

It looks like the small-to-medium businesses segment found its way onto Hewlett-Packard’s to-do list. The company debuted a number of new offerings this week, including mobile solutions, a NAS box and an enhanced storage system, all scaled-down to accommodate SMB needs.
The most notable additions are the new BYOD solutions. HP came up with a way of giving workers access to business applications while removing some the associated security risks at the same time. Client Virtualization SMB is a collection of reference architectures for Gen8 deployments running visualization software from VMware, Citrix or Microsoft – it works by storing user profiles on the servers rather than end points, meaning that the end user only gets access to company data when they’re in the office.
“As soon as the mobile employee terminates that application, the application and data remain on the server or storage inside the business. No data is ever moved out to the device, whatever that device is,” said Lisa Wolfe, HP’s head of SMB relations. She also noted that laptops and thin clients are supported, alongside smartphones from other manufacturers.
Client Virtualization is supplemented with a solution that goes by the name of HP Client Virtualization, Analysis, and Modeling. The latter is an off-the-shelf service that analyzes company’s existing infrastructures to provide some added foresight for when they’re deploying the main BYOD offering.
Also new this week are the updated HP X5000 and X5520-series NAS devices. The latest X5000 configuration uses 2.5-in drives and has a maximum capacity of 32.4 terabytes. The previous generation received an upgrade as well and can now scale up to 48TBs, while the new X5520 G2 serves a different role. The latter system now supports 3TB drives, with a capacity of up to 48 terabytes in a U3 rack.
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