HP announces thin provisioning, data tiering services

PALO ALTO, USA: Sending a strong signal that it is all set to acquire 3PAR, HP Enterprise Services announced a new storage management capability, HP Virtualized Storage Service (VSS), built around thin provisioning and data tiering.

HP claims that VSS can save clients up to 30 percent in costs by maximizing utilization and moving appropriate data to less expensive storage tiers.

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Thin provisioning taps unused storage space within a network and creates a pool that each storage instance can use. By pooling together available storage space, clients can maximize the utilization of storage assets to keep costs in check.

Data tiering helps clients eliminate downtime and more efficiently store critical data by allowing them to move data based on its priority from one tier to another without an outage. 

The HP VSS can be accessed via HP data centre facilities or in-house systems with HP Enterprise Services remote service capacities.

Using HP StorageWorks XP disk array systems and XP line of software in tandem with HP VSS allows clients to avail storage technology.

“As virtualization moves to new areas in the data centre, clients are beginning to realize its improved performance and cost benefits when applied to data,” said Jeff Moyer, director, Storage Services, HP Enterprise Services.