By Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy

On today's podcast, we talk about the HP Total Care announcement with HP StorageWorks Marketing Manager Chris McCall.  The announcement today has three StorageWorks components:

• HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions - new application integrated snapshots that integrates the P4000 replication software with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).  This integration ensures application quiescing when creating point-in-time copies, simplifying the process
• HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System - new NAS target for backup allows customers to create and backup to a CIFS and/or NFS-based file share and its provided free of charge.  While many customers will find NAS-based backup a desirable feature, small and midsized customers will find this most useful. 
• HP StorageWorks DAT 320 Tape Drives - this is the seventh generation of DAT with 2X the capacity, 75% higher performance and around 50% less power than the previous generation DAT.

So with that, here's the podcast:

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