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HP announced new firmware enhancements for MSA 2040 Storage that accelerates applications as much as 45 percent at no additional cost. Several new MSA 2040 bundles lower the cost of deploying hybrid flash by up to 45 percent. New SAS connectivity for MSA 1040 Storage makes it the most affordable shared storage system in the market from a major vendor, HP said, in a press release.
Sid BarunLala, Director, Storage, HP India. “HP is committed to bringing high-impact technologies like flash to smaller customers at incredibly affordable prices – and we are doing it on proven platforms like MSA to give them the power to accelerate their business growth with confidence in their IT infrastructure.”
The latest firmware upgrade for HP MSA 2040 Storage optimizes application access to flash-based, solid-state media in hybrid storage configurations. As a result, existing HP MSA 2040 hybrid flash customers can increase performance by up to 37,000 IOPS via a free, non-disruptive upgrade.
HP said it is introducing several new, aggressively-priced, hybrid flash MSA 2040 bundles. These bundles bring hybrid flash to even more affordable price points—up to 45 percent savings, including the MSA 2040 Performance Tiering license—with single-SKU ordering simplicity for faster time to value.HP also announced new more flexible connectivity choices for MSA customers looking to deploy shared storage to support application high availability without the cost of dedicated storage networking infrastructure. The new HP MSA 1040 SAS array with support for high performance 6Gb/12Gb SAS direct host connections makes it possible to directly connect up to four application servers to create a fully redundant shared pool of capacity that can scale up to 384 TB. Eliminating dedicated SAN switching infrastructure greatly simplifies deployment for smaller sites and costs 34 percent less than other connectivity options.
Pricing and Availability
- Firmware upgrades to HP MSA 1040/2040 are available via support pages on hp.com and are free of charge to existing customers on warranty or support contracts.
