No, it's not the Norwegian Polar Institute Day or No Pun Intended Day - it's our new product introduction day.  NPI at StorageWorks is an internal process to have our products available for customers and channel.  We focus on areas like services, internal configuration tools and systems, supply chain readiness, pricing, and marketing (e.g. hp.com page, brochures, photography, and other marketing content).  Our NPI's generally have somewhere between 20 to 30 products. Each NPI is generally a mix of updates to an existing products and brand new products.  Here are a few highlights of today's new product introduction:

• Overview page of today's NPI: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/highlights/11172008.html.  Here you'll see links to all of the products, solutions, and services that are either new or updated today.
• One of the significant parts of today's NPI is the new 3Gb SAS switch.  This was included in a BladeSystem press release today.  Here's a link to the press release: HP Launches Breakthrough Virtualization Technologies That Cut Networking Costs by 55 Percent.   There's a good blog post on ZDNet by James Staten from Forrester Research talking about the Flex-10 Virtual Connect module coming from our BladeSystem team.   Don't expect to see innovation like this from storage-only vendors like EMC.  Here's a link to the SAS switch product page: HP StorageWorks 3Gb SAS BL Switch. 
• My list is getting long so I'll highlight one more: the HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System that we've discussed many times here.  I'm really excited about leveraging a 3-dimensional interactive demo (that we have used at trade shows) on hp.com.  This is pretty cool stuff that allows you to "play" with the ExDS9100.  If you don't look at anything else, you have to check this out: ExDS9100 3-d interactive tour.  You can check out other ExDS9100 info at www.hp.com/go/ExtremeStorage.

There are some other enhancements in today's NPI that I'll point to in part 2 later today.