HP Developing New Storage Provisioning Hardware
Hewlett-Packard Co. is developing new storage hardware that will make it easier for administrators to assign the right amount of storage to different departments in an organization, the company said.
HP yesterday announced plans for new models in its midrange EVA series of disk storage arrays at its HP Technology Forum in Las Vegas. The EVA 4100, 6100 and 8100, due later this year, feature what HP calls Dynamic Capacity Management (DCM).
Typically, when a company buys new storage capacity, it apportions it to different programs or different business functions in the organization. That can lead to the false impression that the company has used up all its storage capacity. DCM allows the storage manager to assign capacity to various departments or functions as needed and allows the system to reduce capacity assigned to departments if they’re not using it up at the rate they thought they would, HP said.
This saves companies the cost of buying more storage capacity they may not need, according to Mark Gonzalez, vice president of enterprise server and storage sales at HP.
“Perhaps you don’t have to buy as much storage as you had to before, and because of that, you use less power, use less cooling and can delay your purchases,” Gonzalez said. “What’s the most expensive storage that you’ll buy? The storage that you have to buy today.”
Gonzalez said the EVAs may carry a list price in the $35,000 to $40,000 range.
