(1) HPE internal analysis; as compared to EMC VMAX 400K with 12 PB of capacity (representing a mix of 90% HDDs and 10% SSDs).
(2) Flash-Based Array Market Proving to Be More Than Just a Flash in the Pan as Market Soars Past $11 Billion in 2014, IDC Says, January 2015, http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25359715
(3) HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20850 demonstrated 62,844.45 SPC-2™ MBPS, $19.93/SPC-2™ MBPS Price Performance, current as of November 16, 2015, http://www.storageperformance.org/benchmark_results_files/SPC-2/HPE/B00075_HPE_3PAR-StoreServ-20850/b00075_HPE_3PAR-StoreServ-20850_SPC-2_executive-summary.pdf
(4) HPE internal analysis based on the comparison of HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20850 Storage with 12 BP usable capacity and EMC XtremIO storage, using 40TB flash bricks (a total of 8 systems) to achieve 12 PB usable capacity.
(5) All-flash HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000 Storage systems are available worldwide, orderable immediately, with US street pricing starting from $19,479.
(6) EMC VMAX 400K demonstrates 55,643.78 SPC-2™ MBPS, $33.58 SPC-2™ MBPS Price Performance, current as of November 16, 2015. http://www.storageperformance.org/benchmark_results_files/SPC-2/EMC/B00073_EMC_VMAX-400K/b00073_EMC_VMAX-400K_SPC-2_executive-summary.pdf.
(7) Based on HPE internal testing, August 2015.
(8) Wikibon, November 2015.
(9) As compared to a similarly configured VNX 5400. HPE 3PAR File starter kit 6U vs EMC VNX at 10U. 3PAR 8200 with 8 10K 600GB SAS drives, 12 2-TB 7.2K SAS drives, OS Suite, 16-TB File Persona license, Replication Suite, and 3 years of 24x7 Proactive Care Support.
(10) Compared with LTO-6 technology.
(11) Based on two orders of magnitude better bit error rate compared with LTO-6 technology.
(12) Based on comparison of publicly available product information for EMC DD2200 with Data Domain Boost and HPE StoreOnce 3520/3540 Systems with StoreOnce Catalyst.
(13) Based on a comparison of HPE StoreOnce 3540 and EMC DD2200 using publicly available product information.
(14) Based on the US list price for HPE StoreOnce 3540 System with 15.5TB of capacity assuming a 20:1 deduplication ratio.
(15) Estimated U.S. street prices. Actual prices may vary.