Network Storage Controller
The Hitachi TagmaStore® Network Storage Controller, model NSC55, blends enterprise-class functionality with a modular, small footprint package to meet the business needs of entry-level enterprises and fast-growing midsize organizations, while supporting distributed or departmental applications in large enterprises
The NSC55, powered by the Hitachi Universal Star Network™ crossbar switch architecture, delivers the innovative controller-based virtualization, logical partitioning, and universal replication introduced with the category-creating Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform for open systems and mainframe environments. Now, smaller organizations can enjoy the same benefits as large enterprises in deploying and managing their storage infrastructure in ways never possible before.
The NSC55 supports advanced storage management and data replication features previously not available in modular storage. You can aggregate heterogeneous storage devices into a virtual pool, manage it through a single console using a common set of tools, simplify your storage environments, maximize the use of existing resources, and reduce Total Cost of Ownership.
The NSC55 is the foundation for Application Optimized Storage™ solutions for mainframe and open systems environments, storage area management, business continuity, data protection, storage consolidation and simplification, and tiered storage for data lifecycle management and compliance applications.
Features
- Up to 16PB of total storage capacity under management, including up to 72TB of internal storage
- Virtualization of internal and externally-attached storage from EMC, Hitachi, IBM, Sun, and HP
- Up to 8 logical partitions, dedicating cache, ports and internal and externally-attached capacity to ensure application QoS
- Heterogeneous multiplatform connectivity: Fibre Channel, IBM® ESCON® and FICON®, NAS and iSCSI (future option)
- Transparent, nondisruptive movement of data between storage tiers with HiCommand® Tiered Storage Manager
- Universal replication across heterogeneous platforms
- Active workload balancing and tuning
- Single-pane-of-glass management with HiCommand® Suite software
- Powered by the third generation Universal Star Network™ crossbar switch architecture
- Hi-Track® "call home" service/remote maintenance tool
Benefits
- Replication, migration, and single-pane management across heterogeneous storage systems
- Central role in tiered storage with HiCommand Tiered Storage Manager, matching application multiple performance and archiving requirements to internal and externally attached storage attributes
- Application-specific quality of service and security within logical partitions
- Heterogeneous data replication
- Archiving mainframe data to virtualized SATA-based storage systems
- Nearline disk-to-disk backup and tape replacement
- Archival and long-term tamperproof data retention to meet regulatory compliance
- Consolidation of open systems, mainframe, and NAS data
Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and Network Storage Controller Specifications
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"Our extensive analysis clearly shows the NSC provides impressive efficiencies. Relative to competitive best-of-breed midrange storage products, the NSC can reduce total cost of ownership by as much as 32-percent over a three-year period."
— Dave Vallent, CEO, ITCentrix
