EMC and Compaq have signed an agreement to cross license each other's technology. The API allows EMC and Compaq to swap access functions on similar devices, such as EMC's Symmetrix disk array with Compaq's HSG-80 Fiber Channel array controller.
HP is unveiling the StorageWorks EVA 3000, which offers many of the features of its existing EVA product, but has a lower total capacity as well as a lower price tag. HP, for its part, is aiming the StorageWorks EVA 3000 at the EMC CX400, adding an...
The Palo Alto, California-based computer maker will offer three HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Arrays. HP's Modular Smart Array MSA30 is a disk array, otherwise known as a JBOD or "just a bunch of disks", designed to store up to 2 terabytes of data...
Sixty percent of our HP Integrity server customers are running Oracle applications and databases today, making this a key capability for our existing customers," Bob Schultz, general manager of HP's StorageWorks division, said in a statement.
Grid computing is also an example of resource aggregation, as it enables the virtualisation of distributed IT resources such as storage, bandwidth and CPU cycles, while splitting a mainframe into logical partitions is an example of partitioning.
HP has said it will offer technology from virtualisation company Parallels to those customers who wish to virtualise Microsoft Windows and Linux workloads on HP Integrity servers. The deal, announced on Tuesday, will see Parallels Virtuozzo...