HP announces 3Par integration
HP has demonstrated its first range of integrated HP and 3Par systems and announced three other appliances for the enterprise.
HP's storage provisioning manager software and the HP X9300 network storage gateway — based on technology from Ibrix which HP acquired in 2009 — now support 3Par hardware, HP announced on Tuesday. HP CloudSystem, which is used to build and manage cloud services in public and private clouds, can now manage 3Par utility storage. Additionally, the hardware giant announced a SAN with enhanced support for VMware virtualised environment, a data backup system and a messaging system for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.
"This [3Par] integration enables clients to optimise cloud delivery with features like automated storage tiering to improve performance and thin storage offerings to eliminate over-provisioning," HP said in a statement.
The P4800 G2 SAN sits inside an HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure. HP says this can cut networking costs by as much as 65 percent. The SAN runs SAN/IQ 9.0 software which has enhanced support for VMware's vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI).
The HP D2D4324 Backup System uses StoreOnce deduplication technology to back up up to 1.4 petabytes of data while having only 96TB of raw disk capacity.
The E5000 Messaging System is a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 appliance family of three that wraps servers, storage, OS software and Exchange 2010 configuration wizards into a single platform.
The P4800 G2 SAN starts at $148,000 (£90,864) and was made available on Tuesday, along with the D2D4324 Backup System, which starts at $149,999 and the E5000 family, which starts at $35,900 for a 500 mailbox E5300 system.