The HPE Storage (formerly HP StorageWorks) is a portfolio of HPE storage products, includes online storage, nearline storage, storage networking, archiving, de-duplication, and storage software. HP and their predecessor, the Compaq Corporation,[1] has developed some of industry-first storage technologies to simplify network storage. HP is a proponent of converged storage, a storage architecture that combines storage and compute into a single entity.[2]
and expanded its Converged Storage portfolio with the first federated storage capability to span from entry to high end systems and is available for both HP LeftHand and HP 3PAR storage systems.
PolyServe was founded in 2004[4] by Michael Callahan, serving as chief technology officer, and Carter George, serving as Vice-President, as "a software company in Portland, specializing in database and file serving."[5]
HP, when it bought Compaq, acquired its StorageWorks;[1] HP, when it bought PolyServe, placed its 100+ employees within StorageWorks.[6][7]
An example[4] of PolyServe's value is that a large British government agency which had 14 idle backup servers
dropped the number to two, even though "PolyServe doesn't require the passive nodes, but he maintains them as extra protection" and
reduced "failover time from five minutes to 30 seconds .. by 90% the number of users who lose connections during a failover."
