HP has been talking and promoting for several weeks (okay, months) their upcoming December 3rd storage announcements from the HP discovery event in Frankfurt Germany.

Well it's now afternoon, which means the early Monday morning December 3rd embargoes have been lifted so I can now talk about what HP shared last Friday about today's announcements. Basically what I received was a series of press releases as well as a link to their updated web site providing information about today's announcements.

• HP Redefines Storage Simplicity with Single Architecture for Enterprises of All Sizes
• HP Expands 3PAR Storage Portfolio
• HP Extends Enterprise-class Backup and Recovery Across Entire StoreOnce Portfolio
• New HP Storage Services Transform How Organizations Manage, Store and Protect Data
• HP StoreAll Storage Brings Real-time Intelligence to Big Data Retention and Cloud Storage Customers
  
• HP Introduces HP Capacity on Demand

HP has enhanced the 3PAR aka P10000 with new models including for entry-level, as well as for higher performance enterprises needs. This also should beg the question for many longtime EVA (excuse me, P6000) customers, have they hit the end of the line? For scale out storage, HP has the StoreAll solutions (think about products formerly marketed as certain X9000 models based on Ibrix) with enhancements for analytics, bulk and various types of big data. In addition HP has enhanced its backup and recovery capabilities and Dedupe products including integration with Autonomy (here and here) along with capacity on demand services.

New 3PAR (P10000 models)

New StoreAll storage system

From the surface and what I have been able to see so far, looks like a good set of incremental enhancements from HP. Not much else to say until I can get some time to dig around deep to see what can be found on more details, however check out Calvin Zito (aka @hpstorageguy) the HP storage blogger who should have more information from HP.

Ok, nuff said (for now).

Cheers Gs

Greg Schulz - Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press, 2011), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press, 2009), and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier, 2004)

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