HPE Turns Up The HCI Edge Heat On Dell-VMware ‘From an edge experience perspective, it is a first—a comprehensive 2RU platform for the edge, which allows for centralized deployment, management and backup consolidated towards the public cloud,’ says HPE Vice President Omer Asad. ‘When you combine it with GreenLake, it is essentially branch or edge as a service.’ By Steven Burke March 03, 2021, 08:00 AM EST Hewlett Packard Enterprise Wednesday turned up the edge computing heat on rival Dell Technologies with SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) edge computing enhancements including support for Kuberntes containers and cloud-native backup. The HPE SimpliVity 4.1.0 update enables SimpliVity to run both container and VMware virtual machine workloads at the edge with a Kubernetes container plugin and adds cloud-native backup from multiple edge sites through HPE Cloud Volumes.