HP Puts Enterprise Data Storage on a Diet, Richard Simmons Not Involved

Posted 05/10/2011 at 7:09am | by Paul Lilly

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Is your business saddled with old equipment and bloated software? Hewlett Packard feels your pain. The OEM today rolled out its new "HP Get Thin Guarantee Program" designed to help clients reduce storage capacity requirements by 50 percent or more when they replace legacy equipment with HP 3PAR Utility storage. And in addition to cutting your storage footprint, HP says you'll save power and costs, too.

"Clients are looking to the next generation of storage arrays to curb data center sprawl and reduce both capital and operating expenses," said Tom Joyce, vice president, Marketing, Storage, HP. "The HP Get Thin Guarantee Program allows clients to very quickly experience the significant difference that deploying highly virtualized storage can make in the enterprise."

There isn't any black magic involved with HP's program, just good old fashioned optimizations. By combining HP's 3PAR Storage Systems with the OEM's 3PAR Conversion Software, HP is able to reduce enterprise storage needs by identifying and removing unused pockets of disk capacity. According to HP, traditional storage volumes end up being reduced by at least 50 percent and converted into thin provisioned volumes on the 3PAR array.

More information can be found here.