HP launches SAN and tape storage

The Storage Works Division of HP announced the launch of its next-generation
storage products and solutions including the P4000 G2 SAN, P2000 G3 Modular
Smart Array (MSA) System, LTO-5 Ultrium Tape drives and cartridges in India. The
new solutions provide faster application performance, increased scalability
while reducing customer's risk of downtime and data loss. These new products and
solutions are targeted at small, medium and large business with the aim to
fulfil the storage needs in virtualized and physical environments.

The new HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 Modular Smart Array (MSA) System enables
small to midsize customers to effectively support rapid business growth with a
flexible, easy-to-use and affordable storage area network (SAN) solution. The HP
P2000 G3 helps customers scale their storage environments through increased
drive capacity. It also improves application availability and performance with
the latest 8GB Fibre Channel (FC) controller technology.

The P2000 G3 can be used for enterprise departmental storage or to easily
connect remote offices, allowing the business to share data and make decisions
faster. The HP P2000 G3 ensures investment protection by allowing customers who
have an existing HP MSA2000 G1 or G2 FC Serial Attached SCSI or iSCSI model to
upgrade their systems by simply replacing the controller.

The new HP StorageWorks P4000 G2 SAN Solutions deliver high data
availability, in both virtualized and physical environments, through its unique
Network RAID functionality. Each minute of downtime can cost a business
thousands of dollars. To protect against downtime, the P4000 G2 SAN offers
redundant components and hardware RAID to guard against disk drive failures.