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http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2008/080506xa.html

HP today announced a highly scalable storage system designed to simplify the management of multiple petabytes⁽¹⁾ of data at an affordable cost, making it ideal for online and digital media businesses.

New business services offered by Web 2.0 and digital media firms – such as photo sharing, streaming media, video-on-demand and social networking – generate massive amounts of file-based data that needs to be stored, managed and retrieved in an instant. Large enterprises in sectors such as oil and gas, security and surveillance, and genetic research have similar demands.

The HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System (ExDS9100) addresses these requirements by offering vast storage capacity and simplified, integrated management. No other file-based network-attached storage (NAS) system on the market today offers a single management interface while scaling to the multi-petabyte level.

For the first time, administrators can easily manage petabytes of storage instead of just terabytes. This reduces the number of administrators and the cost necessary to manage these highly demanding data storage environments.

Very cool, the demand for storage continues to increase, and I suspect it will continue to do so due to the increasing number of online services for digital media storage and sharing, whether we’re talking sharing photos, home movies or those new on demand television services. Anything we can do to reduce the cost of storage or make it more accessible has to be a good thing. Do check it out.

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