HDS Upgrades NAS Platform

For many organizations, file storage sprawl continues to be a
vicious cycle. First generation NAS filers are continuing to run out of
storage capacity, resulting in server proliferation, increased
complexity and higher operating costs. In addition, for large
enterprises, deploying and managing file storage systems at each branch
office can be an expensive and time consuming endeavor. Today, Hitachi
is leveraging its proven best-in-class availability and scalability in
SAN or block storage environments and is extending this capability to
NAS with two new products that lower customers’ total cost of ownership
through file server or NAS consolidation.

The
Hitachi Essential NAS Platform
For medium-sized businesses or enterprises with remote or branch
offices that require reliable and cost-effective solutions that deliver
file service, backup and server consolidation services, the Hitachi
Essential NAS Platform is an easy to use NAS solution that delivers
best-in-class availability and scalability at an affordable price. The
Hitachi Essential NAS Platform consolidates and manages up to 512
terabytes of data in a 2-node cluster with access to data from Common
Internet File System (CIFS) and Network File Systems (NFS). Ensuring
high availability with clustered active-active failover, data stored on
the Hitachi Essential NAS Platform is fully protected with Hitachi’s
proven enterprise-class RAID technology.

Available as a NAS gateway or standalone NAS filer, the Hitachi
Essential NAS Platform comes with identical features and
functionalities in both form factors—delivering the ultimate in
flexibility for customers. The Hitachi Essential NAS Platform Gateway
supports the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage midrange product and the
company’s flagship intelligent storage services platforms, the Hitachi
Universal Storage Platform™ V series. The Hitachi Essential NAS
Platform Filer is bundled with the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage
and comes pre-installed. The system can be completely installed and
configured using its intuitive NAS Wizard in minutes.

"As a service provider that serves both IT and legal departments, we
needed an efficient solution to consolidate our file-base
infrastructure that would scale to support over a billion files and
hundreds of terabytes" said Eric A. Vanderburg, network operations
manager, JurInnov. "We looked at NAS offerings from Hitachi and NetApp
and it was clear that the new Hitachi Essential NAS Platform best fit
our requirements for high availability and scalability. Implementing
the platform allowed us to consolidate our file-based infrastructure
saving us both capital and operational costs."

The Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 3000 Series
The Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc, is being
successfully used by many organizations to deliver large-scale
consolidation, leading-edge performance, enterprise-class data
protection, reliability and scalability.

"Indiana University selected Hitachi’s High-performance NAS (HNAS)
solution to consolidate our existing NAS appliances and provide a
standardized, scalable, high performing NAS infrastructure to
accommodate current and future requirements," said Rob Lowden,
director, Enterprise System Infrastructure, Indiana University. "Its
large throughput capabilities enabled us to fully migrate and
consolidate our existing (non-Hitachi) NAS devices to the HNAS 2100
clustered solution. Integration of the HNAS solution with Hitachi’s
virtualized Universal Storage Platform was instrumental in our
decision. Today, amongst other uses, the HNAS clustered 2100 solution
delivers excellent performance for our digital media streaming
requirements."

Today, Hitachi is continuing to build on its lead over the
competition with the introduction of the Hitachi High-performance NAS
Platform 3000 Series. With significant performance and capacity
enhancements over its predecessor, the Hitachi High-performance NAS
Platform 3000 Series is ideal for large enterprises focused on
consolidation and companies requiring intensive file processing. The
Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 3000 Series enables
enterprise-class data management, virtualization and data protection
for file services. It is the first NAS solution in the industry that
consolidates and manages up to four petabytes of data in a single
storage pool and each file system reaches up to 256 terabytes. The
Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 3000 Series has also doubled in
performance from its previous generation delivering up to 1600 MB/sec
for sequential workload and up to 200,000 IOPS.

The increase in performance allows the Hitachi High-performance NAS
Platform 3000 Series to easily scale as data grows or as performance
demands increase, address workload requirements from a seamless storage
pool with all available performance and capacity’enabling the system to
quickly respond to rapidly changing IT environments. Both the Hitachi
Essential NAS Platform and High-performance NAS Platform 3000 Series
can be managed with a single management interface using the Hitachi
HiCommand Storage Management Suite.

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation