HP Reduces Data Retention Costs with Expanded Portfolio of Tiered Storage Solutions.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- After the subhead sub·head n. In both senses also called subheading. 1. The heading or title of a subdivision of a printed subject. 2. A subordinate heading or title. Noun 1. "Affordable, high-performance archival storage and compliance", second paragraph should read: Offering 800 GB of compressed capacity and the industry's highest performance at a 160 megabytes-per-second compressed transfer rate... (sted ...160 GB-per-second compressed transfer rate...). The corrected release reads: HP REDUCES DATA RETENTION COSTS WITH EXPANDED PORTFOLIO OF TIERED STORAGE A data storage system made up of two or more types of storage based on their access speed. For example, magnetic disk and tape or magnetic disk and optical disc are widely used in a tiered storage system. See HSM. SOLUTIONS Offerings build on HP's information lifecycle management Information Lifecycle Management refers to a wide-ranging set of strategies for administering storage systems on computing devices. Specifically, four categories of storage strategies may be considered under the auspices of ILM. strategy to help customers better align storage costs with business value of data over time HP (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HPQ HPQ Hewlett-Packard Corporation (NYSE) HPQ High Priority Queue )(Nasdaq:HPQ) today introduced new disk, tape and optical storage technologies and enhanced information management software that expand the industry's broadest portfolio of tiered storage solutions. From the entry-level to high-end, HP provides customers with the flexibility to store business data - from creation to deletion - on the most cost-effective storage platform according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. changing performance and reliability requirements. The storage offerings combined with HP's enhanced information management software help customers to better align data retention and protection costs with the business value of information over time - a critical component of HP's information lifecycle management strategy. New and enhanced product offerings include: --HP OpenView Data Protector version 5.5 - delivering more than 200 new features for comprehensive and cost-effective data management across tiers of storage technologies. --HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA (Metropolitan Service Area) An urban area with at least 50,000 people plus surrounding counties. There are 306 MSAs and 428 RSAs (rural service areas) in the U.S. MSAs and RSAs are used to allocate cellular licenses. ) 1500 cs - providing tiered storage within a single system by offering industry-first support for concurrent attachment of both SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. and Serial ATA See SATA. Serial ATA - Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. ) disk enclosures behind a single controller shelf. --HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 Tape Drive - based on third-generation Linear Tape-Open tape drive technology and providing industry-first Ultrium-based Write-Once Read-Many (storage) Write-Once Read-Many - (WORM) Any type of storage medium to which data can be written to only a single time, but can be read from any number of times. Typically this is an optical disk whose surface is permanently etched using a laser in order to record information. (WORM) capability. --HP StorageWorks Optical Jukeboxes - providing long-term, archival storage of electronic records and data for cost-effective regulatory compliance. "Customers are buying network storage across multiple tiers in order to cost-effectively manage huge data volumes and satisfy long-term data retention and regulatory compliance requirements Compliance requirements are a series of directives established by United States Federal government agencies that summarize hundreds of Federal laws and regulations applicable to Federal assistance (also known as Federal aid or Federal funds). ," said Frank Harbist, vice president and general manager, Information Lifecycle Management, HP. "No other vendor can match HP's depth and breadth of storage solutions - ranging from the entry-level to the enterprise and across disk, tape and optical storage technologies - to allow customers to store data on the most cost-effective storage platform based on the changing business relevance of information throughout its lifecycle." Cost-efficient data movement across storage tiers HP OpenView HP OpenView was a Hewlett Packard product range consisting of an extensive portfolio of network and systems management products. In 2007 the entire HP OpenView portfolio was rebranded under the strengthened HP Software name. Data Protector version 5.5 software delivers more than 200 new and enhanced features to provide customers with a scalable data management solution that automates high-performance backup and recovery, from disk or tape, and over unlimited distances to help ensure continuous business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets and cost-efficient data movement. "At Continental we believe in the future of HP's OpenView Data Protector and its ability to help manage our business," said Devin York, director of Financial Systems, Continental Airlines. "With the release of Data Protector 5.5, we see the new Advanced Media Management features, specifically disk-to-disk backup, as the next breakthrough technology which will lower scalability costs, increase performance and allow Continental to meet our data compliance objectives." Key product features and functionality of HP OpenView Data Protector 5.5 software include: --Advanced backup to disk: Improves the backup process with continuous backup of transaction log files, backup of slow clients without multiplexing, and simplified resource access and sharing. The new feature also allows tape virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. with easy backup resource sharing and complements the Data Protector direct backup to disk technologies for "zero-downtime" backup, instant recovery and virtual tape library A hard disk array that emulates a tape library. A virtual tape library (VTL) enables the storage medium to be switched from tapes to disks while continuing to use the existing tape backup software. See virtual tape system and storage virtualization. (file library). --Advanced media management (object copy): Enhances media management by eliminating the need to copy an entire tape or disk. Instead, only portions that have been added during the selected period are copied and can be appended to the end of an already copied tape or disk. The space-efficient automated media copy increases flexibility and reduces costs of tape and drive consumption. This new capability also enables migration and consolidation from disk to tape and between different tape types as well as tape compaction to eliminate unprotected backups. --Backup Mirroring: Mirrors media sets over unlimited distances at highest performance via shared memory (1) Using part of main memory to support a low-cost display circuit that does not have its own memory. See shared video memory. (2) The common memory in a symmetric multiprocessing system that is available to all CPUs. See SMP. 1. . This simplifies preparations for a potential data center disaster recovery and offers remote, long-term archiving combined with fast local tape access. The HP StorageWorks HP StorageWorks is an HP Portfolio of storage products, including online storage, nearline storage, storage networking , archiving, and storage software. The product line up includes: Disk arrays Starter packs usually contain a fairly large number of items. is $1,196 for Windows(R) and $5,605 for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R).