HP readies new EVA glass

GIANT multinational Hewlett Packard has told its channel partners it's about to upgrade its EVA series in September.

The Storage Works EVA 4100, EVA 6100 and EVA 8100 include a faster chipset and what HP rather tastelessly describes as a fully switched backend, which reminds us that the Isle of Man was the last British island to abandon flogging.

That, not the flogging, claims HP, lets applications perform nearly 25 per cent better than they do now.

HP will also upgrade its dynamic capacity management software so that if you've got a LUN - we know we haven't - you can shrink or expand it as you'd like.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that storage is boring. How could it be, if it's named after your's truly? µ