Offers Customers Enterprise-class Enhancements, Greater
Flexibility for the Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Family
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — June 29, 2009
— Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly
owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented
Storage Solutions, today introduced enhancements across hardware
and software to its award winning Adaptable Modular Storage 2000
family to give customers improved operational efficiency,
performance, reliability, and security.
“The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family has the
capability to manage extremely complex tasks and enables a level of
operational efficiencies not found in other modular storage
products,” said Mike Walkey, Senior Vice President of Global
Channels, Hitachi Data Systems. “With these innovative
enterprise-class enhancements, Hitachi Data Systems continues to
raise the bar for modular storage and shows its commitment to
providing compelling storage consolidation solutions for the
Channel.”
As part of the Hitachi Storage Solutions portfolio, the
Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family delivers best-in-class
advanced features such as symmetrical active-active controllers and
a SAS backplane to allow for maximum configuration flexibility in
virtual server and tiered storage environments. Combined with the
newly announced capabilities, Hitachi continues its legacy of
innovation and focus on bringing the best in operational efficiency
and performance to the customer. Enhancements to the storage
platform include:
Operational Efficiency
- High Density Storage Expansion Tray –
more than doubling the capacity of the standard tray, the High
Density Storage Expansion Tray installs up to 48 drives in 4U, or
today's equivalent of 48 terabytes, offering the industry's most
reliable, available, best price performance ratio for a dense
storage system. As data growth continues to expand, customers
require more floor space and Hitachi provides a cost effective and
space efficient solution. The benefits of the expansion tray allow
customers to use it for content archiving, disk-to-disk backup, NAS
consolidation, or for cloud computing. Now customers can
drastically increase their gigabyte per square foot while lowering
the cost of managing their systems.
- Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software –
brings the enterprise-class advantages of thin provisioning such as
cost savings, automated performance optimization and easy
provisioning, to Hitachi midrange customers. As previously
announced, this function is generally available in the second half
of this year.
Performance
- 8Gb/sec Fibre Channel (FC) Host Ports –
connects the latest generation of host bus adapters and switches
for the maximum throughput and connectivity on Adaptable Modular
Storage 2300 and 2500 systems. Customers benefit from increased
performance, enhanced data protection for Tier 1 applications, and
improved management of unstructured data growth. Generally
available in the second half of this year.
Reliability
- Adaptable Modular Storage 2500DC –
specifically designed to meet the most stringent requirements of a
Telco central office (NEBS and ETSI) as well as direct current (DC)
datacenters. With the Adaptable Modular Storage 2500DC, customers
may realize energy and cost savings, as studies show that DC
powered data centers use power more efficiently than alternating
current (AC) powered data centers.
- NEBS Level-3 Compliant Switch – when
combined with Adaptable Modular Storage 2500DC, Hitachi Data
Systems delivers a complete NEBS-compliant SAN from one vendor and
delivers value, flexibility and agility in infrastructure
consolidation through Virtual SAN technology. The combination fully
supports FC connectivity through 24 4Gb/sec dedicated FC ports.
Additionally, the Cisco MDS 9124 SAN switch features integrated
redundant power supplies to support either AC or DC power
installations.
Security
- External Authentication – allows
customers to leverage existing centralized authentication
infrastructure (Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, etc), and
facilitates the use of multi-factor authentication for storage
management users. Generally available in the second half of this
year.
- Common Criteria Certification –
internationally recognized ISO standard (ISO/IEC15408) used by
governments and other security conscious organizations to assess
the security posture of technology products. The pending
certification will provide a strong foundation for customers to
help meet their evolving data security and compliance needs.
Endorsement for the Adaptable Modular Storage 2000
Family
- Matt Stroh, SAP Basis Administrator, Industrial
Electric Wire & Cable – “We've been
nothing but impressed with our Adaptable Modular Storage 2300: the
reliability, great performance, ease of use and operational savings
are bar none when it comes to modular systems. Given that thin
provisioning has always been an enterprise class feature, we look
forward to implementing the increased operational efficiencies of
Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning in our data center.”
- Charles Leeming, Vice President, Worldwide OEM Sales,
Brocade – “Brocade was first-to-market with
8G/sec server-to-storage networking solutions and is committed to
leading the market in delivering end-to-end Fibre Channel solutions
into the future. We are working with industry-leading partners,
like Hitachi Data Systems to address customers’ data center
consolidation needs with innovative solutions like the new 8G/sec
Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family of products. The combined
solution will help support a more powerful, increasingly
virtualized data center environment, while driving down complexity
and operating costs through increased efficiencies.”
- Rajeev Bhardwaj, Senior Director, Cisco Product
Management – “The Adaptable Modular Storage
2500 and the AC/DC power integrated MDS 9124 provide a unique and
reliable NEBS compliant storage solution for the Service Provider
Data Center. Cisco has been at the forefront of SAN innovation with
unique capabilities such as Virtual SANs, QoS, Mobility, and
Security. We look forward to working with Hitachi Data Systems to
offer our joint customers industry-leading products and
solutions.”
- Carl Fulp, Vice President, Engineering and Services,
ViON Corporation – "The new Hitachi Adaptable
Modular Storage 2000 family features provide an irresistibly
compelling solution for our customers. The enterprise-class,
active-active symmetric controllers ease system administration. The
high density modular storage solution has the highest SPC-1 number.
Thin provisioning is coming to the midrange. All of these features
and many more provide the most competitive midrange offering that
Hitachi Data Systems has ever brought to the marketplace."
Web Resources
Find out more about the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000
family:
http://www.hds.com/products/storage-systems/adaptable-modular-storage-2000-family/
Read what CTO Hu Yoshida has to say about the news: http://blogs.hds.com/hu
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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
4,100 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 Web site 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
400,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2008 (ended March 31, 2009)
consolidated revenues totaled 10,000 billion yen ($102.0 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
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carli.ghelfi@hds.com
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