HP integrates 3PAR into cloud, storage platforms

BANGALORE, INDIA: HP announced that it had integrated 3PAR Utility Storage into its HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio, which as per the company enables clients to optimize cloud delivery with features like automated storage tiering.

Prakash Krishnamoorthy, country manager, StorageWorks, HP India, said: "In about three months we have finally extended the capability of 3PAR architecture and made it a regular part of HP's CloudSystem and also got it certified with HP Bladesystem Matrix, HP X9000 LAN gateway and HP UX, so as to cater to the multi-tenant cloud. So, today a customer can easily build a cloud or a cloud service provider can utilise HP to build infrastructure on a cloud very easily."

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HP 3PAR Utility Storage can now be fully managed as part of HP CloudSystem, which as per the company will reduce cloud application deployment time from days to minutes, improve operational efficiency of storage management tenfold and cut storage costs by up to 50 percent.

"A cloud service provider will be able to deploy and provision cloud in a span of 15 seconds. Moreover, our 3PAR architecture becomes the storage platform and addresses large file system requirement of our customers," he added.

HP also announced a new D2D back-up system, HP D2D4324 Backup System, from its D2D family of Data Domain line, which the storage major claims will help companies to manage data growth without compromising on data protection.

HP also has extended its HP X9300 Network Storage Gateway, built on IBRIX technology, for HP 3PAR Storage Systems.

HP has also introduced HP P4800 G2 SAN, which is built inside an HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure, thus eliminating the need for external storage networking.

The new HP P4800 G2 SAN runs SAN/IQ 9.0 software with support for VMware vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI).

"We are launching our P4800 series, combining HP BladeSystem and VMware. We will provide a cost effective and scalable storage solution for virtualisation requirements of our customer. While companies are adopting virtualisation, we don't want their data to be left behind," he added.

HP also announced the launch of HP E5000 Messaging System for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, which integrates servers, storage, operating system software and Exchange 2010 configuration wizards into a single, converged solution.

"The HP E5000 messaging system is an integrated appliance for Exchange. It combines Microsoft Exchange 2010 along with compute, networking and storage infrastructure. The implementation template will allow an organisation to deploy the template in a rapid manner. It comes basically in three or four formats. We have bundles designed for 300 users, 500 users, for 1000 users and 3000 users," he adds.

He also added that since it is unified there is significant saving in time to deploy, by up to 15-20 percent than traditional approach and a 3000-user mail box can be deployed in a matter of days.

The HP P4800 G2 SAN will be priced at $148,000, HP D2D4324 Backup System starts at $149,999, The E5300 series with 500 mailboxes starts at $35,900, whereas the one with 1,000 mailboxes starts at $41,400 and the one with 3,000 mailboxes starts at $68,500.

HP, which touched upon almost all of its recent acquisitions such as IBRIX, 3PAR, Data Domain, and LeftHands, hasn't however, made any announcements with regard to its EVA mid-range storage system in this occasion. HP maintains that it is still very bullish about its EVA products though, despite reports floating that HP is ignoring it.

"The industry has been waiting for a new product from the EVA family. EVA is our main battleship. HP is clearly committed to EVA product line and we are going to introduce some enhancement to this product line very soon. Those products are not part of this announcement though," he noted.