AppIQ and HP Team Up for Storage Management

AppIQ™, Inc., a provider of software solutions that enable data storage to be managed as a business-focused IT utility, and HP (www.hp.com) today announced an alliance to provide customers with a breakthrough solution for managing heterogeneous storage.

As part of a long-term original equipment manufacturing (OEM) and joint development agreement, AppIQ and HP will invest in joint product development, marketing, and services delivery. HP will make AppIQ StorageAuthority® Suite, AppIQ's multi-vendor storage resource management (SRM) and storage area network (SAN) management product family, available as HP Storage Essentials, a key component of HP's strategy to unify server and storage management.

"This partnership makes sense on a lot of fronts. For AppIQ, it's another major technology endorsement as well as a critical piece of their OEM strategy. For HP, this partnership delivers a key component of its unified infrastructure management strategy, since it can now offer a best-in-class storage area management solution that's a great technical fit with its existing server management platform," said Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.

"This OEM and development alliance with HP is a tremendous win for us, and continues our rapid ascent as the de facto standard for management of data storage infrastructure," said David Lemont, president and CEO, AppIQ. The AppIQ and HP alliance provides the first storage offering to integrate into HP Systems Insight Manager, the software foundation of HP's unified server-storage management strategy.

"HP has a proven, successful record of storage OEM partnering. Our alliance with AppIQ is enabling us to accelerate our delivery of products that support our unified storage-server management strategy," said Frank Harbist, vice president of the StorageWorks Software Division at HP.