HP Launches New Storage Solutions

HP (www.hp.com)  today introduced new disk, tape and optical storage technologies and enhanced information management software that expand the industry's broadest portfolio of tiered storage solutions.

From the entry-level to high-end, HP provides customers with the flexibility to store business data - from creation to deletion - on the most cost-effective storage platform according to changing performance and reliability requirements.

"Customers are buying network storage across multiple tiers in order to cost-effectively manage huge data volumes and satisfy long-term data retention and regulatory compliance requirements," said Frank Harbist, vice president and general manager, Information Lifecycle Management, HP.

The storage offerings combined with HP's enhanced information management software help customers to better align data retention and protection costs with the business value of information over time - a critical component of HP's information lifecycle management strategy.

HP OpenView Data Protector version 5.5 software delivers more than 200 new and enhanced features to provide customers with a scalable data management solution that automates high-performance backup and recovery, from disk or tape, and over unlimited distances to help ensure continuous business operations and cost-efficient data movement.

"At Continental we believe in the future of HP's OpenView Data Protector and its ability to help manage our business," said Devin York, director of Financial Systems, Continental Airlines. "With the release of Data Protector 5.5, we see the new Advanced Media Management features, specifically disk-to-disk backup, as the next breakthrough technology which will lower scalability costs, increase performance and allow Continental to meet our data compliance objectives."

By integrating both low-cost, high-capacity SATA hard drives and enclosures with SCSI drive enclosures, the MSA1500 cs offers customers the flexibility, management simplicity and cost-effectiveness of a solution providing multiple tiers of storage within a single system and with a single management view.

This unique capability enables customers to segment data between primary and secondary storage according to performance and reliability requirements and based on the relevance of data and frequency of access.