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To: PCSS who wrote (2078)	10/30/2002 8:16:36 AM
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HP Wins Storage Deal with Major Underground Facility-Locating Service Company PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct 30, 2002 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- HP (HPQ) today announced an agreement with SM&P Utility Resources, an underground facility locator service, to deliver an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) system to accommodate the company's growing data storage, recovery and protection needs. SM&P, a subsidiary of The Laclede Group, Inc., is based in Carmel, Ind., and began as a small, family-run, cable locating business in 1979. The company performs more than 10 million cable locating projects a year and generates approximately $130 million in revenues from the fast-growing, $1.3 billion facility-locating industry. The HP StorageWorks EVA system will help SM&P strengthen its position in the facility-locating market and streamline its business processes by delivering up to 12 terabytes of disc storage. The EVA system, which uses the newest generation of VersaStor technology to drive HP StorageWorks Disk Array technology, will support SM&P's approximately 2,000 employees across 10 states in the central U.S. "We needed a cost-effective solution with expansion capabilities and HP delivered an ultra-reliable technology system for our company," said Ryan Hyman, IT director, SM&P. "The scalable HP StorageWorks EVA will meet the needs of our company over the long haul." "HP is committed to working with solution providers to deliver highly reliable technology solutions that growing businesses need to be successful," said David Treadway, director of SMB marketing, HP Personal Systems Group. "Our industry-leading StorageWorks EVA solutions ensure scalability and manageability as customers roll out additional applications to remain competitive in their industry." San Diego-based Technology Integration Group, a full-service IT systems integrator with an office in Indianapolis, was instrumental in delivering SM&P's new storage system. "Small- and medium-sized businesses with limited IT resources can experience big problems in driving maximum performance out of their computer infrastructure," said Bruce Geier, president and chief executive officer, Technology Integration Group. "HP's StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array helped SM&P address the need to integrate its technology tools to conform with its overall business processes, which in the long run increases productivity and the value of its resources." HP StorageWorks EVA has one of the highest density disk storage capacities in the industry. Its virtual architecture allows up to twice the normal effective capacity of traditionally architected storage offerings. The HP StorageWorks EVA recently outperformed its nearest competitor by more than 50 percent on the Storage Performance Council Benchmark-1, making it the industry leader in open systems workload environments (see press release "HP Registers Record-breaking Performance with Its Enterprise Virtual Array," Oct. 2, 2002).

To: PCSS who wrote (2078)	10/31/2002 8:13:41 AM
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HP Wins Customers with Open Storage Infrastructure Solutions PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct 31, 2002 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- HP (HPQ) today announced several new customers that have increased their ability to respond rapidly to changes in market conditions or customer demands with HP storage solutions. The companies, Health Net, Independence Blue Cross and Siemens Westinghouse, have recently selected HP as their storage partner to develop and expand open storage infrastructures. "Representing multiple industry segments, these wins are a clear indicator of the business advantage that customers can achieve with controllable, resilient and extensible networked storage solutions from HP," said Howard Elias, senior vice president and general manager, HP Network Storage Solutions. "We are especially pleased to demonstrate continued customer success in heterogeneous storage environments during these challenging economic times." Details of the new wins include: -- Health Net, one of the nation's largest publicly traded managed health care companies, purchased $1 million in networked storage from HP this quarter. -- Independence Blue Cross recently signed an agreement with HP for phase one of its storage implementation which includes virtualization, storage management and data migration software. -- Siemens Power Generation Group, a global leader in the power industry, recently purchased a new HP StorageWorks XP1024 disk array. The agreement includes software, director and professional services to support the new 13-terabyte system. Siemens offers a full spectrum of innovative, environmentally friendly, cost-effective power generation products and services, including gas and steam turbine-generator technology; world-class process control and power management systems; operations and maintenance support; power plant modernization and upgrades; and fuel cells for the distributed generation market. According to IDC, with HP and Compaq revenues combined, HP storage is ranked No. 1 in Disk Storage Systems Factory Revenue, Second Quarter 2002, with revenues of $1,171 million and a 25 percent market share