Managing to get thin with 3PAR storage integration

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By Tim Bowers, HPES Storage Services Product Marketing Manager

How can your business thrive in unpredictability?   Enterprises like yours often deal with the exponential and unpredictable growth of data, bringing unexpected business challenges at every turn. Did you realize on-demand business models and new and emerging technologies and applications are driving the need for state-of –the-art storage environments?  However, many of you are not equipped with the latest platforms, updated software and best in class operational models to effectively leverage IT to enable your business. 

By creating a storage strategy and accelerating adoption of advanced technologies you can simplify your growth, reduce excessive costs of over-provisioning , delay future storage purchases, and take advantage of storage tiering.  Think about the results you could achieve when you couple this with the ability to pay for only the allocated capacity you choose, supported by skilled resources around the global.  Your storage infrastructure needs to be seamless, secure and context aware.

Today we announced the integration of HP 3PAR storage, a key element of HP’s Converged Infrastructure strategy, into our Storage Services portfolio to simplify your data growth while realizing the benefits delivered through innovations in storage technology.  This new Storage Management Services features thin provisioning to improve over-provisioning, autonomic storage tiering technologies that balances cost and performance and removes your capital with our storage utility services that flexes up and down (within defined limits and timeframes) with the demands of your business.  You pay for the allocated capacity you choose and don’t pay for un-allocated or forecasted storage.   We are not new to this business, we have over 45 years of knowledge, experience in helping clients like you manage exploding data storage requirements by replacing outdated legacy storage with new, agile and flexible utility models. Utility services help you address the unknown seasonal swings in data-demand, short-term projects or testing environments. 

Our outsourced Storage Service with 3PAR integration provides you the Instant-On benefits for your storage growth through simple, scalable, automated and affordable storage using this innovative approach. 

This service will be available world-wide beginning in July.

Let us know what you’re doing to thrive in unpredictability.