Storage virtualization is a key enabling technology that allows customers to significantly improve efficiency, simplify operations and lower Total Cost of Ownership. By pooling, sharing and centrally managing storage resources, IT organizations can put storage virtualization to work and produce better business outcomes.

The HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform is a network-based virtualization solution that allows customers to centrally managed storage pools and easily provision virtual volumes of HP and non-HP storage resources to diverse server environments. With its innovative split path architecture, the SVSP delivers high scalability, top performance, and high availability of all SAN resources. It brings substantial improvements to customers’ ability to manage enterprise storage, reducing administration costs and improving asset utilization. It also offers a consistent set of storage and mobility services that improve flexibility, and increase data protection capabilities. Services offered include volume management, data migration, copy services (clones and snapshots), local synchronous and remote asynchronous mirroring and thin provisioning all supporting HP and non-HP storage.