Today HP announced new cost effective, storage offerings aimed at midsized companies. The new offerings include a new HP MSA Storage, a new HP StoreVirtual Storage system, a more scalable HP StoreOnce Backup, and a new HP StoreEasy Storage file serving appliance. These new offerings will enable midsized and SMB to increase performance while minimizing risks.
Today HP announced new cost effective, storage offerings aimed at midsized companies. The new offerings include a new HP MSA Storage, a new HP StoreVirtual Storage system, a more scalable HP StoreOnce Backup, and a new HP StoreEasy Storage file serving appliance. These new offerings will enable midsized and SMB to increase performance while minimizing risks.
Flash arrays are one of the fastest growing segments in the external storage. The biggest factor holding up smaller markets from jumping on them is price. Recently HP announced SSD caching and tiering abilities, they have combined that with aggressively priced SSDs to bring a new HP MSA Storage to market. The new MSA disk array will enable customers to perform large-scale queries and other data-intensive operations with up to 65% less latency. This in turn will boost business productivity.
On the hybrid array side of things, HP is introducing a new StoreVirtual 4335 hybrid array SAN Solution 2-Node bundle. Utilizing Adaptive Optimization tiering functionality and the latest SSDs, the new 2-node cluster StoreVirtual 4335 will deliver 12 times the performance while saving more than 90% on power and footprint savings versus a spinning disk array, and will provide 12.4TB of usable capacity before network RAID. The new StoreVirtual 4335 is compatible with other StoreVirtual-based solutions including: HP StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA), HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC StoreVirtual hyper-converged appliances, and the built-in storage within HP Helion OpenStack.
HP added a new model to their StoreOnce Backup family, the new entry-level StoreOnce 2900. The StoreOnce 2900 is only a 2U form factor but can store up to 31.5TB. HP states that the StoreOnce 2900 “protects up to 70 TB of data in a single, 12-hour window and restores up to 41 TB in the same period.” StoreOnce is fully compatible with StoreOnce Recovery Manager Central for simple, hypervisor-managed data protection of HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage arrays. The new StoreOnce 2900 has the same enterprise-class support as the rest of the StoreOnce family, giving all the benefits of enterprise backup technology to midsized businesses. There is also a HP StoreOnce VSA for smaller business that want a completely software-defined backup appliance. The HP StoreOnce VSA can be run within a VM without the need to purchase additional hardware and is expanded to include a 50TB capacity option. An expansion kit is available for the 2900 giving users an additional 16TB of storage capacity.
HP added three new models to their StoreEasy Family as well. The new models, the 1450, 1650, 1850, are based on HP Proliant Gen9 severs and start at under $5,500. The new StoreEasy models offer 56% greater capacity at 20% lower cost and support25 times faster RAID rebuilds. The new models include a disaster recovery option, enhancements to the Dashboard that include automatic alerts warning of capacity running low, and StoreEasy has been combined with HP LiveVault TurboRestore technology. LiveVault can set up two geographically separated backups that are mirrored to reduce risk of data loss. StoreEasy also includes Vision Solutions Double Take Availability software providing real-time data replication.
StoreEasy Specifications:
- Model: 1450 | 1650 | 1850
- From factor: 1U | 2U | 2U
- Max internal capacity: 24TB | 72TB | 43.2TB
- Number of users: Up to 1300| Up to 3400 | Up to 5000
- Network controller: (1) HP 1GbE 2-port 361i | (1) HP 1GbE 4-port 331i | (1) HP 1GbE 2-port 331i
- Storage controller: (1) HP Smart Array P440/4GB FBWC | (1) HP Smart Array P440ar/2GB FBWC | (1) HP Smart Array P440ar/2GB FBWC
Availability and pricing
- The new StoreVirtual 4355 Hybrid SAN Solution 2-Node bundle is available now, starting at $59,000.
- The HP StoreOnce 2900 Backup appliance is available in late March for $26,000. The expansion kit is available for $15,000.
- The StoreEasy 1450 with starts at $5,497 and will be available March 30 along with HP StoreEasy, 1650 and 1850.
- The BUaaS solution using StoreEasy and LiveVault starts at a price of $7,500, which includes the HP StoreEasy 1450 and 2TB of backup to the LiveVault cloud for 1 year.
- A free 14-day HP StoreEasy Double Take Availability evaluation license is available and the full license is available immediately for $3,995.
