HP redefines its midrange storage solutions

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

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. 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,” said Barun Lala, Director, Storage, HP India.

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 data center footprint 66 per cent.

HP 3PAR File Persona delivers Network File System, Common Internet File System and object access on new HP 3PAR StoreServ platforms and is the first in a set of HP innovations aimed at boosting utilization and lowering costs by moving storage-affinity related workloads such as data access, protection and analytics directly into the storage operating system and controller.

Delivering on its vision for Converged Storage, these new persona-enabled 3PAR StoreServ systems provide multi-protocol access to a single-shared capacity group for all workloads to boost utilization and lower costs. HP was recently positioned the furthest for completeness of vision in the leaders quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for General Purpose Arrays.