HP makes storage
concerns, Eitenbichler said. He said
HP has found that in cases it has
looked at, energy costs come out of
the IT budget only 20 percent of the
time. It’s usually the facilities group
that pays those bills.
According to HP, its Storage Works
EVA4100, 6100 and 8100 midrange disk
arrays can improve power efficiency by
up to 45 percent and performance by as
much as 24 percent over previous EVAs.
COMPANY’S OFFERINGS REDUCE POWER, COOLING COSTS Using hardware and software technolo-
gies such as EVA DCM (Dynamic Capac-
more efficient
By Scott Ferguson IN LAS VEGAS tape product developed exclusively for ity Management), VSnap and FATA
and Chris Preimesberger HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosures. (Fibre ATA) disk drives, the new EVAs
Hewlett-packard is looking Thin provisioningenables IT admin- help IT managers optimize hard drive
to make its storage offerings istrators to use storage resource man- utilization, HP said. Eitenbichler said
more green. agement and virtualization to put lim- DCM is similar to thin provisioning
The Palo Alto, Calif., com- its on the allocation of physical storage but gives users the flexibility to not only
pany on June 19 rolled out new to meet what applications immediately increase capacity, as thin provisioning
disk arrays with features designed to need. The result is improved capacity does, but also decrease it as needed.
reduce power and cooling costs in the on demand up to preset limits, so that DCM will initially be offered for Win-data center for customers, particularly enterprises can reduce the need to buy dows environments, but support for
small and midsize businesses, by as and manage excess disk storage. Linuxand HP-UXimplementations will
much as 50 percent. At the same time, According to analyst company come in the near future, he said.
HP bolstered its tape portfolio, a move StorageIO Group, storage currently “We did a study in 2006 that found
officials said illustrates that, despite accounts for up to 40 percent of overall that 55 percent of end users we sur-years of dire predictions, tape is not data center energy usage from hard- veyed left between 30 and 50 percent
being phased out of the stor- of their storage capacity
age industry. stranded,” said Tony Asaro,
The products, announced an analyst with Enterprise
at the HP Americas Storage- Strategy Group.
Works Conference here, come Tape will continue to be
at a time when enterprises are Green storage a key technology in the stor-continuing to push technology age industry, despite years
vendors to find ways to help of claims that it was fading
HP is building energy efficiency into both its
them make their data centers Storage Works disk arrays and tape storage devices: away, and energy efficiency
more energy-efficient. is one reason, Eitenbichler
“The importance of energy Disk arrays Storage Works EVA4100, 6100 and 8100 mid- said. Enterprises will need
efficiency is growing in every- range offerings include technologies such as EVA DCM, VSnap to continue to store large
one’s minds,” said Patrick and FATA disk drives to increase utilization and reduce the amounts of data for long
Eitenbichler, director of mar- number of hard drive storage purchases periods of time. It makes
keting for HP’s Storage Works Tape devices Require significantly less energy than disk more fiscal and
environ-business. “It’s no longer trivial. arrays. Storage Works LTO- 4 Ultrium 1840 offers high capacity mental sense to store older
It’s actually a big deal.” and fast performance; Ultrium 448c Tape Blade is designed for data on tapes rather than
The new products—the lat- blade servers and storage devices; DAT 160 consumes fewer on spinning disks that are
est additions to the company’s watts per gigabyte than other generations eating up power, he said.
Source: HP
adaptive infrastructure data Asaro said HP’s storage
center initiative—include thin provi- ware. Using HP’s new storage prod- announcements prove that tape-based
sioning and performance enhance- ucts, a customer with a monthly stor- storage products will continue to provide
ments for the HP Storage Works EVA age electric bill of $3,000 could save as the majority of backup needs for compa-
(Enterprise Virtual Array) family; new much as $18,000 per year in power and nies that have to maintain thousands of
tape drives based on the LTO (Lin- cooling costs, the company said. records. Since HP’s EVA4100, 6100 and
ear Tape Open) 4 standard; new DAT That type of calculation will become 8100allusetape, thesesystemscanreduce
(digital audiotape) 160 tape drives for a larger issue for IT departments as powerandcoolingcostsinawaythathard
SMBs; and the first HP Storage Works they take on more and more budget drives with moving parts can’t, he said. ´
