HP has announced new storage offerings to help enterprise customers consolidate, virtualise and secure their storage environments.

Introduced at the HP Asia Pacific StorageWorks Conference, the offerings include enhancements to the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array, the first embedded switch from Cisco for HP BladeSystem, a new network-attached storage (NAS) gateway and advanced encryption for HP Data Protector Software.

“HP storage consolidation and virtualisation products and services enable customers to remain flexible, reduce complexity and lower the total cost of ownership in their IT environments,” said Duncan Campbell, vice president of marketing, StorageWorks Division, HP. “We’re helping customers build easy-to-manage next-generation data centres with our broad portfolio of Adaptive Infrastructure hardware, software and services.”

HP StorageWorks EVA File Services allow customers to consolidate their storage with an integrated, virtualised solution that serves both application (block) and file data concurrently.

The HP ProLiant DL585 G2 Storage Server is a plug-and-play NAS

gateway that provides high-performance, multi- protocol file and print serving and iSCSI connectivity for both enterprise and workgroup SAN environments.

Ideal for businesses where network backup is not secure or the cost of a dedicated encryption appliance is too high, HP Data Protector Software reduces complexity and completes backup encryption at the client level, so data is secure during transmission and at rest.