LAS VEGAS----HP NYSE:HPQ today introduced “green”
storage technology that can cut storage array power and cooling costs in
data centers by 50 percent.1
Introduced at the HP Americas StorageWorks Conference, the new Adaptive
Infrastructure offerings include thin provisioning and performance
enhancements for the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array EVA
family, tape drives based on the Linear Tape Open LTO 4 standard, new
DAT 160 tape drives for small and medium businesses, and the first HP
StorageWorks tape product developed exclusively for HP
BladeSystem c-Class enclosures.
According to analyst firm StorageIO Group, storage currently accounts
for 37 percent to 40 percent of overall data center energy usage from
hardware.2 With the new HP storage products,
a customer with a monthly storage electric bill of $3,000 could save as
much as $18,000 a year in power and cooling costs.
“Power and cooling is a key enabler for an
Adaptive Infrastructure, and these environmentally responsible storage
products will help address two key areas that our customers care about:
saving money and conserving energy,” said Dave
Roberson, senior vice president and general manager, StorageWorks
Division, HP. “With products like these, HP is
helping customers build next-generation data centers that can lower
costs, mitigate risks and optimize business outcomes.”
Continued EVA innovations
The HP
StorageWorks EVA4100, 6100 and 8100 midrange disk arrays improve
power efficiency for customers by up to 45 percent compared to previous
EVAs, with performance improvements of up to 24 percent.
Using advanced hardware and software technologies such as EVA
Dynamic Capacity Management DCM, Vsnap and FATA disk drives, the
new EVAs help customers optimize hard drive utilization, eliminate
unnecessary HDD storage disk purchases, shrink their carbon footprint
and efficiently manage IT resources and storage provisioning tasks.
“We did a study in 2006 that found that 55
percent of end users we surveyed left between 30 and 50 percent of their
storage capacity stranded,” said Tony Asaro,
senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, an industry analyst firm
focused on storage and information management.
Similar to thin provisioning, DCM software enables customers to double
capacity utilization rates and delay the purchase of additional hard
drives. Leveraging the new virtual disk service VDS volume shrink
feature in Microsoft Windows® Server 2008, DCM
continuously monitors storage utilization rates and automatically grows
or shrinks host volumes to match application data needs, thereby
reducing the necessity for ongoing storage administration and virtually
eliminating stranded storage.
Tape is cool, too
Tape continues to be the most energy-efficient storage technology for
long-term data retention3 -- requiring
neither power or cooling -- while maintaining data integrity for 30
years. The next-generation HP Ultrium and DAT tape formats are proven
technology that offer the lowest cost per terabyte and have withstood
some of the most
extreme conditions on the planet.
The HP StorageWorks LTO-4 Ultrium1840 tape drive provides mid-sized and
enterprise customers with HP’s highest
capacity, fastest performing and most secure tape backup, consuming up
to 50 percent fewer watts per gigabyte than previous generations.4
The LTO-4 technology and Advanced Encryption Standard AES 256-bit data
encryption protects user data from unauthorized access if cartridges are
lost or stolen while being stored or transported offsite.
Unlike competitive tape drives, the LTO-4 Ultrium1840 includes HP Data
Protector Express Single Server edition software with hardware
encryption support at no added cost. LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 tape drives also
will be integrated and available in HP StorageWorks MSL, EML and ESL
E-Series Tape
Libraries.
The HP
Ultrium 448c Tape Blade is a new half-height tape storage blade that
provides data protection for HP BladeSystem c-Class servers and storage
blades. Ideal for customers not connected into a storage area network,
the Ultrium 448c provides direct-attach data protection for both
half-height and full-height c-Class server blades and leverages the HP
Dynamic Power Saving mode to achieve up to a 22 percent reduction in
power requirements.5 It also supports HP
One-Button Disaster Recovery, which allows quick recovery of
operating system, applications and data from the latest backup set in
the event of a hard drive failure.
The HP StorageWorks DAT 160 tape drive offers a balance of price and
performance for small and medium business customers and consumes fewer
watts per gigabyte GB than previous generations of DAT drives. Ideal
for use with HP
ProLiant 100 and 300 series servers and available with either a SCSI
or USB interface, the DAT 160 delivers backup speeds of up to 50 GB per
hour and offers up to 160 GB of capacity on a single cartridge -- twice
the capacity and performance of any other DAT drive available.
More information on environmentally responsible HP StorageWorks
offerings is available at www.hp.com/go/GreenStorage
and in an online press kit at www.hp.com/go/hpvegasevents2007media.
About HP
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customers -- from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a
portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services
and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world’s
largest IT companies, with revenue totaling $97.1 billion for the four
fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2007. More information about HP is
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1 Comparison scenarios are available at www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2007/tsg/storage_footnote.pdf.
2 Network World, “Green
Storage Means Money Saved on Power,” May 21,
2007. The article is available at www.networkworld.com/supp/2007/ndc3/052107-green-storage.html?page=2.
3 The Clipper Group Explorer, “Tape
and Disk Costs -- What It Really Costs to Power the Devices,”
June 4, 2006. The report is available at www.clipper.com/research/TCG2006046.pdf.
4 Compared to the native capacity of LTO-3 at
400 GB to LTO-4 at 800 GB.
5 HP, “Usage
Models for the HP StorageWorks Ultrium 448c Tape Blade in HP BladeSystem
c-Class Blade Enclosures White Paper,” 2007.
The report is available at http://h71028.www7.hp.com/erc/downloads/4AA1-1978ENW.pdf.
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