ESG Lab Validation Report: Universal Storage Platform V
ESG Lab tests on the USP V focused on verifying thin provisioning of internal and external storage, creating large logical pools of capacity and the system’s improved performance, which Hitachi delivers within the context of its Services Oriented Storage Solutions architecture. The authors conclude that thin provisioning can essentially eliminate the need for storage provisioning and customers can create large logical volumes without any cost, allowing the application to keep growing and growing as needed. ESG analysts have spoken to customers who have implemented thin provisioning and they report that they spend literally no time provisioning storage except when creating new volumes. (March 2008)
Hitachi Broadens and Deepens Content Services
The trifecta of announcements that Hitachi made at CeBit, do cross-reference each other, but do not do justice to the power of the overall vision that brings them together. …These have been combined with a determination by Hitachi executives to move beyond its current position as a provider of seemingly bulletproof, but not always very exciting, disk hardware platforms. (March 2008)
Hitachi Data Migration Services
By using the HDS storage virtualization technology to perform data migrations, the process is fast and completely transparent—even in heterogeneous storage system environments. Additionally, data migrations can happen online while users and applications are accessing data on these platforms. (January 2008)
HDS Makes Storage Simple
HDS is going after the SMB, ROBO and departmental storage market and the timing is great. ESG believes that
virtual machines will help to drive storage networking growth in all three areas. Additionally, iSCSI is extremely successful and is now a mainstream storage interconnect. There are hundreds of thousands of storage networks out there but the potential is for millions. That is the opportunity that HDS sees on the horizon.
(October 2007)
Hitachi USP VM: An Important Step toward Virtualizing the Data Center
We are witnessing a new Hitachi that is aggressively driving its storage virtualization leadership through consistent innovation. The USP VM is the first storage system that enables IT to extend its high-end features to external heterogeneous storage systems—such as thin provisioning. This is extremely powerful and is an important step to further virtualize the data center. (September 2007)
The Hitachi USP V - "V" is for Victory
HDS announced the Universal Storage Platform in September, 2004. The compelling news about the USP at the time was that it changed the rules of the Enterprise-class storage system game by delivering a storage system that raised the level of play above the head-to-head competition. The HDS USP was and still is the only leading Enterprise-class storage system that also provides external storage virtualization of heterogeneous storage systems. (May-2007)
Hitachi USP V Enterprise-Class Services Oriented Storage Solutions (ESG Lab Validation Report)
ESG Lab has performed multiple hands-on testing of the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform (USP), starting in August, 2004 just prior to when it was first released. At that time, we focused on its performance, scalability and various features, and paid especial attention to its external storage virtualization capability. At the time, the notion of an Enterprise-class storage system that supported external storage virtualization was unique, a notion which persists to this day, and yet the value of such a system is obvious and compelling. (May-2007)
Service Oriented Storage Solutions
"What is the concept of Service Oriented Storage Solutions and why is it important? Service Oriented Storage Solutions is the idea of leveraging one’s storage infrastructure to provide a service to the business. How this manifests itself will depend on the IT department and its implementation of Service Oriented Storage Solutions. However, it is important that the actual Service Oriented Storage Solutions platform provides the necessary tools and technology to implement true Service Oriented Storage Solutions" (26-March-2007)
RoHS Compliance for a Global Economy
"RoHS represents a departure from how laws are normally drafted. Rather than dealing with the symptoms of the problem, it attempts to deal with the source, and for good reason. No one wants to drink water and eat food knowing that remnants of their laptop or monitor are in its make-up or that individuals in other countries are being harmed by our waste computer products. RoHS is expanding beyond Europe with California and China requiring RoHS compliance by January and March 2007 respectively." (02-Jan-2007)
HDS and BlueArc - A Partnership That is "High"
"HDS is partnering with BlueArc, an emerging vendor with best-in-class next generation NAS solutions targeted for the billion dollar plus high performance computing (HPC) market and large data centers." (02-Jan-2007)
Intelligent Tiered Storage: Focus on HDS
"Implementing different tiers of storage is very common. Implementing an Intelligent Tiered Storage environment, however, is still more the exception and not the rule. Storage virtualization provides a foundation with intelligence to leverage the different storage tiers." (02-Jan-2007)
