Analysts say the upgrade to the MSA1000, while not exactly revolutionary, should keep HP in front of the pack in the lower-end segment.
"It's a product enhancement to a product already well established in the marketplace," says Roger Cox, chief storage analyst at Gartner Inc.
HP has also boosted the capacity of the StorageWorks Virtual Array 7110, which can handle up to 45 drives for a total system capacity of 6.5 Tbytes.
Meanwhile, HP is now offering rebranded versions of McData Corp.'s (Nasdaq: MCDTA) 140-port Intrepid 6140 director and its Sphereon 4500, which provides 8, 16, or 24 ports (see McData Lowers Boom on Brocade and McData Hits 140 Ports).
In addition, HP says it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) to resell its MDS 9000 series of switches. HP expects to start offering the Cisco gear in the first half of 2003, following on the heels of IBM, which will start reselling the MDS 9000 switches by the end of the first quarter (see IBM Tells Cisco: 'Let's Go!' and HP Next to Green-Light Cisco?).
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