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HP Expands Storage Portfolio to Help Businesses Capitalize on Information

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HP today launched the largest information lifecycle management (ILM) product set in its history, delivering storage products, software and services that enable customers to better capitalize on their business information.

The offerings help businesses accelerate data archiving and retrieval, increase worker productivity and simplify the protection of their customers’ critical data.

The new and enhanced products complement HP’s comprehensive approach to ILM, which extends beyond storage to both physical and digital information from a wide range of devices and applications. HP’s approach also leverages its expertise in imaging and printing, personal systems and ILM services.

“HP has a unique breadth in its ability to help customers capture, manage, retain and deliver information according to its business value,” said Frank Harbist, vice president and general manager, ILM and Storage Software, StorageWorks Division, HP. “Businesses challenged with the need to easily and cost-effectively manage ever-increasing amounts of data can use our expanded ILM portfolio to put their information to work for competitive advantage.”

New products and services in HP’s ILM portfolio include:

• HP StorageWorks Continuous Information Capture – a solution for continuously capturing enterprise database and application information to enable information extraction and roll back to any point in time. The solution delivers continuous data protection without affecting database or application performance and it shortens roll-back time by close to four times compared to traditional data protection solutions. HP’s associated implementation and startup service ensures smooth implementation of information capture into the IT infrastructure, reducing implementation time and minimizing impact to customers’ storage environments.
• HP StorageWorks 200 Virtualization System – an in-band appliance that virtualizes multi-vendor arrays to simplify heterogeneous data migration between arrays and, unlike competing offerings, has no single point of failure.
• HP StorageWorks Reference Information Manager for Files – enables continuous capture of files stored on Windows® desktops or file servers. Customers benefit from greater storage utilization and reduced storage management costs by eliminating redundant data at the sub-file level through the HP StorageWorks Reference Information Storage System (RISS) block single instancing capability. In addition, users can easily retrieve any file version and leverage RISS indexing and search to browse files for view or restore.
• HP StorageWorks Application Recovery Manager – enables instant recovery of Microsoft® Exchange and SQL application databases in the event of disaster or corruption and integrates into any existing data protection environment. HP’s associated installation and startup service provides customers with installation, design and implementation services that help reduce downtime and meet customer objectives.
• Cisco MDS 9513 Multilayer Director Switch – delivers high availability and support for multilayer switching solutions such as SAN extension over IP-based WANs, as well as seamless integration of iSCSI and Fibre Channel. By consolidating storage environments with this 528-port director, customers can simplify the migration of data between tiers of storage and lay the foundation for a successful ILM strategy.

Enhanced products in the portfolio include:

• HP StorageWorks Reference Information Storage System – an active-archiving solution that helps customers store, index and rapidly retrieve reference data. RISS increases productivity by capturing data from many sources and easily searching and retrieving content in seconds. Version 1.5 lowers per-terabyte cost by up to 75 percent by offering higher-capacity “smart cells” and delivering three to five times more compression through block single instancing.
• HP StorageWorks Reference Information Manager for Databases – manages accelerating data growth by relocating infrequently used data to an easily accessed archive database. In an industry first, HP has added powerful new functionality to the solution that automatically migrates and converts tables within an operational database into open XML format.
• HP OpenView Storage Data Protector – highly scalable data protection software that automates backup and recovery from disk or tape. Version 6.0 significantly reduces time and resources required to perform backups by enabling full backup creation through pointers, eliminating the need to run regular full backups by consolidating incremental backups. HP’s associated backup and recovery solution service provides for a rapid and worry-free implementation of Data Protector in SAN and non-SAN environments, providing management of the customer’s entire integration process, including all planning, implementation, post-implementation reporting and testing activities.

More information about HP StorageWorks offerings is available at www.hp.com/go/storageworks.

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