Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT) (TOKYO:6501), today redefined unified
storage with the new Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) and single
management framework. HUS stores multiple data types with more
flexibility and more balanced scalability than any other midrange
solution. It helps customers manage their critical business
applications and meet their growth requirements without
compromising performance, scalability or cost efficiency. In
addition, Hitachi Data Systems is announcing today that its entire
hardware product portfolio, including the new HUS, will be
supported by Hitachi Command Suite management software. As the
first enterprise-class vendor to provide a single software
management platform for all of its products, Hitachi Data Systems
is helping its customers further reduce costs and complexity
throughout the data center.
According to Sean Moser, vice president, Software Platforms
Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems, “The roots of current
unified storage products on the market today are based on the needs
of smaller organizations that did not have the storage volumes, IT
resources or budgets to acquire and manage separate platforms for
block and file data. The traditional definition for unified
management has focused on managing file and block on these
general-purpose lower-end storage platforms. This all changes today
as we bring to market the first enterprise-class unified storage
solution. Hitachi Unified Storage helps organizations meet
application availability and performance requirements with lower
investment. Customers can deploy storage for all data types and
easily grow to meet expanding requirements, while still meeting
service level objectives for critical business applications.”
"IT organizations in mid-sized and large enterprises are
struggling with a deluge of data and increasingly diverse data
management needs. They require storage solutions that meet their
growth requirements while simplifying operations, reducing the
total cost structure, and quickly adapting to changing business
needs," said Richard Villars, vice president, Information and Cloud
research, IDC. “Hitachi Unified Storage provides enterprises with a
single foundation for efficiently managing block, file and object
data without making trade-offs in performance, scalability or
capacity utilization.”
Unified Without Compromise: Strength across File, Block and
Object
Hitachi Unified Storage consistently and efficiently provisions,
tiers, migrates and protects all data, regardless of type,
throughout its lifecycle. HUS further saves costs with data
efficiency capabilities such as thin provisioning and automatic
tiering. Built-in automation optimizes performance and makes it
predictable to assure customers that they will get the most out of
their investment. Intuitive and easy-to-use software that comes
with each system has been designed to simplify even the most
complex environments.
Hitachi Unified Storage supports object data through a unique
object-based file system that intelligently adds metadata for each
file and enables automated tiering and migration, fast file
snapshots and clones, faster replication over WAN, and fast data
searches. Additionally, Hitachi Unified Storage supports Hitachi
Content Platform (HCP) for a true object store with custom metadata
and provides regulatory compliance. Unlike alternative systems, HCP
can share HUS capacity with file and block applications from the
same storage pool. Combined, this solution is far more space
efficient and cost effective for customers than separate and siloed
object store implementations.
HUS has the most balanced scalability in the industry. Unlike
other solutions that scale only in capacity, HUS also scales by
predictable performance, replicated data, block volume size and
file system size. The benefit for customers is that the HUS
platform will have a longer service life than competing products
and be a better investment.
HUS is the fastest midrange storage system available today for
block and file data access, enabling organizations to achieve
performance goals at the lowest possible price. High-end storage
functionality, such as page-based auto-tiering, is available with
HUS to facilitate automated placement of data for the highest
performance at the lowest cost.
The new Hitachi Application Protector, also introduced today, is
an application-aware, snapshot-based data protection, backup and
recovery software suite for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and
SharePoint environments. Integrated with Hitachi Unified Storage,
Hitachi Application Protector lets administrators for each of these
applications protect their data sets using familiar interfaces such
as Microsoft Management Console. Application administrators can
initiate backup and recovery jobs, and more easily meet service
level objectives for critical business applications.
Unified Redefined: Hitachi Command Suite Now Manages Entire
Integrated HDS Portfolio
The HDS strategy for unified management is to abstract the
complexities of the underlying storage environment to create a
service-oriented model in which organizations manage storage as a
service to their consumers, regardless of the nuances of the
underlying physical devices that serve up the storage. This
strategy requires a fully unified approach, which is provided only
by HDS.
