Hewlett Packard (HP) has announced new storage solutions aimed at driving down storage area network (SAN) cost and simplifying SAN integration and management.
The new lower-cost-per-gigabyte, high-capacity Fibre Channel disk drives for the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family were unveiled today at the Storage Networking World being held in Phoenix.
HP says the drives are designed to reduce SAN cost while increasing flexibility and investment protection.
"By combining higher capacity, lower cost disk drive mechanisms with a Fibre Channel interface, the drives address the growing need for businesses to store less critical or infrequently accessed information in a more economical fashion," says Bob Schultz, HP network storage solutions GM.
"The ability to offer tiered storage within a single storage system and enable simplified integration through support of industry standards lowers the price for SAN implementations," Schultz explains.
In collaboration with Seagate, HP plans to introduce a new class of disk drives, called Fibre Attached Technology Adapted, which HP says will be the first in the industry to offer customers the flexibility to segment reference data and mission-critical data between lower-cost-per-gigabyte drives and high-performance drives within a single storage system based on application performance and availability requirements.
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