Monday, December 21, 2009

Hitachi Data Systems Sets New Standard in Midrange with Feature Rich NAS Platform

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly endemic accessory of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the alone provider of Service Oriented Storage Solutions, today appear the accepted availability of its new Hitachi Network Attached Storage (NAS) Platform, powered by BlueArc®, with two new solutions that advance the envelope in performance, scalability, alliance and administration for midrange storage. The new Hitachi NAS 3080 and 3090 action the a lot of chip built-in Intelligent File Tiering adequacy in midrange today, and cover a array of allowances advised accurately to access abundance and abridge accumulator management. With the new Hitachi NAS Platform, barter can accomplish up to 30 percent Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) accumulation over aggressive offerings accessible today.

“We action organizations the a lot of absolutely integrated, unified midrange accumulator band-aid to advice them get a handle on their abstracts and use it to administer their organization. Today, we are furthering our charge to our barter by extending our NAS portfolio,” said Miki Sandorfi, arch strategist, File and Content Services, Hitachi Data Systems. “Unlike added accumulator vendors that accommodate cobbled together, siloed solutions with disparate management, Hitachi Data Systems combines accumulator administration software, agreeable archiving, and abstracts analysis solutions in one chip belvedere to abbreviate aggravation and abate accumulator CAPEX and OPEX.”

Organizations are adverse exponential advance of baggy data, putting added demands on their bound IT budgets. To accomplish do, organizations generally consolidate book servers with NAS solutions that abridgement the scalability and achievement and could cause NAS proliferation. The new Hitachi NAS Platform acme the industry with up to 2 petabytes of accommodation and 100K IOPS per node, which enables the a lot of able-bodied alliance for midrange companies. Many organizations aswell plan to move beneath accessed abstracts to lower amount accumulator tiers but are challenged after an chip administration apparatus to automate the process. The new Hitachi NAS Platform offers built-in Intelligent Tiering adequacy and are deeply chip with the Hitachi Data Discovery Suite to accredit barter to move abstracts automatically a allotment of Fibre channel, SAS, SATA and annal tiers based on pre-set policies, seek the agreeable above accumulator silos and use the seek after-effects to activate abstracts movement.

Combined with added performance, scalability and administration capabilities, the Hitachi NAS Platform provides barter a adjustable foundation to accomplish added operational allowances at a lower cost. In addition, this band-aid is a abundant fit for midrange barter with alloyed accumulator environments, as accepted administration amid the Hitachi NAS belvedere and Hitachi SAN technologies can be accomplished with a individual interface and after the added administration band adversary solutions require.

New Hitachi NAS Platform Features
The Hitachi NAS 3080 and 3090 action top end achievement and scalability at a midrange amount for “pay-as-you-grow” adaptability and simplified administration of accumulator resources. With this midrange solution, barter can now advantage a affluent set of appearance and functionality after the acceptable complexity. Specifically, it includes the industry’s a lot of chip book based tiering, enabling barter to automatically drift amid top amount and low amount accumulator media to abridge administration and antithesis achievement with accumulator utilization.

The Hitachi NAS Platform is optimized with Hitachi accumulator systems and the Hitachi Storage Command Suite, alms barter a individual animate for administration of unified NAS and SAN environments. Similarly, Hitachi NAS is absolutely chip with bartering appliance environments such as Microsoft® Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and Oracle while acclimated in VMware vSphere environments. Application administrators can use Hitachi NAS for their primary (iSCSI) and accessory backup, restore, archiving and adversity accretion storage.

The access Hitachi NAS 3080 archetypal alcove 1 petabyte of capacity. The Hitachi NAS 3090 alcove 2 petabytes and supports 256 terabytes of book system, awfully above than the 16 terabyte book arrangement admeasurement offered with a lot of added NAS offerings accessible today.

The new Hitachi NAS Platform is advised accurately for data-driven organizations in a array of markets and is abnormally ill-fitted for healthcare applications. With Hitachi's single, chip belvedere for all agreeable types, healthcare providers can calmly accouterment the ample aggregate of agreeable they administer accustomed – from file, agreeable to block – all from a individual area of management. The new Hitachi NAS Platform accelerates acceptance to all abstracts types such as accommodating annal and announcement information, consolidates the IT ambiance and simplifies the cyberbanking administration of accommodating annal as they move through their lifecycles.

Additional Quotes

* Mark Peters, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group: “Although packaged for midrange users, Hitachi Data Systems’ new 3080 and 3090 NAS offerings affection functionality added usually associated with action chic systems. Specifically, the affluence of administration and the built-in book tiering capabilities of these articles will advice them to angle out in a awash marketplace, whether acclimated standalone or chip into a Hitachi-managed virtualized and amalgamate hierarchy.”
* Carl Fulp, Vice President of Engineering and Services, ViON Corporation: “The new midrange Hitachi NAS 3080 and 3090 are a acceptable accession to the Hitachi accumulator family. Our ally and barter accept continued asked for a added affordable NAS solution, and now we accept it with the scalability and believability begin in top end versions. These new models are traveling to accessible abounding new doors for us, decidedly in federal, banking services, healthcare and ball media markets.”

Visit the company's Web website at http://www.hds.com.


Press Contacts:

Hitachi Data Systems
Melissa Rische
(408) 970-4849
melissa.rische@hds.com

Bite Communications
Ashish Patel
(415) 365-0466
ashish.patel@bitepr.com

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