We use HPE Apollo for specific requirements of Linux servers.

We've only been using it for about a month so far. This is a system that's on loan to us from HPE. It's a Gen10 version with eight NVIDIA V100 GPUs and four nodes. We have already purchased the unit. This is on loan to us until we receive the Apollo 6500 that we ordered.

For storage we're using a Seagate SSD Array, all-flash array, as well as EL4000. The Apollo 6500 is for machine-learning, specifically for wafer generation, wafer analysis, for one of our operations sites in Minnesota.

Basically, we proposed HPE Apollo for some of our clients as a backup solution. It's quite rare to get Apollo requirements here in Sri Lanka.

I can remember two incidents where we proposed Apollo. One was for one of the largest apparel companies as a backup solution, and the other was for a government project, the Parliament modules. In both cases, we proposed HPE Apollo. Other than that, there haven't been many opportunities for Apollo in Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

Additionally, there was a requirement for HPE Apollo at one of the Sri Lankan medical faculties. It's not a common choice for most projects here.

The solution is used in the Telecom sector for deep learning and artificial intelligence. 

I specifically purchased it to address a need I have for DPM. I needed DPM to back up to a specific location in both of my datacenters that I have in Ireland. I needed just a lump of slow storage, but that was big, to take 30-day disk backups before they were offloaded to tape. In that sense, it ticked all the boxes and it's been working fine for that.

Now, I'm moving on to StoreOnce, but I'm going to repurpose the Apollos after this. I don't know what I'm going to use them for after this, because DPM is gone. Moving on to Veeam and StoreOnce.

The HPE Apollo is used as a server for our system clusters.

We use three Apollo 2600 enclosures with a total of 12 servers as a Splunk cluster for all our log handling. 

We primarily use it for high-performance computing. Our customers really do like it because of the density they can achieve in the racks. Apollo provides so much compute power and storage as well.

It's performing extremely well.

We're using it for big data and storage servers. So mostly Hadoop for big data, Hadoop elastic search, and Ceph storage for our OpenStack private cloud.

The Apollo is performing fairly well. We've run into minor issues, but overall it does the job and we feel it's a good product for the money. 

We use the Apollo system for most of our branch offices. Our roadmap is to implement Apollo in all our branch offices by the end of 2018. So we will have something like 50 branch offices with Apollo.

We performed a PoC. We were very happy with it, so we decided to implement it in all the branches.