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 September 2007. Many small and mid-size businesses (those with less than 1,000 employees) have, in the past, been unable to take advantage of shared network storage primarily due to the cost and complexity of traditional options. That is, until the introduction of HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage System. HP All-in-One Storage reduces these barriers and allows business of any size to take advantage of network storage. HP All-in-One Storage provides a radically easy way to use shared storage that enables small and mid-sized IT environments to affordably manage, grow, and protect their data.
Consider these facts:
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Fact 1: Small and mid-sized businesses want more than just a low-cost, feature-stripped version of an Enterprise array |
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Some vendors’ storage solutions for small and mid- sized businesses are a smaller, cheaper, stripped-down version of their complex ‘enterprise-class arrays’. HP StorageWorks All-in-One (AiO) Storage System was designed from the start to specifically meet the unique needs of small and mid-size customers.
We spent hundreds of hours with businesses of different sizes across a wide variety of industries and geographies. We found that, regardless of size, all businesses have similar requirements. However, small and mid-size companies do not have the same resources and priorities as large companies. They’re looking for more than just a less-expensive ‘enterprise-class’ product. These businesses want a completely integrated storage solution that is simple, affordable, and reliable.
You told us you need a solution that: provides a centralized pool of storage; uses your existing Ethernet infrastructure; protects your data; recovers quickly; and doesn’t require a storage specialist to operate. We heard and we delivered.
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“Users were practically gushing over the AiO and how easy it is to use. David Lay, director of IT at Salem Law Group P.A., said installing storage usually "takes an engineering degree, a lot of effort and know-how." The AiO was so easy he "didn't think it worked right." Truth be told, his administrative assistant actually set one up, too.” 1
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“What sets this product apart from the rest of the products on the market that target SMBs is that HP has put a simple application-level manager on top of all of that complexity. That's how it can cut the time it takes to migrate data from an Exchange server from hours, maybe even days, down to minutes.”2
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FACT 3: Data protection equals business protection |
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You count on your business information. It’s critical to the life of your business and the success of your business. Loss of data or unavailability of that data is NOT an option.
HP AiO Storage System provides comprehensive and integrated data protection to enable easy roll-back and disaster recovery; provides an easy mechanism to manage disk-based snapshots for easy roll-back, integrated data protection software for offsite and archive, hot plug disk drives (RAID) and hardware redundancy. Plus data can be replicated to another system for enhanced disaster recovery.
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FACT 4: Analysts and press are impressed with the value AiO provides to small and mid-sized businesses |
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“’The AiO marks HP's most significant foray into the storage market for SMBs, and it's a good move both for HP and for SMBs,’ said Ray Boggs, vice president of SMB and home office research at IDC, a Framingham, Mass., market research firm. ‘ In addition to being a step in the right direction in terms of reducing the complexity of a networked storage environment, the HP StorageWorks All-in-One storage system might help bring effective storage to places that traditionally have not had it,’ Boggs said.” 3
“’St. John's Episcopal School in Tampa, Fla., has been using the AiO400 device for about a month and a half,’ said Charles Love, who is director of IT at the school via Big Sur Technologies Inc., a Tampa-based outsourcer. It has let Love consolidate storage in one area of a building rather than having direct-attached storage throughout three server rooms. The device has also reduced the amount of space and power required because he will be able to replace two 18-in. tall servers with one device the height of a pizza box, he said.” 4
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HP StorageWorks 600 All-in-One Storage System garnered the top honor for “Best Unified Storage for Small and Medium Businesses” from the InfoWorld Test Center and received the InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year Award.5
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FACT 5: Many customers tell us they love the HP All-in-One Storage System |
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“Before we got the all-in-one, we had storage attached to each of our servers,' said Niclas Lundstrom, director of development at RemoteX Technologies, and one of the beta testers. 'So we had a lot of capacity when you add it up, but we couldn't use it [efficiently]. When I got the HP machine, I fell in love with it as it was so easy to use.'”
“We don’t have time to actively manage our storage resources, so the HP All-in-One is ideal for us. The AiO—our first SAN solution—makes storage management as foolproof and hands-free as it could be.” Niclas Lundstrom, Director of Development and CTO, RemoteX Technologies AB.
“Increasingly, the role of IT is to think strategically and add value to the business. The HP All-in-One Storage System essentially runs itself, allowing us to devote our time to achieving critical business goals—instead of simply maintaining our infrastructure.” Brad Mansfield, Head of IT, Banquo Credit Management LLP.6
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FACT 6: The HP All-in-One Storage System now available in the innovative HP BladeSystem c-Class infrastructure. |
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On September 12th HP introduced the HP All-in-One SB600c Storage Blade. It provides the same functionality described above but now integrates into the innovative HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosure. The SB600c comes with 1TB of shared storage and when you add the 488c Ultrium Tape Blade, plus HP server blades, you have a powerful computing environment in a versatile HP BladeSystem c-Class infrastructure solution.
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