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How Is HPE Connecting Infrastructure Management, Data Readiness, and Cyber Resilience?
At HPE Discover 2026, HPE announced enhancements to Morpheus, Zerto, and Alletra that extend a common management framework across virtualization, workload mobility, cyber resilience, and AI-ready data infrastructure.
6/23/2026
Key Highlights
- HPE expanded Morpheus with new orchestration, automation, observability, and virtualization management capabilities designed to simplify hybrid infrastructure administration.
- HPE connected Morpheus and Zerto through migration incentives that combine VM Essentials licensing with Zerto-based workload movement and protection.
- HPE advanced Alletra Storage MP and Data Fabric Software with enhancements focused on data accessibility, file services, scale-out performance, and AI readiness.
- GreenLake continues to provide the management experience and consumption model that connects HPE's infrastructure, data, and resilience portfolio.
- HPE's partner ecosystem reinforces the importance of combining infrastructure, data services, governance, and AI software around customer outcomes.
The News
At HPE Discover 2026, HPE announced a broad set of updates spanning AI infrastructure, networking, hybrid cloud, software, and security. Updates across Morpheus, Zerto, Alletra, Data Fabric, and GreenLake demonstrate how HPE is bringing together infrastructure management, workload mobility, data services, and recovery capabilities to support modernization initiatives and future AI deployments. For more information, read the official company press releases at the HPE Newsroom.
Analyst Take
Organizations continue to face growing complexity as they manage virtual machines, containers, cloud services, data platforms, and AI environments. The HyperFRAME Research Lens (1H 2026) found that 62% of organizations cite complexity as a significant barrier to infrastructure deployment and scale, while only 14% report having an AI-ready data architecture. At the same time, separate HyperFRAME research found that 91% of organizations prioritize cyber resilience, yet only 30% are very confident in their recovery speed following a cyberattack or cloud-based data loss event.
Customers are not simply evaluating new infrastructure platforms. They are looking for ways to deploy workloads more efficiently, move them when requirements change, recover them when disruptions occur, and make data accessible for analytics and AI applications.
In our view, Morpheus is playing an increasingly important role. HPE is positioning Morpheus as more than a virtualization alternative. The platform combines self-service provisioning, automation, observability, and workload management across hybrid environments. As organizations reassess virtualization strategies, many are also rethinking how infrastructure should be managed going forward.
Zerto complements this by addressing workload mobility and recovery. While Morpheus helps manage where workloads run, Zerto helps move, protect, validate, and recover them. Together, they help organizations reduce complexity without sacrificing resilience.
Alletra and Data Fabric extend the discussion to data readiness. AI initiatives depend on data that can be accessed, governed, and prepared without creating unnecessary copies or management overhead. The latest updates focus on making information more accessible for analytics and AI while maintaining visibility and control.
GreenLake is designed to tie these capabilities together. It serves as the common experience through which organizations consume and manage infrastructure, data services, and AI-enabled workflows. Without GreenLake, Morpheus, Zerto, and Alletra could be viewed as separate product announcements. Through GreenLake, HPE presents them as complementary components of a broader platform strategy. As organizations pursue larger modernization and AI initiatives, integration becomes more important.
Discussions across the HPE ecosystem reflected a common theme: AI success depends on how infrastructure, data, governance, and software work together. Partners report they are building solutions around that reality. The focus is moving from model deployment to operating AI-enabled environments in production.
What Was Announced
HPE expanded Morpheus Software as part of its broader agentic IT operations strategy. The latest release brings together provisioning, orchestration, automation, observability, and AI-assisted administration across hybrid environments. HPE introduced Morpheus Orchestration Copilot through GreenLake Intelligence, allowing customers to use preferred AI models through a bring-your-own-model approach while maintaining governance controls and security guardrails. Additional integrations with Citrix DaaS and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops are planned, while HPE CloudOps Software extends orchestration, automation, observability, and lifecycle management across GreenLake-managed environments.
