HP Peer Motion and P10000 3PAR Storage System Multimedia Coverage from The Wikibon Project and SiliconANGLE.
Original Content: Wikibon and SiliconANGLE coverage of HP Peer Motion and P10000 3PAR Storage System announcements made on August 23, 2011.
HP's Craig Nunes and Sean Kinney Discuss Latest HP Storage Federation Announcements
Wikibon Chief Analyst Dave Vellante talks with HP's Craig Nunes and Sean Kinney about the Aug 23rd announcement which includes the new HP Peer Motion technology and new HP 3PAR storage systems.
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Nunes Shares HP Peer Motion, HP P10000 3PAR Storage Systems Overview
Craig Nunes, HP's Director of Storage Marketing, gives an overview of two new HP releases -- HP Peer Motion and HP P10000 3PAR Storage Systems. Said Nunes: "What we're really doing is delivering on that storage Without Boundaries theme."
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HP's Kinney on 3PAR Thin Provisioning
Sean Kinney, Director, HP Storage, discusses why thin provisioning is a key part of 3PAR's value proposition. Says Kinney: "With 3PAR almost every customer uses it because that’s kind of why they bought it. And we guarantee, we say give us a chance and we guarantee that you will save at least 50% in your storage or we’ll actually buy the rest."
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HP's Kinney on 3PAR's Mix of Customers
3PAR counts both cloud service providers and enterprises deploying internal private clouds as customers, according to HP's Sean Kinney. The big difference between the two are charge-backs. "We’re moving towards this cloud service model and the good thing is the service providers are leading the way and now corporate IT is following," says Kinney. "And it’s not nearly as risky as it used to be because other companies have built successful on it, and on 3PAR."
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Federated Storage Explained
HP's Craig Nunes and Wikibon's Dave Vellante discuss the intricacies of federated storage and its applicable use cases. Federated storage, explains Nunes, "is distributed volume management across peer-based storage systems – a federation – interacting in native in-band communications between them."
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3PAR Is HP's "Anchor Storage Platform"
HP's Craig Nunes discusses how 3PAR fits into HP's larger portfolio as an "anchor storage platform." Says Nunes: "It’s a virtualized platform with a lot of ease-of-use benefits, and feels like a perfect fit in the family. So from that perspective the growth we’re seeing is no surprise at all to any of us."
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Traditional Thinking is 3PAR's Biggest Competitor
HP's Sean Kinney explains why "traditional thinking" is 3PAR's biggest competition and discusses the future of EVA. Speaking of EVA, Kinney said, "We have a loyal customer base; it’s still, according to third-party analysts, 20% easier to use than other traditional mid-tier architectures, and it’s a successful business for us with loyal customers. So we’re not going to walk away from it."
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Nunes and Kinney on HP V-Class
HP views the V-Class as a benchmark for customers who are trying to deliver mission-critical storage capabilities in the next generation data center, according to HP's Craig Nunes and Sean Kinney. "The V-Class extends the line about 50% higher in overall connectivity to I/O and disk. It supports some workloads as much as three-times faster," said Nunes. "From a virtual machine perspective it really drives up the scalability of VMs in your environment, and it does all of that with a whole new level of efficiency, built into that Gen 4 ASIK."
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Wikibon's Floyer and Vellante Analyze HP 3PAR Storage Announcements
Wikibon Chief Analyst David Vellante and CTO David Floyer analyze HP's Peer Motion and P10000 3PAR Storage System announcements.
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Wikibon's Floyer Summarizes HP 3PAR Storage Announcements
Wikibon CTO and analyst David Floyer summarizes today's HP Peer Motion and P10000 3PAR Storage System announcements.
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HP 3PAR Knocking on Tier 1 Door
Though it has the functionality required to join the elite group, HP 3PAR still can't call itself a Tier 1 Storage Provider just yet. The bar is set very high to join that club, said Wikibon's David Floyer, but 3PAR is "knocking on the door."
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HP Peer Motion Avoids Virtualization Overhead
While the same goal can be accomplished with VMware, HP Peer Storage's "great advantage" is the ability to perform peer motion between arrays without any virtualization tax overhead, says Wikibon's David Floyer.
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HP's Peer Motion "Pretty Awesome"
HP's new federated storage offering -- called HP Peer Motion -- enables connecting storage arrays into a complex allowing you to dynamically move workloads between different systems, says David Floyer. "That’s pretty awesome.” Floyer also details a data migration use case.
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Flash Storage Vendors Set To Disrupt Market
Flash storage vendors, which are already competing with Tier 1 Storage Vendors on performance, will significantly alter the storage market landscape by 2015, according to David Floyer of Wikibon.
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HP Peer Motion and P10000 3PAR Storage System News and Analysis from The Wikibon Project and SiliconANGLE.com