVID-19 has pressured our customers to rapidly implement and expand secure, remote work options for their organizations. I’m proud that our team is delivering a breadth of solutions, services and expertise to help our customers support their employees and operations during this critical time,“ said Gerald Kleyn, vice president and general manager of Moonshot, Edge and IoT Systems at HPE. “Our infrastructure solutions, which provide industry-leading remote management, security, and automation capabilities, help businesses quickly deliver virtual workspaces to their remote staff.“