'So smart they virtually take care of themselves'
Look out system administrators: Hewlett-Packard wants to give you more time to play video games or polish up your resumes – or both – with the forthcoming launch of its ProLiant Gen8 servers. .…
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HP previews ProLiant Gen8 servers
HP previews ProLiant Gen8 servers:
Project Voyager launches Xeon E5s
You can look at HP's new ProLiant Gen8 servers, but you can't touch. At the company's Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas this week, HP previewed some of the forthcoming machines' capabilities, but – much to the chagrin of hardware enthusiasts – didn't talk about the processors, system boards, and other "slots and watts" stats of the Gen8 iron.…
HP to release server management apps for iOS, Android #hp
HP to release server management apps for iOS, Android: Hewlett-Packard will be showing new smartphone and tablet applications for Apple's iOS and Google's Android that will allow system administrators to remotely control and configure servers, the company said on Monday.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
HP hops on the OpenFlow train with 16 new switches
HP hops on the OpenFlow train with 16 new switches: 
Programmable networks could mean less downtime.
HP is following other big systems makers into the world of software defined networking with a line of 16 OpenFlow-enabled switches. That’s a pretty serious commitment to OpenFlow, a protocol that helps take the intelligence associated with routing packets off of the high-priced switching gear and puts it on commodity servers.
HP not only introduced OpenFlow enabled switches, but said that customers with existing HP switches can download software that will add OpenFlow capabilities to their current gear. This looks like a far bigger committment than IBM’s and NEC’s effort to build out a hardware and services package around OpenFlow and software defined networking from earlier this month, and is a continuation of the trend toward OpenFlow making it into production environments this year.
OpenFlow and software defined networking has been a topic for academics, webscale vendors and carriers, as they seek to do to routers and switches what virtualization did for servers — make them more agile and scalable. OpenFlow is just one tool to build SDNs while Juniper, Cisco and other vendors also offer tools for network virtualization. Of course, most vendors say they will support the OpenFlow protocol as well, including Cisco, the vendor that stands to be hurt the most if OpenFlow ushers in an age of folks buying cheap switches and shifting the networking intelligence to commodity servers.
As we add more devices to the network they have to scale out better, and as IT relies more on on-demand compute and storage, the networking has to become as flexible as the virtualized servers that spin up and down. The network becomes a bottleneck if every time you want to add capacity to your cloud or associate new networking policies with a series of virtual machines, someone has to manually unplug boxes or install new load balancing or firewall gear. Virtualization and software defined networks are seen as the solution.
HP said that so far it has more than 10 million OpenFlow-capable switch ports deployed, which is tiny number compared to the overall switch market. However, it’s not alone in pushing OpenFlow, and it has made quite a commitment with a full upgrade of its existing switches and 16 new ones on offer.
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HP announces enterprise-class deduplication appliance - Computerworld #hp
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Computerworld - Hewlett-Packard today announced its first enterprise-class deduplication appliance that’s capable of storing up to 768 TB in a single chassis.
Additionally, HP announced a new network-attached storage (NAS) box based on the Windows Storage Server 2008 platform that can store up to 32TB in a 3U (4.75-in. high) rack mountable array.
HP’s new deduplication appliance, the B6200 StoreOnce Backup System, can back up or restore data at speeds of as much as 28TB per hour, or seven times faster than HP’s single-node deduplication appliance. The products are part of HP’s Information Optimization portfolio announced today.
The B6200 represents the first time HP has integrated software from Autonomy, which HP acquired for $10.3 billion earlier this year, into an appliance, according to Tom Joyce, a vice president of marketing in HP’s Storage Division.
Joyce said the B6200 uses Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) Server software, which collects indexed data from connected nodes around an enterprise and stores it in a proprietary structure optimized for fast processing and retrieval of data.
The HP B6200 StoreOnce scales from 48 TB (raw), for one node with no expansion unit, and up to 768 TB (raw) for a fully loaded four-node configuration. It offers a deduplication ratio of about 20:1.
“Deduplication varies depending on application data. We’ve seen north of 40:1 in real world scenarios. Typically though, we quote an average of 20:1, but sometimes you see 8:1 or 5:1,” Joyce said.
The B6200 StoreOnce appliance enables deduplication across the enterprise — from remote sites to the core data center — all manageable under a single console view, Joyce said.
“With the Autonomy software … what you’ll will see from us over a period of time is a new open set of solutions, so that you’ll be able to use our products with Symantec, Commvault and other backup products,” Joyce said.
