Prior to my arrival in Las Vegas, HP held a press conference to make some major converged infrastructure announcements to the public and press. Â Because I was not able to attend the event live, I am going to link to some additional coverage below from those who were on site, but I also wanted to provide a recap of what was discussed:
- New Storage Hardware announcements – the P6000 EVA and the X9000 Ibrix
- HP is moving three storage platforms to a common Store360 software platform. Â The Ibrix, Lefthand and StoreOnce systems will all be based on the Store360 scale-out software.
- HP is building out purpose built solutions for software applications to enable customers to implement the software in hours and not months. Â An example of this is the E5000 Messaging System for Microsoft Exchange 2010. Â Yesterday, HP also announced the X5000 NAS solution for file sharing running Windows Storage Server.
- The P6000 EVA was unveiled, representing the fifth generation of EVA. Â This EVA introduces iSCSI direct from the array for the first time and both SAS and Fibre Channel drives available. Â Thin-provisioning and dynamic LUN migration is part of the software enhancements. Â The software will be available to all HP EVA customers with active maintenance.
Additional coverage:
Channel Register – HP erects common storage platform
Calvin Zito/HP – Converged Infrastructure Announcement for HP DISCOVER
Calvin Zito/HP – Say Hello to the new P6000 EVA
Dana Gardner/ZDNet –Â HP at Discover releases converged infrastructure products and services aimed at helping IT migrate rapidly to the future
eChannel Online – HP announced new converged infrastructure solutions
ComputerWorld – HP announces converged storage strategy, products
In the interest of full disclosure, HP and Ivy Worldwide invited me and paid for my trip to HP Discover. Â Even though, I am trying to relay the information as impartially as possible.
