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» HP StorageWorks 4100/6100/8100 Enterprise Virtual Arrays
HP StorageWorks 4100/6100/8100 Enterprise Virtual Arrays offers mid-range to enterprise customers; leading high performance, high capacity and high availability "virtual" array storage solutions. Not only do these solutions reduce IT costs and complexity, they save time, space and expense as compared to traditionally architected storage. They are supported by a powerfully simple suite of management software making it easy to achieve higher level of productivity and IT consolidation than ever before. The new EVA File Services provide block and file data management and the IP distance gateway, remote replication SAN over WAN, and allows the EVA to provide a multi-purpose storage environment. The EVA provides a server/storage/service solution for simplified management and maximum performance.
What's New:
- New EVA4100 Starter Kit for HP BladeSystem is designed for HP BladeSystem environments that need affordable, fast and easy complete small-SAN deployment.
- Better capacity management and storage provisioning with new LUN shrink and growth.
- Improved reliability and availability; HP's data shows that most customers are achieving 99.999% availability with the EVA 4x00/6x00/8x00. Following HP's EVA Availability Best Practices can help customers achieve this result.
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» HP StorageWorks 60 Modular Smart Array
The HP StorageWorks 60 Modular Smart Array provides an end-to-end flexible platform in a high capacity 2U disk drive storage enclosure supporting 3.5" SAS or Serial ATA (SATA) drives. This combination provides reliable external storage with built in high availability, redundancy, enhanced performance, tiered storage flexibility, lower cost, and high capacity storage that is expandable up to almost 3.6TB of SAS storage or 9TB of SATA storage. The modular, scalable design of the MSA60 provides an extremely flexible platform allowing a customer to buy what is needed today and purchase additional capacity as data storage needs grow, instead of making a large up-front investment.
What's New:
- Release of three new bundles of MSA60 enclosures with integrated hard drives that customers can attach to ProLiant servers, ProLiant Storage Servers and HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage Systems.
NOTE: These bundles will be available only in the Americas, Asia Pacific (AP) and Japan. They will not be available in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
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» HP StorageWorks 70 Modular Smart Array
The HP StorageWorks 70 Modular Smart Array provides an end-to-end flexible platform in a high capacity 2U disk drive storage enclosure supporting 2.5" SAS or Serial ATA (SATA) drives. This combination provides reliable external storage with built in redundancy, enhanced performance, enhanced reliability, tiered storage flexibility, lower cost, and high capacity storage that is expandable up to almost 3.6TB of SAS storage or 3TB with SATA within each enclosure. The modular, scalable design of the MSA70 provides an extremely flexible platform allowing a customer to buy what is needed today and purchase additional capacity as data storage needs grow, instead of making a large up-front investment.
What's New:
- Release of two new bundles of MSA70 enclosures with integrated hard drives that customers can attach to HP ProLiant Servers, HP ProLiant Storage Servers and HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage Systems.
NOTE: These bundles will be available only in the Americas, Asia Pacific (AP) and Japan. They will not be available in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
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» HP StorageWorks EVA Dynamic Capacity Management Software
HP StorageWorks EVA Dynamic Capacity Management Software provides a comprehensive solution that automates storage provisioning and improves capacity utilization on the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family. Designed for the enterprise market, EVA DC-Management Software uses advanced automation to automatically "right-size" the supported file system and the EVA Vdisk storage volume to the needs of an application. Capacity utilization is improved by allowing the administrator to specify a capacity utilization range of the Vdisk. In some cases, utilization can more than double when compared to traditional storage provisioning methods where utilization may be as low as 20%-40%. Configuring EVA DC-Management Software takes just seconds with its simple wizards.
Key Features:
- Automated provisioning for increased storage utilization - File systems and storage volumes are automatically expanded online as application needs increase, or shrunk to reclaim unused capacity that can returned to the disk group for use by other applications.
- Simple and Quick set up and configuration - It takes just seconds to configure, or change policies across multiple volumes. Once they are set, capacity provisioning and reclamation are automatic allowing the administrator to focus on other business critical tasks.
- Reduces capital and operational expenses - Achieving higher capacity utilization rates reduces the need to purchase excess storage capacity and software licenses. In addition, higher utilization results in less power and cooling requirements by reducing the need for unnecessary disk drives.
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» Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software
Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager software provides HP StorageWorks XP Disk Array and Hitachi storage customers with a robust path failover and load balancing solution for their Sun Solaris, Windows and Linux storage network environments. HDLM software improves access to and availability of storage by distributing the load across multiple paths and from one path to another in the event of path failure. HDLM software provides an incremental level of availability for components such as host bus adapters (HBAs), HBA drivers, fabric switches, switch firmware, gigabit interface converters (GBICs) and fiber cables, which provide connectivity between the server and the storage system.