The B6200 appliance also uses HP’s Peer Motion software, which the company attained through its acquisition of 3Par last year. Peer Motion allows applications and data to be moved between any HP-branded storage systems as well as systems from its subsidiaries: 3Par and LeftHand.
The appliance can also automate the data backup of up to 384 remote sites and replicate data to a centralized data store managed from a single interface.
The HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System
HP’s new X5000 G2 Network Storage System is its first Windows Server-powered NAS box, allowing the company to offer lower prices than previous proprietary arrays.
The X5000, which runs NFS and CIFS file protocols, is aimed at the same midrange market as NetApp’s FAS 3020 filer.
HP’s new NAS offering is built on the same blade server architecture as its E5000 Exchange Messaging System announced earlier this year.
The X5000 G2 Network Storage System uses active-active controllers, meaning if one fails the other continues to operate and no data is lost.
A 3U-high array can use both 2.5-in. and 3.5-in. hard drives. A single unit can support up to 10,000 users, according to Joyce. The NAS array comes native with data replication, snap shots, deduplication and encryption capabilities.
Lucas Mearian covers storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, financial services infrastructure and health care IT for Computerworld. Follow Lucas on Twitter at @lucasmearian or subscribe to Lucas’s RSS feed . His e-mail address is lmearian@computerworld.com.
Read more about Storage in Computerworld’s Storage Topic Center.
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Computerworld - Hewlett-Packard today announced its first enterprise-class deduplication appliance that’s capable of storing up to 768 TB in a single chassis.
Additionally, HP announced a new network-attached storage (NAS) box based on the Windows Storage Server 2008 platform that can store up to 32TB in a 3U (4.75-in. high) rack mountable array.
HP’s new deduplication appliance, the B6200 StoreOnce Backup System, can back up or restore data at speeds of as much as 28TB per hour, or seven times faster than HP’s single-node deduplication appliance. The products are part of HP’s Information Optimization portfolio announced today.
The B6200 represents the first time HP has integrated software from Autonomy, which HP acquired for $10.3 billion earlier this year, into an appliance, according to Tom Joyce, a vice president of marketing in HP’s Storage Division.
Joyce said the B6200 uses Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) Server software, which collects indexed data from connected nodes around an enterprise and stores it in a proprietary structure optimized for fast processing and retrieval of data.
The HP B6200 StoreOnce scales from 48 TB (raw), for one node with no expansion unit, and up to 768 TB (raw) for a fully loaded four-node configuration. It offers a deduplication ratio of about 20:1.
“Deduplication varies depending on application data. We’ve seen north of 40:1 in real world scenarios. Typically though, we quote an average of 20:1, but sometimes you see 8:1 or 5:1,” Joyce said.
The B6200 StoreOnce appliance enables deduplication across the enterprise — from remote sites to the core data center — all manageable under a single console view, Joyce said.
“With the Autonomy software … what you’ll will see from us over a period of time is a new open set of solutions, so that you’ll be able to use our products with Symantec, Commvault and other backup products,” Joyce said.
The B6200 appliance also uses HP’s Peer Motion software, which the company attained through its acquisition of 3Par last year. Peer Motion allows applications and data to be moved between any HP-branded storage systems as well as systems from its subsidiaries: 3Par and LeftHand.
The appliance can also automate the data backup of up to 384 remote sites and replicate data to a centralized data store managed from a single interface.
The HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System
HP’s new X5000 G2 Network Storage System is its first Windows Server-powered NAS box, allowing the company to offer lower prices than previous proprietary arrays.
The X5000, which runs NFS and CIFS file protocols, is aimed at the same midrange market as NetApp’s FAS 3020 filer.
HP’s new NAS offering is built on the same blade server architecture as its E5000 Exchange Messaging System announced earlier this year.
The X5000 G2 Network Storage System uses active-active controllers, meaning if one fails the other continues to operate and no data is lost.
A 3U-high array can use both 2.5-in. and 3.5-in. hard drives. A single unit can support up to 10,000 users, according to Joyce. The NAS array comes native with data replication, snap shots, deduplication and encryption capabilities.
Lucas Mearian covers storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, financial services infrastructure and health care IT for Computerworld. Follow Lucas on Twitter at @lucasmearian or subscribe to Lucas’s RSS feed . His e-mail address is lmearian@computerworld.com.
Read more about Storage in Computerworld’s Storage Topic Center.
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
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