NPI Day Part 2

CalvinZ — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

By Calvin Zito

In my previous post, I talked a little bit about our New Product Introduction (NPI) process and gave some pointers to a number of things that came from the latest NPI. Here are a few more things to highlight:

We announced the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Platform a couple of weeks ago - you can see the product page at www.hp.com/go/SVSP.
We also had publicly announced updates to the StorageWorks Secure Key Manager at SNW Dallas back in mid-October. You can learn more about the enhancements at www.hp.com/go/storagesecurity or on the product page.
We also announced new functionality on our XP24000 and XP20000 Disk Array family. You can learn about the XP enhancements on the XP Disk Array product page. Jim Hankins is writing a blog about External Storage Disaster Recovery with details so I won't spoil his fun. Also new with the XP is support for Solid State Storage Technology. One of our competitors predicted that we wouldn't have solid state storage technology until 2009. I think we beat that by a bit. Now we have solid state for both our BladeSystem and XP disk array with more to come. No hype, just keeping it real!
Utility Ready Storage is an interesting solution that we've offered for a while and I'm guessing will get more interesting for customers with the looming economic situation. There are some new services with Utility Ready Storage and a very good feature article describing it. Here's a link to the article: Aligning storage costs and usage with Utility Ready Storage.

I've only touched on some of the NPI enhancements today but hopefully I've given you a small glimpse into what is going on.

Calvin Zito

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NPI Day Part 2