UTRECHT, 25 juni 2007 - HP introduceert ‘groene’ storage technologie die de energie- en koelingskosten van storage in datacenters kan terugbrengen met 50%
(1). De nieuwe oplossingen passen binnen HP’s Adaptive Infrastructure-aanbod en biedt zowel thin provisioning* als prestatieverbeteringen. De technologie is ontwikkeld voor de uitbreiding van de HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) productlijn, nieuwe tape drives gebaseerd op de Linear Tape Open (LTO) 4 standaard en nieuwe DAT 160 tape drives voor het MKB. Ten slotte introduceert HP het eerste HP StorageWorks tape product dat exclusief is ontwikkeld voor HP BladeSystem c-Class omgevingen.
Volgens analistengroep StorageIO Group maken energiekosten voor opslag ongeveer 37 tot 40 % van het totale energieverbruik van hardware in datacenters uit
(2). Met de nieuwe HP storage producten kan een organisatie met een maandelijkse rekening van 2.500 euro voor opslagkosten op jaarbasis ongeveer 15.000 euro per jaar besparen op energie en koeling.
“Energie en koeling is een centraal onderdeel van de Adaptive Infrastructure. De nieuwe milieubewuste opslagproducten raken twee kernthema’s van onze klanten: het besparen van geld en verlagen van energieverbruik,” aldus Dave Roberson, senior vice president and general manager, StorageWorks Division HP: “Met deze producten helpt HP organisaties een next-generation datacenter te bouwen. Daarmee worden kosten verlaagd, risico’s weggenomen en groei gefaciliteerd.”
* Thin provisioning voorziet in virtuele storage, waardoor aan gebruikers storage alleen beschikbaar wordt gesteld als het ook echt gebruikt wordt.
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 retention
(3) – 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.
Over HP
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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
h71028.www7.hp.com/erc/downloads/4AA1-1978ENW.pdf.
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