HP expands "Converged Storage" portfolio

CEBU, Philippines - Bullish about the growing technology savvy businesses in the Southern Philippine market, HP has announced its expansion of “Converged Storage” portfolio in Cebu.

HP recently introduced its new federated storage software which enables clients to transparently move application workloads between disk systems in virtualized and cloud computing environments.

HP Philippines managing director Ryan Guadalquiver said the Philippine market will see more of HP’s top notch software solutions product, as a result of the company’s significant investments acquiring technologies to expand its solutions portfolio.

Companies can take advantage of this “Converged Storage” portfolio, from finance, telecommunications, hospitality, BPO, and wide spectrum of industries, he said.

During its roadshow in Cebu market, HP also introduced new HP P10000 3PAR Storage Systems with powerful features for the delivery of enterprise IT within public and private clouds, called IT-as-a-Service.

These features include multitenancy for workload consolidation, expanded thin technologies for efficient capacity utilization and automatic load rebalancing to drive enterprise agility.

Based on IDC’s estimate, by 2012, 85 percent of new applications will be specifically designed to be accessed in the cloud.

Agile delivery of these virtualized and cloud based applications requires linking multiple storage systems together to act as a single entity. Called storage federation, this capability can eliminate the extra layer of virtualization appliances and, as a result, decrease cost, administration overhead and service level risk within the data center architecture.

“Legacy storage systems architected 20 years ago were never designed for the dynamic IT-as-a-Service world, forcing organizations to use expensive and inefficient bolt-on virtualization approaches,” said Mike Prieto, vice president and general manager for HP Storage, HP Asia Pacific and Japan.

“The true peer-based storage federation in HP Converged Storage solutions can handle the inherent unpredictability of always-on, multitenant environments while reducing expense, management overhead and risk to service level,” he added.

Research results directed what IT executives all over the globe already suspect, namely that taking the same approach with storage in the next generation data centers wont deliver the results needed, this according to Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, a full-service IT analyst and business strategy firm.

“The new HP 3PAR platform scores at or near the top of every open-systems criteria we’ve considered for tier 1 storage for this new data center model,” Duplessie added.—