Virtualised, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable

Hitachi Data Systems Storage Solutions

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) provides storage solutions that deliver compelling customer return on investment, unmatched return on assets and demonstrable business impact. HDS believes IT must be virtualised, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable, and offers storage solutions that improve IT costs and agility.

The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) is the only 3D scaling storage platform for all data types that flexibly adapts for performance, capacity and multivendor storage.

Hitachi Data Systems offers a complete portfolio of storage systems and NAS subsystems to consolidate your storage infrastructure and provide best-in-class availability and performance, as well as innovations such as Hitachi Command Suite management software.

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform combined with Hitachi Command Suite management software transforms the data center, making IT more agile:

• The only 3D scaling storage platform designed for all data types
• The only storage architecture to flexibly adapt data storage infrastructures for performance, capacity and multivendor storage, which optimises return on storage assets
• Data mobility to reduce business impact when adapting to change
• Highly efficient design for top performance and capacity combined with lowest power and cooling requirements
• Unique dynamic tiering for data mobility across virtual storage tiers for block, file and content data

3D scaling delivers a storage environment that is more reliable, dynamic and open.

• More reliable, thanks to leading data protection and high availability capabilities
• More dynamic, because data placement and the addition of resources is automated
• More open, due to support for a wide variety of operating systems, data types, storage and server environments

Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V

With previously unattainable levels of consolidation, Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V redefines the storage industry. It is the world's first implementation of a large scale, enterprise-class virtualization layer combined with thin provisioning software. That means the virtualisation of internal and external heterogeneous storage into one pool. You can combine the consolidation benefits of external storage virtualisation with the efficiencies, power and cooling advantages of thin provisioning in one integrated solution.

Universal Storage Platform V is backed by a set of storage and data services that includes thin provisioning with Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software, application-centric storage management and logical partitioning. The result is simplified, unified data replication across heterogeneous storage systems.

USP V provides the foundation for matching application requirements to different classes of storage.

USP V packages and delivers such critical services as:

• Virtualisation of storage from Hitachi and other vendors into one pool
• Thin provisioning through Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning for nondisruptive volume expansion
• Security services, business continuity services and content management services
• I/O load balancing to improve application performance
• Nondisruptive dynamic data migration from Hitachi and third-party storage systems

USP V lets you deploy applications within a new framework, fully leverage—and add value to—current investments, and closely align IT with business objectives.

Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® VM (USP VM)

Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® VM blends enterprise-class functionality with a smaller footprint to meet the business needs of entry level enterprises and fast growing mid-sized organizations. It also supports distributed or departmental applications in large enterprises.

AMS 2000 Family – Enterprise Innovation for Any Size of Company

Your storage challenges increase more from the growth of your data than from the growth of your company. We understand that. No matter how big your business is, HDS scalable storage systems can manage many of your extremely complex tasks and give you operational efficiencies and performance you won’t find anywhere else in a midrange system.

The AMS 2000 Family includes dynamic provisioning to improve your utilisation rates and simplify your storage management. It can reduce your facilities and energy costs. And HDS invented symmetrical active-active controllers to give you fully automated I/O balancing that is built into the hardware. The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family reconfigures your storage for you when an application spikes or changes. How about 99.999% data availability? These systems will even update the microcode while your data remains online.

Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100

Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100 is a cost-effective option with a rich set of features in a model that scales to 120 disk drives. Ideal for medium and large businesses, Adaptable Modular Storage 2100 is an easy-to-use, scalable, storage system for Microsoft Exchange Server, VMware, databases and other business applications.

Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300

Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300 combines the best price and performance in a model that scales to 240 disk drives. Ideal for large businesses and enterprises,  Adaptable Modular Storage 2300 is a highly reliable, flexible and scalable storage system for Microsoft Exchange Server, VMware, databases and other business applications.

Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500

Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500 offers the best performance available in a model that scales to 480 disk drives. Ideal for large and enterprise businesses, Adaptable Modular Storage 2500 is a highly reliable, flexible and scalable storage system for Microsoft Exchange Server, VMware, databases and other business applications. It also provides an optimal choice for tiered and standalone storage, consolidation, business continuity, data replication, backup and archiving.

Hitachi NAS Platform

Hitachi NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc®, extends the performance and scalability market leadership of Hitachi Data Systems. It delivers a robust platform for enterprise consolidation, file virtualization, data protection and commercial application integration. With the cost-effective NAS Platform, Hitachi delivers easy-to-use file server consolidation and backup at an affordable price.

Hitachi Content Platform

Hitachi Content Platform is a multipurpose, distributed storage solution that addresses many challenges in the growth of unstructured data. An intelligent, content-based system, it supports multiple tiers of storage for a wide range of unstructured content, all in a single platform. IT professionals use the Content Platform to securely segregate data and provide different features and levels of service for different datasets.