Hitachi’s Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family further extends mid-range storage
Ovum analyzes Hitachi’s new AMS family of mid-range systems concluding that they “…continue to deserve “short list” consideration for robust mid-range storage,” with functionality that has been “traditionally only reserved for enterprise-class solutions.”
Hitachi Enables New Common File Services
Leveraging the ongoing theme of providing common integrated storage services across the storage infrastructures, the announcement further demonstrates that file/unstructured data management and archive requirements will continue to be a critical element in Hitachi’s evolving solution sets, and provides a demonstration of the company’s industry leadership. Hitachi’s introduction of the Hitachi Data Discovery Suite (HDDS), new NAS offerings and enhanced content archiving capability reinforces the corporations continued commitment of taming this growing storage issue with extended and common integrated file services across the storage environment. (March 2008)
Hitachi extends thin provisioning to
externally virtualized storage
Hitachi announced the availability and capability of its Dynamic
Provisioning software to support externally virtualized heterogeneous
arrays, further expanding its common storage services portfolio enabled
through its Universal Storage Platforms (USP) V and VM. Dynamic
provisioning or thin provisioning with wide disk striping across multiple
logical storage pools allows the virtualized physical storage to be
allocated only when data is written, not when the application is first
configured and physical storage assets reserved. Through virtualization
and thin provisioning functionality, the physical allocations become soft
and true pooling with allocation on write capability can be accomplished
within a tier storage environment. Moreover, by extending this
functionality to externally virtualized storage, enhanced storage
utilization rates can be achieved with all virtualized storage assets. (November 2007)
Hitachi Simple Modular Storage is
truly simple
The Hitachi SMS 100 eliminates the complexity and time normally required when
introducing external storage into an SMB or distributed enterprise environment.
The intuitive and simple point-and-click install and management capability, plus
the unique and no hassle maintenance, upgrade and auto-migration capability,
now allows scalable external storage to become a reality in most environments. (October 2007)
Hitachi Breaks the Mold with USP VM
No longer do smaller enterprises have to settle for less robust, functionally deprived solutions—the rackmounted USP VM is functionally equivalent to the USP V, albeit not as scalable, but much more affordable. (September 2007)
Hitachi Is the Leader in Virtualization—Customer Case Studies
Each enterprise has ongoing plans to further leverage and enhance their shared virtualized storage infrastructure, and further engage the common storage services capability of the Hitachi virtualization solutions. (September 2007)
Hitachi extends its lead in controller-based storage virtualization Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) continues to set the bar for enterprise-class, controller-based heterogeneous storage virtualization supporting common storage services. The announcement of the Universal Storage Platform V (USP V) renders any controller performance or scalability issues moot, and virtualization-enabled dynamic provisioning allows storage utilizations to exceed 85%, delivering unique economies to storage infrastructures. Carl Greiner says this announcement most definitely takes storage virtualization to a new level and that the USP V's massive parallelism lays a sound foundation for additional functional enhancements, and even greater scalability and performance over the coming years. (May 2007)
Storage Virtualization: Enabling Common Storage Services
The marketing hype around virtualization, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and software/storage as a service (SaaS) continues to confound IT organizations (ITOs). All of these elements have merit, yet each organization and vendor has their own unique view as to what is actually being addressed with each solution. This report clarifies how these elements address/affect the storage infrastructure environment specifically and in context with the overall data center infrastructure provided to best position ITOs to separate fact from fiction - and to separate virtualization reality from virtualization mythology. (19-Apr-2007)
Hitachi Enters the High-performance NAS Market
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, announced a five-year, worldwide OEM agreement - including a private investment - with BlueArc Corporation. This will allow for the immediate availability of the Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc. (10-Jan-2007)
Virtual Tape Library Solutions Intoduced by Hitachi Data Systems
"Hitachi Data Systems is packaging Diligent's VTF Open, VTF Mainframe and ProtecTIER VT software components with high-reliability storage systems and HDS replication product (such as Hitachi Universal Replicator), to create a complete, powerful and unique Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Solutions portfolio. The HDS Diligent Technologies ProtecTIER Data Protection Platform extends its 'open' VTL solution with a unique data de-duplication technology that filters out most redundant data while not compromising on scalability or data integrity." (01-Jul-2006)
Hitachi Enhances the TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform (by Ovum)
"This performance increase, in conjunction with additional announced incremental extensions/enhancements, further extends Hitachi’s unique leadership in enterprise-class heterogeneous storage controller-based virtualisation and functionality." (22-May-2006)
Hitachi’s Diskless NSC55 Addresses More Cost-effective Storage Virtualisation (by Ovum)
"Hitachi has further extended its TagmaStore Network Storage Controller (NSC55) by announcing a diskless version of the original offering announced in July 2005. This new, more economical version expands market opportunities and further reinforces Hitachi’s aim to separate the intelligent storage controller from underlying commodity disks. Carl Greiner says that this will minimise complexity by allowing intelligent controllers to support both internal and heterogeneous external storage with common management and functionality." (24-Apr-2006)
Hitachi Data Systems Extends its Mid-range Storage and Advanced Functionality (by Ovum)
"Hitachi Data Systems continues to push the norm as to what is modular mid-range storage and what is enterprise. In addition, with the Universal Storage Platform and Network Storage Controller intelligent virtual storage controllers, all instantiations/types of storage can be intermixed, including non Hitachi alternatives. Such functionality continues to ease storage consolidation and complexity considerations (including NAS/SAN integration), yet still allows for unique performance requirements related to different applications. The end result is a focus on providing the optimised solutions for today’s multi-faceted and dynamic business environments allowing requirements, expectations and cost to be balanced. With this announcement, Hitachi Data Systems continues to maintain its position as a top-tier modular and enterprise storage provider." (03-Apr-2006)
