Hitachi Data Systems Introduces New, Enhanced Flash Storage Lineup

Hitachi Data Systems
Introduces New, Enhanced Flash Storage Lineup

New Versions of Hitachi
Solutions Will Accelerate Your Digital Transformation

Singapore — October 26, 2016 — Hitachi
Data Systems (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501),
today announced new systems and software designed to deliver better customer
experiences and return on investments. Powered by the next generation of
Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) and backed by a 100% data availability guarantee,
the expanded Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) lineup delivers
performance, resiliency and workload scalability beyond what is offered by
other platforms.

In
today’s digital economy, it is critical that customers receive information in
real time and that businesses recognize maximum cost-efficiency from their
operations. To meet these needs, the new SVOS 7 has been engineered with an
improved flash-aware I/O stack and selectable data services:

·  Quality
of Service (QoS): Enables predictable performance
for a consistent user experience. Data reduction services can be dedicated to
workloads for more predictable response times as data levels grow.

·  Adaptive
data reduction: Provides deduplication and
compression for 2:1, 5:1 or greater capacity savings. SVOS 7 can offload
compression to Hitachi flash modules (FMDs) for more scalable data reduction
than other flash arrays.

·  Cloud
tiering for all-flash VSP F series: Transparently
moves files to private or public cloud storage, reducing data center footprint
and enabling lower, more predictable storage costs for superior IT efficiency.

“The industry is
moving to flash and the new announcement of our new Software Virtualization
Operating System (SVOS), FLASH Module Drive (FMD) and Virtual Storage
Platform(VSP) technologies dramatically expand the reach of flash technology to
accelerate application to run faster and make it more accessible to our
customers to reduce overall infrastructure costs,” said Joe Ong, Managing Director
for Hitachi
Data Systems –
Singapore and Vietnam (pictured).

SVOS
7 is available on all new and existing Virtual Storage Platform G series and F
series systems. Existing customers can take advantage of SVOS 7 and its
deduplication and compression features through a non-disruptive upgrade.

For
businesses that need to drive IT consolidation and support both open-system and
mainframe applications, HDS is offering two new high-end VSP models. The
all-flash VSP F1500, built on new high-density FMDs with raw capacities of up
to 14TB, delivers over 4.8M IOPS and up to
40PB of effective flash capacity. It scales to 576 FMDs, providing up to 2304
extra cores for handling data reduction and enabling superior price and
performance value.

For
businesses looking to transition to all-flash over time, HDS offers the new VSP
G1500, which offers 4.8M IOPS – a 20% improvement over VSP G1000.

VSP
G1000 customers can upgrade to VSP G1500 via a data-in-place, non-disruptive
migration. This simplifies the transition to the more powerful VSP G1500
platform and reinforces the HDS commitment to protecting our customers’
investments.

In
conjunction with the release of SVOS 7 and the enhanced VSP lineup HDS is
upgrading its management stack to simplify data management. New versions of
Hitachi Storage Advisor, Automation Director and Infrastructure Analytics
Advisor enable customers to more easily implement new SVOS 7 functions and
reduce IT operational costs and complexity.

Supporting Quotes

“Our
customers are not only looking for increased efficiency, productivity and
scalability, but also the guarantee of a support system for the longevity of
the investment,” said Robert Fletcher, Dept. Lead Systems Engineering
and Production, Drei-Banken-EDV, GmbH.

“In
today’s market, we are seeing serious pressure for companies to embrace Digital
Transformation, particularly due to its ability to deliver improved operations,
processes and customer experience,” said Marty Sos, Senior Director, General
Manager, HDS and Networking Business Units, Arrow ECS. “With its expanded VSP
lineup and enhanced software capabilities, Hitachi Data Systems is helping us
accelerate the customer journey to Digital Transformation.”

“The latest enhancements to Storage
Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) from Hitachi Data Systems are game
changers. With the accelerated flash engine in the new SVOS 7 offering,
customers can intelligently manage data access to deliver lower latency,
greater efficiency and improved uptime,” said Dan DiTucci, Cloud Chief
Technologist, Continental Resources. “Furthermore, with deduplication and
compression combined with direct cloud connect via Data Migrator to the Cloud
(DM2C), our customers can achieve best-in-class total cost of ownership.