HAM and HDP - A Swiss Hit
by Hu Yoshida on June 3, 2009
Last week I was in Switzerland to visit customers to see what was working and what we needed to improve. Since many of our customers there are banks, there was a lot of interest in our High Availability Manager announcement which makes it possible to fail over nondisruptively to a remote site. The application server just switches over to an alternate path that connects to a consistent copy of the application data at a remote site without missing a beat.
Another big hit is Dynamic Provisioning. A large bank who has consistently pushed for ease of use, had implemented HDP for a 400TB data warehouse application. While there was some benefit from thin provisioning the operations people were overjoyed with the ease of provisioning that this provided. No more need to look for space on array groups, and formatting, and concatenating, and wide striping. All this was done for them by Dynamic Provisioning. One of the operations persons said that this nearly eliminated his job. Every USP V and VM has a free 10 TB license, so more and more users are turning it on.
The storage market in Switzerland is still very healthy. But like every where else they are looking for ways to reduce cost and these products meet their needs.
