Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced the availability of HPE 3PAR StoreServ 9450, HPE MSA 2050 and MSA 2052 in India.
HPE said it is updating its overall flash portfolio including the addition of cloud-ready Nimble Storage flash arrays powered by predictive analytics for storage needs of CIOs.
“These new solutions help more customers maximize the value of flash on-premises and enable flexible off-premises data mobility,” said Vikram K, senior director, Data Center and Hybrid Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India.
The technology major said the new HPE 3PAR StoreServ 9450 comes with 70 percent increase in performance, double in scale to 6PB, 3X the front-end connectivity with 80 host ports, less than half the cost of EMC VMAX 250F and supports consolidation of both block and file workloads.
For those considering long-term investment strategies, the 3PAR StoreServ 9450 also provides a futureproof path to next generation Storage Class Memory and NVM Express (NVMe) using HPE 3PAR 3D Cache.
HPE MSA 2050 and 2052 models, the fifth generation of HPE’s entry SAN platform, now delivers 2x more performance than the previous generation starting under $10,000.
HPE MSA 2052, which comes with software and 1.6 terabytes of SSD capacity, offers 40 percent cost savings on hybrid flash models. Both MSA platforms are providing flexibility to mix any combination of SSD and SAS drives plus including resiliency features such as snapshots and remote replication.
HPE announced StoreOnce CloudBank, a long-term data retention solution that provides significantly lower cost protection on multi-cloud destinations such as AWS, Azure or on premises object storage. HPE has architected StoreOnce CloudBank to reduce bandwidth requirements by over 99 percent, helping to lower costs of cloud-based storage to $0.001 per gigabyte per month.
HPE said the Recovery Manager Central (RMC), which is part of 3PAR’s all-inclusive licensing model, comes with a new Express Restore feature, which enables 15x faster data recovery from on-prem or off-prem StoreOnce repositories.
HPE has also integrated RMC with Veeam Explorer to assist customers to recover application items such as e-mails, documents and database schemas directly from RMC-V Express Protect backups.
The company said new Nimble Secondary Flash Array (SFA) allows customers to put their backup and copy data to work for secondary applications. The system brings together always-on deduplication and compression to lower capacity costs for backup with flash-optimized performance and zero-copy cloning to run production workloads like dev/test, QA and analytics.
