HDS With New Flash Portfolio

As organizations digitize their businesses, the demand for immediate access to information has soared, forcing IT departments to focus on modernizing their core IT infrastructures. As a result, companies large and small are increasingly moving to flash-based technologies to create faster, more responsive IT environments. As they begin their journey to an all-flash infrastructure, many struggle to understand how to move to flash without devastating their IT budgets.

VSP G200

To help its customers solve these challenges, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., announced the first wave of solutions in an expanded flash portfolio that offers performance, automation and resiliency that is more cost-effective than legacy, disk-based technology.

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000

The company’s flash portfolio includes a new and expanded lineup of all-flash and hybrid flash arrays, performance optimization software and data analytics capabilities, including: the all-flash Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) F series, enhanced models of the VSP G series, next-generation company’s flash modules with inline data compression (FMD DC2) and enhanced compny’s Automation Director and Data Center Analytics tools for improved response times and greater effective capacity.

VSP G400

The company has invested in next-generation flash technologies for years, as represented by the more than 350 flash-related patents held by company’s worldwide. Furthermore, the companyhas been meeting the demand for flash technology since 2008, as one of suppliers of enterprise flash in the industry, having shipped more than 250PB of total flash capacity and supporting large all-flash deployments for critical business applications.

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Virtual Storage Platform F series
New additions to the VSP family – the VSP F400, F600 and F800 – bring together all-flash storage and the simplicity of built-in automation software with the proven resiliency and performance of VSP technology. The VSP F series offers an 1.4 million IO/s to meet the demanding application requirements and leverages FMD DC2 (flash modules) to provide inline, no penalty compression for increased effective capacity that keeps latency < 1ms, even at maximum scale.

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The VSP F series is a resilient all-flash array and offers the industry’s only 100% data availability guarantee. Easy-to-use replication management is included with the F series with optional synchronous and asynchronous replication available for complete data protection. The F series ranges in effective storage capacity from 12.8TB up to 448TB and provides customers with and all-flash solution that works with other Hitachi infrastructure products through common management software and rich automation tools not available with niche products.

The VSP G series has been enhanced through leveraging the FMD DC2 for better response times, effective capacity and ROI.

Second generation flash module drive with data compression (FMD DC2)
Leveraging the FMD DC2 drives that are the foundation of the VSP F series, the enhanced VSP G series can deliver improved response times, effective flash capacity and ROI. The FMD DC2 patented design leverages a high speed, parallelized architecture that delivers up to five times more write IO/s and three times more read IO/s than standard solid state drives (SSDs). It includes robust multi-queuing technology that allows IO to be prioritized over background operations for superior low latency, even under heavy load.

The FMD DC2 is available in capacities up to 6.4TB and brings with it penalty-free, inline compression.

Enhanced Automation Director software

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Through predefined service templates and automated management workflows, company’s Automation Director empowers end users with self-service provisioning of flash storage to accelerate, simplify and streamline the deployment of new applications and resources faster.

Data Center Analytics
To reduce the cost and complexity and increase the speed of application deployment, company’s Data Center Analytics is an efficient and scalable analytics software. It provides customers with the tools to strategically position their flash investments across multi-vendor hardware environments with granular performance monitoring and analysis at scale. Data Center Analytics monitors Hitachi and third party storage to identify and resolve ecosystem performance issues and enable more effective capacity planning.

“As application usage within customer environments continues to grow, so does the pressure to ensure the availability and performance of these applications. Our experience of delivering transformational IT confirms that a combination of flash storage within a software-defined infrastructure, like the breadth of offerings from our partner Hitachi Data Systems, offers customers the right balance of agility, automation, efficiency, and reliability to help us enable their users and their business,” said Neil Eke, director, datacenter and storage solutions, Computacenter UK plc.

“With the best flash solutions for solving today’s IT infrastructure needs and a clear capability to help design flash for use cases of the future, Hitachi is a partner you need on this journey,” said Asim Zaheer, CMO, HDS. “With our broad portfolio of flash solutions and advanced, patented technology, Hitachi is your trusted partner to accelerate business outcomes with an all-Flash, software-defined infrastructure that eliminates slowdowns and accelerates your time to market.“

“In this fast-paced industry, there is always a need to improve on application response time as well as lowering data center costs. With Hitachi Data Systems Flash solutions, these goals are not aspirational. They can be reality,” said G.S.Ravi Kumar, CIO, Gati Limited.

“Staying ahead of the technology curve is of paramount importance to our business and we are constantly seeking new ways to modernize our core infrastructure to accelerate business outcomes. Hitachi Data Systems’ flash technology provides us with the performance and resiliency that we need to be responsive to business demands today and in the future,” said Kurt Rufer, head, IT-Infrastructure, Coop.

“We continue to experience significant growth with proven Flash solutions from Hitachi Data Systems. The expansion of the Hitachi flash portfolio will allow us to provide the right fit solution _ whether high-performance hybrid array or a high-density, all-flash solution _ to our customers without compromise,” said Darin DeHart, VP, sales, Edge Solutions, LLC.

“As application usage within customer environments continues to grow, so does the pressure to ensure the availability and performance of these applications. Our experience of delivering transformational IT confirms that a combination of flash storage within a software-defined infrastructure, like the breadth of offerings from our partner Hitachi Data Systems, offers customers the right balance of agility, automation, efficiency, and reliability to help us enable their users and their business,” said Neil Eke, director, datacenter and storage solutions, Computacenter Uk, Plc.

Resources:
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