Craig Nunes , VP of Marketing at HP sat down with SiliconANGLE Founder John Furrier and Wikibon Co-Founder Dave Vellante to discussed HP's recent converged storage announcements. Nunes started out by comparing what VMware has done with compute, such as vMotion, to what HP is doing with data. He said that external storage is growing and their converged storage offers are absolutely "on fire."
Nunes claimed part of the recipe is bringing success to places like VMworld. One of their big topics this week was the HP VirtualSystem for VMware vSphere 5. Nunes said people had no idea what they could do with that product. He named features such as triple virtual machine density on the server, vMotion being 40% faster, and that it can run with half as much capacity.
Nunes addressed Furrier's question about performance by saying, "The challenge is predicting the kinds of workloads you've got and how you keep those workloads from trashing your performance . . . it's about buying a platform that can handle whatever comes at you."
Nunes also responded to Vellante's question about what federation is and why it's important. He said that federation takes the data services within a platform like LeftHand or 3PAR and stretches those data services to the wall. He explained that you should think of them as one pool of capacity and resources that you can take advantage of and change on the fly without affecting users. He referred to their latest product, PureMotion, as the ability to move data anywhere in your data center or even between data centers without disrupting users, VMs or applications. Nunes gave the example that the first array that 3PAR shipped in 2002 is even supported by PureMotion, meaning that data on an array ten years old can be moved.
Vellante asked for an update on StoreOnce, which is HP's disk-based deduplication appliance. Nunes said, "It's becoming a great option for users tight on back-up windows. StoreOnce is an algorithm not tied to any particular platform, not tied to hardware -- it's a deduplication approach for the data center, not just for a back-up appliance."
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Craig Nunes, HP | VMworld 2011
Craig Nunes , VP of Marketing at HP sat down with SiliconANGLE Founder John Furrier and Wikibon Co-Founder Dave Vellante to discussed HP's recent converged storage announcements. Nunes started out by comparing what VMware has done with compute, such as vMotion, to what HP is doing with data. He said that external storage is growing and their converged storage offers are absolutely "on fire."
Nunes claimed part of the recipe is bringing success to places like VMworld. One of their big topics this week was the HP VirtualSystem for VMware vSphere 5. Nunes said people had no idea what they could do with that product. He named features such as triple virtual machine density on the server, vMotion being 40% faster, and that it can run with half as much capacity.
Nunes addressed Furrier's question about performance by saying, "The challenge is predicting the kinds of workloads you've got and how you keep those workloads from trashing your performance . . . it's about buying a platform that can handle whatever comes at you."
Nunes also responded to Vellante's question about what federation is and why it's important. He said that federation takes the data services within a platform like LeftHand or 3PAR and stretches those data services to the wall. He explained that you should think of them as one pool of capacity and resources that you can take advantage of and change on the fly without affecting users. He referred to their latest product, PureMotion, as the ability to move data anywhere in your data center or even between data centers without disrupting users, VMs or applications. Nunes gave the example that the first array that 3PAR shipped in 2002 is even supported by PureMotion, meaning that data on an array ten years old can be moved.
Vellante asked for an update on StoreOnce, which is HP's disk-based deduplication appliance. Nunes said, "It's becoming a great option for users tight on back-up windows. StoreOnce is an algorithm not tied to any particular platform, not tied to hardware -- it's a deduplication approach for the data center, not just for a back-up appliance."
