Hitachi Vantara: Virtual Storage Platform E990 Storage System for Midsize Enterprise Customers

Hitachi Vantara LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., introduced Virtual Storage Platform E990 (VSP), a storage platform for midsize enterprise customers.

The E990’s performance and low latency supercharge business applications, and data deduplication guarantees storage cost reductions.

Hitachi Ops Center AI-driven management software can also simplify storage provisioning for AI, ML and containerized applications. The E990 with Ops Center provides an NVMe all-flash option for the company’s family of solutions for midsize enterprises, adding to a portfolio of infrastructure solutions that feature performance and include the firm’s signature 100% data availability guarantee for businesses of all sizes.

The company also unveiled EverFlex, a program that provides simple, elastic and acquisition choices for the E990 and the entire the firm’s portfolio. It adds consumption-based pricing models that range from basic utility pricing, to custom outcome-based services, to Storage-as-a-Service. It will align IT spend with business use for midsize enterprises, enabling ways to lower cost, avoid wasting capacity and eliminate disruption.

Deduplication reduces storage costs
With data volumes forecast to rise to 23%⁽¹⁾ and storage budgets growing only 10%⁽²⁾ on average, midsize enterprises need solutions to reduce storage costs. The nVSP E990 with Ops Center delivers 4:1 data deduplication – twice that of Hitachi’s closest competitor – guaranteeing to free up 75% of storage capacity⁽³⁾.

AI-enhanced management tools simplify storage provisioning
Industry analyst firm 451 Research suggests 43% ⁽⁴⁾ of storage buyers feel unprepared to support increased future demands. The VSP E990 combined with Ops Center directly addresses this challenge. Ops Center’s AI-enhanced management streamlines storage delivery by up to 90% ⁽³⁾ for demanding applications. It also reduces manual storage provisioning tasks by up to 70%⁽³⁾ and delivers root cause issue analysis 4x to accelerate troubleshooting.

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Performance that won’t break bank
The VSP E990 addresses the data infrastructure reliability challenges that many enterprises continue to face: one-third of enterprises still suffer outages ⁽⁵⁾ or significant performance degradation as a result of storage reliability issues. It delivers the reliability to midsize enterprises at a price point they can afford. It features an all-NVMe architecture with the and low cost IO/s (as low as $0.03 per IO/s) and low latency for the resource-hungry business applications.

Predictable pricing and flexible consumption
EverFlex adds choice in consumption-based pricing models that make pricing predictable for cloud-like storage usage. It starts by enabling customers to pay only for what they use and align technology spending with business use to reduce costs by up to 20%⁽³⁾, eliminating the need to pay for the essential reserve capacity that every installation needs. Added services are available to further reduce costs and avoid disruptions to business by providing outcome-based operational services that help deliver more consistent service levels without placing additional burden on staff.

VSP E990 supercharged for partners
The product is for partners to deliver innovation and benefits important to midsize enterprise customers. The company continues to invest in its predictable, profitable and partner program with enablement tools, marketing resources and incentives designed for distributors and resellers focused on midsize enterprises. Read the blog post by Kimberly King, channel chief, Hitachi Vantara, to learn more about the opportunity VSP E990 presents for partners and to read commentary from the company’s global partner community (see below).

“With its Virtual Storage Platform E990 system, Hitachi is upping the ante in midrange storage. The VSP E990 is an all-NVMe system that is both storage-class memory (SCM) and NVMe-oF ready, can scale to nearly 6 million IO/s and well over 16PB of effective capacity, provides a ‘no questions asked’ 4:1 data reduction guarantee based on just compression and deduplication, and is backed by Hitachi’s 100% data availability guarantee,” said Eric Burgener, research VP, enterprise infrastructure systems, platforms and technologies, IDC. “Midrange enterprises that need room to grow for their mission-critical workloads should look at the compelling value proposition offered by the Hitachi VSP E990.“

“The VSP E990 is really compelling, especially the software,” said Eros Tibor, team coordinator, central European data center compute and storage team, KBC Group NV. “I would buy it.“

“Hitachi Vantara has led the industry for decades with proven, reliable data solutions that are time-tested for performance, availability and scalability and backed by our pioneering 100% data availability guarantee,” said Brian Householder, president, digital infrastructure, Hitachi Vantara. “Our new VSP E990 with Hitachi Ops Center completes our portfolio for midsize enterprises, putting AIO/s to work harder for our customers so they can work smarter for theirs.“

VSP E990, Ops Center and EverFlex are available from the company and its network of partners.

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