When the U.S. Air force needed a more powerful storage infrastructure, they turned to HP for a system that allowed them to meet business demands more flexibly; manage data more simply and efficiently; and mitigate the risk of lost data with a storage area network (SAN) that pools, shares and centrally manages storage resources.

By implementing a SAN-attached storage system, which is available with the new HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP), the U.S. Air Force’s 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group:

• Reduced time that servers must be offline to install tests from one hour to 10 seconds


• Decreased storage reconfiguration time when a server is down from one week to half a day


• Reduced system administration time by approximately two-thirds


• Increased overall storage capacity by factor of at least two


• Optimized capacity utilization through Snapshots, thin provision and optimized data paths