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- Now supports Windows and Linux
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» HP StorageWorks XP24000/XP20000 Disk Array
The HP StorageWorks XP24000/XP20000 Disk Arrays are large enterprise-class storage systems designed for organizations that simply cannot afford any downtime. The XP combines a fully redundant hardware platform with unique data replication capabilities that are integrated with clustering solutions for complete business continuity.
The XP software decreases the complexities of data management. Through thin provisioning, organizations can improve storage utilization. Virtualization simplifies the management of diverse systems. Dynamic partitioning allows for the distribution of storage resources. And consolidation becomes a reality by managing open systems, mainframe, and HP NonStop applications all on a single XP. With the XP array, organizations can confidently manage mission-critical IT.
What's New:
- Lower cost 750 GB SATA disk drives can now be used along side FC disk drives – The XP24000 and XP20000 disk arrays now support a 750 GB 7.2K rpm Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) disk drive that fits into any existing XP disk drive slot. SATA drives offer a higher capacity/lower cost per gigabyte and an energy savings option compared to the FC disk drives. These SATA disk drives provide a lower cost tiered storage solution within the array.
- Bring the benefits of thin provisioning to your external storage – Thin provisioning pools can now be located on external storage devices, adding another virtualization element to the XP disk array.
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» HP StorageWorks DAT 160 SAS Tape Drive
Protect your small and medium sized remote office or workgroup with the HP StorageWorks DAT 160 SAS Tape Drive offering the highest DAT capacity and performance with up to 160GB of compressed data on a single cartridge at speeds of up to 50GB/hr (assuming 2:1 data compression).
Low ongoing cost of ownership is provided through low-cost, durable DAT media; and a two generation backward compatibility with DAT 72 and DAT 40 delivers a seamless upgrade path from older drives.
The HP DAT 160 SAS Tape Drive is available with a native SAS interface in a range of models including internal to fit servers, workstations, rack-mount kits and external.
Key Features:
- Highest capacity and performance value in a DAT Tape Drive - HP StorageWorks DAT 160 SAS Tape Drive protects small or medium businesses with the highest DAT backup capacity available in a 160GB tape drive. It stores up to 160GB on a single cartridge, while backing up to 50GB/hr or one cartridge in 3 hours.
- Cost effective, economical backup - Low-cost is driven by low-cost durable DAT media, and ongoing low-cost of ownership.
- Investment protection with reliable industry standard DDS technology - As the most popular backup technology of all time, DAT provides investment protection through a proven track record of reliability and with two generation backwards compatibility with DAT 40 and DAT 72.
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» HP StorageWorks LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 Tape Drive
HP StorageWorks LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 Tape Drive is positioned as HP's first tape drive capable of storing up to 1.6TB per cartridge while providing hardware-based data encryption to enable greater levels of security and unprecedented performance.
Data hardware encryption using AES 256-bit provides easy-to-enable security to protect the most sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access of tape cartridges. Capable of data transfer rates up to 240MB/sec, HP’s exclusive Data Rate Matching feature further optimizes performance by matching speed of host to keep drives streaming.
With the ability to read and write LTO-3 media and read LTO-2 media, customers now require fewer data cartridges to meet their storage needs, significantly reducing IT costs and increasing ROI.
What's New:
- The new HP StorageWorks LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 SAS Tape Drive models provide a 3Gb/sec SAS interface allowing direct connect to SAS-based servers.
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» HP StorageWorks SB920c Tape Blade
The HP StorageWorks SB920c Tape Blade is ideal for HP BladeSystem c-Class customers who need a data protection solution but are not connected into a Storage Area Network (SAN). This tape blade provides direct attach data protection for the adjacent server and network backup protection for all other data within the enclosure. Each tape blade includes a copy of the HP Data Protector Express Single Server Edition data protection software. HP StorageWorks tape blades are the industry's first tape blades and are developed exclusively for the BladeSystem c-Class enclosures.
Key Features:
- Integrated data protection solution for HP BladeSystem c-Class customers - Tape-based data protection solution ideal for customers who are not in a SAN. Deployed as part of a complete server, storage and data protection solution by integrating within the BladeSystem c-Class enclosure. Half-height blade form factor optimizes the use of available slots within the BladeSystem c-Class enclosure.
