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Hitachi Launches Universal Storage Platform V
By
ChannelTimes Staff
Mumbai, May 29, 2007
Hitachi Data Systems intends to usher in a new era of enterprise storage performance and scalability with the introduction of the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V.
An all-new intelligent storage services platform with the ability to significantly outperform any storage system with 3.5 million input output operations per second (IOPS) of maximum performance and fueled by its next generation large-scale heterogeneous virtualization layer.
Hitachi architectural innovations, substantially increase virtualized storage port performance for external storage by up to 500-percent over its predecessor.
Hitachi has also announced the world s first 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel Switch (FSW) backplane in an enterprise class storage platform, making Hitachi the only company with a switched internal architecture and a unique switched backplane architecture as well, providing customers with the fastest, most cost-effective way to process and transfer data through a storage controller engine and with more immediate access to and storage of their business critical data.
"The announcement of the USP V begins to render any controller performance or scalability issues mute and virtualization-enabled Dynamic Provisioning allows storage utilizations to exceed 85-percent, delivering unique economies to storage infrastructures. This announcement most definitely takes storage virtualization to a new level," said Carl Greiner, senior vice president, Infrastructure and Software, OVUM.
The Hitachi USP V facilitates synergistic linkages across a broad spectrum of enterprise, midrange and low-end storage systems, delivering unified, advanced storage services that span multi-dimensional virtualization, provisioning, partitioning, and replication capabilities in effect enhancing the value of clients existing storage environments.
"One of the most compelling aspects of the new Hitachi USP V is that it provides three dimensions of storage virtualization," added Asaro.
"Hitachi s implementation of thin provisioning brings the first enterprise-class solution to market with extremely high levels of performance and scalability. The new Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V will continue to change the face of storage economics by lowering enterprise total cost of storage ownership."
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