HP awaits 2013, 2012 has been tough

2012 has been a tough year for companies like HP, Neelam Dhawan, MD of HP India revealed at a press conference.

"The economy in India has been going through difficult times and the currency dip against US dollar isn't helping either. From the government perspective, a lot of decisions have been held back. These factors directly affect our industry and 2012 has been a bad year for us. I'm glad 2012 is coming to an end," she stated.

However, HP is already hopeful for the year ahead. Dhawan stated, "The currency has been stable for eight weeks and the government has taken some long-pending decisions like the FDI. Some of the postponed decisions will hopefully be taken soon. Moreover, we have launched many new products in the last three months, and we are looking ahead to 2013."

At the press conference, HP launched its Converged Storage portfolio with a single architecture for all sizes of client deployments. These solutions include new HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, HP StoreAll Storage and HP StoreOnce Backup product offerings.

New hardware and software offerings increase enterprise agility

HP is quite excited about the polymorphic simplicity it offers. This is a new storage concept that enables a single-system architecture to exist in several forms, shapes and sizes from low to high, but retains common data services for block, object and file applications. "We believe that the 6 pillars of converged storage for the future are autonomic, open, scalable, efficient, polymorphic and federated," stated Barun Lala, director, business critical servers at HP India Sales. "Our prediction is that these terms will be considered standard in the industry in 12 to 18 months."

Their new offerings include HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage - a midrange quad-controller platform offering Tier 1 storage availability and quality-of-service features at an easy entry price point for organizations; HP StoreAll Storage - a highly scalable platform for object and file data access; and HP StoreAll Express Query - a metadata database that allows clients to conduct search queries 100,000 times faster than previous file system search methods, facilitating informed business decisions based on the most current data.

Integration with HP Autonomy Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) offloads processing tasks to HP StoreAll so that analytics can be rapidly performed with more current data and using less computer hardware. The new models perform backup operations up to three times faster at a 35 percent lower cost than the closest competitive system.