(1) Tiered storage within a single system The HP StorageWorks MSA1500 cs, a 2-gigabit Fibre Channel SAN-attached 2U controller shelf, is the industry's first disk array to enable the concurrent attachment of both SCSI and SATA disk enclosures behind a single controller shelf. By integrating both low-cost, high-capacity SATA hard drives and enclosures with SCSI drive enclosures, the MSA1500 cs offers customers the flexibility, management simplicity and cost-effectiveness of a solution providing multiple tiers of storage within a single system and with a single management view. This unique capability enables customers to segment data between primary and secondary storage according to performance and reliability requirements and based on the relevance of data and frequency of access. The MSA1500 can support up to eight attached SATA enclosures delivering up to 24 terabytes (using 96- to 250-gigabyte SATA disk drives) of raw capacity. If the business requires SCSI drive performance and reliability, up to four SCSI enclosures can be attached for a raw capacity of up to 16 TB (using 56- to 300-GB SCSI disks). The HP StorageWorks MSA 1500 cs is available today with an estimated U.S. starting price of $8,995.(1) Affordable, high-performance archival storage and compliance The HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 Tape Drive - a third-generation, full-height Linear Tape-Open (LTO (Linear Tape Open) A family of open magnetic tape standards developed by HP, IBM and Quantum (formerly the Certance subsidiary of Seagate) that are licensed to third-party vendors. LTO cartridges contain a memory that stores historical usage data. ) format tape drive - comes with both rewritable and Write-Once, Read-Many (WORM) data cartridges. Offering 800 GB of compressed capacity and the industry's highest performance at a 160 megabytes-per-second compressed transfer rate, the Ultrium 960 also provides industry-first support for an Ultra320 SCSI interface - making it the world's fastest tape drive for compressible com·press·i·ble adj. That can be compressed: compressible packing materials; a compressible box. com·press data. Designed for the direct-attach backup and data archiving requirements of midrange and enterprise customers, the Ultrium 960 tape drives deliver twice the capacity and more than double the performance of HP's previous generation of Ultrium tape drives. The higher capacity reduces the costs associated with data protection by requiring fewer data cartridges to complete backups and the increased performance allows customers to scale their backup capacities without having to increase their backup windows. The Ultrium 960 is also the industry's first Ultrium tape drive to support WORM data cartridges. The addition of WORM capability provides HP customers with a more secure, simple and cost-effective method of archiving data to satisfy long-term data retention and regulatory compliance requirements. WORM tape provides users with the ability to store petabytes of unalterable data for secure offsite storage at a fraction of the cost of disk storage. The Ultrium 960 also offers an exclusive to HP One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR OBDR One Button Disaster Recovery (Hewlett Packard) ) utility to minimize recovery time in the event of a disaster. Using a single Ultrium 960 tape drive and data cartridge, the firmware-based data protection and disaster recovery feature allows for the restoration of an entire system, including the operating system, configuration, applications, drivers and data files. HP also offers an exclusive data rate matching feature with its Ultrium 960 drives. This feature allows the tape drive to adjust its transfer rate to the speed of the host system dynamically and continuously. Data rate matching keeps the data to the drive "streaming," reducing the need to rewind the tape back and forth to wait for the host. The feature optimizes performance and reduces the wear and tear on the drives for increased reliability. Additionally, each HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 tape drive ships with a single-server HP OpenView Data Protector version 5.5 license to offer customers the simplicity of a single solution for data backup and WORM storage needs. Expected availability for HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 tape drives and HP StorageWorks Ultrium 800 GB data cartridges, in both rewritable and WORM formats, is Dec. 13. The estimated U.S. starting price for the Ultrium 960 tape drive is $5,549.(1) Cost-effective archival storage for small and mid-size businesses HP's portfolio of Ultra Density Optical Ultra Density Optical (UDO) is an optical disc format designed for high-density storage of high-definition video and data. Overview An Ultra Density Optical disc or UDO is a 5.25" ISO cartridge optical disc which can store up to 60 GB of data. (UDO (Ultra Density Optical) A 5.25" rewritable optical disc technology from Plasmon (www.plasmon.com) that also supports write-once (WORM) media. Using blue laser optics and phase change recording, 30GB drives and cartridges were introduced in 2003 with plans for 60GB and ) jukeboxes now includes the HP StorageWorks Optical 700ux and 1100ux Jukeboxes. These entry-level jukeboxes provide small and mid-size business customers with cost-effective, removable storage for secure, long-term archival of electronic records to help satisfy data retention and regulatory compliance requirements. When compared to magneto-optical drives, UDO drives offer more than three times the capacity at 30 GB per platter and a cost-per-gigabyte savings of more than 75 percent. Customers also benefit from improved performance and reduced cost by offloading less frequently accessed data from existing servers or primary storage to a lower-cost-per-gigabyte storage solution. The jukeboxes offer direct attach or Fibre connectivity for archival storage from 720 GB to 1.1 TB in either WORM or rewritable formats. The products also provide the ability to grow capacity within the same cabinet for added investment protection. The HP StorageWorks Optical 700ux and 1100ux Jukeboxes are available today with an estimated U.S. starting price of $7,975.(1) More information about HP StorageWorks offerings, including the products above, is available at www.hp.com/go/storage. About HP HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended Oct. 31, 2004, HP revenue totaled $79.9 billion. More information about HP is available at www.hp.com. (1) Actual prices may vary. Windows is a U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. 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