HP Expands Converged Storage Portfolio

HP Expands Converged Storage Portfolio

New solutions deliver purpose-built all-flash array performance and enable backup-as-a-service using software-defined storage

NEW ZEALAND, June 25, 2013 — HP expanded the company’s Converged Storage portfolio with a purpose-built all-flash HP 3PAR StoreServ system that delivers performance and low latency without compromising enterprise resiliency or adding datacenter complexity.

HP has also extended its six year lead in software-defined storage with a new StoreOnce Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) that cuts the cost of small site backup up to 65 percent.(1)

“It’s impossible for organisations to deal with unpredictable workloads cost effectively if they’re managing disparate storage silos,” said  Mike Prieto, vice president and general manager, HP Storage, HP Asia Pacific and Japan. “With the new 3PAR StoreServ and StoreOnce innovations customers get best-in-class purpose-built solutions to address critical new requirements while retaining the simplicity that comes from an approach that can manage and serve a variety of needs without creating new storage silos.”

Maximising enterprise agility with an all-flash, solid-state optimised array

The HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 Storage system delivers more than 500,000 input/output operations per second with less than 0.6 millisecond response time.(2) Flash-specific caching algorithms dynamically adjust read/write granularity to reduce latency and speed transactions. In addition, HP 3PAR Priority Optimisation software assures performance for specific workloads to improve overall productivity.

To deliver a rapid return on investment, the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 Storage system has hardware-accelerated data compaction that reduces capacity needs by up to 50 percent without degrading performance.(3) System-wide striping, which automatically writes data across all resources, increases throughput, load balances the system, and extends media life by eliminating hot spots. Unlike offerings from startup companies, the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 assures business continuity with persistent technologies that provide constant application access in the event of local hardware issues or multi-site disasters.

HP is the only vendor to offer a single product family that spans midrange-priced platforms, all-flash performance-optimised platforms, and enterprise platforms with multi-petabyte scale.(4) Competitors with outdated portfolios are unable to make the leap from traditional storage to flash optimised systems without starting from scratch.(1) HP 3PAR StoreServ's simplification reduces cost, speeds deployment, and is only possible because of the modern architecture of the 3PAR StoreServ system. Leveraging the same core architecture allows all systems to share common data services such as Peer Motion storage federation software to move live data non-disruptively to other systems and sites.

New software and SAN infrastructure for the entire HP 3PAR StoreServ family

New features added to HP 3PAR StoreServ strengthens enterprise security with advanced data encryption to assist healthcare, finance, and government customers to their meet compliance requirements. Unlike competitors that require the separate expense of a dedicated appliance, HP 3PAR Peer Persistence is an active-active stretch cluster that provides transparent data center failover to eliminate workflow disruptions.(1) HP also announced new StoreFabric 16-gigabit (Gb) SAN infrastructure that eliminates bandwidth bottlenecks to maximise the performance of flash-based systems.

Second-generation software-defined storage for more efficient data protection

HP StoreOnce VSA deploys as a virtual machine on existing industry-standard servers, eliminating the need for customers to purchase dedicated hardware. It enables backup as a service offerings for hosting providers and lowers costs for enterprise remote office protection. In addition, HP StoreOnce VSA reduces physical hardware requirements up to 50 percent and energy costs up to 70 percent.(5) The new VSA joins software-defined networking, server, and storage already part of the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio.

Unlike the fragmented complexity of competitive solutions, only HP StoreOnce meets enterprise disk backup needs with a single storage architecture.(1) It can be deployed across application and backup servers, as well as physical and virtual storage appliances. This enables customers to transfer deduplicated data between any StoreOnce system without adding the bandwidth and management overhead of disparate systems.

Delivering best in class scalability to support rapidly growing environments

The HP StoreEver MSL6480 Tape Library has enterprise-class features for long-term data protection at a midrange price. It starts small and expands easily to provide industry-leading performance, scale and density, up to 60.4 TB/hour and 3.5 PB in a single library.

The HP Converged Storage portfolio is further integrated with the new HP Data Protector 8 backup and recovery software. Customers can now protect environments with up to 1 trillion unique filenames, more than 100 times that of competitive backup applications.(1)

Pricing and availability(6)
·   HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 Storage is available in now at a starting price of NZD $249,999 inc GST
·   HP 3PAR Priority Optimisation Software is available now
·   The HP StoreOnce VSA will be available on July 22 at NZD $6199 inc GST for 10 TB of capacity.
·   The HP StoreEver MSL6480 Tape Library is available now at an entry price of NZD $47,999 inc GST
·   HP Data Protector 8 is available June 26 from a starting price of NZD$2599 inc GST

All offerings are available worldwide from HP and authorised channel partners.

(1)  Based on HP internal comparative analysis of publicly available data from major competitors, May 2013.
(2)  Based on HP internal testing using public domain I/O subsystem measurement and characterisation tools.
(3)  The above is intended to highlight certain aspects of HP’s Get Thin Guarantee and does not contain the full terms, conditions, limitations, definitions and other provisions (“Terms”) of the Get Thin Guarantee.
(4)  ESG, "HP's New All-Flash 3PAR Is 'All-Integrated' Under Existing Management Umbrella" http://www.esg-global.com/blogs/hps-new-all-flash-3par-is-all-integrated-under-existing-management-umbrella/
(5)  Based on HP comparisons of public data on HP StoreOnce VSA and EMC DD 160 data sheets as of May 2013.
(6)  Estimated N.Z. list prices. Actual prices may vary.

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