Offers Customers Enterprise-class Enhancements, Greater Flexibility
for the Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Family
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi,
Ltd. (NYSE:HIT)
and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today
introduced enhancements across hardware and software to its award
winning Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family to give customers improved
operational efficiency, performance, reliability, and security.
“The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family has the capability to
manage extremely complex tasks and enables a level of operational
efficiencies not found in other modular storage products,” said Mike
Walkey, Senior Vice President of Global Channels, Hitachi Data Systems.
“With these innovative enterprise-class enhancements, Hitachi Data
Systems continues to raise the bar for modular storage and shows its
commitment to providing compelling storage consolidation solutions for
the Channel.”
As part of the Hitachi Storage Solutions portfolio, the Adaptable
Modular Storage 2000 family delivers best-in-class advanced features
such as symmetrical active-active controllers and a SAS backplane to
allow for maximum configuration flexibility in virtual server and tiered
storage environments. Combined with the newly announced capabilities,
Hitachi continues its legacy of innovation and focus on bringing the
best in operational efficiency and performance to the customer.
Enhancements to the storage platform include:
Operational Efficiency
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High Density Storage Expansion Tray – more than doubling the
capacity of the standard tray, the High Density Storage Expansion Tray
installs up to 48 drives in 4U, or today’s equivalent of 48 terabytes,
offering the industry’s most reliable, available, best price
performance ratio for a dense storage system. As data growth continues
to expand, customers require more floor space and Hitachi provides a
cost effective and space efficient solution. The benefits of the
expansion tray allow customers to use it for content archiving,
disk-to-disk backup, NAS consolidation, or for cloud computing. Now
customers can drastically increase their gigabyte per square foot
while lowering the cost of managing their systems.
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Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software – brings the
enterprise-class advantages of thin provisioning such as cost savings,
automated performance optimization and easy provisioning, to Hitachi
midrange customers. As previously announced, this function is
generally available in the second half of this year.
Performance
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8Gb/sec Fibre Channel (FC) Host Ports – connects the latest
generation of host bus adapters and switches for the maximum
throughput and connectivity on Adaptable Modular Storage 2300 and 2500
systems.
