HP announces new storage products for Indian SMBs

As part of its 'Simply StorageWorks' initiative, Hewlett-Packard has
announced new products and programs that will help small and medium

businesses (SMBs) address its increasing data storage requirements. HP also
launched the industry's first easy-to-use storage system that drives down cost
and complexity for mid-market and SMBs grappling with the challenge of the
exponential growth of data.

All-in-one (AIO) systems deliver a comprehensive storage solution that
addresses a wide variety of needs ranging from application storage management
and reliable data protection to affordable data storage. Using these systems,
businesses with limited or no storage expertise will be able to store, share,
manage, back up and protect their rapidly growing applications and file data in
a flexible networked storage environment.

Currently, a majority of the SMBs in India are using direct attached storage
and are ready to deploy networked storage.

Going forward, HP has also identified database and e-mail storage, file,
print services, back up and recovery as the key drivers of the SMB storage
market in India.

“With the launch of the HP StorageWorks AIO system, HP has created an
entirely new category for storage solutions targeted at the SMB market in India,”
said Hemant Tiwari, Director-Enterprise Servers and Storage, TSG, HP India.
“With these systems, HP is now the benchmark for storage solutions for SMBs.
Developed from the ground up to address the specific problems SMBs face, the HP
AIO storage system

delivers functionality without the complexity of competing offerings.”

One of the key differentiator of HP AIO solution is that one can transit the
entire exchange storage to HP AIO in less than 10 simple steps. This solution
offers an application storage migration for environments including Microsoft
exchange and SQL.

Other key HP storage products specifically targeted at growing businesses
include VLS 1000i Virtual Tape Library, MSL2024 Tape Library and Data Protector
Express backup Software, MSA 1500 SAN array.

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