By Mark Davison at Discover 2013, Barcelona – In a full frontal assault on traditional rivals Cisco and EMC, HP backed up the launch of its new ConvergedSystem additions with a number of new solutions to complement its Converged Storage portfolio.
“It’s building up to be a bad day for Cisco and EMC … and I’m about to make it worse,” was how David Scott, senior vice-president and GM of HP Storage, opened his presentation to journalists in the Barcelona Fira conference centre.
Scott says that the sheer volume, variety and velocity of data today and into the future means that “time is running out for legacy storage”.
It is with this in mind, he adds, that the company’s Converged Storage solutions are designed to restore business productivity at record speed, significantly reduce the cost of flash-optimised application performance to generate faster business returns, and simplify application mobility from public to private clouds to deliver secure service levels.
The new enhancements announced by Scott include:
HP StoreOnce Backup solutions which enable customers to efficiently manage exponential data growth by protecting more data in less time, while reducing business risk and workflow disruption with more than four times the backup performance and up to 10 times faster recovery than its closest competitor.
HP StoreAll Archive helps organisations extract big data actionable insight from large-scale data repositories with simple, integrated search tools that are 100 000 times faster than traditional approaches, in addition to open object storage interfaces that enable next-generation cloud storage applications developed in the cloud to be deployed securely within the enterprise.
HP 3Par StoreServ Storage brings new levels of affordability at half the cost and lower response times for customers needing high-performance, flash-optimised storage solutions, together with the most advanced quality-of-service-level control for those who might otherwise be stalled by service-level inconsistencies during their deployment of virtualisation and IT as a Service for their most critical applications.
“This really is the transformation of the backup industry and I believe we are in a tremendous position to drive this faster,” Scott says. “In our last quarter, we grew 70% year over year and I expect many more customers to take advantage of our solutions in the future.”