"This innovative, cost-effective solution empowers our partners to deliver greater flexibility and value to their customers, while addressing the growing demand for simplified, hybrid cloud solutions. HPE's commitment to a partner-led approach ensures that businesses can unlock the full potential of their IT infrastructure with ease and efficiency." With support for HPE ProLiant Compute Gen11 and the newly announced Gen12 servers, customers benefit from reduced costs and complexity in virtualized environments. HPE is also expanding HPE VM Essentials support across its portfolio and plans to extend it to third-party systems. "A 'Channel-only' sales motion for the standalone HPE VM Essentials Software capitalizes on the excitement of partners and the opportunity in the virtualization market, by providing customer choice and reduced total cost of ownership," said Simon Ewington, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Channel & Partner Ecosystem, HPE.