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HP readies enterprise storage area network blitz
By Carmen Nobel, PC Week Online
October 13, 1998 11:45 AM ET
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Hewlett-Packard Co. will unveil a slew of storage products next week in a bid to become a formidable contender in the enterprise storage area network market.
New products will include the Intelligent Storage Server, which connects a LAN to a backup server via fibre channel and enables DLT libraries to back up multiple servers. HP has tested the hardware with software from Oracle Corp. and SAP AG as well as with backup management software such as HP's OpenView OmniBack and Veritas Software Corp.'s Netbackup, officials said.
While the Intelligent Storage Server currently works on the LAN, future versions will be able to run independently on a storage area network, officials said. Intelligent Storage Servers for SANs will be available in the next 12 to 18 months, officials said.
Also slated to debut is the HP Fibre Channel Model 1010D High Availability Storage System, which can hold up to ten 18GB disks, supports RAID levels 0 and 1, and includes integrated software monitoring tools. Customers can replace the system's fans and back up data while it stays online.
HP officials in Palo Alto, Calif., said that from now on, all HP storage products will come with a 90-day, 100 percent customer satisfaction, money back guarantee.
HP is also expected to provide a standard set of Unix backup scripts for storage management software to support HP hardware. Previously, administrators had to write their own scripts, which was burdensome, officials said.
Pricing will be announced on Monday.
HP is at www.hp.com.
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HP adapters support FCAL, SCSI
October 11, 1998 9:00 AM ET
zdnet.com
Hewlett-Packard Co. will roll out this week a new family of Fibre Channel host adapters.
The Tachyon TL Fibre Channel family consists of the HHBA-5100A with DB9, a copper-wire card, and the HHBA-5101A with a gigabit interface connector. The cards, which support Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop and SCSI protocols and are compatible with Windows NT 4.0, NetWare 4.11 and 5.0, and UnixWare 7.0, will ship later this month. Support for Solaris is planned for later this year.
Priced at $750 each, the adapters include a 64-bit PCI host interface and are certifiable for Microsoft Corp.'s Wolfpack cluster server.
HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., can be reached at (800) 537-3753 or www.hp.com.
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