Join HP 3PAR look at cloud storage for the next 10 years

In September 2010, Hewlett-Packard announced that it had finished acquiring 3PAR of storage vendors. With the dust set off by the 3PAR's frantic bid for Dell and HP, HP and 3PAR are finally able to sit together and discuss future development plans for the storage market. After buying 3PAR, HP expanded its existing storage product line, especially in the area of cloud storage. A few days ago, Hewlett-Packard's marketing director Craig Nunes told reporters during his visit to China that the addition of 3PAR would bring many technical advantages to the accelerated implementation of HP's integrated infrastructure strategy, while 3PAR would also be committed to becoming a representative architecture for cloud storage for the next ten years.

Craig Nunes joined Hewlett-Packard after HP's 3PAR takeover. Prior to becoming the global marketing vice president of 3PAR, Nunes was director of HP-UX server product marketing and senior director of HP Enterprise's disk array product marketing. After returning to HP, Nunes's management expanded to the entire HP storage product line. In interpreting the storage-product framework after HP's fusion of 3PAR technology, Nunes points out that HP has built the industry's leading storage product portfolio. The portfolio specifically includes storeonce, X9000 scale-out nas, P4000 scale-out sans, and 3PAR product sets for cloud storage that focus on data deduplication.

"By 2013, the market size of cloud products is expected to reach 6.6 billion trillion dollars." Interestingly, the market value of storage will be greater than the market value of services in the entire cloud market, "Nunes said. He argues that the "it-as-service" wave drives the growing demand for new storage, and that users are now increasingly demanding on storage products that can quickly supply, handle unpredictable workloads, high resource utilization, and low system operating costs. "Multi-tenant sharing, higher efficiency, and self-regulation by 3PAR provides the ability to provide tier one (TIER-1) storage for cloud computing, reduce procurement and operational costs by 50%, and increase storage management efficiencies to 10 times times the original. "he said.

In addition to the advantages of multiple tenant sharing, efficiency improvement and self-regulation, 3PAR also provides users with new features such as automatic thin configuration, automatic storage tiering, virtual domain name, dynamic optimization, and advanced shared storage architecture called mesh architecture. Nunes in the interview repeatedly expressed confidence in the future 3PAR target market. "The 3PAR software architecture is market-leading, able to meet the real needs of a new generation of users, in fact it has the ability to cover intermediate market to large enterprise market, and to achieve the support of cloud services." "he said.

Nunes stressed that after joining HP, 3PAR is, and will continue to deepen, the integration of HP's integrated infrastructure strategy. The 3PAR storage product will be based on HP's existing blade system matrix (HP BladeSystem matrix) and the infrastructure support system for cloud computing applications for common components of network and server products. "The most important value HP brings to 3PAR is size. Today, 3PAR can be built on a broader platform to meet the needs of users in the era of cloud computing storage. "Nunes said.