New Storage Virtualization Platform From HP

A new storage virtualization platform that can simplify the management of heterogeneous midrange storage arrays has been announced by Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

Named HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP), the product pools capacity across storage hardwares and brings a centralized command to the fingertips of the administrator. The SVSP makes it possible to distribute application data as per the demands of users; say for example data being consigned to archives can be shifted to lower-cost storage in real-time, without disrupting operations. Thanks to SVSP, customers can plan to purchase less-capacity storage hardware on a staggered, need-to-use basis and keep on adding capacity as business grows.

Further, SVSP allows seamless data replication techniques to be deployed, which means that cloning, snapshots, synchronous local mirroring and asynchronous remote mirroring make it possible to back up data remotely and assist in recovery in situations of disaster.

Virtualization as an efficient and cost-effective concept has grown across all technologies in the domain by 26% over the period from 2006 to 2008; and within the domain, storage virtualization technology has grown by 36%. SVSP seeks to capitalize on this interest in the technology, as network based virtualization reduces TCO considerably.

Read more about SVSP here.