New Hitachi Skyline Trinium can sustain unprecedented surges in trading volumes and e-business transactions.
Trinium is first system to break the Two BIPS barrier.
18 October 1999 — For companies in need of an enterprise server that will provide absolute comfort in its ability to absorb unpredictable upward spikes in e-transaction processing, Hitachi Data Systems today announced general availability of the Hitachi Skyline Trinium™, its flagship mainframe processing platform.
Trinium™ is the first mainframe to process more than two billion instructions per second (BIPS), enabling companies to stay ahead of the capacity curve, and easily address the explosive growth of online commerce.
With its integrated Internet capabilities, the Hitachi Skyline Trinium reduces the amount of complexity that large e-businesses have to deal with and allows executives to focus more on key business issues such as return on investment, improved revenue per employee, and increased inventory turns.
As the only server in the world with a design point of less than five minutes of downtime per year (99.999% availability), the Hitachi Skyline Trinium features complete redundancy and dynamic failover on all critical components, including physical instruction processors, service processors, I/O channel processors, memory, and channel controllers. Such vital, business-enabling back-up features are not available from any other mainframe manufacturer.
"Enterprises that require the highest levels of availability and scalability, complemented by sophisticated configuration management — airlines, financial services companies, any company with a large stake in e-business — will find the Hitachi Skyline Trinium the only option fulfilling all categories," said Alan Cade, Vice President and General Manager, Hitachi Data Systems Enterprise Server Business Unit. "The incredible flexibility of Trinium Technology opens up a myriad of business opportunities previously not available with other technologies and software cost constraints."
Trinium has the ability to execute up to 320,000 simultaneous input/output (I/O) operations per second — more than any other system in the S/390® environment — increasing the opportunity for users to conduct a greater number of revenue-producing e-business transactions.
Trinium is 25.9 percent more scalable than competing S/390 mainframes from IBM and 121 percent more scalable than any currently available Amdahl/Fujitsu systems.
Also available with the Trinium is the Hitachi iSuite™, a group of infrastructure solutions designed to complement the power of the Trinium in areas such as e-business, ERP, enterprise and server consolidation, business continuity, and software asset management.
Trinium features Hitachi's Virtual Server Facility (VSF™), which helps customers more efficiently manage their software assets by enabling users to be charged based on the number of processors used by each licensed software product, rather than the system's overall capacity. Utilizing Physical Instruction Processor Isolation Technology, VSF allows clients to set precise boundaries within each processor and assign model identifiers.
Users can employ one Virtual Server as a data warehouse, another as a World Wide Web server, another to facilitate electronic transaction processing, and another for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications.
Trinium allows for the definition of up to 15 discrete Virtual Servers within a single footprint. Currently, Computer Associates International, BMC Software, ISM, Candle Corporation, Compuware, Isogon, and Information Builders have endorsed VSF, providing asset management flexibility to common clients.
Recognized as a leading provider of business solutions for the world's most IT-intensive corporations, Hitachi Data Systems offers professional services, multiplatform storage subsystems, and the industry's broadest line of high-performance servers. The company's extensive range of products and services, coupled with its business alliances with key industry leaders, enable it to transform IT into business agility for high-end and middle-market customers. Hitachi Data Systems is owned by Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT) and has its headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
Contacts: PR: Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark and service mark of Hitachi, Ltd. Skyline Trinium, Trinium, iSuite, and VSF are trademarks of Hitachi Data Systems. S/390 is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
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