Sunday, September 28, 2014

HP promotes adoption of software defined storage – CIO Latin America

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is donating defined storage software (SDS, for its acronym in English) with the purchase of certain servers as a way to improve the adoption rate.

HP provide StoreVirtual license HP Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) 1TB free to all buyers based on Intel Xeon E5 v3 servers, including servers from Dell, IBM and Lenovo as well as new models HP ProLiant Generation 9 (GEN9 ) Server.

Virtualization continues to be the fastest growing trend in infrastructure, but adoption remains a challenge in small sites that lack the budget, storage space and requiring expertise in storage solutions business class.

Service providers also have difficulty getting shared with advanced capabilities that they can sell to their customers, according to a company statement storage. To help customers simplify and optimize the costs of server virtualization, HP will distribute licenses for more than 72 petabytes of capacity SDS at no additional cost to customers.

Under this program, any customer who buy based on the Intel Xeon E5 v3 processor server, you can download the HP StoreVirtual VSA software and obtain a license 1TB SDS.

Paul Shaw, general manager of storage in the South Pacific, said the cost of shared storage remained an obstacle for server virtualization for SMBs and branch offices.

“By offering free software VSA-based Intel Xeon E5 v3, HP and Intel servers are doing that SDS it available to the world for free, giving customers access to data as agnostic hypervisor and hardware, while at the same time preserve choice and reduce costs, “he said. Bev Crair, general manager, Intel Storage said its processors were the smart choice for a world defined by the software.

“The Intel Xeon processor E5 v3, built specifically to support agile data center and efficiently provide the optimal platform to offer intelligent storage while at the same time meet the needs of computing and networking in the data center defined by software. “

Brian Karlovsky, RNA

WITH KASPERSKY, PUTTING TOGETHER THE SECURITY AGENDA

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