HP Ushers in New Era of Guaranteed, Stress-free Enterprise Storage
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 19, 1998--
HP Unveils Strategy, Guarantee and Products Designed to
Take the Stress Out of Enterprise Storage, Help
Companies Achieve Business Objectives
Hewlett-Packard Company today unveiled its high-availability enterprise-storage strategy to help guide customers into the next millenium. The new strategy is supported by a host of new products and one of the industry's most aggressive plans for the future of enterprise storage.
The focus of the strategy is to help companies use storage to achieve operational and business objectives while making storage a stress-free experience for IT managers. To this end, HP also announced the storage industry's first-ever written, 100-percent customer-satisfaction guarantee.
"We've done significant research into our customers' IT needs, and, when it comes to storage, customers don't want to worry about it
-- they want stress-free storage," said Marilyn Edling, general manager of HP's Enterprise Storage Solutions Division. "So we decided to give them exactly that. We are guaranteeing that HP's enterprise storage solutions will perform so well that companies can put more of their IT resources into other key business areas."
"We're excited about HP's approach to guaranteed customer satisfaction for our client-server storage -- especially as it relates to uptime, high availability and the day-to-day support of our operations," said Bon Dos Remedios, financial systems manager at BC Hydro, the third-largest electric utility in Canada. "HP is the first vendor we've seen that really understands information storage from both the IT and business perspectives. It's also the only company that is actually delivering advanced, networked storage solutions that I can deploy today."
HP Delivers on Storage Strategy
HP's strategy for providing stress-free, business-driven storage solutions has three components: a no-excuses satisfaction guarantee, the industry's most complete Storage Area Network (SAN), and comprehensive service and consulting for HP enterprise-storage solutions through extensive mission-critical experience and know-how. With its broad family of solutions and acknowledged SAN leadership, HP is already able to deliver on much of the new strategy.
New products and capabilities that HP is delivering today to support the three elements of HP's enterprise-storage strategy:
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-- storage industry's first written guarantee of 100 percent
customer satisfaction;
-- HP Intelligent Storage Server, a backup server that increases
mission-critical system uptime dramatically by allowing
disk-to-disk backup and by enabling users to share storage
libraries among multiple servers;
-- HP Fibre Channel Model 1010D High Availability Storage System, a
solution based on HP's industry-leading Tachyon technology that
provides maximum performance and uncompromising reliability;
-- utility automation for backup operations that until now had to be
done manually, such as customizing and operating DLT libraries
with backup scripts;
-- software-based SAN-management capabilities that trigger and send
alarms to IT managers, notifying them of Fibre-Channel-compliant
device failures; and
-- HP DLT library improvements, including support for Windows NT(R) and a new DLT-boot capability for enabling system boots from DLT
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The Future of HP Enterprise Storage
Providing further details of its strategic commitment to enterprise storage, HP discussed plans to deliver additional capabilities to help customers link storage solutions with business objectives. The plans includes a storage-consulting practice, the ability to interconnect SANs, storage-specific service-level planning and a SAN management console.
"Storage infrastructures are becoming increasingly strategic as the need for continuous access to information becomes a competitive necessity," said David Hill, senior analyst, Storage and Storage Management, Aberdeen Group. "HP is positioning itself well to compete in this changing storage market by offering a broad range of high-availability online and off-line Fibre Channel solutions and by providing its customers with a foundation around which they can plan their own storage strategies."
About HP
Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 127,200 employees and had revenue of $42.9 billion in its 1997 fiscal year
Information about HP's Enterprise Storage Solutions can be found on the World Wide Web at hp.com.
Note to Editors: Windows NT is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
CONTACT:
Cunningham Communication for HP
Tracy Clifton, 650/858-3857
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