Hitachi Data Center Technology
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has announced today the opening of its green data center in Yokohama, Japan, which the company claims to be one of the most robust and reliable in the industry, occupying 10,000 square meters of total floor space. In addition, according to Hitachi, the newly opened Yokohama Third Center has been designed with power-efficient technology that is meant to deliver a benchmarking rating of 1.6 PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness), while continuing to provide high-levels of reliability,availability and data security.
“Hitachi Data Systems is focused and committed to delivering green data storage technology that infuses eco-friendly innovation across the entire portfolio of products,” said Asim Zaheer, vice president of product and competitive marketing, Hitachi Data Systems.
“Many
of our products like the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and VM and Hitachi
Dynamic Provisioning, and today with the Yokohama Third Center, provide
significant improvements in capacity utilization, while lowering customers’
power and cooling consumption rates.”
Hitachi talked about several key
features of its Yokohama Third Center, including environmentally friendly data
center, integrated control center, energy efficient facilities, natural cooling
systems for lower environmental building load, robust structural design and a
high level of security, necessary for such facilities. The opening of the new
data center also represents an achievement for the company in its continuous
support for green projects like the IT Power-saving Plan and the Eco-friendly Datacenter
The new facility has been designed to meet the requirements of
today's businesses, which demand technology infrastructures with a 100 percent
uptime. According to Hitachi, the new Yokohama facility is robust and reliable
as a Tier IV data center, consequently providing customers with a full range of
flexible operation management services, including storage management. The
overall design of the facility also enables a lower Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO).
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