It's also chopping list prices for all its NAS boxes. The b2000, a 2U-high system with a starting configuration of three 146-GByte drives, was previously $12,000; now, it's $8,000. The b3000, which connects into an MSA 1000 array, drops from $44,000 to $24,995, a price that includes an MSA 1000 configured with four 146-GByte drives. Finally, the e7000, a NAS head end that connects into HP's XP or EVA storage, drops from $48,000 to $34,995 (storage sold separately).
"This is not a baby step forward in terms of price/performance," Nagaitis says. He adds that with the souped-up E7000, "we're now able to scale beyond BlueArc Corp., beyond NetApp."
In other HP storage news, the company is announcing that its XP high-end RAID systems now handle up to 148 TBytes of raw storage in a single system using 146-GByte, 10,000-RPM drives. This certainly isn't surprising, given that Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), which supplies its Lightning arrays to HP, made the same announcement last month (see HDS Launches Preemptive Strike). HP will also offer the 146-GByte drives for the EVA, allowing it to support up to 34 TBytes behind a single pair of controllers and up to 24 TBytes per cabinet.
Finally, HP is expanding its storage services. Among its new offerings is a data migration service, based around the OpenView CASA (Continuous Access Storage Appliance) for open systems environments (see HP Recasts Virtualization Box). For mainframe data migration, HP will use Fujitsu Software Technology Corp. (Softek)'s TDMF product.
Todd Spangler, US Editor, Byte and Switch
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