HP Discover 2013 is on its last day and Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman is in attendance to provide us the latest happenings at the event.

Some of the announcements Hewlett-Packard made include the HP Public Cloud which runs on the newly announced HP CloudOS which is a comprehensive private/hybrid cloud system running on HP Moonshot hyperscale servers; and Project HAVEn, a new platform for data analytics.

But just like at IBM Edge2013, talk at HP Discover was big on flash, hybrid storage and software-defined storage which Milan Shetti, VP and CTO for HP Storage, claimed as hot because it “provides a bridge for users to transition from an internal to external storage model; that bridge never existed before.”

Though HP has not made any new acquisitions when it comes to flash, Miniman states that the company is in good position with 3PAR.

“One of the things that differentiates it from some of the other big vendors out there is it still a relatively new architecture and it has some very nice scalability capabilities,” Miniman starts. “If you look at some of the controllers out there, it’s what we call two-node architecture, you can kinda scale it up but it does reach a limitation. 3PAR can actually, the current model the B Series can go out to an 8-node environment that really gives great scalability for customers that want it.  And since this isn’t just a flash only array, from an architectural standpoint, customers can choose how much disk, how much flash they want.

“This new version is flash-only that you can buy but there are plenty of other models that you can buy.  3PAR is expected to really be able to ride this wave of flash, from the hybrid model all the way to the all-flash array, HP’s got good flexibility that they can build in and it’s a nice architecture for that,” Miniman stated.

For more of Miniman’s Breaking Analysis in HP’s flash strategy and its other announcements at HP discover, check out the NewsDesk video below: