HP Announce Data Vault Home Server for Small Businesses
HP have just announced the Data Vault, a server which is based on Windows Home Server and targets the small business market.
HP has the consumer market covered with the LX195 and EX49x range of Windows Home Server’s, but now hope to corner the small business sector too with the announcement of the HP StorageWorks X500 Data Vault series of servers.
This new range will help small businesses with up to 10 PC clients and Mac’s to easily protect their important business data, to easily share files regardless of location, and off course to automate backups too.
The business owner can save money through a low purchase price, which is up to 22 percent less than comparable solutions, and off course the peace of mind of vital data being backup up on a daily basis.
The first model available will be the X510, which will be available with either a one 1TB hard drive, two 1TB drives or three 1TB drives. All three configurations will comprise the same hardware which is a Intel Pentium E5200 dual core processor running at 2.5 GHz along with a 2GB stick of RAM, as well as the normal gigabit Ethernet, plus external expansion via 4x USB 2.0 ports and an eSATA port.
The HP StorageWorks X500 Data Vault range will be available in the U.S., Canada, Western Europe, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand with an estimated U.S. street price starting at $699 for the 1TB model, $859 for the 2TB and $999 for the 3TB model. All 3 units are expected to start shipping on the 6th October (2009).
UPDATE: UK list pricing has just been announced at £419.79 for the 1TB model, £516.34 for the 2TB and £599.95 for the 3TB model, although actual street pricing should be lower than this.
More details are available from here.
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“the normal gigabyte Ethernet” should be “the normal gigabit Ethernet”. Bits, not bytes.
Thanks Ed – Corrected.
How is different from the other models (EX49x)? Is it just CPU and bigger drives, or are there other differences? Looks like all the features listed are just regular WHS.
I think Microsoft has realized the name “Windows Home Server” was poorly chosen, since that makes it a hard sell to small businesses – and it’s the best backup system available for small businesses by far. MS unveiled its own web site targeting WHS for small business in July, and now HP appears to shipping the MediaSmart in a business box. Perhaps they customized the HP software overlay to make it less media, more file sharing and backup. FWIW, I wrote it up tonight as a marketing story: http://www.brucebnews.com/2009/09/hp-windows-home-server-for-business.html
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I agree, Bruce, but I think the correct course of action for MS would not be to rebrand WHS, but rather to roll its most desirable features into SBS, or spin it off into a new SBS-branded product.
When it comes to OEMs like HP, though, the great thing is they can brand their business-oriented product with a business-oriented name, and keep the “powered by Windows Home Server” in the small print so as not to be misconstrued as a “home” product.