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, HP Storage (formerly HP StorageWorks), a portfolio of Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...

(HP) storage products, includes online storage, nearline storage, storage networking, archiving, de-duplication, and storage software. HP has developed many industry-first storage technologies to simplify network storage. HP is a proponent of Converged storage

Converged storage

Converged storage is a storage architecture that combines storage and compute into a single entity. This can result in the development of platforms for server centric, storage centric or hybrid workloads where applications and data come together to improve application performance and delivery...

, a storage architecture that combines storage and compute into a single entity.

New products and solutions

HP Storage solutions announced in August 2011:
HP 3PAR Utility Storage,
HP P10000 3PAR Storage Systems,
HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software

In August 2011, HP expanded its Converged Storage portfolio with the first federated storage capability to span from entry to high end systems and is available for both HP LeftHand and HP 3PAR storage systems. With HP Peer Motion, IT organizations can eliminate boundaries between systems with storage federation. For information on HP 3PAR Utility Storage, go to http://www.hp.com/storage/4cloud

HP

HP Utility Storage assists IT organizations shift workloads to the right resources within a metro-area, boost utilization by logically pooling thin capacity, and refresh/maintain storage with zero application downtime with HP Peer Motion.

Evaluator Group provides an analysis of HP Peer Motion with Storage Federation.

The HP P10000 HP 3PAR Storage System (V-class) was also introduced and sets the benchmark for storage tier 1 efficiency with new hardware and software.

http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/whatsnew/august/230811.aspx

OnJune 6, 2011, HP announced several industry-first Converged Infrastructure solutions that improve enterprise agility by simplifying deployment and speeding IT delivery. HP Converged Storage HP Converged Storage is one of the solutions announced.

The HP Converged Storage portfolio includes 3PAR, LeftHand, StoreOnce, and IBRIX Storage Systems.

HP X9000 IBRIX Storage System - Simplify the storage and archival of massive content pools.
HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) - 5th generation EVA to squeeze the most out of infrastructure
HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System - Consolidate servers and increase data availability.

HP intends Converged Storage to enable solutions designed from federated, scale-out storage software delivered on leading ProLiant and BladeSystem hardware and managed with converged storage, server, and networking orchestration.

Scale storage 41% faster
Reduce IT service delivery time to minutes
Spend up to 90% less time managing storage
Cut power, cooling, and floorspace in halfNetwork Computing article: HP Introduces New Storage Solutions

HP StorageWorks products announced on March 1, 2011:

StoreOnce D2D4324
E5000 Messaging System
3PAR Storage Systems
P4800 G2 BladeSystem SAN
P4000 SAN with SAN/iq 9.0
X9000 Network Storage

For more HP Storage information, go to http://www.hp.com/go/storage

The product line up includes:

Disk arrays

HP StorageWorks XP24000 Disk Array
HP StorageWorks XP20000 Disk Array
HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array
HP StorageWorks XP10000 Disk Array
HP StorageWorks XP1024 Disk Array
HP StorageWorks 8400 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA8400)
HP StorageWorks 8100 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA8100)
HP StorageWorks 8000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA8000)
HP StorageWorks 6400 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA6400)
HP StorageWorks 6100 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA6100)
HP StorageWorks 6000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA6000)
HP StorageWorks 5000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA5000)
HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4400)
HP StorageWorks 4100 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4100)
HP StorageWorks 4000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4000)
HP StorageWorks 3000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA3000)
HP StorageWorks 20 Modular Smart Array (MSA20)
HP StorageWorks 30 Modular Smart Array (MSA30)
HP StorageWorks 50 Modular Smart Array (MSA50)
HP StorageWorks 60 Modular Smart Array (MSA60)
HP StorageWorks 70 Modular Smart Array (MSA70)
HP StorageWorks 1000 Modular Smart Array (MSA1000)
HP StorageWorks 1500 Modular Smart Array (MSA1500)
HP StorageWorks 1510i Modular Smart Array (MSA1510i)
HP StorageWorks 2000sa Modular Smart Array (MSA2000sa)
HP StorageWorks 2000fc Modular Smart Array (MSA2000fc)
HP StorageWorks 2000i Modular Smart Array (MSA2000i)

Tape libraries

HP StorageWorks ESL E-Series Tape Libraries
HP StorageWorks EML E-Series Tape Libraries
HP StorageWorks MSL6000 Series Tape Libraries
HP StorageWorks MSL8096 Tape Libraries
HP StorageWorks MSL4048 Tape Libraries
HP StorageWorks MSL2024 Tape Libraries
HP StorageWorks 1/8 G2 Tape Autoloader
HP StorageWorks 12000 Virtual Library System
HP StorageWorks 9000 Virtual Library System
HP StorageWorks 6000 Virtual Library System
HP StorageWorks 1000i Virtual Library System
HP StorageWorks 300 Virtual Library System EVA Gateway

Storage networking

Many models rebadged from Brocade Communications Systems

Brocade Communications Systems

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. , based in Silicon Valley , is a vendor of storage area network hardware and software. The company also designs, manufactures, and sells networking products and management applications for local, metro, and wide area networks...

, Cisco

Cisco

Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...

, Emulex

Emulex

Emulex Corporation is a California based manufacturer of storage networking infrastructure solutions. The company's products include Fibre Channel host bus adapters , Fibre Channel over Ethernet converged network adapters , embedded storage switches, storage I/O controller and SAN storage switch...

and QLogic

QLogic

QLogic Corporation is an Aliso Viejo, California-based designer and supplier of storage networking, high performance computing networking, and converged infrastructure solutions...

Storage software

HP Storage Essentials
HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring
HP StoreOnce Deduplication

New products and solutions

Disk arrays

Tape libraries

Storage networking

Storage software

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