HP Virtualizes Storage for California State University to Support Scholastic Research

PALO ALTO, CA, Jan 24 (MARKET WIRE) --
HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced that California State University, Monterey
Bay (CSUMB) selected HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVA) to deliver
around-the-clock data access to its students and faculty, as well as
increased storage capacity in support of scholastic research
applications.

CSU Monterey Bay's purchase of the HP EVA represents the 100,000th unit
sold since the product family's inception in 2001.

CSUMB, one of 23 campuses within the California State University system,
already relied on a previous version of the EVA to store education plans
and resources for more than 5,000 students and faculty for the past six
years. With ongoing data growth and deployment of new applications for
scholastic research, the university needed to update its storage systems
to add capacity and flexibility.

After evaluating several vendor solutions, CSUMB chose the
next-generation HP P6000 EVA, based on HP Converged Infrastructure, as
the storage backbone for its new, virtualized data center. Now CSUMB
consolidates application data to reduce administration time and total
cost of ownership, while increasing the university's storage utilization
by as much as 50 percent as it virtualizes data across disparate
departments.

"CSUMB professors and staff need information access around the clock,"
said Steve Mann, associate director, Network Services, California State
University, Monterey Bay. "The scalability of the HP P6000 EVA will
enable us to cost-effectively support the capacity demands generated by
our current and future graduating classes."

The midrange HP P6000 EVA is 20 to 30 percent easier to manage than
competing alternatives.(1) It provides CSUMB with improved return on
investment by reducing maintenance and administration time. Integrated
thin provisioning delivers cost savings with the flexibility to purchase
disk capacity only when needed.

The university's data center team seamlessly implemented the HP P6000
EVA, which enabled CSUMB to:

-- Improve disaster recovery services by moving storage from one array to
another while maintaining valuable data in the event of a failure.

-- Enhance business efficiencies with seamless integration into existing
business applications and VMware virtual server environments.

-- Reduce carbon footprint and lower energy usage by 40 percent, with
twice the enterprise capacity in the same rack space versus previous
generations of the EVA.

"Public universities struggle with managing increasing data growth
on flat or decreasing IT budgets," said Chris Riley, vice president,
Americas, Storage, HP. "The HP P6000 EVA's simplicity, scalability and
cost efficiencies allow CSUMB to affordably upgrade its data center with
the latest virtualization functionalities while minimizing future
investments."

HP Converged Infrastructure is a core component of an Instant-On
Enterprise. In a world of continuous connectivity, the Instant-On
Enterprise embeds technology in everything it does to serve customers,
employees, partners and citizens with whatever they need, instantly.

HP's premier client event, HP Discover, takes place June 4-7 in Las
Vegas.

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(1) "Comparing Management Costs for Midrange Storage Arrays from EMC, HP,
and NetApp," Edison Group, May 2011.

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