HP Storage Essentials (SE) suite helps businesses unify management of their server and storage infrastructure, optimize the planning of change and automate IT service and asset management. Storage Essentials is an industry-leading solution that provides comprehensive application to storage views of heterogeneous infrastructure in physical, cloud and virtual environments. It was recognized by Gartner as a leader in its Magic Quadrant for Storage Resource Management (SRM).

SE is a single tool that provides storage optimization and capacity planning, to enable your enterprise to gain control of all its storage assets while delivering full path awareness of the environments connecting applications to storage. It empowers you to meet your capacity planning, utilization and management reporting objectives. It simplifies the big picture by reducing SAN complexity and lowering SAN management costs while improving efficiencies of staff and process. Storage Essentials can further automate storage processes and tasks by also integrating with HP’s broader Business Service Management portfolio to complement its automatic device discovery, visualization, topology mapping, and unlimited report customization.

The new release of Storage Essentials, version 9.6, demonstrates HP’s commitment to being a leader in the SRM market. SE v9.6 expands support for third party storage arrays, including EMC’s VNX block storage and Brocade’s Brocade Access Gateway. It also provides deeper integration with HP 3Par, HP 6000 EVA and further management server development support for Oracle and SAP Business Objects.

For more information please visit the HP Storage Essentials website: www.hp.com/go/storageessentials