HP to Achieve Industry Milestone in Storage Area Network Invironments

HP (www.hp.com) today announced that it is the first vendor to ship more than 100,000 disk arrays into storage area network (SAN) environments.
"HP's announcement validates the widespread adoption of networked storage solutions," said John McArthur, group vice president and general manager, IDC.

HP helped pioneer the concept of open SANs in 1997 and this milestone highlights the company's continued success in driving broad industry adoption of SANs with both enterprise-class and small and mid-size business customers.

The company also unveiled plans to introduce in mid-2005 the next generation of the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family, which has been fundamental to HP's success in this market.

The open SAN market continues to be one of the fastest growing storage segments and HP has either led or tied for market leadership in this segment for the past seven quarters.

Capital Region Orthopedic Group, a growing, 18-physician practice in Albany, N.Y., implemented an HP SAN infrastructure to facilitate its move to completely digital operations in an effort to improve the quality of patient care.

"We were faced with the challenge of integrating electronic medical records, a billing and scheduling system, digital X-rays and an ambulatory surgery center into a single, seamless system - and we knew that having one solution and one partner responsible for its success was the answer," said David Quinn, M.D., Capital Region Orthopedic Group.

Integrators of New Systems (INS), an HP reseller focused on enterprise-class customers, purchases HP StorageWorks XP and EVA disk arrays to perform customer demonstrations in its regional solution centers.

CROSSMARK, a professional services organization that focuses on the consumer packaged goods industry, implemented an HP SAN infrastructure in order to centralize storage assets, improve system reliability and enable the delivery of increased storage capacity on demand.

The next generation of the HP StorageWorks EVA family, due out the middle of next year, is designed to deliver breakthrough enterprise-class storage functionality and business value to the midrange market.

The systems will continue to leverage HP's proven virtualization technology and feature significantly higher performance, greatly increased capacity and new and enhanced software for simplified storage management and improved business continuity.