Here’s another video from HP Discover 2011 last week. In this one I talk to Kate Davis about the P4800. I’ve been pretty much all in on commodity storage hardware these days and the P4800 is another example of this. You’ll see in the video that the two blades run a clustered P4000 [...]
So there we have it. A week after Dell announce their intention to acquire 3Par, HP put their cards on the table and trump the Dell bid with an updated offer of $24 a share. This represents a 1/3 increase over the Dell $18/share offer.
HP have been pretty [...]
Today HP will announce two new storage arrays. Although taken from different product families, the hardware will be branded in a consistent manner, demonstrating HPs desire to bring together a range of storage technologies they’ve purchased over the last few years.
P2000 G3 MSA (Modular Smart Array) System
I’ve not been a particular fan of [...]
Yesterday, EMC announced Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), their much hyped and much anticipated storage feature enabling the automated moving of data between tiers of storage on a policy basis. However the most notable missing feature in the EMC announcement was the lack of support for legacy DMX-3 [...]
HP announced today their intention to acquire LeftHand networks, an iSCSI and virtualised SAN player.
Now, I doubt HP needed to buy LeftHand for their iSCSI technology. I suspect the bigger play here is the virtualised SAN technology they have – also known as the Virtual SAN Appliance. This allows a SAN to be created [...]
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