According to Brett Long, product manager, enterprise storage solutions division of HP, SAN would leverage its Open View network mode manager technology to deliver high levels of scalability and manageability for enterprise-class storage-network implementation.

New and enhanced storage solutions for SAN management market will be delivered early next year, he added.

Long said the new tool is like a LAN in that it establishes high-speed connections between storage elements and servers or clients, offloading resources from the primary network. "When hubs and switches are introduced, resourcemanagement becomes difficult, thereby creating the need for advanced management solutions'', he added.

The SAN management system will be capable of performing functions like providing automatic discovery of devices connected to a SAN, supporting multidimensional graphical representations of the network and delivering advanced fibre channel management capabilities, together with its enterprise storage solutions, he added.

HP is already in the storage management market with its `Open View', the world's largest providers of integrated network, application storage, security, deployment and service management solutions, Subrato Das, marketing manager enterprise servers, HP India, said. He hopes customers would now move to the latest fibre channel SAN environments. Das said a part of the research and development work on HP's Open View solutions is being done at the HP India's Software Operations which has development facilities in Bangalore.