HP made several announcments at HP Discover 2011 – Vienna, some new backup kit, some additions to HP Data Protector and a new NAS based device, all designed to optimize the information infrastructure.
- The B6200 StoreOnce Backup System is the fastest deduplication solution in its class and the only one to offer complete high availability and scale-out design.
- HP Data Protector with StoreOnce Deduplication has efficiency and performance unmatched by other backup software.
- HP X5000 G2 Network Storage Systems provides high availability, turnkey setup, and native integration into Microsoft Windows server environments.
Video chat on the B6200:
I’ve been looking forward to the inbuilt software StoreOnce Deduplication in HP Data Protector, it will allow SMB’s to just buy a cheap RAID array and leverage the StoreOnce Dedup enterprise class features within their environments.
The X5000 looks superb, its a 3u, two active node device with a bit of storage attached. Looks rather natty, can support upto 32TB of SAS drives, is expandable with D2600 or D2700 shelves and comes with Windows Storage Server which includes SiS. It’s basically the E5000 appliance with a different image on the blades. This looks to be good for a nice and easy clustered file server for SMB’s.
Video from HPStorageGuy
Lots more to come on HP Discover 2011
