Universal Storage Platform
With capabilities well beyond any other storage system, the Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform established a new industry category, reaching previously unattainable levels of consolidation and bringing to reality the virtualization of internal and external heterogeneous storage into one pool.
This platform provides a comprehensive set of storage and data services including large-scale virtualization of internal and external heterogeneous storage for application-centric storage area management and simplified and unified data replication. As an integral component of Application Optimized Storage™ solutions, the Universal Storage Platform is the architectural foundation for matching application requirements to different classes of storage.
The Universal Storage Platform will enable you to deploy applications within a new framework, fully leverage-and add value to-current investments, and more closely align IT and business initiatives.
Features
- Superior performance: 2.5 million I/Os per second, 81GB/sec aggregate internal bandwidth
- Superior scalability: 32PB of total storage capacity including up to 332TB of internal storage
- Superior connectivity: up to 192 Fibre Channel, 96 ESCON, or 96 FICON ports
- Powered by the third-generation Universal Star Network™ crossbar switch architecture
- Virtualization of internal and externally attached storage
- Logical partitioning of internal and externally attached storage resources
- Universal replication across heterogeneous platforms
- Active workload balancing and tuning
- Multi-protocol consolidation with Fibre Channel (FC), FICON®, ESCON®, iSCSI, and NAS
- Single-pane-of-glass management with Hitachi HiCommand® Suite software
Benefits
- Simplify operations with one set of tools for heterogeneous data management and replication
- Application Optimized Storage enables you to align business and application requirements with the appropriate storage resources
- Protect your investment and extend the life of existing storage assets
- Move, copy, and migrate data nondisruptively between heterogeneous tiered storage
- Avoid resource contention and ensure application quality of service with virtual private storage machines
- Meet governmental compliance regulations and legal requirements to protect your most critical data
TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform and Network Storage Controller Specifications
Quote
"HDS's positioning of the Universal Storage Platform is a clear effort to aggressively pursue the tiered storage and data life cycle management opportunities in large enterprises."
— Richard L. Villars, Vice President, Storage Systems, IDC
