Hitachi Data Systems Announces 3D Scaling Storage Platform

Hitachi Data Systems Corp. has unveiled the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, the industry’s first three-dimensional scaling platform, enabling organizations to scale up, out and deep for unprecedented levels of agility and cost savings in their virtualized data centers.

The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), in combination with the new Hitachi Command Suite management software, offers best-in-class performance, capacity and open, multivendor storage virtualization for large businesses and enterprise organizations. Together, these solutions represent a major milestone in continued Hitachi Data Systems commitment to transform data centers into dynamic information centers where access to blocks, files and content is seamless and resides in a fluid and virtualized environment.

“Hitachi has a long history of innovation and industry-leading technologies since first introducing heterogeneous storage virtualization within the storage system,” said Hu Yoshida, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Hitachi Data Systems. “Today, only the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Hitachi Command Suite provide the scalability and integration that will transform the data center with new levels of agility, flexibility, performance and sustainability. With unique 3D scaling and management, customers can deliver capacity and computing resources as quickly as virtual servers are created. This platform was actually built for virtualized server environments.”

The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is the only storage architecture that scales three-dimensionally to help customers adapt flexibly for performance, capacity and multivendor storage asset utilization. Its data migration capabilities greatly reduce outage windows. Page-level dynamic tiering automates the page-based movement of data to the most appropriate storage media to simplify and optimize tier costs and performance. With new 2.5-inch SAS hard disk drives, it is the highest density storage available today. And, with more than 30 percent less power consumption for capacity stored than the competition, it is the most efficient enterprise storage platform. 3D scaling delivers extreme performance and capacity for robust disaster recovery and high availability systems:
- Scale up to meet increasing demands of applications and servers:
o Scale dynamically for performance, capacity, and connectivity without disruption
o Add incremental resources as demand for storage resources increases by tightly coupling them through a global cache
o Scale resources nondisruptively, including caches, ports, and drives to meet demands

- Scale out to support multiple servers with changing workload requirements:
o Build out the storage system by combining multiple units into a single logical system
o Provision storage dynamically to multiple host servers on demand from a common pool of storage resources
o Tailor for workloads and server needs without compromise
o Achieve the highest performance for open and mainframe environments

- Scale deep to extend the platform’s capabilities and value to heterogeneous storage:
o Integrate multivendor external storage into the storage pool with scale up and scale out functionality
o Provide a single platform for block, file and content with central management, data protection and search
o Use lower cost external storage for lower cost purposes
o Reduce OPEX through a common management framework

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