HP in five-pronged storage offering
HP in five-pronged storage offering
In what was billed by the company as a move to help companies optimise and more effectively manage their storage systems, Hewlett-Packard unveiled five new storage services.
The services focus on data replication, disaster tolerant management, storage optimisation assessment, data sanitisation and storage area management.
Gary Wright, vice president, network storage services, HP services, says the vendor is responding to the demands made by today's users.
"Companies are demanding more from their IT partners, and we are delivering more with today's announcement. Increasing agility and return on IT investment will continue to be critical business imperatives moving forward, and HP, with its Adaptive Enterprise strategy, is strongly positioned to help companies create more business value with services such as these."
Wright adds that HP's assessment offer betters rival services that are bundled with products, with HP offering a "standalone service."
"It's all about helping them optimise their existing, multivendor storage environment," claims Wright.
Despite HP's claims that the services are merely designed to help, rather than to tout their own product range, a few of the new services are linked closely to HP products. The data replication service involves the implementation of HP's Continuous Access and Business Copy technologies, whilst the Storage Area Management Solution is an implementation service for HP OpenView Storage Area Manager customers.
The company has also modified its pay-per-use plan for its StorageWorks XP disk arrays. Customers now have the option of paying a fixed monthly fee or a variable fee that is based on metering the usage of their disk storage systems.
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