HP converged storage offering to improve performance

HP has announced a refreshed portfolio of midrange and flash-optimized HP 3PAR StoreServ systems designed to improve efficiency and performance, while reducing complexity. The portfolio offers new workload-centric storage personas, including unified storage access as well as data protection for flat backup to HP StoreOnce.

During the twelve months ending June 30, 2014, as reported by IDC, HP grew external storage systems revenue faster year over year compared to any of the other top five vendors. HP also gained the highest market share during the same twelve months within the worldwide external midrange storage market and was the top provider of midrange Storage Area Network arrays in EMEA.⁽¹⁾ The 600% year on year growth in HP’s all flash offerings and share gains in midrange storage is proof of HP’s successful efforts to expand to new markets.⁽²⁾

Building on this momentum, HP is releasing new midrange and flash storage innovations include 3PAR File Persona software and the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7440c Converged Flash Array, which provides all-flash performance, unified storage agility, hybrid storage affordability and flat backup of 3PAR StoreServ snapshots to HP StoreOnce Backup fully orchestrated through HP OneView for VMware vCenter Server.

“Enterprises today understand that complexity can be a major bottleneck to new business expansion and IT innovation,” said Barun Lala, Director, Storage, HP India. “Today’s announcement builds on our vision for HP Converge Storage to simplify storage through polymorphic architectures with a single platform built for the New Style of IT.”

Traditional “unified storage” solutions promise device consolidation but do so at the expense of real-world efficiency and performance. The HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000c-series with 3PAR File Persona software overcomes these gaps with converged file and object-access alongside existing flash-optimized block storage; reducing datacenter footprint 66 percent