HP Advances Scalable Cloud Computing with Integration of 3PAR Utility Storage

HP today announced the integration of 3PAR Utility Storage across the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio to simplify scalable cloud computing, and introduced new storage solutions for virtualization and data deduplication.

The combination as well helps customers seeking to consolidate storage hardware and respond to explosive data growth to address both of these challenges with converged block-and-file storage on a single storage array. HP as well has simplified data management with solutions built on converged storage, server and networking platforms to provide customers with unified management and a lower total cost of ownership.

Growing adoption of both public and private clouds has forced IT organizations and service providers to rethink their infrastructure design. Achieving the agility and performance demanded by cloud services requires the seamless integration of computing, storage and networking, as so then as centralized management.

To provide customers a secure, multitenant block-and-file storage solution for both structured and unstructured data in the cloud, HP has qualified the HP X9300 Network Storage Gateway, built on IBRIX innovation, for use with HP 3PAR Storage Systems. Combining the thin-storage capabilities of 3PAR Utility Storage with the tiering and data-migration capabilities of the X9300 Network Storage System can reduce capacity requirements by 50 percent.(3)

To maximize companies' return on investment in virtual servers and desktop PCs, HP has introduced the HP P4800 G2 SAN. Built inside an HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure, the P4800 eliminates the need for external storage networking, which reduces networking costs by up to 65 percent.(4) The use of common management across server, storage and networking results in a 40 percent increase in productivity.(5)

The rapid growth of digital data is driving the need for businesses to more efficiently manage information. Featuring StoreOnce deduplication research developed in HP Labs, the company's central technology facility, the HP D2D4324 Backup System enables customers to back up as much as 1.4 petabytes of data with only 96 terabytes of raw disk capacity - reducing to the cost of storage for disk-based backup by 95 percent.(7)

(5) "Gaining Business Value and RO I with HP Insight Control Management Software," IDC, September 2010.

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