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Capacity on Demand made easy!

CalvinZ| December 18, 2012

Headshot 100X100.jpg By Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy

I was walking around the HP Discover Zone (where the demos are) and noticed a booth that mentioned Capacity on Demand. Back when we first brought the XP Disk Array into our portfolio, I was the marketing lead in storage on something we called iCOD (Instant Capacity on Demand) - so I stopped to ask about what this was. That was a good choice because I learned about our latest Capacity On Demand program.

I was losing my voice after a couple of days of a lot of talking but fortunately I only had to ask a few questions as my guest Alain Amroun from our European HP Financial Services team gave me a good overview of the program. Check out the podcast with Alain.

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Alain gave me the URL www.hp.com/go/CapacityOnDemand as a place to get more information on the program - however, it doesn't appear to be working now. I'll get a URL and update it here.

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Sounds like a neat idea, sounds like the program is brand new (as of this HP Discover?)

There is(or at least was) a similar program that I learned about last year, which is particularly useful with 3PAR's wide striping. I don't know the name of the program but essentially it allowed you to buy X number of disks, and only pay for the amount of data that you write to the system. It's useful for 3PAR of course because you have the potential of leveraging a much larger number of disks for the I/O, and still only pay for a subset of the system. I don't know more details than that, other than I don't think it's a well known program, and the 3PAR reps I talked to at the time had at most 1 customer between them that used it. Wouldn't surprise me if many of the service providers that use 3PAR would probably be in this program.

I think Brocade has(or at least had) a similar program where you can buy their switches and only pay based on the # of ports that are used.

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Hey Nate - I haven't stayed up on all the different capacity on demand programs for several years but it didn't sound like this specific program was new and I think I saw a press release about it so I assume it is new.

There used to be another capacity program that billed based on usage - the former program manager for that now is our EG (Dave Donatelli's business) lead for events but I'll ask her to point me in the right direction and if I get more info about that, will let you know.