To support customers evaluating virtualization alternatives, HPE introduced a migration program that includes up to one year of Morpheus VM Essentials licensing and one year of HPE Zerto for $1. The program directly connects Morpheus and Zerto by combining virtualization management with workload migration and protection capabilities.
Private cloud announcements further reinforced Morpheus as a central management layer. HPE Private Cloud now extends from edge to datacenter through a common control plane built on Morpheus. HPE Private Cloud PC3000 adds support for air-gapped deployments, while HPE Private Cloud PC7000 incorporates Morpheus updates, Terraform support, automated private cloud operations, and VMware vSphere 9 validation.
GreenLake remained the connective layer across many of the announcements. HPE introduced GreenLake Flex Solutions with additional pay-as-you-go options and expanded GreenLake Marketplace to simplify software procurement. The platform also adds a unified interface for hybrid observability, sustainability insights, and consumption analytics, reinforcing GreenLake's role as a common experience across infrastructure, software, and services.
For storage and data platforms, HPE announced updates across Alletra and Data Fabric that support AI data preparation and accessibility. HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 with file storage is scheduled for general availability in Q2 2026, with 16-node scale-out and RDMA support expected in Q3 2026. HPE also announced a new release of Alletra Storage MP B10000 and updates to HPE Data Fabric Software focused on data accessibility, governance, metadata enrichment, and AI readiness.
The NVIDIA AI Factory announcements connected these capabilities more directly to production AI deployments. HPE positioned Alletra Storage MP X10000 as a platform for AI data preparation and pipeline efficiency, while GreenLake Intelligence, agent governance capabilities, and AI Factory enhancements focused on helping organizations deploy and manage AI-enabled environments at scale.
HPE Zerto Software enhancements are scheduled for general availability in Q2 2026. Beyond migration and recovery use cases, HPE is positioning Zerto as a key component of its cyber resilience strategy. The company highlighted integrated support across HPE StoreOnce, HPE Zerto Software, and Veeam Data Platform for HPE Private Cloud deployments. HPE also extended resilience messaging into AI environments, positioning Zerto as a mechanism for workload protection, rollback, and recovery when AI-driven processes or automated actions create unintended outcomes.
Looking Ahead
The importance of these announcements will become clearer as organizations move AI from experimentation into production. AI deployments require data accessibility, governance, recovery planning, and repeatable deployment models. As more decision-making and automation move into software systems, organizations need mechanisms to validate actions, recover from failures, and maintain control over data and policies. The combination of Morpheus, Zerto, Alletra, and GreenLake suggests HPE views these requirements as interconnected components of a broader AI operating environment.
This approach also creates opportunities for partners. Customers are looking for pre-tested solutions that address modernization, cyber resilience, and AI readiness without requiring them to assemble every component independently. Partners can build on HPE's foundation to deliver more complete solutions around AI adoption and business transformation.
HPE still has execution work ahead. Customers will evaluate how tightly these capabilities integrate, how easily they can be adopted, and whether GreenLake simplifies management in practice. Discover 2026 showed growing alignment across Morpheus, Zerto, Alletra, Data Fabric, and GreenLake. These are not the same product story. Together, they help organizations modernize infrastructure, protect workloads, prepare data, and support AI at scale without adding complexity.
Don Gentile | Analyst-in-Residence -- Storage & Data Resiliency
Don Gentile brings three decades of experience turning complex enterprise technologies into clear, differentiated narratives that drive competitive relevance and market leadership. He has helped shape iconic infrastructure platforms including IBM z16 and z17 mainframes, HPE ProLiant servers, and HPE GreenLake — guiding strategies that connect technology innovation with customer needs and fast-moving market dynamics.
His current focus spans flash storage, storage area networking, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), software-defined storage (SDS), hybrid cloud storage, Ceph/open source, cyber resiliency, and emerging models for integrating AI workloads across storage and compute. By applying deep knowledge of infrastructure technologies with proven skills in positioning, content strategy, and thought leadership, Don helps vendors sharpen their story, differentiate their offerings, and achieve stronger competitive standing across business, media, and technical audiences.