- Complete data protection and disaster recovery solution in the box - Ships standard with HP Data Protector Express Single Server Edition data protection software. Supports HP One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR), which allows quick recovery of operating system, applications and data from the latest backup set in the event of a hard drive failure.
- Versatile data protection solution providing direct backup and network backup capability - Provides direct attach data protection of adjacent server and network backup of all other data residing within the BladeSystem c-Class enclosure. Protects both half-height and full-height BladeSystem c-Class server blades.
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» HP Data Protector Express Single Server Edition software
HP Data Protector Express Single Server Edition software is easy to install, easy to use and easy to manage backup and recovery software. It is exclusively for delivery with HP StorageWorks tape drives and HP StorageWorks tape autoloaders. This powerful software is suitable for organizations without dedicated IT or disaster recovery staff because it is designed for true ease-of-use. It protects a single Windows, Linux or NetWare server by backing it up to a HP tape product, disk and/or CD/DVD.
Also included with Data Protector Express Single Server Edition is the HP Data Protector Express Bare Metal Disaster Recovery Option software.
What's New:
- New features for Data Protector Express, available on upgrading to Data Protector Express.
- New 'Daily Append' rotation scheme added to pre-configured rotation schemes. This is designed to allow organizations with smaller data volumes to use just one tape for one week of backups - one full and 4 incremental - while providing the capability to offsite tapes and recover multiple versions of the backup data.
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» HP Data Protector Express software
HP Data Protector Express software provides secure protection for data, applications and systems without requiring an expert to install, manage and operate the software. Data Protector Express delivers simple and reliable data protection for a single machine or a small network running on Windows, Linux or NetWare. Backup data is written to disk, tape and DVD/CD or a combination of these media. Features such as D2D2Any backup and recovery, data encryption, bare metal disaster recovery, parallel data streams and open file backup are delivered without compromising ease-of-use.
What's New:
- Enhanced D2D2 Any option capabilities. The backup job and the job to copy the backup to a tertiary media are specified as a single job. This allows simple and automated multi-tier backups for extended data protection.
- The Data Protector Express Kit for the D2D Backup System has additional 'copy to tape' capabilities with the enhanced D2D2Any option now included in the kit. This simplifies the D2D Backup System solution for customers wanting the speed of disk based file recovery plus the low cost and durability of tape backup.
- Multiple usability enhancements have been added to Data Protector Express for use with the HP StorageWorks MSL2024, MSL4048 and MSL8096 tape libraries. For users needing the capacity of these tape library for their backup data, Data Protector Express is now an easier choice.
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» HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management Standard Edition Software
HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management Standard Edition Software allows midsize business with smaller HP storage-based SANs and limited IT staff to see the big picture thereby reducing SAN complexity while increasing IT Staff efficiency compared to manual methods. A unified server and storage infrastructure solution automates storage process and tasks; auto discovers with easy topology views and monitors performance. The standards-based software solution integrates with HP Systems Insight Manager and HP SRM Enterprise Edition Software. The affordable SRM starter solution is easy to order with a simple growth path to enterprise. It’s the easy way to optimize SAN capacity, lower costs, and simplify end-to-end troubleshooting and reporting from a single, Web-based console.
What's New:
- The Storage Essentials SRM Performance Pack Software provides a unified and simplified interface which helps EVA administrators increase efficiency and quickly visualize the big performance picture of their EVA storage, hosts and SAN infrastructure. When SRM Standard Edition was released it did not contain EVA performance monitoring, but the software solution did grant rights to monitor up 3 EVA, when the software is available. Now the software is available as part of SRM Standard Edition Software SAN starter solution, and its available as a plug in to SRM Enterprise Edition Software.
- Easily migrate from mid-market to enterprise with the new HP SRM Standard Edition to SRM Enterprise Upgrade. Allows a SRM Standard Edition customer to migrate/upgrade to SRM Enterprise Edition with full features privileges and access to additional value add Storage Essentials SRM software plug ins including provisioning, capacity metering/usage and reporting.
- Increases business application availability – big picture view monitors business applications, and high availability configurations with infrastructure dependencies to facilitate faster root cause analysis to aid in the prevention of unplanned downtime. Automatically discover, display and monitor host clusters, Microsoft is only supported with SRM Standard Edition.
