Today HP announced the availability of two new software solutions, HP ControlPoint and HP Storage Optimizer. Both of the new solutions are designed to help organizations leverage advanced analytics and policy management technology to address the rising information management, governance, and data storage challenges resulting from the growth of big data. These new solutions will also help organizations lower data storage costs, drive stronger compliance and information governance initiatives, and accelerate their path to hybrid cloud environments.
Today HP announced the availability of two new software solutions, HP ControlPoint and HP Storage Optimizer. Both of the new solutions are designed to help organizations leverage advanced analytics and policy management technology to address the rising information management, governance, and data storage challenges resulting from the growth of big data. These new solutions will also help organizations lower data storage costs, drive stronger compliance and information governance initiatives, and accelerate their path to hybrid cloud environments.
With unstructured data growing rapidly organizations need to really think about what and how much data they plan to store. The fact that time and resources have to be used is another concern, but the data could either prove valuable or be required due to regulations. HP is looking to file analysis-based solutions to help customers address these issues. According to Gartner’s Market Guide for File Analysis Software Report from September 2014:File analysis tools analyze, index, search, track and report on file metadata and, in some cases, file content, enabling organizations to take action on files according to what was identified. These tools enable better information management decisions for unstructured data.
HP’s first solution, HP Storage Optimizer, not only analyzes data, it uses this analysis to tiering storage in a manner to optimize both its usage and reduce its overall storage volume. This tiering will not only help reduce the costs associated with storing unstructured data, it will also reduce the complexity of managing the data. The data can be intelligently distributed across multiple storage repositories including the cloud. The analytics will give organizations deeper insights into the data helping them realize potential benefits. HP Storage Optimizer can connect to a wide range of repositories including Hadoop, SharePoint, Exchange and others.
The other software solution being released, HP ControlPoint, works similar to HP Storage Optimizer. HP ControlPoint is based on ControlPoint file analysis product, and analyzes information and automatically migrates it to the appropriate repository whether it is virtual, physical, or the cloud. ControlPoint analyzes data before migration and determines not only what information is moved to the cloud, it also chooses the correct cloud deployment based on its business importance, risk profile usefulness and governance policies. This will help companies better manage retention, reduce complexity and improve searchability, resulting in improved security, productivity and lower overall storage costs.
ControlPoint can also help companies adopt a hybrid infrastructure. ControlPoint is integrated with HP Helion and uses HP Haven technology as its analytics engine. Once ControlPoint analyzes the data, it only migrates the most relevant data to the HP Helion Cloud thus isolating any problems beforehand instead of transferring them to another repository.
These new solutions align to HP’s Information Management and Governance vision, as they deliver on the promise of bringing analytics-driven solutions to improve data quality and intelligence with consistency and scale.
Availability
HP ControlPoint and HP Storage Optimizer are available now
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