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NEW DELHI: HP, a player in the online storage space, is aiming at augmenting its business in India.
Online storage is not new in India and Indian companies have adopted OLTP applications for a very long time now.
HP is betting on verticals like telecom, financial services as well as manufacturing for growth. The company has three types of products targeted at the high end, mid level and entry level segments.
Targeted at large enterprises, XP Disk Array Systems have storage capacity starting from several hundred GB to several hundred petabytes. For mid-range and enterprise-class environments, HP has the Enterprise Virtual Array Systems.
These systems are easy to use and manage and the storage can go up to the TB level. The low-end solutions are called Modular Smart Array (MSA) Systems. These are targeted at entry-level businesses, departmental, and branch office customers.
For a mid range solution, the initial investment is close to $20,000 for 1 TB of storage.
HP India enterprise servers and storage country manager Avijit Basu said, “We have seen the era of direct attached online storage and are seeing the explosive growth in SAN based online storage. HP sees this trend to continue when online storage will grow from terabytes to petabytes and the market will register the highest growth rates in terms of capacity and revenue.”
He claims that HP had been a very dominant player in the online storage market and has established a clear leadership in terms of total disks shipped, total SAN storage, etc. for several years in a row.
“Increased deployments of integrated business application to support all business ranging from enterprise to small and medium business is seeing growth in the entry level and mid range market,” said Basu.
According to him, the key drivers for online storage in APAC/India include increase creation of digital data, online trading, electronic commerce, telecom proliferation and an overall increase in economic activity all fuel explosive growth in online data.