HP launches NextGen Storage Solutions

The Storage Works Division of HP has launched its next-generation storage products and solutions, including the P4000 G2 SAN, P2000 G3 Modular Smart Array (MSA) System and LTO-5 Ultrium Tape drives and cartridges in India. The new solutions provide faster application performance, increased scalability while reducing customer’s risk of downtime and data loss. These new products and solutions are targeted at small, medium and large business with the aim to fulfil the storage needs in virtualized and physical environments.

“With explosive data growth, customers face many challenges including rapid demand for extra capacity, faster access to information and the need for reliable protection,” said Som Satsangi, Director, Enterprise Storage Servers and Networking, HP India. “The next-generation SAN storage solutions from HP vastly improve capacity utilization while reducing the customer’s risk of downtime and data loss with a better total cost of ownership. It integrates with HP’s converged infrastructure, helping customers to cost-effectively manage data growth by providing instant access to storage capacity as per business demand.”

The new HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 MSA System enables small to midsize customers to effectively support rapid business growth with a flexible, easy-to-use and affordable storage area network (SAN) solution. The HP P2000 G3 helps customers scale their storage environments through increased drive capacity and improves application availability and performance with the latest 8-gigabit (Gb) Fibre Channel (FC) controller technology.

The new HP StorageWorks P4000 G2 SAN Solutions deliver high data availability, in both virtualized and physical environments, through its unique Network RAID functionality. Together with a new energy-efficient architecture, the P4000 G2 SAN reduces customer’s risk of downtime and data loss with a better total cost of ownership.

HP is also expanding its Linear Tape Open (LTO) technology portfolio with the upgraded HP StorageWorks LTO-5 Ultrium tape drives, which deliver improved data transfer speeds and management capabilities. Available with the HP StorageWorks MSL tape libraries, these new archive solutions enable businesses to better manage information through enhanced data protection, disaster recovery as well as long-term data retention operations.