HP taps Microsoft for SMB storage
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard Co. is leveraging Microsoft Corp. software in a new portfolio of storage products aimed at taking on EMC Corp. in the small-to-medium-sized (SMB) market. HP's StorageWorks All-in-One (AiO) Storage Systems come in two models for a range of capacity needs, and can be installed in less than 10 clicks of a mouse, the company said. The systems provide storage, sharing, management, back-up and protection for SMBs' application and file data. The HP StorageWorks AiO400 has four drive bays with serial ATA (SATA) ports and capacity of 1T byte of networked storage for US$5,000. For SMBs that have bigger storage needs, the HP StorageWorks AiO600 has six drive bays in a rack or tower and can provide 1.5T bytes of SATA capacity for $6,700; 3T bytes of SATA capacity for $9,000 or 876G bytes of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) capacity for $9,250. SAS drives are typically more reliable and higher performing than SATA drives, and so storage devices with these drives cost more. The systems are based on Microsoft's Windows Storage Server and are specifically designed or Microsoft environments, HP said. The new AiO systems include point-and-click tools for working with both Microsoft Exchange messaging server and the SQL Server database. HP first announced it was planning networked storages for SMBs in July, saying it wanted to take on EMC in that market as well as capitalize on what IDC predicts will be a $5.7 billion market opportunity by 2010. The company designed the new offerings to be simple so SMBs can install and maintain them without a full-time IT department, HP said. HP plans to sell the AiO systems mainly through its channel partners, which the company said number more than 145,000 worldwide. Â
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Microsoft and HP cemented plans this week for a new $300 million partnership that will extend their current relationship and expand their portfolio of solutions for enterprise customers around the world.
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Hitachi Data Systems on Tuesday announced a new enterprise storage lineup with new features such as a virtualization that allows customers to manage up to 32 Petabytes (PB) of internal and external storage.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Microsoft Corp. will enter into a new enterprise software agreement to be detailed Wednesday. The news will be announced at a joint news conference Wednesday afternoon that will feature Kevin Turner, chief operating officer of Microsoft, and Ann Livermore, executive vice president of the Technology Solutions Group at HP. No further details about the nature of the agreement were revealed. HP and Microsoft have had a close relationship over the past two decades, described as a "Frontline Partnership" on the HP Web site. Current enterprise-level collaborations include HP support of the new Office 2007 suite of business software applications and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 for data centers. HP provides technical briefings and proof-of-concept testing to customers and partners that are considering deploying Windows-based technology in their enterprises. HP is also a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, providing technical training on Microsoft systems at HP offices globally.
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InfoWorld - Almost lost in the clamor over Sun&#39;s expanded partnership with Microsoft on Wednesday was a small acquisition that will bolster Sun&#39;s HPC storage offerings. Sun agreed to acquire a majority of the assets of Cluster File Systems.
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Wants to hang out with the cool kids HP has introduced what it has dubbed its green storage technology that can cut storage array power and cooling costs in data centers by 50 per cent.â¦
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Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to buy Web application security specialist SPI Dynamics Inc., just two weeks after IBM Corp. announced plans to buy SPI&#39;s rival Watchfire Corp.
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MICROSOFT Corp announced the broad availability of its Windows Storage Server 2003 (WSS2003) solution for South Asia markets, in conjunction with the TechEd 2004 developer conference here yesterday.
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The Hitachi Ultrastar 10K300 Fibre Channel drive will be offered in the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA), and the Ultrastar 10K300 SCSI drive will go in HP&#39;s ProLiant servers and StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA) family, the vendors said
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HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) today announced the industry's first easy-to-use storage systems that drive down cost and complexity for small and medium businesses (SMBs) grappling with the exponential growth of data.
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Iomega will soon ship its first network-attached storage device equipped with wireless networking technology. The product, dubbed the NAS 100d, is targeted at small-office and home-office users looking for
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Here's to you, Mr. Roberson HP has corralled a new storage chief in the form of David Roberson.â¦
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Clusters for everyone HP and Microsoft have agreed to continue cooperating on plans to take supercomputing to the mass enterprise and mid-sized markets.â¦
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Steering for the SMB market, Hewlett-Packard Co has launched a cheap and small virtual tape library that carries a list price starting at below $2,000.
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Microsoft is taking its SMB show on the road. The software giant is using recreational vehicles to tour the United States, bringing in partners of Hewlett-Packard and Cisco.
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TechWeb - Purchase lets HP tie network attached storage to its fast-growing blade server business.
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By Brad Hem, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 18--An engineering team at HP had figured out how to squeeze a faster and more powerful computer server into one-third the traditional space. That was supposed to be the hard part.