Hitachi Data Systems provides best-in-class information technologies, services and solutions that deliver compelling customer ROI, unmatched return on assets (ROA) and demonstrable business impact. With a vision that IT must be virtualized, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable, Hitachi Data Systems offers solutions that improve IT costs and agility.

Hitachi Data Systems products, services and solutions are trusted by the world’s leading enterprises, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 100 and more than 80 percent of the Fortune Global 100. Hitachi Data Systems believes that data drives our world – and information is the new currency.

Information has become our most valuable asset. The challenge for global businesses lies in making information both available and secure. Hitachi Data Systems solutions help organizations transform raw data into valuable information by delivering on a vision that IT must be virtualized, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable. Data drives our world – and information is the new currency.

Our solutions help our customers transform their data centers into information centers.

• Deliver capacity and computing resources as quickly as virtual servers
• Increase IT staff productivity while improving data access and operating expense
• Enable pay-per-use, multitenancy storage services while maintaining enterprise-class security and privacy
• Achieve energy efficiency without compromising the reliability and availability of the infrastructure

Hitachi Data Systems offers a complete portfolio of storage systems and NAS subsystems to optimally consolidate your storage infrastructure and provide best in class availability and performance to meet diverse business needs.

• Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP)

• Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V (USP V)

• Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® VM (USP VM)

• Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Family (AMS 2000)

• Hitachi NAS Platform

• Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)
  
  
  

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP)

Products : Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform combined with Hitachi Command Suite management software transforms the data center, making IT more agile:

• The only 3D scaling storage platform designed for all data types
• The only storage architecture to flexibly adapt data storage infrastructures for performance, capacity and multivendor storage to optimize return on storage assets
• Data mobility to reduce business impact when adapting to change
• Highly efficient design for the best performance and capacity combined with lowest power and cooling requirements
• Unique dynamic tiering for data mobility across virtual storage tiers for block, file and content data

3D scaling delivers a storage environment that is more reliable, dynamic and open.

• More reliable with leading data protection and high availability capabilities
• More dynamic, automating data placement and addition of resources
• More open, supporting a wide variety of operating systems, data types, storage and server environments

Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V (USP V)

Products: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V

Reaching previously unattainable levels of consolidation, the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V has redefined the storage industry. It represents the world's first implementation of a large scale, enterprise-class virtualization layer combined with thin provisioning software. That means the virtualization of internal and external heterogeneous storage into one pool has finally been achieved. Customers can obtain the consolidation benefits of external storage virtualization with the efficiencies, power and cooling advantages of thin provisioning in one integrated solution.

Everyone from mid-sized growing companies to the largest global organizations can now benefit from the industry's highest performing and most scalable storage solution. It is backed by a set of storage and data services that include thin provisioning with Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software, application-centric storage management and logical partitioning, as well as simplified, unified data replication across heterogeneous storage systems.

An integral component of the Hitachi Services Oriented Storage Solutions architecture, the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V provides the foundation for matching application requirements to different classes of storage. The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V packages and delivers critical services such as:

• Virtualization of storage from Hitachi and other vendors into one pool
• Thin provisioning through Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning for nondisruptive volume expansion
• Security services, business continuity services and content management services
• I/O load balancing to improve application performance
• Nondisruptive dynamic data migration from Hitachi and other storage systems

Services Oriented Storage Solutions enables IT organizations to present business clients with a menu of storage attributes (such as performance, availability, cost and security) and charge for those services based on the client's selection. Services Oriented Storage Solutions can lower costs, extend lifetime value and simplify management activities. The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V enables you to deploy applications within a new framework, fully leverage—and add value to—current investments and more closely align IT with business objectives.

Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® VM (USP VM)

Products : Universal Storage Platform VM

The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ VM blends enterprise-class functionality with a smaller footprint to meet the business needs of entry level enterprises and fast growing mid-sized organizations, while supporting distributed or departmental applications in large enterprises.

Now, smaller organizations can enjoy the same benefits as large enterprises in deploying and managing their storage infrastructure in a way never possible before. The Universal Storage Platform VM, powered by the Hitachi Universal Star Network™ crossbar switch architecture, delivers proven and innovative controller-based virtualization, logical partitioning and universal replication for open systems and mainframe environments in a rack mounted storage services platform.

The industry's highest reliability and availability storage solution is backed by a set of storage and data services that include thin provisioning with Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software, application centric storage management and logical partitioning, as well as simplified, unified data replication across heterogeneous storage systems.

An integral component of the Hitachi Services Oriented Storage Solutions architecture, the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM provides the foundation for matching application requirements to different classes of storage. The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM packages and delivers critical services such as:

• Virtualization of storage from Hitachi and other vendors into one pool
• Thin provisioning through Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning for nondisruptive volume expansion
• Security services, business continuity services and content management services
• Load balancing to improve application performance
• Nondisruptive dynamic data migration from Hitachi and other storage systems

Services Oriented Storage Solutions enable IT organizations to present business clients with a menu of storage attributes (such as performance, availability, cost and security) and charge for those services based on the client's selection. Services Oriented Storage Solutions can lower costs, extend lifetime value and simplify management activities. The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM lets you deploy applications within a new framework, fully leverage—and add value to—current investments, and more closely align IT to your business objectives.

Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Family (AMS 2000)

Products : Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family

Enterprise Innovation for Any Size of Company

Your storage challenges grow more from the growth of your data than from the growth of your company. We understand that. No matter how big your business is, on these pages you will find enterprise storage capabilities that we’ve scaled to your needs. These scalable storage systems can manage many of your extremely complex tasks and give you operational efficiencies and performance you won’t find anywhere else in a midrange system.

What did we build into this family? We included dynamic provisioning to improve your utilization rates and simplify your storage management. It reduces your facilities and energy costs, too. We invented symmetrical active-active controllers to give you I/O balancing that is built into the hardware and is fully automated. It will reconfigure your storage for you when an application spikes or changes. How about 99.999% data availability? These systems will even update the microcode while your data remains online.

Follow one of the links below to learn more about the three fundamental systems, then contact us or your favorite Hitachi Data Systems reseller to determine the right configuration for your company. Well, for your data, actually.

Products : Adaptable Modular Storage 2100

A cost effective option with a rich set of features in a model that scales to 120 disk drives. Ideal for medium and large businesses, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100 is an easy-to-use, scalable, storage system for Microsoft Exchange Server, VMware, databases and other business applications.

Benefits:

Easy to set up and administer

• Eliminates requirements to set preferred paths from hosts to storage
• System self balances workloads across both controllers
• “Single pane of glass” to integrate and manage multiple Hitachi systems
• Simplified RAID group placement using SAS backplane architecture
• Helpful documents and web portal

Unsurpassed Reliability and Data Availability

• 99.999 percent data availability with no single point of failure
• Nondisruptive microcode updates
• Hot swappable major components
• Dual-battery backup for cache
• Flexible drive sparing with no copy back required after a RAID rebuild
• In system and remote site data replication options
• RAID-6 dual parity support for enhanced reliability when using large SATA and SAS drives

Cost-effective performance

• Full-duplex, 3Gbps SAS drive interface that can simultaneously send and receive commands or data on the same link
• 16 concurrent disk I/O paths provide up to 4800MB/s of total system bandwidth
• Hitachi Dynamic Load Balancing Controller automatically balances loads to eliminate bottlenecks for outstanding performance

Tremendous scalability

• Ability to add capacity, connectivity, and performance as needed
• Concurrent support of large heterogeneous open systems environments with up to 1024 virtual server ports and 2048 LUNs
• Scale performance to 400,000 IOPS
• Data-in-place upgrades from AMS2100 to the AMS2300 or the AMS2500
• Mega LUNs, up to 60TB, enable set-it-and-forget-it provisioning

Highly Flexible Systems

• Intermixed SAS and SATA drives can share the same tray to save cost
• Flash disk option for high performance application requirements
• Dense Expansion Tray option holds up to 48 SATA or 38 SAS disks in a 4U (176mm) high tray
• Multiprotocol support for both Fibre Channel and iSCSI host interfaces
• Combine with Hitachi High performance NAS for simultaneous block and file access

Platform for solution delivery

• Ideal for changing workloads in a server virtualization environment
• Technical guides to setup applications and systems for best performance and highest scalability possible

Products : Adaptable Modular Storage 2300

The best combination of price and performance in a model that scales to 240 disk drives. Ideal for large businesses and enterprises, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300 is a highly reliable, flexible and scalable storage system for Microsoft® Exchange Server, VMware, databases and other business applications.

Benefits

Easy to set up and administer

• Eliminates requirements to set preferred paths from hosts to storage
• System self balances workloads across both controllers
• “Single pane of glass” to integrate and manage multiple Hitachi systems
• Simplified RAID group placement using SAS backplane architecture
• Helpful documents and web portal

Unsurpassed Reliability and Data Availability

• 99.999 percent data availability with no single point of failure
• Nondisruptive microcode updates
• Hot swappable major components
• Dual-battery backup for cache
• Flexible drive sparing with no copy back required after a RAID rebuild
• In system and remote site data replication options
• RAID-6 dual parity support for enhanced reliability when using large SATA and SAS drives

Cost-effective performance

• Full-duplex, 3Gbps SAS drive interface that can simultaneously send and receive commands or data on the same link
• 16 concurrent disk I/O paths provide up to 4800MB/s of total system bandwidth
• Hitachi Dynamic Load Balancing Controller automatically balances loads to eliminate bottlenecks for outstanding performance

Tremendous scalability

• Ability to add capacity, connectivity, and performance as needed
• Concurrent support of large heterogeneous open systems environments with up to 2048 virtual server ports and 4096 LUNs
• Scale performance to 400,000 IOPS
• Data-in-place upgrades from AMS2300 to the AMS2500
• Mega LUNs, up to 60TB, enable set-it-and-forget-it provisioning

