HP with the new storage strategy
FSAM makes the storage management of 10 times possible

Hewlett Packard the storage strategy "FSAM" where the same company is new (Federated Storage Area Management), 2 kinds and new service of new product because it actualizes that announced.

FSAM makes available it exists with respect to network the storage device of domain and type and the vendor which differ physically as one logical resource, joint ownership service of management and the data and application of centralization "of combined (Federated) storage" environment and the resource and the data which exceed storage domain is offered the storage strategy whose HP which consists of two functions of "storage area management" is new.

It is the integrated system management tool of HP, it is storage firm it is formed by the storage appliance product of the module type which corresponds to FSAM, that by the storage area management software which designates "OpenView" as the base and the fact that it integrates with service, it is possible to actualize a more efficient management environment.

In addition, besides the fact that by the fact that FSAM is utilized, it becomes possible, to manage the storage environment which includes the strange type storage product monistically Linux, furthermore to large-scale UNIX, the head office of scale rise and for example Tokyo which do not depend on the platform, you call the scale out which does not depend on the place, Osaka and Fukuoka branch office from Windows environment, you say that also expandability of 2 directions can actualize.

Network storage solution organization vice president of the United States HP, Denzel

Network storage solution organization vice president of the United States HP which visits US, as for Denzel, with "what it makes that storage environment of 10 times is managed without increasing the special staff, possible speaks the largest purpose of FSAM".

The same day those where it is announced, "hp surestore virtual array are 2 products of 7400" and the "hp surestore network storage appliance" as a product because this FSAM is actualized.

Hp surestore virtual array 7400

As for hp surestore virtual array 7400, the new product of the disk array which loads "the virtual array" technology of the same company which makes the construction of soft logical unit possible without being restricted to the physical disk. By the fact that it corresponds to the fiber channel interface of 2Gbps, utilizes the frame "hp for disk addition surestore disk system 2400", the disk drive maximum of 105 on-board possibility. Because of this you say that the storage system of the maximum capacity 7.7T byte can be actualized.

Supporting the platform, HP-UX, Windows NT/2000, Red Hat Linux and Solaris. As for price from 1620 ten thousand Yen. Start of shipment has planned the middle of August.

Hp surestore network storage appliance

As for hp surestore network storage appliance of one side, storage solution product of storage area network (SAN) correspondence. As the mere product it offers not only, it becomes necessary for every user, with the service with the storage management cycle where "plan introduction use expansion" is consistent it is offered.

Supporting the host platform, Windows NT and QLogic 2200F FC-HBA. You call the schedule which supports HP-UX, Solaris, Linux and Windows 2000 within year. As for price, tape constitution 3200 ten thousand Yen compared to, disk constitution 3800 ten thousand Yen compared to, tape and disk constitution from 4700 ten thousand Yen. You call the schedule where shipment is consecutively held from August.

At the time of the sale of these 2 products, in US HP, "storage integration center" is established inside Tokyo Ichigaya office, also the plan which keeps offering, various services such as operation verification of the user and connection verification of the other companies make server product and business opportunity creation of the partner has made clear.

In the future, with HP, in storage of size of stuffing, it is the medium which can record the conversation of lifetime amount of the human, "atomic resolution storage" and, it deposits the data to the storage service provider in the XML base, with anytime and from with anywhere and from with any medium makes available we have assumed that it keeps groping, also the storage solution of the next generation such as actualization of the "i- shadow".

"Our strengths, just hard, just the software and the like, are not the mere product offer vendor, it can offer with the partner as the storage solution which integrates the product and service. Furthermore, the tape, the disk and network, it is possible, such as management product and solution to offer necessary everything, "(Denzel)