Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi,
Ltd. (NYSE:HIT) (TOKYO:6501), today redefined unified storage with the
new Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) and single management framework. HUS
stores multiple data types with more flexibility and more balanced
scalability than any other midrange solution. It helps customers manage
their critical business applications and meet their growth requirements
without compromising performance, scalability or cost efficiency. In
addition, Hitachi Data Systems is announcing today that its entire
hardware product portfolio, including the new HUS, will be supported by
Hitachi Command Suite management software. As the first enterprise-class
vendor to provide a single software management platform for all of its
products, Hitachi Data Systems is helping its customers further reduce
costs and complexity throughout the data center.
According to Sean Moser, vice president, Software Platforms Product
Management, Hitachi Data Systems, “The roots of current unified storage
products on the market today are based on the needs of smaller
organizations that did not have the storage volumes, IT resources or
budgets to acquire and manage separate platforms for block and file
data. The traditional definition for unified management has focused on
managing file and block on these general-purpose lower-end storage
platforms. This all changes today as we bring to market the first
enterprise-class unified storage solution. Hitachi Unified Storage helps
organizations meet application availability and performance requirements
with lower investment. Customers can deploy storage for all data types
and easily grow to meet expanding requirements, while still meeting
service level objectives for critical business applications.”
"IT organizations in mid-sized and large enterprises are struggling with
a deluge of data and increasingly diverse data management needs. They
require storage solutions that meet their growth requirements while
simplifying operations, reducing the total cost structure, and quickly
adapting to changing business needs," said Richard Villars, vice
president, Information and Cloud research, IDC. “Hitachi Unified Storage
provides enterprises with a single foundation for efficiently managing
block, file and object data without making trade-offs in performance,
scalability or capacity utilization.”
Unified Without Compromise: Strength across File, Block and Object
Hitachi Unified Storage consistently and efficiently provisions, tiers,
migrates and protects all data, regardless of type, throughout its
lifecycle. HUS further saves costs with data efficiency capabilities
such as thin provisioning and automatic tiering. Built-in automation
optimizes performance and makes it predictable to assure customers that
they will get the most out of their investment. Intuitive and
easy-to-use software that comes with each system has been designed to
simplify even the most complex environments.
Hitachi Unified Storage supports object data through a unique
object-based file system that intelligently adds metadata for each file
and enables automated tiering and migration, fast file snapshots and
clones, faster replication over WAN, and fast data searches.
Additionally, Hitachi Unified Storage supports Hitachi Content Platform
(HCP) for a true object store with custom metadata and provides
regulatory compliance. Unlike alternative systems, HCP can share HUS
capacity with file and block applications from the same storage pool.
Combined, this solution is far more space efficient and cost effective
for customers than separate and siloed object store implementations.
HUS has the most balanced scalability in the industry. Unlike other
solutions that scale only in capacity, HUS also scales by predictable
performance, replicated data, block volume size and file system size.
The benefit for customers is that the HUS platform will have a longer
service life than competing products and be a better investment.
HUS is the fastest midrange storage system available today for block and
file data access, enabling organizations to achieve performance goals at
the lowest possible price. High-end storage functionality, such as
page-based auto-tiering, is available with HUS to facilitate automated
placement of data for the highest performance at the lowest cost.
The new Hitachi Application Protector, also introduced today, is an
application-aware, snapshot-based data protection, backup and recovery
software suite for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and SharePoint
environments.