Hewlett-Packard said on Tuesday that many organizations waste as much as 70 percent of their budgets on capacity that is not actually storing data, while administrators struggle to manage dozens of disparate storage architectures.

This creates a rigid sprawling infrastructure that often forces organizations to choose between features and affordability.

HP introduced the industry-first innovations for its Converged Storage portfolio that breaks through complexities and ineffeciencies with a single architecture for all sizes of client deployments.

The company said that it is designed for virtualized, cloud and big data retention environments, and that these solutions include new HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage,HP StoreAll Storage and HP StoreOnce Backup product offerings.

“HP’s unique set of Converged Storage innovations helps clients simplify infrastructure and reduce costs with a common architecture across storage segments and categories,” said Charles Ty, business manager of HP Storage, HP Philippines.

In 2011, HP announced that its Coveraged Storage addresses legacy storage limitations exposed by the growth of human information, infrastructure convergence and the emergence of information technology as-a-service data centers.

This is a new storage concept that enables a single-system architecture to exist in several forms, shapes and sizes from low to high, but retains common data services for block, object and file applications. This vision also calls for optimization for both hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state disks (SSD).
 
HP is expanding that portfolio to include:
1. HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage—7000 is the industry’s only midrange quad-controller platform offering Tier 1 storage availability and quality-of-service features at any easy entry price point for organizations.

Supporting both block and file data services, the system is available with HDD and SSD, or as an all-SSD configuration capable of a similarly priced competitive array.

2. HP StoreAll Storage—a highly scalable platform for object and file data access, which provides a simplified environment for big data retention and cloud storage that reduces the need for additional administrator or hardware.

3.HP StoreAll Express Query—created by HP Labs, the company’s research arm, and is a metadata database that allows clients to conduct search queries 100,000 times faster than previous file system search methods. Facilitating informed business decisions based on the most current data.

4. HP StoreOnce 2000 and 4000 Backup— with support for HP StoreOne Catalyst software, provides efficient data movement and high-performance deduplication to reduce data protection costs in remote sites and data centers.

The company said that its new models perform backup operations up to three times faster at a 35-percent lower cost than the closest competitive system.