Analysis of Hitachi Data Systems' USP V
The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V, the world’s most advanced storage services platform, provides the foundation for Hitachi Services Oriented Storage Solutions, a new architecture that enables IT departments to tailor and offer a wide range of storage services based on the value to the business. With its powerful controller-based platform, Hitachi Data Systems is in a unique position to package and deliver storage services across heterogeneous storage assets, whether file, object or block-based. (1-Oct-2007)
Leveraging a Purpose-Built Architecture
Can a flexibly optimized storage environment bring value to the enterprise? Over the past 10 years there have been so many new storage technology entrants to the storage market that at times it can be hard to keep track of all the variants. We have seen the introduction of network-attached storage file servers, various forms and levels of RAID protection, object oriented - or commonly referred to as reference or archive storage systems - storage that is nearly online and can be rightly called nearline; storage products that are sometimes online and in use and then turned off when not in use - which, I suppose, would then be called offline; and virtual tape libraries that look like tape to a sever operating system, but are in actuality storage subsystems with servers attached which emulate tape subsystems from a backup server perspective. (14-May-2007)
Leaping forward out of the box and into the virtualized storage environment
Leaping forward out of the box and into the virtualized storage environment Evaluator Group predicted in early 2006 that this year - 2007 - would be the year that many users would choose a storage virtualization strategy and start to make their choices of vendors for long-term virtualization infrastructure inclusion. Storage virtualization has proven to be a technologically sound offering delivering valuable functions and overall value to the enterprise. However, what about storage provisioning, or thin provisioning, as it is commonly called? Thin provisioning has been essentially contained within a storage subsystem and available within a virtualized storage environment. (14-May-2007)
Storage Virtualization: Spin Free
With its Intelligent Virtual Storage Controllers--the USP and the NSC--Hitachi has separated the 'brain' from the 'body' of storage--the innovation from the commodity. Hitachi has clearly changed the playing field with its breakthrough in simplicity via its controller-based virtualization technology while competitors have continued to focus on monolithic disk arrays based on aging 20th century designs and increased network complexity. (16-Jan-2007)
A Storage Strategy is Not Optional
"With these enhancements HDS continues to demonstrate its commitment to these products by providing enhancements even in areas where some consider it to have been the leader prior to the enhancements (i.e. performance). (07-Jul-2006)
Analysis of the Hitachi TagmaStore AMS 1000 Announcement
"Hitachi is demonstrating its growing understanding of the value of common software used across a range of storage models with a product line, or across storage platform product lines. Support for the AMS1000 with TrueCopy, LUN Migration, and Configuration Management is a plus for users who are looking to reduce storage management costs." (06-Apr-2006)
Analysis of the HDS and Archivas Global Partnership Announcement
"Other vendors have built storage content repositories that, while manageable, are discrete and represent islands of content. HDS and Archivas will offer a clearly differentiated solution in that various kinds of content can be stored in a common storage platform repository (a.k.a. USP/NSC) and the content can be leveraged in, and protected by, that common storage platform.
Why do this? It comes right back to storage basics: store the data, protect the data, manage the storage environment in one common way in order to lower costs." (02-Mar-2006)
