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HP India has introduced iSCI SAN solutions from LeftHand Networks, a network storage company HP acquired in October 2008 for $360 million.
“With the integration of LeftHand Networks’ products, HP now has complete storage offerings. LeftHand solutions offer high data availability. Based on industry-standard platforms, the LeftHand approach will enable customers to scale up their environments without interruption as their businesses grow,” said Bill Chambers, Vice President, LeftHand Networks Division, HP Asia Pacific and Japan.
HP’s acquisition of LeftHand was widely seen by analysts as a move to counter Dell, which, with its acquisition of EqualLogic in early 2008, added low-cost iSCSI SAN solutions to its portfolio.
Said Amit Malhotra, Manager, Volume Storage, StorageWorks Division, Technology Solutions Group, HP Asia Pacific and Japan, “The iSCSI SAN market is expected to increase at a 25 percent compounded annual growth rate through 2013, with India and China representing more than half of this market. Server virtualization is a key driver of this growth.”
As per IDC figures, the global iSCSI market stands at $1.37 billion, up from $916 million in 2007, and is expected to touch $3.36 billion by 2012 growing at a CAGR of 36.7 percent.
HP’s LeftHand P4000 SAN solution is priced at Rs 2,00,000 per TB, and scales up as capacities grow.
Meanwhile, HP is all set to start a major training initiative for its partners.
“Over the next 30 days we will be training 400 partners exclusively on LeftHand solutions,” said Malhotra. |