HP has introduced “green” storage technology that can cut storage array power and cooling costs in data centers by 50 percent.
The new Adaptive Infrastructure offerings include thin provisioning and performance enhancements for the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family, tape drives based on the Linear Tape Open (LTO) 4 standard, new DAT 160 tape drives for small and medium businesses, and the first HP StorageWorks tape product developed for HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosures.
According to analyst firm StorageIO Group, storage currently accounts for 37 percent to 40 percent of overall data center energy usage from hardware. With the new HP storage products, a customer would be able to cut electric bills close to 50% a year in power and cooling costs.
“These environmentally responsible storage products will help address two key areas that our customers care about: saving money and conserving energy,” said Manoj Suvarna, Country Head for HP StorageWorks Division, Technology Solutions Group, HP India Sales. “HP is helping customers build next-generation data centers that can lower costs, mitigate risks and optimize business outcomes.”
Using advanced hardware and software technologies such as EVA Dynamic Capacity Management (DCM), Vsnap and FATA disk drives, the new HP StorageWorks EVA 4100/ 6100/ 8100 mid arrays 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.
Tape continues to be the most energy- efficient storage technology for long-term data retention – 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. 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.
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. 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.
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