Hitachi Command Suite software is a unified management framework
for advanced data and storage management that improves operations,
provisioning, performance and resilience for Hitachi block, file
and unified storage environments. By enabling efficient management
practices across all Hitachi storage systems, HDS lets
organizations effectively manage their IT infrastructures with
limited staff resources while building a sustainable foundation for
future growth. HDS unified management includes:
- Unified management across all
storage models: Block (e.g. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform),
file (Hitachi NAS Platform, Hitachi Unified Storage), content
(Hitachi Content Platform), and specialized appliances (Hitachi
Data Ingestor)
- Unified management and control
across all tiers of storage in the HDS storage portfolio:
Enterprise and midrange systems, along with externally virtualized
heterogeneous storage environments
- Unified management across
functions: Encompasses all the management tools needed to
configure, analyze, mobilize and protect data; includes a unified
business intelligence layer that adds the critical functions needed
to become more service-centric
New Unified Features and Customer Benefits
Built on a heritage of market-leading innovation, Hitachi
Unified Storage provides organizations with a reliable, dynamic and
open architecture that lets them meet their service level
objectives more efficiently, save costs and protect their long-term
investments. HUS is supported by a proven services organization and
a network of partners to help reduce operational and capital costs.
HUS also simplifies virtualized application management and
deployment for both block and file requirements, including
Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and
Microsoft Exchange Server, VMware View (VDI), and Oracle databases.
(See related press release also issued today: “Hitachi Unified
Storage Embraced by Partner Ecosystem”) Features and benefits
include:
Manage Data Growth
- Scale system capacity to nearly 3PB
without affecting performance.
- Automatically correct performance
issues and provision more quickly with dynamic virtual
controllers.
- Use Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning to
pool and grow file and block storage for maximum flexibility
without capacity limitations.
- Leverage 256TB file systems and a
single name space to reduce administrative effort.
Meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Meet SLAs with 99.999% data
availability and advanced management tools.
- Manage storage from an application
management portal.
- Perform system maintenance without
interrupting host I/Os.
Reduce Downtime and Business Risk
- Dynamically manage replication and
backup.
- Remotely replicate all capacity across
systems and locations.
- Utilize crash consistent snapshots for
application-aware backup and recovery.
Supporting Customer Quotes
- A*Star Computational Resource
Center: “Hitachi Unified Storage has demonstrated significant
improvements compared to the modular storage platforms of past
generations. With today’s ever-changing and growing business
requirements, a unified platform that is able to address block,
file and content data; while being able to scale and perform at the
highest level is of upmost importance to our organization. We
believe that the new HUS has successfully addressed these
challenges and have set a high benchmark for others to follow.” –
Lai Loong Fong, deputy director
- University of Utah Health Care:
“We have chosen the new Hitachi Unified Storage to help
ensure that medical records and images are reliably backed up,
which is critical to our operations. Our backup
windows have been significantly reduced as a result of the
system’s powerful write throughput performance. And we have
saved on footprint and operational expenses through
replacing four separate storage systems with a single
HUS. The high density packaging leads to further power, cooling and
floor-space reductions. Overall, the operational cost
savings will lead to a rapid payback on our investment.” – John
Fagg, manager, Storage Management Services
Future Information Cloud Strategy Milestones
Today’s announcement represents a major milestone in the ongoing
commitment of Hitachi Data Systems to transform data centers into
information clouds where access to blocks, files and objects is
seamless and resides in a fluid and virtualized environment. Later
this year, Hitachi Data Systems will make a series of announcements
that will further advance its information cloud strategy. HDS will
continue to expand its unified storage offering, which will include
a new product coming later this year that will redefine the
capabilities available to medium and large enterprise customers.
HDS intends to introduce the new Hitachi NAS Platform F series of
products within its file portfolio this year to help customers
manage the growth of their unstructured data in the low tier of the
market. As part of its ongoing effort to help customers further
optimize their storage capacity and better manage large and ever
increasing amounts of data, Hitachi Data Systems also plans to
introduce a purpose built backup appliance later this year. This
appliance will be based on deduplication IP developed by Hitachi
Data Systems that enables faster, more reliable and more
cost-effective data protection.
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About Hitachi Data Systems
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. With more than 5,400
employees worldwide, Hitachi Data Systems does business in more
than 100 countries and regions. 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. To learn more, visit: http://www.hds.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE:HIT) (TOKYO:6501), headquartered in
Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with
approximately 360,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2010 (ended March
31, 2011) consolidated revenues totaled 9,315 billion yen ($112.2
billion). Hitachi will focus more than ever on the Social
Innovation Business, which includes information and
telecommunication systems, power systems, environmental, industrial
and transportation systems, and social and urban systems, as well
as the sophisticated materials and key devices that support them.
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