Highly Flexible Systems

• Intermixed SAS and SATA drives can share the same tray to save cost
• Flash disk option for high performance application requirements
• Dense Expansion Tray option holds up to 48 SATA or 38 SAS disks in a 4U (176mm) high tray
• Multiprotocol support for both Fibre Channel and iSCSI host interfaces
• Combine with Hitachi High performance NAS for simultaneous block and file access

Platform for solution delivery

• Ideal for changing workloads in a server virtualization environment
• Technical guides to setup applications and systems for best performance and highest scalability possible

Products : Adaptable Modular Storage 2500

The best performance available in a model that scales to 480 disk drives. Ideal for large and enterprise businesses, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500 is a highly reliable, flexible and scalable storage system for Microsoft® Exchange Server, VMware, databases and other business applications. It also provides an optimal choice for tiered and standalone storage, consolidation, business continuity, data replication, backup and archiving.

Benefits

Easy to set up and administer

• Eliminates requirements to set preferred paths from hosts to storage
• System self balances workloads across both controllers
• “Single pane of glass” to integrate and manage multiple Hitachi systems
• Simplified RAID group placement using SAS backplane architecture
• Helpful documents and web portal

Unsurpassed Reliability and Data Availability

• 99.999 percent data availability with no single point of failure
• Nondisruptive microcode updates
• Hot swappable major components
• Dual-battery backup for cache
• Flexible drive sparing with no copy back required after a RAID rebuild
• In system and remote site data replication options
• RAID-6 dual parity support for enhanced reliability when using large SATA and SAS drives

Cost-effective performance

• Full-duplex, 3Gbps SAS drive interface that can simultaneously send and receive commands or data on the same link
• 32 concurrent disk I/O paths provide up to 9600MB/s of total system bandwidth
• Hitachi Dynamic Load Balancing Controller automatically balances loads to eliminate bottlenecks for outstanding performance

Tremendous scalability

• Ability to add capacity, connectivity, and performance as needed
• Concurrent support of large heterogeneous open systems environments with up to 2048 virtual server ports and 4096 LUNs
• Scale performance to 900,000 IOPS
• Mega LUNs, up to 60TB, enable set-it-and-forget-it provisioning

Highly Flexible Systems

• Intermixed SAS and SATA drives can share the same tray to save cost
• Flash disk option for high performance application requirements
• Dense Expansion Tray option holds up to 48 SATA or 38 SAS disks in a 4U (176mm) high tray
• Available with a -48V DC power supply that is also NEBS-3 compliant for Telcos and DC powered datacenters
• Multiprotocol support for both Fibre Channel and iSCSI host interfaces
• Combine with Hitachi High performance NAS for simultaneous block and file access

Platform for solution delivery

• Ideal for changing workloads in a server virtualization environment
• Technical guides to setup applications and systems for best performance and highest scalability possible

Hitachi NAS Platform

Products : Hitachi NAS Platform

The Hitachi NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc®, is an advanced and integrated network attached storage (NAS) solution.
It is a powerful tool for file sharing or file server consolidation, data protection and general purpose NAS workloads:

• Hitachi NAS Platform 3100 and 3200 for data center environments
• Hitachi NAS Platform 3080 and 3090 for remote data center or medium organization applications
• Powerful hardware accelerated file system representing the next generation of multiprotocol file services
• High performance: Up to 1.6 GB/sec and 200,000 input/outputs per second (IOPS) per node
• Highly scalable: Up to 16PB of capacity¹
• Seamlessly integrated with Hitachi SAN Storage, Hitachi Storage Command Suite, Hitachi Data Discovery Suite for advanced search and index across NAS platforms and the Hitachi Content Archive Platform for data retention and regulatory compliance

Features:

• 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
• 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

Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)

Products : Hitachi Content Platform

Hitachi Content Platform is a virtualized distributed object store with advanced storage and data management capabilities that help IT organizations address a number of challenges posed by the ever-growing volume of unstructured data.

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Features:

• Scales up to 40 petabytes of storage in a single cluster that also includes data compression and duplicate elimination
• Divides a single cluster into multiple virtual content platforms, each with its own unique configuration and access control as well as usage monitoring for chargeback and billing
• Provides data integrity checking, RAID6, replication, encryption, WORM, multiple versions of objects, audit logging
• Manages and enforces policies for retention, indexing, disposal, shredding and other compliance and lifecycle management operations
• Connects to a wide range of applications and protocols via http, REST, NFS, CIFS and Hitachi Data Ingestor
• Automates the movement of data from old storage to new storage

Benefits:

• Simplify the delivery of storage services for unstructured data
• Increase utilization and slow consumption of higher tier storage
• Reduce or eliminate the cost, complexity and risk of tape-based backups
• Enhance content control and enable search
• Address compliance and legal data retention requirements
• Adapt easily to immediate and long-term changes in storage needs and technology
• Scale smoothly adding storage as needed without interruption of service