HP talks storage virtualisation

HP has expanded its storage virtualisation product portfolio.

The tech giant has announced the availability of its StorageApps sv3000 management technology. It allows customers to view and manage their storage resources better and is designed to interoperate with different vendors' products.

The aim of storage virtualisation technology is to make the most of the storage hardware capacity by pooling all resources together via a single platform or a management point.

The appliance is symptomatic of HP's eagerness to embrace virtualisation and is designed to work together with HP's SANlink, a virtualisation and SAN software product launched earlier this year.

Olaf Swantee, head of HP network storage solutions for Europe, said: "Virtualisation without management is useless. By giving our customers a logical way to view and manage their data - and by freeing them from having to invest in software from each array vendor - we're taking storage management to a new level."