Hewlett Packard Enterprise Brings High-End Capabilities to Entry Storage

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 15, 2016) - Today, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) (NYSE: HPE) announced new shared storage solutions that help small and midsized businesses (SMBs) modernize their IT with hybrid flash and software-defined storage platforms that bring enterprise capabilities to sub-$10K price points.

For years, SMB customers have been forced to subjugate business requirements due to the cost and complexity of enterprise storage. While others have deployed flash for app acceleration, leveraged software-defined storage for cost savings, and are exploring hyper-convergence to accelerate time-to-value, smaller customers and others with entry budgets have been priced out of these game-changing technologies.

The worldwide leader in servers¹ and storage², HPE is bringing enterprise storage data services to the entry space with modern storage that eliminates technology dead ends. The new HPE StoreVirtual 3200 provides a next-generation, entry storage array starting at $6K with an easy on-ramp to software-defined storage while the HPE MSA 2042 delivers hybrid flash for application acceleration starting at under $10K.³ Both systems feature a rich set of data services from data migration, to flash tiering to embedded resiliency across systems and sites.

"No matter your size, when it comes to today's digital transformation, 'good enough' storage is no longer good enough," said Bill Philbin, vice president and general manager, Storage, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. "By lowering the cost of flash and enabling a composable data fabric across storage systems and hyper-converged appliances, HPE is helping customers get off the disposable technology treadmill and onto storage they can grow with, not out of."

Modern shared storage with software-defined DNA starting at $6K
The new HPE StoreVirtual 3200 Storage is a next generation, flexible shared storage system built on HPE's leading software-defined storage platform with over 200,000 StoreVirtual deployments worldwide.⁴ The HPE StoreVirtual 3200 provides small and midsized storage customers with a new dual-controller array based on 64-bit ARM technology, a new RAID stack and advanced storage data services like snapshots, thin provisioning and replication at an unprecedented price point. The StoreVirtual 3200 also provides customers with a futureproof and risk-free path for growth through a composable data fabric that spans HPE StoreVirtual Systems and VSA software running seamlessly on HPE ProLiant servers, HPE hyperconverged appliances, and HPE Synergy. By using the same software-defined storage operating system everywhere, HPE's vision is to provide customers the freedom to grow in any direction, at any time, across any form factor or consumption model.