HP Discover Announcements - Day 2

A number of major announcements have been made by HP at Discover in the past 24 hours, here is a highlight of just a few of them:

 

New HP 12Gb SAS Enterprise Value SSDs for HP ProLiant Servers Offers Breakthrough Performance

The HP 12Gb SAS Enterprise Value SSDs deliver the correct balance between performance, cost-of-ownership, and reliability. Optimized for real performance driven workloads such as read caching and web servers, these HP Enterprise Value SSDs have industry-leading performance up to 96,000 read IOPS (random 4KiB, Q16) and deliver the enterprise reliability customers count on. HP Firmware on these SSDs ensures consistency, compatibility, and performance inside the HP ProLiant Servers.

 

Mind Blowing Performance: The ConvergedSystem 900 beats the Competition by 2x

We all like a winner, but if it's our team playing for the championship or trying to get to the next round of the playoffs  many  prefer a blow-out versus a close game.  Yet blow-outs are rare when facing the best teams.  The competition is tough and gaining any advantage is difficult to do.

However, with HP's recent SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM benchmark results on the new HP ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for SAP Applications HP did just that - blow-out the competition.

 

New HP 5400R Switch Series Delivers Resiliency & SDN

he HP 5400R zl2 Switch Series is our next-generation modular switch specifically designed for enterprise edge as well as SMB and branch office core deployments. Based on our 5th generation HP Networking Provision ASIC, the 5400R:

·         Simplifies network management with unified, single policy across wired & wireless with IMC

·         Enables business continuity with redundant management, hitless failover & nonstop switching

·         Delivers future-proof SDN capability with OpenFlow 1.3 support & programmable ProVision ASIC

·         Consolidates services with integrated module: unified wireless, UC&C and virtualization

·         Removes hidden costs with license-free, fully featured software and HP Lifetime Warranty 2.0

 

HP announces new data encryption innovations

Announced today at HP Discover 2014 in Las Vegas, the new HP Atalla solutions support data whether it’s at rest, in motion or in use—across cloud, on-premises and mobile environments—to ensure continuous protection of an organization’s most sensitive information. Designed for organizations that need to protect sensitive information, including financial institutions, retailers, energy companies, healthcare providers and governments, HP Atalla solutions provide added protection against the exposure of sensitive data while supporting optimal performance and flexibility.

 

HP Discover - Storage Announcements

As HP Discover is now fully underway,  I’m going to take some time over the next couple of days to highlight some of the major things that are being announced.

 

Please see Calvin Zito’s great ChalkTalks around a couple of the announcements from HP Storage

 

HP 3PAR StoreServ All Flash gets dedupe

Here are the highlights:

 

·         Intelligent sparing reduces$/GB.  In addition, we have 1.9TB cMLC SSD with more than 30% more usable capacity per drive and patented Adaptive Sparing.

·         Hardware-accelerated inline deduplication

·         Patented Express Indexing - this is the method we use to do hashtag look up and because of it, we can scale a 7450 All Flash System to over 1.3 PB, significantly higher than other all-flash systems.

·         We are offering a 5 year warranty on all SSDs.

·         One last highlight is the Get 6-Nines Guarantee.  With proven tier-1 features like synchronous remove replication, long distance 3-site replication, and peer persistence (just to name a few), the 7450 All-Flash array is a tier-1 platform; and we're so sure of it, we're offering a 99.9999% availability guarantee. And note this HA guarantee is available across all HP 3PAR systems with 4 nodes or more.

 

http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block-Blog/HP-3PAR-StoreServ-All-Flash-gets-dedupe/ba-p/163768#.U5dwifldVAg

 

 

Blockbuster storage news from HP Discover

·         HP 3PAR StoreServ All-Flash gets dedupe

·         HP StoreOnce Federated Catalyst

 

http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block-Blog/Blockbuster-storage-news-from-HP-Discover/ba-p/163630#.U5dw6_ldVAg

 

Server Essentials for a New Era of Compute at HP Discover

How amazing would it be to have the capability to boost application performance by four times while lowering your total cost of ownership?

At HP Discover, you can uncover the best kept secret as we unveil new HP PCIe Workload Accelerators and HP Enterprise Solid State Drives.

Server Essentials for a New Era of Compute at HP Discover

by Thomas Brooks, Worldwide Product Marketing Manager, HP Solid State Products and Tiffany Owens, NPI Marketing Manager, HP Solid State Products

Latest Fling from VMware Labs - Wavemaker Integration for vCenter Orchestrator

This Fling enables you to easily run vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) workflows from within Wavemaker web applications. It covers much of the Workflow Presentation dialogs available in vCO, with Java services exposing the main vCO functionality. Additionally, you get a demo application.

Features:

- Widget library for Wavemaker
- Java services, exposing the main vCO API functions
- WaveOperator demo project, mimicking the popular WebOperator vCO application, and extending it to new and exciting capabilities.

Downlaod Wavemaker Integration for vCenter Orchestrator

HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage: Bringing Tier-1 innovation to the midrange market

3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage has certainly shaken things up in the midrange SAN storage market over the past year. The impressive market share gains and recent spate of industry awards are testimony to that. (In a recent blog post, HPStorageGuy Calvin Zito describes how 3PAR StoreServ is selling like hotcakes.) 

Our customers are taking advantage of the Tier-1 data services available in the 7000, including two unique innovations that set 3PAR StoreServ 7000 apart from any other midrange arrays in the market today:

- Persistent technologies that power 3PAR StoreServ 7000 in delivering high availability Tier-1 resiliency with Persistent Cache, Persistent Ports and Peer Persistence
-  HP 3PAR Priority Optimization software that enables service levels for applications or tenants with a flexible priority policy

Read on to see how the 3PAR StoreServ 7000 truly delivers on its promise of Tier-1 storage at midrange prices.

HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage: Bringing Tier-1 innovation to the midrange market

Original post by:
Aravindan Gopalakrishnan, HP 3PAR Product Manager

Storage Happenings at HP Discover

With HP Discover around the corner in Las Vegas from June 10-12, I wanted to let you know how you can get the most out of the storage happenings there - and as in the past, there is a lot. 

The Big 3

What are the big 3?  The storage keynote, the booth ceremony and our storage party.  These are not to be missed!

The storage keynote is hosted by SVP and GM of HP Storage David Scott.  The title is Say "yes" to change! Why customers are moving to HP Storage and is session #TK4190.  Our keynote essentially kicks off HP Discover on Tuesday at 10 AM. 

Join us in the Discover Zone on Tuesday night at 6:30 PM where we'll have a special booth ceremony.  If you attend the keynote and come to the Discover Zone booth ceremony, you'll have a chance to win one of 10 Beats by Dr. Dre wireless headphones.  But you'll need to be at the keynote to get those details.

To attend the HP Storage party come to the storage  keynote and the booth ceremony to get the details and your way into the party on Tuesday night.

New Book - Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.5

This is a step-by-step guide that will help you understand disaster recovery using VMware vSphere Replication 5.5 and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.5. The topics and configuration procedures are accompanied with relevant screenshots, flow-charts, and logical diagrams that makes grasping the concepts easier.

If you are a solution architect or administrator who is interested in using VMware s vCenter Site Recovery Manager as a DR solution, this is the book for you. It is also an excellent handbook for on-field engineers, customer engineers, and support professionals. Although, the book assumes that you have a basic knowledge of virtualization using VMware, it can still be used by those of you who are new to virtualization.

Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager