1 ©2010 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice

Adam Tekieli – EMEA PreSales Consultant

June 2010

HP StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage SystemScalable storage optimized for file serving

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Agenda

–Business trends

–Addressing today’s data

center challenges

–Use cases

–HP X9000 portfolio

• X9000 feature details

–New features announced

–References

ConvergedInfrastructure

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IT Exists to Support the Business…Right?

• Proprietary legacy architectures

• Management complexity

• Sprawl

Business innovation throttled to 30%

• Limited money for strategic improvements

• Delays in innovation

• Loss of time, effort, opportunity

Source: HP research

70% captive in operations and maintenance

Maintenance

Power &cooling

Supportinginfrastructure

For every dollar spent on storage infrastructure . . .

$.50

Availability

$2

$6

$8

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Business is Going…Unstructured

– The majority of corporate data is

stored in unstructured files

– More data is being shared with

more diverse users

– Applications are more granular

– Unstructured data will keep

growing for the foreseeable

future1

1 Enterprise Strategy Group Research Report, Digital Archiving Survey, November 2007

Social Networks

Digital Media

Dig

ital CCTV

Archiving

Life

Sci

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Dig

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evic

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Virtualization

Clo

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bora

tion

Space Research

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• Downtime when scaling, silos Massive Scalability

• As capacity grows, hotspots developPerformance that

grows with capacity

• Too expensive, too slow, missing features Management of large data sets

• In the end, only makes the 70/30 ratio worse Cost Containment

Unstructured Data Presents Needs and Challenges

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A Powerful Combination: Scale-out and Converged

43.2TBPerformanceoptimized

192TBCapacityoptimized

1.312PBExtreme density

Existing SAN /Legacy Storage

The X9000 Single Namespace

Existing TapeLibraries

X9720

… can grow to 16 PB

X9720

ConvergedInfrastructure

FC/iSCSI SAN

X9300 X9300 X9320 X9320

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How HP Addresses Unstructured Needs

The Need The Solution HP Delivers

Manageable growth Manage many as one Largest single namespace

Online scalability Modular storage Industry-standard, scale-out

architecture

Consistent performancePerformance, balanced

across disks Non-disruptive, automatic

re-balancer

Economical storage Store more, spend less Policy based tiering

Data protection Multiple copies of data Continuous parallel replication

balanced across modules

Absolute value Streamlined solution All-inclusive feature-set

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HP X9000 Network Storage SystemsCommon use cases that span industries

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Common use cases that span industries

1. Massive Scalability with tiers of storage

2. Concurrent Access to many small files

3. Automated Data Movement

“Only [HP X9000 software] puts together such massive levels of

cost savings, performance, manageability, and scalability…”

-Taneja Group

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Common Scale-out NAS Applications

High Performance

Real-TimeMarketData

Explore and ExperimentAnalysis

OnlineStorageServices

Animation Rendering

SeismicProcessing

Genomic Sequencing

High Capacity

FinancialRecords

Experiment Data

ContentDeliveryNetwork

DigitalAsset

Library

Seismic Data

PatientRecordsArchival

Finance Space Research InternetMedia &

Entertainment Oil & Gas Life Sciences

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Massive scalability with tiers of storageBusinesses are facing massive scalability challenges

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ForkliftUpgrade

New technology generates data faster with more granularity

Problem: Storage Must Constantly Grow

– On-demand expansion required

• Need very large, single namespace

• Grow performance and/or capacity

• No performance bottlenecks

• No forklift upgrades

– Must support multiple tiers

• Performance for critical data analysis

• Cost-effective archive

• Must be simple to manage

High perf. storage

Data processing & analysis

Information archive

Three separate namespaces

Bottleneck

Bottleneck

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High Performance Cost Effective

HP StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage Systems

Solution: Massively Scalable, Tiered Solutions

– Scale-out NAS online

• Up to 16 PB single name space

• Grow performance &/or capacity online

• No forklift upgrades

• Performance is always optimized

• Eliminate performance bottlenecks

– Automated policy based tiering

• Set preference for initial placement

• Define movement policy

• Move between any two tiers

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SingleNamespace

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Concurrent access to 1,000’s of filesPerformance challenges with unstructured data – an extreme example from Media and Entertainment

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New M&E production techniques require concurrent access to 1,000’s of files

Problem: Storage Performance Limits Productivity

− New creation process

• Thousands of render nodes (servers)

• Accessing millions of files

• Low performance stifles productivity

• Silos of storage complicate sharing

− Requires scalable performance

• Controllers have limited resources

• Upgrades are expensive

• More systems complicate management

− Constant re-optimization

• System hot spots emerge

• Lowers system performance

Bandwidth bottleneck

System hotspots

Storage controller

Disk drives

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Solution: Scale-out, Load Balanced Performance

− Solution

• Multiple systems, one namespace

• Scale online, as needed

• Automated rebalancing

• Add performance on the fly

− Benefits

• Avoid controller bottlenecks and hot spots

• Scalable, predictable performance

• Less server idle time, higher productivity

3. Data rebalances across all available storage, eliminates controller bottlenecks and hot spots

2. Add another appliance

1. Existing file system performance is maxed outRe-balancing

Maximum Performance

System Hot Spot

2nd unit doubles system performance and capacity

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Automated Data MovementBusinesses cannot afford downtime or slowtimewhile data is moving

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Businesses must remain productive during migration activity

Problem: Users Are Impacted During Data Movement

– Storage must accommodate

complex data needs

• Policy-based tiering

• Data rebalancing as system scales

• Continuous replication of large data sets

• Online movement of data to new solutions

– Downtime or data loss is not an

option

• Users must not be impacted

• Data movement must be safe and fast

• Solution must be cost-effective

• Solution must be highly available

Old storage New Storage

No client access during

migration

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during system migrationduring auto tiering

Remain productive while migrating, moving, copying, or rebalancing data

Solution: Automated Data Movement

Old storage HP X9000 Storage

Continued file access

– Solution• Rebalance data when nodes are added

• Move data to lower-cost tiers of storage

• Replicate data to a remote system

• Migrate data from old systems to X9000

• RAID-6

• All-inclusive software

– Benefits• High customer satisfaction

• No loss in productivity

• Critical data remains available

• Performance stays balanced

• Costs are lowered

• Customer gets benefit of latest technology

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Product DetailsX9320 Network Storage System Two different NAS modules:

Highly available, scale-out storage solution in high-performance and high-capacity models that can be added quickly and easily into the environment for file data workloads.

X9720 Network Storage System High density storage:A turn-key, highly dense scale-out NAS appliance designed for environments ranging from sub-hundred terabytes to multi-petabytes.

X9000 Network Storage Gateway Gateway for SAN environments:A flexible, scale-out gateway providing feature rich file services to HP P2000, EVA, P4000 or 3rd party arrays or SANs.

HP StorageWorks X9000 Portfolio with All-inclusive Software and Scale-out NAS

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Customer Need: HP X9000 Delivers:

Scale capacity without increasing management overhead Largest single namespace

No downtime when scaling Future-proof investment with modular,

industry-standard components

Reliable performance amidst growth Non-disruptive, automatic re-balancer

Save money Policy based tiering plus HP’s industry

leading economies of scale

Protect large data sets Continuous parallel replication balanced

across modules

Simplicity All-inclusive software

Extremely scalable, flexible, and cost-efficient NAS storage

HP StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage System:

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X9000 Storage SolutionDetailed Solution Presentation

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Common Issues and Concerns

– Performance

– High Availability

– Replication

– File System Issues

– Scalability

– Upgradability

– Ease of Management

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Performance

– Many NAS heads/appliances working together to provide a single unified name space

– Clients connect via load balanced NFS and CIFS, or software client

– Scale to 1000s of nodes

– Independent performance and capacity scalability without disruption

– Automated, non-disruptive capacity rebalancing when adding capacity avoids hot spots and maintains consistent performance

– Non-disruptive, policy based file tiering moves files between appliances with different performance characteristics

SINGLE NAMESPACE

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High Availability

– No single point of failure –component redundancy

– Failed NAS heads failover to remaining NAS heads

– Fan out failover for segment ownership maintains balance within the file system

– NIC, HBA, and segment monitoring

– Automatic and manual failovers

– Email and/or SNMP alerts

– Configurable HA patterns: 1x1, 1xN, NxM

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Replication

– Continuous Remote Replication

– File based

– Between two or more independent clusters

– Each cluster can contain both source and target file systems

– Target file systems are accessible – read only

– Parallel replication – every server participates

– Stats available on processed files and backlog queue

– 1 to 1 mapping of file systems from one cluster to another

– Pause/resume feature

– Supports special run-once jobs for synchronizing specific directories

SITE A

SITE B

SITE C

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Largest Single Namespace

− Single name space scalability to 16PB

− Non-disruptive scalability

− Consistent performance as capacity scales

− Metadata is distributed across entire solution

− Segmented file system

− 255 separate 16PB file systems

− Tier preference for new files

− Built-in policy based tiering

− Non-disruptive file movement between tiers

− Transparent file location change

− No stubs or links!

LONG runway for growth protects against the threat of highly disruptive forklift upgrades and complex data partitioning.

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Upgradability

– NAS Head Upgrades• Rolling upgrade

• File system remains online and accessible

• One NAS head at a time

• High availability engine is leveraged to failover segment ownership and client connectivity and then fail back when upgrade is complete

– Storage Upgrades• File system remains online and accessible

• Tiering engine is used to non-disruptively move data from one storage type to another

– File System Expansion• Non-disruptive

• Capacity and performance grown independently

• Can contain multiple tiers

– Performance Expansion• Non-disruptive

• NAS heads can be added to existing appliance and/or an entirely new appliance can be added to the existing file system

• NAS heads can control segments or simply act as caching servers.

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Ease of Management

Web-based management GUI

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HP StorageWorks X9720

– Server Chassis• C7000, 16 Blade Server Bays,

10U

• 8 Interconnect Bays

• Bays 1&2, Network modules, two

HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb

Ethernet Module (455880-B21),

NOTE: Requires transceivers of

choice.

• Bays 3&4, Redundant 3Gbit SAS

Switches, 8-4x ports (32 SAS lanes)

each

• Bays 5,6,7&8, Reserved for future

use

– Blade Server• BL460c G6

• Dual Quad Core Intel Xeon

Processors 2.53 Ghz

• Two Internal 2.5-inch 300 GB 10K

SAS drives

– Blade Server Cont.• Dual 10Gb NICs (PCA)

• Dual 3 Gb/sec SAS Connections

(Mezzanine Slot)

• 24GB Memory

– Capacity Block• Dual-Redundant Active- Active

Controllers

• Redundant 3Gbit SAS Connect

• Eight 8+2 RAID6 groups, 2 hot spares

• 82 drives in 7U

• 1TB or 2TB 7200 RPM Dual-Port

Midline SAS, Hot Swappable

– Supported Protocols• NFS, CIFS, X9000 Software Client

– Performance• Configuration: (2) Blade Servers, (3)

Capacity Blocks

• NFS IO Reads – 620MB/s (8X4X2)

and Writes – 267MB/s (8X4X2)

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HP Flex10 Technology

The Flex-10 technology enables Virtual Connect to configure a single 10Gb network port of Blade Serversto represent up to four physical network interface controller (NIC) devices, also called FlexNICs, with atotal bandwidth of 10Gbps. FlexNICs appear to the operating system (OS) as discrete NICs, each with itsown driver. While the FlexNICs share the same physical port, traffic flow for each one is isolated with itsown MAC address and virtual local area network (VLAN) tags between the FlexNIC and VC Flex-10interconnect module.

The X9720 ships preconfigured with two FlexNICs per 10Gb port. The transmit bandwidth is set to 9Gbpsfor the client network FlexNIC and 1Gbps for the management network FlexNIC. Each Blade Server hastwo network ports configured identically with two FlexNICs. The two network ports are associated withdifferent Flex-10 Virtual Connect Modules and are bonded for performance and redundancy purposes.

– Two Flex-10 LOM NICs on each Blade Server

• Provides 9Gbps of redundant client network throughput to each Blade Server

• 1Gbps of redundant throughput between Blade Servers and the management network

– Two Flex-10 Virtual Connect Modules in each X9720

• Flex-10 Virtual Connect Modules support multiple 10Gbps network connections

− Five SFP ports and one dual personality CX4 or SFP port per Flex-10 Module

− Uplink options: 10GbE CX4 Cable, SFP+ 10GbE Copper Cable, 10Gb SR SFP+, 10Gb LR SFP+, 10Gb LRM SFP+, 1Gb SX SFP, 1Gb RJ-45 SFP

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HP StorageWorks X9720 ComponentsSAS backend simplified connection diagram

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de1

SAS Switch 1

RAID Controller 1

X9700c

Capacity Block

X9700cx

5x7=35 disks per drawer

5x7=35 disks per drawer

RAID Controller 2

SAS Switch 2

P700m C7000 chassis

2-16 blades (aka Blade Servers)

Bla

de N

P700m

1-8 capacity blocks

RAID Controller 1

X9700c

X9700cx

5x7=35 disks per drawer

5x7=35 disks per drawer

RAID Controller 2

Capacity Block

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HP StorageWorks X9720 continued

X9720 Capacity Block

– 82 x 1TB1 or 2TB Midline SAS drives

– 2 global spares located in the X9700c

– 8 disk groups (aka RAID arrays)

• Each disk group has 10 x 1TB1 or 2TB disk drives

• RAID6

• Each 1TB disk group contains one LUN

• Each 2TB disk group contains two LUNs

• Each LUN equates to one segment in the file system

• Usable LUN size is 7.28TB 2

– All drives are hot swappable

– Redundant power supplies and fans are hot swappable

– Drawers remain connected and fully operational when

pulled out for drive maintenance

– Useable capacity is 58.24TB per 1TB capacity block

– Useable capacity is 116.48TB per 2TB capacity block

Spares

X9700cx (Box 2 – Drawer 2)X9700cx (Box 2 – Drawer 1)

X9700c (Box 1)

X9720 Capacity Block

1 (1TB = 1012)2 (1TB = 240)

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X9720 Power/Cooling/Weight

Base Rack

Minimum Base Rack Config (w/ 2 Blade Servers, 1 82TB Capacity

Block)

Maximum Base RackConfig (w/ 16 Blade

Servers, 4 164TB Capacity Blocks)

Each Blade ServerEach 82TB

Capacity BlockEach 164TB

Capacity Block

Power – Amps (240VAC)

10.7 50.7 0.9 6.8 8.6

Power – Watts 2,450 11,563 200 1,553 1,967

Thermal – btu/hr 8,357 39,447 682 5,297 6,710

Weight - lbs 1,159 2,459 14 368 368

Weight - kg 526 1,115 6 167 167

Expansion Rack

Minimum Exp Rack Config (w/ 2

Blade Servers, 1 82TB Capacity

Block)

Maximum Exp RackConfig (w/ 16 Blade

Servers, 4 164TB Capacity Blocks)

Each Blade Server

Each 82TB Capacity Block

Each 164TB Capacity Block

Power – Amps (240VAC)

6.8 34.2 0.9 6.8 8.6

Power – Watts 1,553 7,866 200 1,553 1,967

Thermal – btu/hr 5297 26,839 682 5,297 6,710

Weight - lbs 773 1,877 14 368 368

Weight - kg 351 852 6 167 167

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X9720 Facility Power/Floor Space

FACILITY POWER

– 4 x 50A (40A useable) , 200-240VAC, Single Phase CircuitsFacility Power Receptacle: Non-NEMA CS8264C 50A or equivalent

Or

– 4 x 30A, Three Phase 200-240V CircuitsFacility Power Receptacle: NEMA L15-30R

Note: Some X9720 configurations can be supported with only 2 power circuits per rack while still maintaining power redundancy. The base rack can support up to 4 Blade Servers and up to 2 Capacity Blocks powered with 2 circuits. The expansion rack can support up to 4 Capacity Blocks powered with 2 c circuits. Expansion beyond these limits requires the addition of 2 power circuits to the appropriate rack.

FLOOR SPACE

– Single Rack Dimensions (HxDxW): 78.7 x 39.691 x 24 in (200 x 101.5 x 59.7 cm)

– 656TB RAW, 472TB USEABLE CAPACITY IN A SINGLE RACK!

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HP StorageWorks X9320 - Performance– Dual File Serving Nodes

• DL380 G6

• 48 GB Memory

• Two Intel® Xeon® ProcessosrE5520 Quad Core 2.26 GHz

• Two Internal 146GB 3G SAS 15K 3.5“ (O/S mirror)

• Dual 3GB SAS HBAs

• Management Network - Four 1GB NIC ports

• Client Network – Choice of:

− Four 1GB NIC Ports

− Two 10GB NIC Ports

− Two IB HCA Ports

– Storage

• Four Controllers

• Four Drive Enclosures (21.6TB Raw)

− 48 450GB 3G 15K SAS drives

• Eight Drive Enclosures (43.2TB Raw)

− 96 450GB 3G 15K SAS drives

– Supported Protocols

• NFS, CIFS, X9000 Software Client

– Performance

• NFS IO Reads – 750MB/s (8X4X2) and Writes – 440MB/s (8X4X2)

− 1GB 21.6TB Model

21.6TB or 43.2TB RAW

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HP Storageworks X9320 - Capacity

– Dual File Serving Nodes

• DL380 G6

• 48 GB Memory

• Two Intel® Xeon® ProcessosrE5520 Quad Core 2.26 GHz

• Two Internal 146GB 3G SAS 15K 3.5“ (O/S mirror)

• 3GB SAS HBAs (1or 2)

• Management Network - Four 1GB NIC ports

• Client Network – Choice of:− Four 1GB NIC Ports

− Two 10GB NIC Ports

− Two IB HCA Ports

– Storage

• Two or Four Controllers

• Four Drive Enclosures (48TB or 96TBRaw)

− 48 1TB 7.2K SATA Drives (48TB Raw) or

− 48 2TB 7.2K ML SAS Drives (96TB Raw)

• Eight Drive Enclosures (192TB Raw)

− 96 2TB 7.2K ML SAS Drives

– Supported Protocols

• NFS, CIFS, X9000 Software Client

– Performance

• NFS IO Reads – 595MB/s (8X1X2) and Writes – 150MB/s (8X1X2)

− 1GB 48TB Model

48TB, 96TB or 192TB RAW

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HP StorageWorks X9300 Gateway

– File Serving Node

• DL380 G6

• 48 GB Memory

• Two Intel® Xeon® Processors E5520 Quad Core 2.26 GHz

• Two Internal 146GB 3G SAS 15K 3.5“ (O/S mirror)

• Choice of Fiber Channel, iSCSI or SAS Storage Controllers

• Management Network - Four 1GB NIC Ports

• Client Network – Choice of:

− Four 1GB NIC Ports

− Two 10GB NIC Ports

− Two IB Ports

– Supported Storage Arrays

• HP EVA , MSA and P4000

• Third Party Arrays

– Supported Protocols

• NFS, CIFS, X9000 Software Client

– Performance

• 1GB Model With EVA 8100

• NFS IO Reads – 800MB/s (16X10X2) and Writes – 200MB/s (16X10X2)

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X9000 Storage SolutionNew features announced

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New features announced

• File based snapshots

• NDMP Backup support

• WORM

• Deduplication

• File Cloning for SSD Storage

• HTTP Handling Layer

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X9000 References

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DreamWorks Animation SKGDevoted to producing high-quality family entertainment through the use of computer-generated animation (CG); delivering great stories, breathtaking visual imagery and a sensibility that appeals to both children and adults.

“The HP StorageWorks X9000 system enables scalability and automated tiering of information to help balance cost and performance so that we can archive information for long term storage and enable high speed animation rendering within the same namespace for easy management.“

Scott Miller, Senior Technologist, DreamWorks Animation

"Over the last several years the move towards higher definition content and richer customer experiences has driven explosive growth of our file content.”

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““It came down to two vendors, and the HP StorageWorks X9000 System won out due to its ease of administration, high-speed performance over standard IP, and robust toolset including mirroring for DR all under one roof. The HP solution also let us leverage our existing SAN storage, while other solutions would force us to orphan it, a prospect we could not afford.”Dan Jackson

Senior UNIX Systems Administrator

M.D. Anderson

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“We believe that our X9000 systems, which provide architecture and functionality optimum for use in cloud computing environments (including provision of extensive storage resource pools using a single name space and scale-out storage clustering that enables linear capacity and performance scaling as additional resources are added) will play a key role in CTC's cloud computing business.”

Yoshinori SaharaManager, Platform Products Engineering DepartmentIT Engineering DivisionITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation / CTC

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For More Information

• www.hp.com/go/X9000

• www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/datastorage/default.aspx

• twitter.com/Scalable_NAS

• twitter.com/HPStorageGuy

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