HP Advances in Cloud with 3PAR

HP's Converged Infrastructure solutions bring at the same time servers, storage and networking products to manage data centers from a common platform. The Converged platform has been designed to make data center handling more simple, flexible, efficient and cost effective. 3PAR's highly-virtualized storage solutions with advanced data management features for cloud-computing environments furthermore strengthen HP's Converged portfolio.

Leveraging 3PAR's storage platform, HP introduced new virtualization and deduplication storage solutions that will enable more scalable cloud computing. Clients will however be able to deploy cloud applications within minutes. In addition, during storage management is expected to show a marked operational improvement, storage costs should be nearly half of what it is nevertheless.

In today's innovation-driven world, the enterprise storage space is one of the most enviable growth areas. We believe that HP, with its renewed strength, will remain then positioned to capitalize on this market. Apart from this, we remain optimistic about HP's strong business model, as so then as its leadership position in both PC and Server segments. The company is as well expected to benefit from an increase in IT spending and PC refresh cycles.

The storage space is drawing in many players

But we should keep in mind that the storage space is drawing in many players, leading to intense competition. 3PAR's high-end enterprise storage products compete with those from key players in the segment, namely EMC Corp.'s Symmetrix, International Business Machines Inc.'s XIV and other offerings from Hitachi.

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