HP has delivered a comprehensive architecture for implementing network-based storage virtualisation that will enable customers to simplify storage management, improve storage utilisation and enable storage services across heterogeneous environments.
"HP enables customers to adapt and optimise storage and service levels through advanced technologies such as virtualisation, adding greater simplicity and utilisation of storage resources," said says Kim Howlett, Storage Manager at HP South Africa. "This announcement demonstrates our ability to deliver the products and solutions and a clear architectural roadmap for the future with full investment protection, providing an adaptive storage infrastructure that is more controllable, resilient and extensible."
Network-based virtualisation will allow enterprise-wide pools of modular storage assets to be easily managed and provisioned, adding greater functionality and utilisation. With more than 100 virtualisation patents, HP currently ships a broad portfolio of virtualisation solutions, including: the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array; the HP StorageWorks Virtual Array; and the HP OpenView Continuous Access Storage Appliance (CASA), a solution that enables heterogeneous storage services including replication, snapshot and data migration.
HP plans to extend the benefits of CASA services by integrating VersaStor technology into both the CASA platform and an intelligent switch platform. This will distribute processing across the storage network to more intelligently route input/output based on the data services required.
Based on a modular approach, HP`s network-based virtualisation allows customers to adapt and scale their storage infrastructure, adding and allocating resources as required, while protecting existing IT investments.
Customers can begin by adding CASA today to their SANs to provide replication and data migration services. Later this year they will be able to implement a VersaStor-enhanced CASA solution and add VersaStor-enabled switches into their existing fabrics. The solution will be managed today and in the future through HP OpenView Storage Area Manager software.
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