HP Introduces 3PAR Based SAN Storage System

March 08, 2011

Last August, HP made a point in its bidding battle with Dell to win the utility storage maker 3PAR. The high bid that won HP 3PAR was £1.4 billion. 3PAR is a new-age storage company and has the intellectual property that HP wanted whatever the price. It has been six month since then but HP has now integrated 3PARs technology into its own product line.

Though 3PAR was a smallish business it was well known in the industry for the high quality, scale out capacity, automated storage tiering, data deduplication and the general virtualisation ready capabilities. The integration of 3PAR will not only help HP to expand its target market but it has also enabled HP to introduce a new storage system, the P4800 SAN which fits into HP’s blade system architecture.

HP’s product marketing director for StorageWorks, told eWEEK-

“We’ve also integrated 3PAR with our HP blade system matrix and cloud system offerings. What this means is that you can now leverage 3PAR [with its scale-out utility features] as part of the end-to-end provisioning capability of those products,” Johns said.

HP also has certified 3PAR’s arrays with its high-end X9000 network storage gateway – which, too, is the result of a previous acquisition, IBRIX.

“What this does is give users a scalable NAS system and [the ability] to use 3PAR storage as the backend store but retain the characteristics of that 3PAR storage. [The X9000] doesn’t consume it and hide it,” Johns said.

Data management controls have also been simplified by HP and has built them on converged storage, server and networking platforms to help provide clients with a simple, yet efficient way of managing their server and storage networks.

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