Over the next five years, enterprise IT will be challenged to become an efficient and responsive service delivery organization. Administrators at all levels will be stretched to rapidly deploy IT services. A computing infrastructure that mimics the efficiency of a highly tuned engine will be needed. As new management and delivery models emerge, Evaluator Group believes the continued importance of data is driving IT to adopt new storage technologies and new approaches to managing the storage environment. Learn how HP's Converged Storage strategy, including HP 3PAR Utility Storage, powered by Intel Xeon processors, establishes HP's unique approach to storage going forward. »

HP 3PAR Utility Storage was designed from the ground up to deliver massive scalability, secure multi-tenancy, high performance, and high availability to fuel enterprise-class virtual data centers and cloud computing environments. Industry-leading software solutions provide unique benefits that make any cloud more agile and efficient while ensuring secure segregation of user groups and applications. By reducing or eliminating capital and operating expenses, and by enhancing, accelerating, and protecting application and service ROI, HP 3PAR Utility Storage, powered by Intel Xeon processors, improves the return on IT, and on information itself. Most importantly, HP 3PAR Utility Storage provides the storage foundation necessary in building a converged infrastructure that transforms the data center. Such transformation is key to overcoming the inflexibility and high costs created by IT sprawl and shifting the focus to innovation and strategic initiatives that add value to the business. »

Prior to deploying HP 3PAR Utility Storage, hosting service provider, Intercept, was burdened by a poorly performing, inefficient legacy storage environment. The company determined that it needed a solution with built-in backup and recovery capabilities, proven to work well with virtual server and virtual desktop infrastructures and capable of supporting both its existing and planned virtualization services. »

HP is at the epicenter of the seismic shifts in the storage industry. Watch this on-demand keynote from the HP Storage Summit in Toronto to learn more about HP's stance on converged infrastructure, mesh architecture and unified storage. »

Investment bank Samuel A. Ramirez & Co., Inc., adopted the HP 3PAR F400 Storage System, powered by Intel Xeon processors, and improved storage performance 24-fold while reducing backup times by 75 percent, consolidating its storage footprint by 66 percent, and cutting storage administration time by 90 percent. Read the case study to get the details. »

Weill Medical College of Cornell University has huge storage needs that are continually growing. These data requirements were the reason that the medical school was not only outgrowing its datacenter, but literally running out of space and power in the heart of New York City--a place where both space and power are at a premium. Download the case study to see how HP 3PAR Utility Storage solutions, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, helped solve the problem. »

HP 3PAR Utility Storage, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, was designed from the ground up to exceed the economic and operational requirements of today's most demanding IT environments. It is the only storage platform that delivers the performance, scalability, and availability required of Tier 1 Storage along with unique technology benefits not available with legacy platforms. Download this paper to learn more. »

Enterprise applications such as SAP or Oracle are being moved from older RISC systems to virtualized environments that demand flexible storage resources. Data center managers need easily provisioned, agile solutions that can handle the pace of change. Download this paper to learn how HP 3PAR Utility Storage, powered by Intel Xeon processors, can help control storage and support costs. »

Imagine what you could achieve by combining VMware vSphere with a next-generation storage platform designed to address the challenges of server virtualization. HP 3PAR Utility Storage, powered by Intel Xeon processors, boosts VMware vSphere ROI by enabling you to increase consolidation, simplify administration, and maximize savings. Download this paper to learn more. »

HP's next-generation modular architecture and innovative data center solutions can help hosting providers reclaim budget, space, energy and time to streamline application service delivery. Download this solution brief to learn more. »

Protecting application data from disasters is critical to keeping businesses up and running. Yet traditional disaster recovery solutions were never intended to address the needs of today's virtualized data center. As a result, the cost and complexity of using traditional disaster recovery products to address data replication needs in highly virtualized environments forces many organizations to forego disaster recovery altogether. Download this solution brief to see how HP and VMware work together to create a solution. »

HP 3PAR T400 and T800 Storage Systems with Thin Built In and powered by Intel Xeon processors are the first storage arrays to incorporate thin capabilities into system hardware. The revolutionary innovations of the T-Class more than double the performance of the previous generation of HP 3PAR arrays to make it the fastest, most efficient single-system array on the planet. Get the solution brief to learn the details. »

HP 3PAR F-Class Storage Systems, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, can reduce mid-range array sprawl by allowing you to purchase 50 percent fewer arrays. Imagine having the ability to eliminate up to 75 percent of the capacity, power, cooling and floor space required to store your data, and spend 90 percent less time managing your storage. No more choosing between mid-range limitations and monolithic price tags. »

HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning Software improves storage system efficiency and optimizes capacity utilization system-wide. It does this by addressing the problem of capacity over-allocation through eliminating the need to dedicate storage capacity up-front and on a per-application basis. Download this brief to learn more. »

To maximize the value of the new virtual infrastructures and minimize the impact on storage and networks, IT organizations must utilize I/O and storage systems that can address the need for new workloads imposed by server virtualization, along with providing high availability with architectures that can balance operational efficiency. This paper outlines important developments in storage for virtual server environments, along with considerations for executives and IT staffs tasked with implementing and managing this infrastructure. »

3PAR’s InSpire architecture - built from the ground up as a utility storage platform and a foundation for IT-as-a-service deployments - provides enterprise users and service providers alike with high levels of capacity utilization and storage performance for their production applications, and the kinds of provisioning and management efficiencies that make virtual server storage a cost-attractive proposition. Download this paper to learn more. »