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Thursday, February 8, 2007
BANGALORE: Hewlett-Packard today announced new storage offerings for enterprises to help consolidate, virtualize and secure storage environments.
The offerings were officially introduced at the HP Asia Pacific StorageWorks Conference. They include enhancements to the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array, the first embedded switch from Cisco for HP BladeSystem, a new network-attached storage (NAS) gateway and advanced encryption for HP Data Protector Software.
“HP storage consolidation and virtualization products and services enable customers to remain flexible, reduce complexity and lower the total cost of ownership in their IT environments,” said Anthony Chan, vice president and general manager, StorageWorks Division, HP Asia Pacific and Japan, “We’re helping customers build easy-to-manage next-generation data centers with our broad portfolio of Adaptive Infrastructure hardware, software and services.”
Of the new offerings, HP StorageWorks EVA File Services allow customers to consolidate their storage with an integrated, virtualized solution that serves both application (block) and file data concurrently.
The HP ProLiant DL585 G2 Storage Server is a plug-and-play NAS gateway that provides high-performance, multi-protocol file and print serving and iSCSI connectivity for both enterprise and workgroup SAN environments.
The new Cisco MDS 9124e Fabric Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem is an embedded 4-gigabit fibre channel that allows customers to consolidate SAN environments with a switch.
The HP Data Protector Software 6.0 is enhanced to provide 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which helps secure data and backups.
“In the past 10 years, businesses have experienced an exponential growth of data and the trend is expected to continue for years to come,” said Phillip Sargeant, managing vice president, Storage Research, Gartner Dataquest, “To deal with this data proliferation, end users are increasingly relying on consolidation and virtualization to maintain the most cost-effective and manageable storage environments.”
© CIOL Bureau
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