HP, others bolster future storage
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Storage vendors Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, EMC, and Microsoft are trumpeting new products this week that foreshadow the near future of storage.
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The research firm estimated that the market for disk storage systems grew by 5% overall, to $5 billion, from $4.77 billion a year earlier in the second quarter. HP led the way, followed by IBM and EMC.
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TechWeb - The growth comes as more vendors offer more software to offset the plunge in storage hardware prices.
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Grid computing links computers to harness their collective resources. HP said its grid approach to storage is designed to let customers focus more on how they use data, not how they store it.
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HP needs to invest in its storage sales force, says CEO Hurd.
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Rumors are swirling that the companies will join forces in storage. It makes more sense than the alternatives, observers say.
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New releases of disk, tape and optical storage technologies, and enhanced information management software from HP will extend the company&#39;s ILM (Information Lifecycle Management) portfolio.
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One-inch Microdrive capacity will jump to up to 10GB.
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Enhanced midrange storage array, network hardware released.
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Think disk made out of trees Technology Forum HP is going greener than a green thing from a green land with its latest storage boxesâ¦
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TechWeb - Purchase lets HP tie network attached storage to its fast-growing blade server business.
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TechWeb - Improvements include new trending capabilities that simulate future usage patterns when planning consolidations for HP-UX, Windows or Linux.
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New 1.8-inch hard drives may boost battery life in portable devices.
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Personal computers have rapidly turned into storage vaults for digital music, photos and videos. Now, computer-industry companies are rolling out new ways to let that content roam through the house.
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(InfoWorld) - Competing with Dell Inc. for small business users who need to back up their data, Hewlett-Packard Co. launched a low-priced, disk-based backup and recovery system on Monday. The HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System will automatically save the data from as many as four servers, with total capacity of either 750G bytes or 1.5T bytes. Users can restore lost files within minutes, compared to a process of several hours for a tape-based system, HP said. Most users say that tape-based systems are the most cost-effective method of backing up data, but as new accounting laws demand greater storage regulations, that could soon change, said Adam Thew, marketing director for HP's StorageWorks division. Compared to connecting a direct-attached tape storage device to every server in a business, HP's new disk-to-disk product can reduce the cost of ownership and chance of human error, Thew said during a webcast Monday. The D2D system is designed for small business owners with little IT management experience, offering a simple setup wizard interface, Web-based monitoring, and standard Ethernet cables with iSCSI (Internet Small Computer Systems Interface). Still, HP says tape-based storage is important for a complete backup system. "D2D will not replace tapes entirely. We do recommend that customers keep a single tape-based system offsite for disaster recovery," Thew said. Dell and its partner EMC Corp. launched a similar backup system on Feb. 20, offering the disk-based CX3-10 SAN (storage area network) array for small and medium businesses. Like HP, Dell says its system works best in concert with tape-based storage, and also launched two new products in its tape library line, the PowerVault TL2000 and PowerVault TL4000. Dell's systems are intended for buyers with larger storage needs and hardware budgets than HP's, with the CX3-10 starting at US$22,000 and the PowerVault libraries starting at 9,300. HP sells the D2D110 model with 750G bytes useable storage capacity for $1,999, and the D2D120 model with 1.5T bytes for $2,999. HP charges $1,000 more to bundle its Data Protector Express software with the products.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. are both building storage virtualization tools and storage grid technology to help customers drive adaptable intelligence and unified management deeper into multivendor storage environments.
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DELL has teamed up with Microsoft to offer two new storage products which it claims offer better performance at affordable pricing.