New Trinium Nine Series processes e-business transactions faster than any S/390 server on the planet and offers the greatest workload surge protection available anywhere
7th February 2000 — Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), today introduced the Hitachi Skyline Trinium™ Nine Series, a new lineup of powerful mega servers designed to exploit the Web's capacity for e-business and provide the highest availability in the industry.
Capitalizing on the momentum of the Hitachi Skyline Trinium Eight Series — with wide cross industry acceptance in such areas as finance, telecommunications, aerospace, energy, manufacturing, services, education, and government — the new Trinium Nine Series is designed to run transaction-intensive enterprise Web applications faster than any S/390® server available. This dramatically increases the opportunity for users to conduct a greater number of revenue-producing business-to-business and business-to-consumer transactions.
Otto Noack, Vice President, Systems Engineering at Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., the nation's fourth largest financial services firm and the world's largest online broker serving 6.6 million active accounts with $725 billion in customer assets, said, "We purchased the Hitachi Skyline Trinium for one specific reason: It offers the largest single-engine capacity on the planet, which is exactly what we were looking for."
Luis Martín Hernández, CIO of Telcel, an industry-leading provider of telecommunication services, said, "The right IT infrastructure is important for true business success. That's why we recently selected the Hitachi Skyline Trinium to support our strategic IT initiatives. With its high availability architecture, fast instruction processors, and scalability, the Trinium proves that Hitachi is committed to delivering industry-leading servers with business-enabling back-up features."
Featuring the world's highest availability architecture for the System/390® environment, Trinium allows for large-scale enterprise server consolidation and provides IT managers with the comfort of knowing their business-critical applications are physically safe from unexpected hardware outages. The Trinium Nine Series can also significantly slash the level of complexity inherent in large e-businesses by reducing the number of physical images, interconnections, software licenses, overhead, operational complexity, and points of failure.
Understanding that e-business is about integration and achieving a state of infrastructure simplicity, Hitachi recently announced the iSuite™, a comprehensive set of integrated infrastructure optimization solutions designed to complement the extreme availability architecture of the Trinium.
Targeted at companies striving to reach 100-percent continuous availability throughout the enterprise, the Hitachi iSuite offers consolidation, optimization, and total cost of ownership service methodologies that fulfill Hitachi's vision of allowing clients to focus on their business and not the technology upon which it runs.
"In the age of this e-obsession, infrastructure matters," said Alan Cade, Vice President and General Manager, Hitachi Data Systems Enterprise Server Business Unit. "Just by adding a Web front end to your internal system doesn't mean you're ready for e-business. In order to survive in this Internet-dominated world, e-tailers must ensure the highest availability, capacity, and workload surge protection in their infrastructure.
"That's why Hitachi created the Trinium; it's designed for companies who absolutely refuse to endure the cost of downtime, who need a server with virtually boundless scalability, and one that can absorb totally unpredictable upward spikes inherent in peak e-transaction processing."
The new Trinium Nine Series is the ultimate protection against unexpected Web traffic, and thrives on e-business unpredictability with its built-in system redundancies and industry-leading workload surge protection. With capacity to spare for existing core business applications, the Trinium Nine Series offers four key customer benefits that no other server can offer: the most stable environment possible, reduced cost, reduced risk, and reduced complexity.
In October of last year, Hitachi began shipping the highly successful Skyline Trinium Eight Series — the first server to break the 2 BIPS (billion instructions per second) barrier — and now Hitachi is first again with the new Trinium Nine Series, the only server on the planet to produce performance approaching the 3 BIPS barrier.
The Trinium Nine Series delivers 262 MIPS (million instructions per second) per instruction processor, and performs at nearly 3 BIPS when configured with 16 instruction processors, fulfilling Hitachi's statement of intent issued last February, and making it the world's most powerful commercial enterprise server.
Thanks to new breakthrough technology from Hitachi, the Trinium Nine Series offers the highest multi-processing (MP) factor in the history of System/390®, S/370®, and S/360® servers, thereby allowing customers to obtain more business benefits from each processing cycle. This technology enables Trinium to outperform any competitive mainframe at every stage of system scaling, all the way from a two-processor system to a fully configured 16-processor system.
As Trinium servers move to supporting more and more massive, data-intensive mission-critical applications — which was once the domain of several S/390 platforms — the requirement for optimum resiliency increases. "In this digital continuum that surrounds us today, change seems to be on more of a geometric rather than arithmetic progression," said Chris Worrall, Vice President of Server Product Marketing and Management, Hitachi Data Systems. "Companies are experiencing an almost incalculable explosion of demands on their IT infrastructure, and are in dire need of enterprise servers with tenacious resiliency features.
"That's why the Trinium offers the world's highest resiliency characteristics, and exploits the System/390 architecture like no other machine in history. Due to its superior design it can process transactions beyond the point of saturation more effectively than any other processor in the S/390 environment. Trinium moves through burgeoning levels of transaction queues at an accelerated pace, absorbing work other platforms would be constrained while attempting to process. No other system out there comes even close."
Trinium also 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.
Trinium allows for the definition of up to 15 discrete Virtual Servers within a single footprint. Currently, BMC Software, Candle Corporation, Compuware, Computer Associates International, ISM, Isogon, and Information Builders have endorsed VSF, providing asset management flexibility to common clients.
The new server lineup announced today further demonstrates Hitachi's commitment to the unparalleled scalability, availability, and performance of the Trinium Series.
Recognized as a leading provider of business solutions for the world's most IT-intensive corporations, Hitachi Data Systems offers technical services, multi-platform storage subsystems, and the industry's broadest line of high-performance servers. The company's solutions are "built for fast times™," enabling customers to exploit the value of information technology for success in the Internet economy. These solutions reflect Hitachi's vision of allowing clients to focus on their business, and not their technology. Hitachi Data Systems is owned by Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT) and has its headquarters in Santa Clara, California. For further information on Hitachi Data Systems, access www.hds.com.
Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, is one of the world's leading global electronics companies, with fiscal 1998 (ended March 31, 1999) consolidated sales of 7,977 billion yen ($65.9 billion). The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products, including computers, semiconductors, consumer products and power and industrial equipment. For more information on Hitachi, Ltd., please visit Hitachi's Web site at http://www.hitachi.co.jp.
¹ At an exchange rate of 121 yen to the dollar.
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