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» HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management Enterprise Edition Software Suite
The award winning HP SRM Enterprise Edition Software suite simplifies heterogeneous (DAS, SAN, NAS) management, provisioning, backup monitoring and reporting, business application and end-to-end performance monitoring. It integrates with HP System Insight Manager to deliver unified server, storage and infrastructure management, while integration with HP software delivers end-to-end IT services application and infrastructure management. A rich portfolio of value-add SRM software plug-ins lets you add new SRM capability when you need it. The architecture is built on industry standards allowing for quick deployment and investment protection. Administrators can easily add simple, scalable, advanced SRM capabilities that manage growth, reduce ownership costs, and improve IT Staff efficiency.
What's New:
- New HP Storage Essentials SRM Performance Pack Software provides a unified and simplified interface which helps IT staff efficiently manage HP EVA performance with a big performance picture of their EVA storage, hosts and SAN infrastructure. HP SRM Performance Pack Software is a new plug in module for the HP SRM Enterprise Edition Software. Combined with SRM Enterprise Edition Performance Manager, the software monitors the complete path of applications through underlying SAN components. Additional benefits include real-time monitoring, historical trend analysis and trend extrapolation to assist in eliminating performance bottlenecks.
- Increases business application availability – big picture view monitors business applications, and high availability host cluster configurations with infrastructure dependencies to facilitate faster end-to-end root cause analysis and troubleshooting to aid in the prevention of unplanned downtime. Automatically discover, display and monitor host clusters for Microsoft Cluster Server, Exchange Clusters and VERITAS Clusters.
- Easily configure, customize and monitor high-availability host cluster configuration with Storage Essentials SRM Host Cluster Builder Wizard – Simple to use wizard offers the flexibility to manually map a customers unique HA configurations to SRM Enterprise Edition Software’s powerful big picture visualization of all paths and device dependencies.
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» HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management Performance Pack Software
HP Storage Essentials SRM Performance Pack Software is the newest plug-in software for the award wining Storage Essentials SRM Software Suite. The software’s unified and powerful interface helps IT Staff quickly visualize the big performance picture of their entire HP EVA and SAN from the business application down to the spindle. With a single unified web-based interface, you can monitor the performance of applications, host servers, HBAs, fabric switches and HP EVA, eliminating the reliance on multiple tools to do the job. Analyze the performance data to suit you needs including real-time, historical and trend extrapolation. An end-to-end EVA and SAN view with analysis tools speeds problem identification and accelerate root cause analysis to quickly eliminate performance bottlenecks.
Key Features:
- New HP Storage Essentials SRM Performance Pack Software provides a unified and simplified interface to efficiently monitor HP EVA performance with a big performance picture of their EVA, hosts and SAN infrastructure. HP SRM Performance Pack Software is available as a plug in for the SRM Enterprise Edition Software Suite, and is included with HP SRM Standard Edition Software to monitor up to 3 EVAs. The software monitors the complete path of applications through underlying SAN components. Additional benefits include real-time monitoring, historical trend analysis and trend extrapolation to assist in eliminating performance bottlenecks.
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» HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server
HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server enables multiple Microsoft SQL Server instances to be consolidated onto substantially fewer servers and centralized SAN storage. HP PolyServe's unique "shared data" architecture delivers enterprise class availability and virtualization-like flexibility in a utility platform.
Unlike server virtualization and traditionally high availability products, it goes beyond just consolidation and simple failovers to provide scalable capacity allocation, on-the-fly instance mobility, and meets Microsoft’s SQL Server Always On requirements, making it the ideal solution for database consolidation.
What's new:
- Simplifies Enterprise Management: Provides a multi-instance, multi-node installer for SQL Server updates, hot fixes, and operating service packs which makes managing cluster changes as easy as managing a single server. It also includes an HP Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 for alerting via SNMP traps.
- Enhances Enterprise Security: Enables three main areas of control and security. It enables 'Role Based Administration and Security' with integration to Active Directory groups - a key requirement to enable multi-department coordination and responsibility sharing. It provides single sign-on Active Directory based authentication that simplifies login and authentication. Thirdly, it supports Auditing as it records to the Windows Event Log any human initiated changes and logon attempts included failed/succeeded logons.
- Improves Consolidation Ease: "Default" and "Named" instance aliasing avoids the risk of instance naming conflicts and allows multiple "Default" and "Named" instances to be stacked on the same physical server and be managed through a drag-and-drop graphical user interface. An enhancement to the Migration Toolkit now enables customers to more easily capture and handle DTS package migration.
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» Cisco MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Fabric Switch
The Cisco MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Fabric Switch helps customers put information to work by dramatically simplifying SAN deployment, management, security and future expansion, making it a perfect choice for deploying SAN-wide intelligent fabric services. Further, it’s high availability and support for multilayer switching solutions such as SAN extension over high speed IP-based WANs, seamless LAN to SAN integration of iSCSI to Fibre Channel and it’s very high speed metro area capability over long distance fibre optic links delivers the unique flexibility to meet customer’s current and future IT storage infrastructure needs.
