HP has announced new integration of 3PAR's storage technology in an attempt to boost the company's cloud offerings.
The company won a pricey battle for the virtualised storage company after a ferocious bidding war with rival firm Dell and seems to have taken advantage of the new technology very quickly.
Firstly HP has included 3PAR's Utility Storage offering into its CloudSystem platform to automate management and provisioning operations across both hardware and software.
It claimed this new functionality would help speed up a company move to cloud services and increase the speed of deployment as data continues to grow.
Secondly, HP has brought together its own HP X9300 Network Storage Gateway with 3PAR's Storage System to combine the former's tiering capabilities with the latter's thin provisioning expertise.
This deeper incorporation of 3PAR technology into HP's product is all part of the larger company's vision of Converged Infrastructure and David Scott, ex-chief executive of 3PAR and current general manager of StorageWorks at HP, was behind the vision.
"Our clients tell us their journey to the cloud will be one of the most critical transitions for them this decade," said Scott.
"HP 3PAR Utility Storage meets their demand for a new storage architecture specifically designed for IT as a Service. The integration of 3PAR with Converged Infrastructure is ahead of schedule and HP is poised to take clients to levels of agility and efficiency they've never experienced before."
It wasn't all about 3PAR, however, as HP has also introduced its latest deduplication offering to take on the likes of Data Domain owned by storage rival EMC.
The D2D4324 Backup System is based on HP's StoreOnce deduplication technology, launched in June last year. HP claims the appliance can protect 1.4 petabytes of data with only 95TB of capacity 33 per cent less than its competitors.
