Hitachi All-Flash VSP With Highest SPC-1 Result for External Storage Systems

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation announced that its Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) all-flash configuration achieved the highest Storage Performance Council (SPC-1) result for an external enterprise storage system.

Built for the demanding enterprise workloads, VSP all-flash configuration allows organizations to maximize the ROI in flash technology while accelerating application performance, maximizing server virtualization environments, and enabling high-speed private cloud deployments. The achievement represents a milestone in the HDS flash strategy, further demonstrated by the recent release of Hitachi Accelerated Flash for the entry enterprise market with the Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) all-flash system.

With 602,019.47 SPC IO/s in the SPC-1 result and as much as a 65% decrease in cost per SPC-1 IO/s from hard-drive-based systems, VSP with flash acceleration and Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage bring customers the best performance available from an enterprise storage system – delivering the fastest response times at a better price-performance ratio than competitive systems.

Under the SPC-1 methodology, the scalability of VSP all-flash configuration was 33% higher than the IBM DS88702 with more than 3 times better performance per dollar. The VSP architecture demonstrated the scalability of enterprise storage with response times between 7 and 18 times lower with varying loads than the midrange HP 3PAR StoreServ 10000 system.

• On November 1, 2011, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform achieved a total
  of 269,506.69 SPC-1 IO/s at $8.18 per SPC-1 IO/s with an average
  response time on all application storage units (ASUs) at 100% load of
  5.85ms using 1,152 15K RPM disk drives.
• On October 3, 2012, IBM System Storage DS8870 achieved a total of 451,082.27 SPC-1 IO/s at $10.81 per SPC-1 IO/s.
• On
  October 17, 2011, HP P10000 3PAR V800 Storage System achieved a total
  of 450,212.66 SPC-1 IO/s with an average response time on all
  application storage units (ASUs) at 100% load of 13.67ms.

"The SPC-1 result announced further demonstrates our commitment to provide industry-leading flash-based technologies, as well as the superiority of the Hitachi VSP architecture and our system flash optimization engineering," said Asim Zaheer, SVP, WW marketing, HDS. "More and more, customers are asking for application and server virtualization acceleration with less disruption to their environment and less risk. With Hitachi VSP, we can start customers down the path toward a private cloud with confidence, unified management and performance to spare."

Customer Benefits

• Productivity: Sustain more business transactions, up to 223%, compared to Hitachi VSP with all 15K rpm SAS HDD drives.
• Efficiency and Application Performance: Up to 88% reduction in application response times compared to VSP with all-HDD, allowing support for more users and applications.
• Environmental Cost: Up to 98% reduction in drive footprint compared to VSP with all-HDD.
• Price-Performance Ratio: As much as 65% lower price-performance ratio compared to VSP with all-HDD.

About Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
3-D scaling storage platform designed for all data types, VSP is an enterprise storage architecture that flexibly adapts for performance, capacity and multivendor storage. When combined with Hitachi Command Suite management software, it transforms data centers across the globe by making it easy and effective for companies to manage data – all while reducing storage costs.