Hitachi Beats Competitors with Fastest Midrange System and Impressive Price-Performance Ratio
Hitachi Midrange Storage Delivers Customers Cost Efficiency Improvements
SANTA CLARA, Calif. —”March 24, 2009 — Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced its next-generation midrange storage platform, the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family, achieved overall best-in-class Storage Performance Council (SPC-1™) benchmark results for a midrange storage system.
In SPC-1 benchmark testing, the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500 achieved the fastest throughput results among all midrange storage competitors with dual controllers. With an impressive throughput result of 89,491.81 SPC-1 IOPS™ and an 8.98 millisecond average response time, the Adaptable Modular Storage 2500 provides the best performance and response times for key business applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Oracle, SAP or any other online transactional processing application, allowing users to more effectively scale their workloads at a best-in-class price point.
The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100 achieved among the best SPC-1 Price-Performance ratio in its class at $5.95/SPC-1 IOPS™, bringing high performance to a new affordable price level and allowing customers to realize a lower total cost of ownership. With companies scrambling to find ways to manage data growth without increasing storage expenses or performance penalties, this impressive price-performance ratio reiterates Hitachi's continued efforts to help customers establish a path towards optimizing their storage environment. This results in greater return on their storage asset investments and lower overall power and cooling consumption.
“Hitachi has raised the bar on value and performance for modular storage," said Mike Walkey, senior vice president of Global Channels, Hitachi Data Systems. "As our customers' storage demands grow, the highest levels of performance are often necessary to meet challenging infrastructure requirements. With the industry's leading performance in response time and an extremely attractive price-performance ratio, our customers are able to meet SLA agreements, enable better operational efficiencies, simplify their management, and reduce total cost of ownership."
"This latest benchmark is impressive and demonstrates that Hitachi will continue to deliver exceptional value to support customer IT infrastructures, both today and in the future,” said Tony Palmer of ESG Lab. “Hitachi's Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family delivers the type of performance required to satisfy both the growing storage environments and dynamic application requirements of today's midrange customers.”
About the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000
family
In October 2008,
Hitachi announced the next-generation of midrange storage
platforms, the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family. With
an emphasis on operational efficiency, this series delivers several
times the performance compared to prior generations, and also
offers storage consolidation for iSCSI, NAS and Fibre Channel
storage area network (SAN) connections. The Adaptable Modular
Storage family is comprised of three models: the Hitachi Adaptable
Modular Storage 2100, the
Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300, and the Hitachi
Adaptable Modular Storage 2500. The entire portfolio of midrange
storage systems meets the benchmarking standard "Five 9's" of
availability.
The Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family has many advanced features such as symmetrical active-active Controllers with Hitachi Dynamic Load Balancing, SATA/Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Backplane for maximum configuration flexibility, “Spin down; Spin up” Power Savings Feature, and is optimized for Virtual Server Environments.
For more information on the SPC-1 Results for the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family, visit:
Adaptable Modular Storage 2500:
http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00078
Adaptable Modular Storage 2300:
http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00077
Adaptable Modular Storage 2100:
http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00076
About SPC
The SPC is a non-profit corporation founded to define, standardize
and promote storage system benchmarks and to disseminate objective,
verifiable performance data to the computer industry and its
customers. SPC membership is open to all companies, academic
institutions and individuals. The SPC created the first
industry-standard performance benchmark in 2001, targeted at the
needs and concerns of the storage industry and its goal is to serve
as a catalyst for performance improvement in storage. For a
complete list of SPC-1, SPC-2, SPC-1C, and SPC-2C Results, visit
http://www.storageperformance.org/home
About Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation provides Services Oriented Storage
Solutions that enable heterogeneous storage to be dynamically
provisioned according to business needs and centrally managed via
industry leading Hitachi storage virtualization software. With over
4,000 employees, and as an integral part of the Hitachi Storage
Solutions Group, Hitachi Data Systems delivers storage
infrastructure platforms, storage management software, and storage
consulting services through direct and indirect channels in over
170 countries and regions. Its customers include nearly 60-percent
of the top 100 companies on the Fortune 500®. For more
information, visit the company's website at http://www.hds.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT/TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan,
is a leading global electronics company with approximately 390,000
employees worldwide. Fiscal 2007 (ended March 31, 2008)
consolidated revenues totaled 11,226 billion yen ($112.2 billion).
The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services
in market sectors including information systems, electronic
devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products,
materials, logistics and financial services. For more information
on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.
Hitachi Data Systems
Carli Ghelfi
(408) 327-4024
carli.ghelfi@hds.com
Dan La Russo
(303) 634-2632
dan.larusso@ogilvypr.com
© 2009, Hitachi is a registered trademark of Hitachi, Ltd. and/or its affiliates in the United States and other countries. Hitachi Data Systems is a registered trademark and service mark of Hitachi, Ltd. in the United States and other countries.
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