Key Features:
- Mitigate risk - MDS 9222i Fabric Switch is a highly available solution that protects data from unauthorized access and keeps data private and protects the company’s reputation while meeting regulatory compliance and avoiding financial consequences of a security breach.
- Reduce complexity - Delivers multiple storage networking services in one box with comprehensive end-to-end management
- Accelerate growth - Quickly upgrades from 22 up to 70 ports by simply plugging in an additional port module
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» Cisco MDS 9216A Multilayer Fabric Switch
The Cisco MDS 9216A brings expandable capability and investment protection to the fabric switch market. Sharing a consistent architecture with the Cisco MDS 9500 Series, the Cisco MDS 9216A combines multilayer intelligence with a modular chassis, making it an intelligent and flexible fabric switch. Starting with sixteen 2-Gbps Fibre Channel ports, the expansion slot on the Cisco MDS 9216A allows the addition of any current or future Cisco MDS 9000 Storage Networking Module for up to 64 fibre channel ports or FCIP or iSCSI ports. As the storage network expands further, Cisco MDS 9000 Storage Networking Modules may be removed from Cisco MDS 9216A and migrated into Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors, providing smooth migration, common sparing, and investment protection.
What's new:
- The Cisco MDS 9216A Fabric Switch now supports the new MDS 9000 18/4 MultiService Module along with a new MDS 9200 4-port FCIP License To Use.
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» Cisco MDS 9216i Multilayer Fabric Switch
The Cisco MDS 9216i brings new capability to the fabric switch market. Sharing a consistent architecture with the Cisco MDS 9500 Series Directors, the Cisco MDS 9216i integrates both Fibre Channel and IP Storage Services in a single system to allow maximum flexibility in user configurations. With fourteen 2Gbps Fibre Channel ports, two, 1Gbps Ethernet IP Storage Services ports, and a modular expansion slot, the Cisco MDS 9216i is ideally suited for enterprise storage networks that require high performance SAN extension or cost-effective IP Storage connectivity.
What's new:
- The Cisco MDS 9216i Fabric Switch now supports the new MDS 9000 18/4 MultiService Module along with a new MDS 9200 4-port FCIP License To Use.
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» Cisco MDS 9506 Multilayer Director Switch
The Cisco MDS 9506 Multilayer Director delivers industry-leading scalability, performance, high availability features to lower TCO and enable SAN infrastructure consolidation and information life cycle management. The MDS 9506 supports up to 192-ports with 1.44 Terabits per second internal system bandwidth. It boasts high port density in the 6 slot, 7U chassis with fully redundant supervisors, fans, and power supplies to ensure smooth, continuous operations.
What's New:
- Now packaged with two of the new version 2 supervisors
- Supports new 4 Gb FC modules
- Expansion capability has increased from 128 to 192 ports
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» Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer Director Switch
The Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer Director delivers industry-leading scalability, performance, high availability features to lower TCO and enable SAN infrastructure consolidation and information life cycle management. The MDS 9509 supports up to 336-ports with 1.44 Terabits per second internal system bandwidth. It boasts high port density in the 9 slot, 14U chassis with fully redundant supervisors, fans, and power supplies to ensure smooth, continuous operations.
What's New:
- Now packaged with two of the new version 2 supervisors
- Supports new 4Gb FC modules
- Expansion capability has increased from 224 to 336 ports
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» Cisco MDS 9513 Multilayer Director Switch
The Cisco MDS 9513 Director Switch delivers industry-leading scalability, performance, high availability features to lower TCO and enable SAN infrastructure consolidation and information life cycle management. The MDS 9513 supports up to 528-ports with 2.4 Terabits per second total internal system bandwidth. It boasts a very high port density in the 13 slot, 14U chassis with fully redundant supervisors, fabric modules, fans, clocks and power supplies to ensure smooth, continuous operations.
Key Features:
- Manageable - provides embedded Fabric Manager, Optional Cisco Fabric Manager Server and integration with HP StorageWorks Management Essentials and CiscoWorks RME
- Serviceable and Upgradeable - delivers embedded diagnostics (Fibre Channel ping, traceroute and protocol analyzer) and "Call Home" capabilities. Offers investment protection with multiple module options, all interchangeable across MDS 9000 line.
- High availability - provides non-disruptive software upgrades, stateful process failover and hot swappable components
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