HP Says Storage Arrays Do More For Less

May 16, 2007: HP is going for top environmental marks with its new high-end disk array, claiming that its latest StorageWorks XP24000 provides 24x7 business continuity, significantly increased performance and substantially lower power consumption.

HP says the enterprise-level array integrates with its various servers, storage networking products and services to provide a complete disaster-tolerant solution.

The company says that the XP24000 features four gigabit per second connection to disk drives and hosts. It supports up to 1,152 disk drives, 332 terabytes of capacity and a lofty peak performance range of up to 3.5 million input output operations from cache.

Thanks to a new processor and enhanced provisioning technology though, the company claims the XP24000 offer significantly increased performance and substantially lower power consumption than other arrays.

HP is talking up the XP24000’s benefits over similar systems from EMC and IBM, claiming its thin-provisioning software lowers overall data centre costs by automatically allocating disk capacity from a virtualised pool of storage as needed. It says that XP StorageWorks Thin Provisioning Software also reduces unnecessary power consumption and heat generation by reducing the total number of disks required in typical configurations.

“IT risks are now business risks as data loss or downtime of any type can mean millions of dollars in lost revenue,” says Rick Steffens, vice president and general manager of storage area networks at HP’s StorageWorks Division.

“We are introducing a compelling, environmentally responsible alternative that mitigates these risks and far surpasses price and performance levels of competing systems.”

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