HP sees solid storage growth

New HP CEO Leo Apotheker says the tech giant needs to beef up its software assets and continue pushing research and development investments, reports Managing Automation.

The company reported strength in its converged infrastructure, managed print services, commercial printing, and enterprise server and storage businesses.

It reported net revenue for the three-month period ended 31 October was $33.3 billion, up 8% from the $30.8 billion HP reported in the fourth quarter last year. HP had net earnings for the period of $2.5 billion, up 5%.

Celeros, a provider of data storage appliances, has unveiled the SmartSAN family of next-generation SAN platforms, states eWeek.

The platforms can scale to hundreds of terabytes, deliver up to 4GBps throughput, and are aimed at small and medium enterprise data centres requiring consolidated storage with high uptime.

"Up to now, highly available, fully redundant and power efficient data storage products came with big price tags," says Hossein Alaee, CEO of Celeros. "Celeros SmartSAN not only delivers the high level of reliability and uptime affordably but, with its ultra-low power consumption, enables our SME customers to realise substantial savings in their operational costs."

Kingston has released the HyperX Max 3.0 external drive that features the new USB 3.0 interface, allowing it to achieve transfer rates that are ten-times faster than USB 2.0, says CCL Online.

It offers read and write speeds of 195MBps and 160MBps respectively and is compatible with the USB 2.0 interface.

Jim Selby, European product marketing manager at Kingston, says: "In addition to portability and speed, users will be pleased with the durability of this drive. Its Flash memory-based architecture is designed for the rigours of mobile use."