With 50 percent growth in storage each year, IT teams need an automated solution for effectively managing their storage infrastructure while increasing storage utilization and providing high IT service performance.

HP Storage Automation provides comprehensive service-to-storage visibility and automation by integrating two storage management products—HP Storage Essentials software and HP Application Storage Automation software.

An ideal solution for storage administrators, HP Storage Automation leverages the award-winning HP Storage Essentials, which delivers a single management interface, with integrated heterogeneous functionality for storage area network (SAN) management, storage resource management, provisioning, back-up reporting, usage metering and application management.

For comprehensive visibility into your storage infrastructure, HP Storage Essentials is integrated with HP Application Storage Automation. HP Application Storage Automation leverages HP Server Automation to provide service and server visibility, enforces host-centric storage best practices, and rapidly solves configuration-related service performance problems.