Today's computing workloads and performance-reliant applications are driving customers to seek new technologies such as flash-based storage to keep up with service level demands and to balance performance with resiliency.
So said David Scott, senior VP and GM: Storage Division, HP, during a press briefing at HP Discover 2013, in Las Vegas.
However, he said legacy storage controller architectures hinder performance and current purpose-built flash storage appliances do not have the high availability features and advanced data services needed. Moreover, he said current flash appliances must be deployed as separate silos from existing storage, adding management complexity.
To address these challenges, HP has introduced the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 storage system, which Scott said delivers more than 550 000 input/output operations per second performance with extremely low latency to boost application service levels without deploying a separate storage architecture.
He added that the StoreServ 7450 features new software, enterprise-class features and ASIC-enabled hardware acceleration to maximise solid-state performance.
The storage solution allows customers to improve application response time with flash-specific software optimisations such as adaptive read and write optimisation and autonomic cache offload, which adjusts the granularity of cache-to-flash operations based on demand.
According to Scott, it also sustains high performance with multi-tenant input/output (I/O) processing and higher-performance mesh-active clustered controllers, which ensure all application volumes are active on all disks and controllers at the same time.
In addition, it offers flash efficiently with new media wear gauge and extended media lifespan with a system wide-striped design that evenly spreads load across all disks.
Scott says it also features cost-saving benefits with its hardware-enabled thin storage innovations that reduce capacity requirements by more than half, and improve utilisation without performance loss.
"HP is the only vendor to offer a single product family that spans midrange-priced platforms, purpose-built, all-flash platforms, and enterprise products with multi-petabyte scale," said Scott.
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