http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/27/hp_3_layer_storage/

They’ve had most of the components for years and recently acquired some of the missing pieces of the puzzle, but conceptually, this makes so much sense to me.  I had harped on HP to buy DataDomain, LeftHand, PolyServe and others literally 5 years ago and it seemed obvious to me that you could bake all these pieces into a seamless strategy by providing access a variety of “access methods” to storage utilizing standard hardware and virtualization technology.  I just read this post from the Register and I felt like I was reading an old article I left in the drawer from years ago.  We’ll have to see if/how this will all work out, but they need to do something to rejuvenate their storage lineup.