Products : Hitachi NAS Platform

• Intelligent file tiering enables policy-based Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) within the Hitachi NAS Platform and to the Hitachi Content Archive Platform
• Rolling upgrades and faster failover times reduce planned and unplanned downtime
• Hardware-accelerated network storage with up to 1.6 GB/sec throughput for sequential workloads and up to 200,000 IOPS
• Expandable with up to 4PB of capacity and file systems up to 256TB when used with Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family systems
• Active-active clustering of up to 8 nodes with performance that improves almost at a linear rate as the load increases
• Integrated with the powerful Hitachi Storage Command Suite storage management software
• Block- and file-level replication
• Tiered storage across Fibre Channel, SAS and serial ATA (SATA)
• Cluster Namespace for unified directory structure
• Policy-based Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) feature
• Up to 64 virtual servers with role-based security and virus scanning
• Up to 16 million objects per directory

With leading scalability and performance, the Hitachi NAS Platform allows you to consolidate NAS devices or file servers to simplify your IT infrastructure. You can also reduce the complexity of storage management and lower your total cost of ownership (TCO). The advanced virtualization and data protection capabilities significantly improve efficiency, agility and utilization across NAS environments.

Renowned for exceptional performance, the Hitachi NAS Platform lets storage professionals with performance driven applications improve productivity and competitiveness:

• Reduce processing cycle times
• Respond rapidly to changing demands
• Scale workloads and capacity seamlessly
• Increase the number of simultaneous users or projects

"Although packaged for midrange users, Hitachi Data Systems’ new 3080 and 3090 NAS offerings feature functionality more usually associated with enterprise class systems,” said Mark Peters, a senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. “Specifically, the ease of management and the native file tiering capabilities of these products will help them to stand out in a crowded marketplace, whether used standalone or integrated into a Hitachi-managed virtualized and heterogeneous hierarchy.” — Mark Peters, Enterprise Strategy Group