Get Ready for More Features and Still Lower All-flash Array Storage Prices

June 9, 2017

While the overall economy and even the broader technology sector largely boom, the enterprise storage space is feeling the pinch. As storage revenues level off and even drop, many people with whom I spoke at this past week’s HPE Discover 2017 event shared their thoughts as to what is causing this situation. The short answer: there does not appear to be a single reason for the pullback in storage revenue but rather a perfect storm of events that is contributing to this situation. The good news is that this retrenching should ultimately benefit end-users.

HP 3PAR StoreServ 8000 Series Lays Foundation for Flash Lift-off

August 26, 2015

Almost any hybrid or all-flash storage array will accelerate performance for the applications it hosts. Yet many organizations need a storage array that scales beyond just accelerating the performance of a few hosts. They want a solution that both solves their immediate performance challenges and serves as a launch pad to using flash more broadly in their environment.

HP StoreOnce Deduplicating Backup Appliances Put Organizations on Path to Ending Big Data Backup Headaches

April 28, 2015

During the recent HP Deep Dive Analyst Event in its Fremont, CA, offices, HP shared some notable insights into the percentage of backup jobs that complete successfully (and unsuccessfully) within end-user organizations. Among its observations using the anonymized data gathered from hundreds of backup assessments at end-user organizations of all sizes, HP found that over 60% of them had backup job success rates of 98% or lower, with 12% of organizations showing backup success rates of lower than 90%. Yet what is more noteworthy is through HP’s use of Big Data analytics, it has identified large backups (those that take more than 12 hours to complete) as being the primary contributor to the backup headaches that organizations still experience.

HP 3PAR StoreServ Management Console Answers the Call for Centralized, Simplified Storage Operations Management without Technical Compromise

April 10, 2015

Scalable. Reliable. Robust. Well performing. Tightly integrated with hypervisors such as Microsoft Windows and VMware ESXi. These attributes are what every enterprise expects production storage arrays to possess and deliver. But as enterprises grow their infrastructure, they need to manage more storage arrays with the same or fewer number of IT staff. This requirement moves storage array manageability center stage which plays directly into the strengths of HP 3PAR StoreServ storage arrays and HP 3PAR StoreServ Management Console (SSMC).

HP ProLiant BL660c VMware VMmark Benchmark Using HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 All-flash Array Carries Real-World VM Density and Performance Implications

May 6, 2014

VMware® VMmark® has quickly become a performance benchmark to which many organizations turn to quantify how many virtual machines (VMs) they can realistically expect to host and then perform well on a cluster of physical servers. Yet a published VMmark score for a specified hardware configuration may overstate or, conversely, fail to fully reflect the particular solution’s VM consolidation and performance capabilities. The HP ProLiant BL660c published VMmark performance benchmarks using a backend HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 all-flash array provide the relevant, real-world results that organizations need to achieve maximum VM density levels, maintain or even improve VM performance as they scale and control costs as they grow.

The HP XP7 Storage Virtual Array Capability Marks the Beginning of the End of the Pain of Data Consolidations and Migrations

April 23, 2014

Delivering always-on application availability accompanied by the highest levels of capacity, management and performance are the features that historically distinguish high end storage arrays from other storage arrays available on the market. But even these arrays struggle to easily deliver on a fundamental data center task: migrating data from one physical array to another. The introduction of the storage virtual array feature into the new HP XP7 dramatically eases this typically complex task as it facilitates data consolidations and migrations by migrating entire storage virtual arrays from one physical array frame to another while simplifying array management in the process.

Achieving the Reality of ITaaS Requires that Organizations Put a Priority on Performance

February 6, 2014

ITaaS is the new Holy Grail with 75 percent of IT managers saying ITaaS aligns with their organization’s philosophy and needs. Accustomed to living in a world where each application had dedicated servers, networking and storage, ITaaS eliminates this issue. It aggregates these resources into a common pool that is accessible by all virtual machines (VMs) and their hosted applications that may be owned by multiple different departments or even different organizations. These resources may then be allocated to them at any time.

HP Puts Transformative Application Performance Improvement Within Reach of Small and Midsize Enterprises

January 22, 2014

Flash memory technology can deliver transformative application performance improvements that lead to results that matter to business—like faster decisions and the ability to serve more customers more quickly. But the cost of flash memory arrays and the technical know-how required to integrate them into the data center have thus far put them out of reach of many small and midsize enterprises (SMEs).
Hybrid storage arrays utilize dynamic data placement in a storage pool that combines flash memory and HDDs to deliver the exponential improvements in storage performance associated with flash memory arrays at a cost that makes sense to a broader range of organizations. Now HP has introduced a preconfigured hybrid storage appliance specifically designed for SMEs–the HP StoreVirtual 4335–that enables smaller IT departments to deliver the performance boost businesses want while also giving lean IT departments what they need–affordable technology that just works.

Make the Trade-up – Not the Trade-off – to the HP 3PAR StoreServ Converged Storage System Part II of II

July 18, 2013

The promises of storage consolidation and simplified management are attracting many midsized organizations to converged storage systems. But standardizing on a single storage platform can result in unexpected trade-offs – such as their need to compromise on certain features or sacrifice performance. Using the new HP 3PAR StoreServ File Controller, organizations can trade up to the benefits that converged storage systems have to offer without needing to trade-off on either features or performance.

The Sudden Allure of Converged Storage Systems and the Trade-offs Organizations Face When Adopting Them – Part I of II

July 16, 2013

Converged storage systems are nothing new. They offer both file (CIFS and NFS) and block (FC, FCoE and iSCSI) storage networking services and can support multiple tiers of storage with the largest of these systems scaling to hold petabytes of data. What is new is their sudden allure to midsized enterprises with three factors driving their increased interest in these systems

Category: HP Storage

HP 3PAR StoreServ 8000 Series Lays Foundation for Flash Lift-off

HP StoreOnce Deduplicating Backup Appliances Put Organizations on Path to Ending Big Data Backup Headaches

HP 3PAR StoreServ Management Console Answers the Call for Centralized, Simplified Storage Operations Management without Technical Compromise

HP ProLiant BL660c VMware VMmark Benchmark Using HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 All-flash Array Carries Real-World VM Density and Performance Implications

The HP XP7 Storage Virtual Array Capability Marks the Beginning of the End of the Pain of Data Consolidations and Migrations

Achieving the Reality of ITaaS Requires that Organizations Put a Priority on Performance

HP Puts Transformative Application Performance Improvement Within Reach of Small and Midsize Enterprises

Make the Trade-up – Not the Trade-off – to the HP 3PAR StoreServ Converged Storage System Part II of II

The Sudden Allure of Converged Storage Systems and the Trade-offs Organizations Face When Adopting Them – Part I of II

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