HDS With All-Flash System

Hitachi Data Systems unveiled
enhancements to three key infrastructure solutions: Hitachi Unified Storage VM 
(HUS VM) all flash system, Hitachi Unified Storage
and Hitachi NAS Platform,
and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform
(UCP).

  
Hitachi Unified Storage VM

Able to reduce TCO by up to 30% compared to
alternative solutions and up to double the performance benefits of previous
generations, the new turbocharged solutions maximize IT investments and help
customers achieve operational savings despite today’s relentless data growth
and cloud infrastructure complexities.

HUS VM all flash system, Hitachi Unified Storage
and Hitachi NAS Platform, and the enhanced Hitachi UCP portfolio give
enterprises efficient IT platforms to accelerate insight, improve decision-making
and free up resources to attain innovation that transforms businesses.
Cost-effective flexibility and elasticity of private cloud deployments offer
the speed and ability to sustain peak workloads. These benefits are vital to
support the service levels enterprises require to meet user demands.

The trio of infrastructure technologies announced
builds on the content cloud solutions and services unveiled by HDS in May 2013.
They deliver the performance, efficiency and economics needed for the foundation
of enterprise cloud environments. The technologies also achieve a new milestone
in the HDS 3-tiered strategy for infrastructure, content and
information, which builds on existing IT investments to provide a single
virtualization platform for all data to support cloud and enable big data.

With this announcement, organizations can increase
their pace of innovation and more effectively harness data to build competitive
advantage through the following:

• Performance: Up to double the performance of
  alternatives for faster access to information.
• Efficiency: Increase infrastructure and IT
  personnel efficiency through virtualization, capacity efficiencies and auto
  provisioning to free up resources for more strategic initiatives to support business
  goals.
• Economics: Reduce TCO by up to 30% through unified
  management, auto migration and storage provisioning to accelerate business
  insights.

"Customers today are focused on business
transformation. They need information solutions that improve business processes
and simplify IT so they can, in turn, become more agile to react to market
conditions and innovate more quickly," said Roberto Basilio, VP, storage platforms
product management, HDS. "The days of capex spending are behind us. The
technologies we are announcing today redefine the economics of storage by
delivering opex savings that are essential to a business’s bottom line. By
eliminating performance hiccups associated with disparate architectures and
information silos in the data center environment, HDS sets a flexible yet
powerful foundation for private cloud and big data platforms that helps to
accelerate insight, improve decision-making and free up resources for customers
to innovate with information."

"The enhancements HDS has just rolled out to
its key flash, unified and converged storage solutions should help customers to
get a greater impact for their IT dollar," said Terri McClure, senior
analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "The virtualization, efficiency and
automation HDS provides can allow businesses to shift resources from tactical
and maintenance operations that support the status quo to more strategic
initiatives that support business goals. The fact that HDS can deploy a
converged infrastructure solution and integrated computing options to support
private cloud environments in less than one week is a real point of
differentiation. We expect enterprises and mid-market companies to get excited
about these new capabilities and quickly start reaping the benefits."

New Hitachi Data Systems Flash,
Unified and
Converged Solutions

• HUS VM Flash-Optimized System Software with Hitachi
  Accelerated Flash Storage
• Deliver up to 1,000,000 IO/s for faster access to
  data and acceleration of insights.
• Up to double the storage efficiency of commodity SSDs
  while reducing the cost per I/O by up to 60% or more.
• Extend the life and improve the performance of
  current storage assets by using external storage virtualization and Hitachi
  Dynamic Tiering.

Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform

• Boast the highest performance in the industry with
  up to double the speed to help consolidate storage and save time and cost using
  file sharing technology.
• Slash hardware requirements and reduce capacity
  needs by up to 90%, with no performance degradation, by using the primary
  deduplication capabilities.
• Apply new file modules to combine file and block
  storage into one sleek, powerful solution that supports big data workloads and
  consolidates multiple NAS filers, and yields up to 30% lower TCO in the first
  year alone.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform

• Includes Hitachi UCP Pro for vSphere, UCP Select
  for Microsoft Private Cloud, and UCP Select for Oracle Database Real
  Application Cluster.
• Can accelerate time to market by deploying new
  converged infrastructure solutions and integrated computing options in less
  than one week to support private cloud environments.
• Simplifies management functions and improves
  utilization to cut TCO by up to 30% over four years.
• Delivers up to double the performance benefits
  across mission-critical application environments to enable faster access to
  information by using flash storage and advanced server technologies.

Partner Benefits and Support
HDS Global Services help maximize value and
accelerate the realization of benefits from HUS VM all flash system, Hitachi
Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform, and the enhanced Hitachi UCP
portfolio, with consulting, transition, managed, and support services. A
partner network helps extend the value of these solutions with their skills in
industries, applications, and data center infrastructures. The solutions
deliver incremental services opportunities, including consulting, integration,
and solutions support. Technology partners Brocade, Microsoft and VMware, and
global Hitachi TrueNorth partners have endorsed the new HDS infrastructure
solutions.

"The Hitachi Data Systems primary storage
deduplication approach is a smart approach, and we did not have to compromise
how we run our business. The key is that the deduplication process is
workload-aware; it throttles back when the file service load reaches a certain
level of available IO/s, and then the process automatically resumes when the
system becomes less busy. This means there is no impact to a user’s
performance," said Troy D. Williams, manager, storage and virtualization, Indiana
University.

"We count on the reliability of Hitachi Data
Systems for our most critical workloads. The flash technology, along with
dynamic tiering, addresses our needs of high data growth along with higher
performance by delivering sub-millisecond response times. Best of all, it
protected our existing investments while seamlessly integrating with our
storage architecture without any disruption," said Jitendra Sangharajka,
associate VP, information systems, Infosys Limited.

"Technology can be a
matter of luck, money or commodity. But the right technology and support help
us get where we want to go, quickly and wisely. Because of what we’ve
accomplished and what we continue to accomplish with Hitachi Data Systems, we
are poised to continuously evolve as a company and team, and to bring a
plethora of new offerings to market very soon. The new Hitachi UCP solutions
are an exciting addition to an already strong portfolio of technology," said
Howard Holton, director, IT, Precision Discovery.