… OEMed by HP Under XP7

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. unveiled an enterprise storage disk array that provides customers with lower TCO for traditional storage workloads in mission-critical environments.

Large enterprises rely on mission-critical applications to drive their businesses, which means that applications and data must remain available at all times. To ensure BC, enterprises require storage solutions that are designed to maintain high levels of data availability and continuous DR protection. To drive greater enterprise efficiency, storage systems that serve these mission-critical environments must also drive greater storage consolidation, deliver high performance levels and offer the lowest possible TCO without compromising data availability or data protection.

HP XP7 Storage offers a combination of six 9s – or 99.9999% – uptime, which translates to less than 31.5s of application downtime per year (as measured in the HP XP installed base), as well as always-on DR protection, increased system density and ultra-high, flash-driven performance.

Capable of delivering 3 million IO/s with submillisecond response times, XP7 a high performing, full-featured, enterprise disk array, delivering three times the performance of the previous generation of XP Storage.(based on HP internal comparative analysis of publicly available data from major competitors, April 2014)

“Spectrum Health needed a storage solution that would enable us to store mission-critical data securely and allow for constant access to the information with no service disruption,” said Sean Henkel, director, enterprise infrastructure, Spectrum Health System. “The HP XP7 Storage array safeguards our patient and member information, runs efficiently at a lower power consumption rate, and saves us data center costs while providing greater performance.”

Most productive traditional enterprise array (based on HP internal comparative analysis of publicly available data from major competitors, April 2014)
The XP7’s next-generation hardware provides the ability to increase system density, reduce power consumption and achieve low-cost performance, with the latest in host connectivity options and a broad flash and spinning media choices. These media choices include XP Flash Modules and SSDs as well as small and large form factor HDD drives.

With consolidation of up to 4.5PB of internal storage onto a single array, one XP7 is capable of delivering more IO/s than three EMC Symmetrix VMAX 40K storage arrays combined. Consolidating multiple EMC disk arrays onto a single HP XP7 Storage system reduces data center floor space requirements by a total of 130 square feet and storage-related costs by more than $100,000 per year.(based on HP internal comparative analysis of publicly available data on EMC Symmetrix VMAX 40K, April 2014)

Advanced, always-on DR
With the most critical data residing on enterprise storage platforms, organizations must keep data protected and recoverable at all times. XP7 features a new DR capability with multiarray virtualization to prevent business disruption during or after online data migrations, without measurable performance impacts. Data remains protected using the customer’s local or remote strategy with 100% uptime.

“Today’s mission-critical workloads cannot afford to forfeit performance or scalability for increased DR and data protection,” said David Scott, SVP and GM, HP storage. “With the introduction of HP XP7 Storage, we are supplying customers with a single system that is highly efficient, with features that can reduce the risk of data loss and provide nonstop data availability.”

Reduced data and business risk
XP7 features, including new user authentication and access control functions, increase administrative and resource segregation, enabling customers to manage more data more securely. This is important for large enterprise environments where a single system may be used to drive multiple lines of business, serve thousands of internal and external customers, and be managed by several administrators.

To address data security requirements, XP7 secures data with Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 encryption readiness.

Protection for storage investments
Thorough testing and end-to-end solution certification ensures customers that their XP solutions will work as anticipated in their actual environments. HP Technology Services has a portfolio of services supporting XP Storage that provides the consulting expertise and support to boost performance in a converged infrastructure.

In addition, HP Enterprise Services has integrated the product into HP Storage Management Services, which offers management services providing a selection of storage tiers for all business application needs.

HP XP7 Storage will be available in May 2014, starting at $462,000.