HP's storage gets a case of the greens
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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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Hewlett-Packard has built a 70,000-square-foot data center in Bangalore that it is powering with diesel fuel. But it hopes to reduce energy costs by using a sensor-based cooling technology.
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InfoWorld - Hewlett-Packard Co. is acquiring a storage software company that the company says will give it important leverage in the enterprise-class network-attached storage (NAS) market.
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IBM&#39;s new four-year storage strategy, laid out last week, came with a few surprises. First, the talk was all about gee-whiz hardware and lower costs, not related services.
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(InfoWorld) - Major storage vendors reported double-digit sales growth in the third quarter with the exception of Hewlett-Packard Co., which suffered a double-digit decline. HP sales of external controller-based disk storage slumped by 11.9 percent from the year ago quarter to US$475 million in the three months that ended Sept. 30, according to a report out Tuesday from research firm Gartner Inc. HP trailed market share leader EMC Corp., whose 17.4 percent revenue gain to $954 million earned it a 25.5 percent market share. IBM Corp. ranked second with a 14.8 percent share, as its revenue grew 17.9 percent to $553.1 million. While HP held onto third place, its market share slipped to 12.7 percent from 15.5 percent in the third quarter of 2005. Dell Inc. ranked fourth with a 10.8 percent share and Hitachi Data Systems Corp. fifth with a 7.3 percent share. The storage vendor with the strongest growth was sixth-ranked Network Appliance Inc., which saw sales jump 20.4 percent to $272 million for a 7.3 percent share. Sun Microsystems Inc. trailed the pack with a 5.3 percent share. In the third quarter, Sun completed its first year of StorageTek ownership, which it acquired for $4.1 billion. Overall, the global market for disk storage grew 7.4 percent from the year ago quarter to $3.74 billion. HP aside, Gartner says the major vendors strengthened their place in the market in the third quarter through some consolidation and enhanced marketing efforts. HP Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd alluded to weak storage sales in a quarterly financial conference call with investment analysts Nov. 16. HP's storage sales grew only 1 percent in it's fiscal fourth quarter, which ended Oct. 31, the weakest of any of its product lines. "Our growth profile of our storage business is negatively impacted by our mix toward the declining tape market," Hurd told analysts. "We are not happy with our storage growth in the fourth quarter and we need to do a better job of driving top line momentum in the coming year."
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DECEMBER 09, 2004  - Hewlett-Packard Co. yesterday announced several upgrades to its midrange storage products, including disk-to-disk or disk-to-tape backup functionality with its StorageWorks
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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.
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Cluster a Go Go Longtime acquisition suspect PolyServe has been eaten by HP.â¦
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Clever 'perpendicular recording system' boosts storage capacity
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It's the mid-1990s, gigabyte hard drives are starting to become commonplace, and that fact is great news for this pilot fish with a storage problem.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.  and  Sun Microsystems Inc.  were among the fastest-growing  data storage providers in the second quarter, while EMC Corp.   and Dell Inc.  lagged overall market growth,  researcher IDC said on Thursday.
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(InfoWorld) - As customers line up toÂ buy new PCs capable of running Microsoft's new Windows Vista OS, vendors like Dell and Hewlett-PackardÂ (HP) are preparing to process a surge of discarded, outmoded computers. Dell advises its customers running Vista Premium to use a PC loaded with a dual-core processor and 2GB of memory. As customers upgrade to meet the new standard, they face a question of how to dispose of their outmoded machines without dumping toxic lead, mercury, cadmium, and chromium into local landfills. "As enterprises deploy Vista, they may increase their rate of replacing, refreshing, or updating PCs, and we're certainly happy to work with our customers on the disposal of machines they take out of service," said Michael Cuno, a spokesman for HP. Vendors like Apple and DellÂ offer free recyclingÂ for anyone returning those companies' old PCs. Dell also runs a network that donates working computers to local nonprofit groups. HP directs consumers to drop-off points at retail stores but advises its business customers to lease their hardware instead of owning it. Dell said it was too early to tell if Vista adoptions would be fast enough to drive a surge in consumer recycling, but the company did say it had recorded an increase from 22.7 million pounds of equipment collected from customers in 2004 to 39 million in 2005. The challenge in predicting future rates is that individuals don't always dispose of their old hardware immediately, said Dell spokesman Bryant Hilton. "We often see, at least anecdotally, consumers who purchase a new computer 'pass down' the old system within the household," Hilton said. "If you have the latest and greatest running your home entertainment center, maybe the system that still works just fine but is no longer cutting edge is good for other household uses. What we of course do not want is the old computer to end up in a closet or storage for the next several years, and that's where the challenge of consumer education comes in." Corporate IT managers who discard outmoded PCs face more complex challenges than consumers because they must also worry about protecting valuable trade secrets and employees' personal data saved on hard drives and because environmental safety regulations vary widely between states or countries, said Jim O'Grady, managing director of technology value solutions for HP Financial Services Americas. O'Grady's division treats that stream of discarded computers as a business opportunity, finding new users to buy 94 percent of the 600,000 computers and parts delivered annually to HP's facility in Andover, Massachusetts. The factory sends only six percent to its recycling plants in Roseville, California and Nashville, Tennessee. Worldwide, HP handles over 1 million PCs returned at the end of their leases each year. That number could jump in 2007Â because customers scramble to upgrade their hardware after each jump in technology -- such as the launch of multicore processors, the advent of flat-panel monitors over CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors, or the sale of Windows Vista. "That's what we saw with dual-core [processors]; it made a big difference. The adjustment had been fairly steady before then," he said. HP accepts hardware from all vendors, often receiving servers built by competitors two decades ago. In the Andover warehouse, workers peel shrink-wrap off pallets loaded with CRT monitors, stacks of Toshiba Satellite and T3100 notebooks, EMC Symmetrix and Clarion storage arrays, and servers like the Appro, Digital Vax and Compaq Alpha. Dell Latitude notebooks and Compaq Deskpro desktops are piled on shelves with their peripherals sorted into nearby crates. The technicians clean dust and rust off the frames and decide whether they can resell the entire machine or just its most valuable parts, such as the processor or optical drive. They prepare hard drives for resale by wiping personal data clean with either powerful magnets, software overwrites, or physical destruction. Most PCs never reach recycling stations. HP says that owners turned in only 7 million of the 70 million computers that became obsolete in 2003, delivering the rest to municipal solid waste handlers, many in developing nations overseas that lack the environmental regulations or technology to process such toxic "e-waste." Â
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Internal disk eats away at DAS IBM and HP are neck-and-neck for the second place position in the external disk storage market but remain well behind EMC for top billing, according to the latest report by research house IDC.â¦
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Hewlett-Packard Co. is acquiring a storage software company that the company says will give it important leverage in the enterprise-class network-attached storage (NAS) market.
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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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For worn-out electronic gear, the end of the road could be a Hewlett-Packard recycling plant in Roseville, Calif.Photos: HP's hardware graveyard
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Company hopes increased storage will boost its format's fortunes.