I was at the HP Storage Tech Day in Fort Collins. As is normal with HP, this wasn’t a reveal. No, it was more of an education, a deep dive into select products, meant to inform us, and by proxy, all of you, of certain highlighted products, provide illumination on product lines/groups, and reiterate what is known about the products.
Why HP Storage?
In a word, “data”.
It is no longer anecdotal that the amount of data that we accumulate has grown exponentially over the past several years. And the rate is only increasing.
Storage is a serious part of HP’s Converged Infrastructure, or HPCI, strategy and initiative. I have been exposed to (HP) corporate thought and products on this strategy for the past couple of years, and seen it be flashed out with acquisitions, most notable the 3PAR purchase.
Converging storage
As part of HPCI, HP is also converging storage, bringing scale-out – as opposed to ‘scale-up’ – capabilities to storage.
As explained by Craig Nunes, VP of marketing at HP Storage in an interview here, HP Storage products are new, fresh, and architected for the data deluge we are currently experiencing, and for the future.
HP Storage Tech Day 2012
For this Tech Day, we were given deep dives into the
- HP P4800 BladeSystem SAN for Client Virtualization
- HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software (VSA)
- HP StoreOnce B6200 Backup System
- The entire 3PAR line
- Introduced to HP’s file-based portfolio – the former IBRIX line,
- HP Storage and VMware integration, and
- HP VirtualSystem.
There were a few surprises for me: the X5000 Windows Storage Server-based NAS, the StoreOnce line, and HP VirtualSystem.
Craig Nunes is Vice-President of Marketing for HP Storage, and he opened the event.
HP Storage Tech Day: Introduction by Craig Nunes from John.Obeto on Vimeo.
More to come…
