SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE streamed live broadcasts from the HP Discover show that took place this week in Barcelona. theCUBE host John Furrier was on the show floor at HP Storage’s booth when they announced their new HP Converged Storage offerings.

Before Patrick Osborne, Director of Product Management & Marketing at HP Storage spoke, Furrier provided theCUBE viewers with some background on HP Storage, stating how “HP Storage has been a real big success story for HP.” Furrier said it has enjoyed 47 percent growth as of last quarter, year over year.

“3PAR is the gift that keeps on giving,” Furrier continued, explaining how HP spent over a billion dollars to acquire utility storage provider 3PAR (back in September 2010), and that “it’s a key driver that keeps on reinventing itself inside HP.”

“HP Storage here is all about momentum,” Osborne told the crowd gathered around the HP Storage booth. “With our Converged Storage systems, we exceed almost 50 percent growth in the market, with our solutions fueled by almost 70 percent growth, quarter over quarter, for StoreOnce. We have the number two spot in the market in mid-range fibre channel SAN with 3PAR.”

Osborne and the HP Storage team member standing next to him then got on with the news. The three new solutions they spoke about in the HP Converged Storage portfolio were HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, HP StoreOnce Backup and HP StoreAll Archive. Together, the solutions “provide the simplest, fastest way to deliver and manage data,” according to the company.

HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage

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HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage brings “new levels of affordability at half the cost” and “lower response times for customers needing high-performance, flash-optimized storage solutions,” the company said.

In the booth, Osborne and his colleague touched upon an announcement that HP made earlier in the week regarding flash. “Flash is on fire,” Osborne began.

“About year ago, if you remember, we announced our HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 midrange array,” his colleague continued, diving into a brief history of how HP has innovated. “Back in June, we brought that same feature set to the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 all-flash optimized storage array. This week we extended that tier-1 leadership with 60 percent improved all-flash performance and over 900,000 IOP/s. That’s pretty big. And that’s 50 percent lower cost as well.” 

HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage offers “the most advanced quality-of-service-level control for those who might otherwise be stalled by service-level inconsistencies during their deployment of virtualization and IT as a Service for their most critical applications,” according to the company.

HP 3PAR Operating System 3.1.3 is expected to be available in January 2014.

HP StoreOnce Backup and HP StoreAll Archive

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The HP StoreOnce Backup solutions “enable customers to efficiently manage exponential data growth by protecting more data in less time, while reducing business risk and workflow disruption,” the company said.

The company added that the new HP StoreAll Archive “helps organizations extract big data [and] actionable insight from large-scale data repositories with simple, integrated search tools” and offers “open object storage interfaces that enable next-generation cloud storage applications developed in the cloud, to be deployed securely within the enterprise.”

Additional information about HP Converged Storage solutions is available at www.hp.com/go/storage.

At the HP Discover show, after the HP Storage team spoke, David Scott, Senior Vice President and General Manager of HP Storage, cut a ceremonial red ribbon off a huge StoreOnce 6500 backup system that was sitting in the HP Storage booth.

Also announced: HP ConvergedSystem offerings 

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Along with the new HP Converged Storage offerings, HP also announced a new HP ConvergedSystem portfolio, consisting of a family of solutions the company describes as “integrated IT systems purpose-built for key workloads such as virtualization, big data and hosted desktops.”

Included in the HP ConvergedSystem are three solutions: HP ConvergedSystem for Virtualization, HP ConvergedSystem 300 for Vertica and HP ConvergedSystem 100 for Hosted Desktops.

Both the “HP ConvergedSystem and HP Converged Storage offerings enable our customers to use technology to deliver business outcomes that drive their success,” said Bill Veghte, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise Group at HP, in a statement. The offerings do this, Veghte said, by “creating an agile pool of resources that can deploy quickly, accelerate results and transform an organization’s most valuable asset—its data—into actionable, competitive insight.”

The new HP ConvergedSystem is a product line that was built using HP Converged Infrastructure’s servers, storage, networking, software and services. HP ConvergedSystem for Virtualization and HP ConvergedSystem 100 for Hosted Desktops are currently available worldwide. The company plans to have HP ConvergedSystem 300 for Vertica available by April 2014.

Additional information about the HP ConvergedSystem portfolio is available at www.hp.com/go/convergedsystems.

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