Hitachi Data Systems

Hitachi Data Systems provides best-in-class information technologies, services and solutions that deliver compelling customer return on investment (ROI), unmatched return on assets (ROA) and demonstrable business impact. With a vision that IT must be virtualized, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable, Hitachi Data Systems offers solutions that improve IT costs and agility. Customers trust Hitachi Data Systems to protect their data, the raw resource that lies at the heart of their businesses.

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•Compute
•Storage                                                               
•Converged
•Networking
•Software

Hitachi Compute Platform
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 blade server is an enterprise-class platform. Featuring a balanced system architecture, it eliminates bottlenecks in performance and throughput. Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 embedded logical partitioning feature supports unprecedented configuration flexibility.
Hitachi Compute Blade 320 delivers a combination of compute density and enterprise-class reliability that far exceeds the capabilities of rackmount servers and other blade servers. It operates with a level of simplicity that is absolutely unprecedented. It is the ideal platform for consolidating applications at the edge and application tier of the enterprise data center.
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000, Enterprise-class platform for mission critical workloads
Compute Blade 2000 offers:
•10U chassis houses up to 8 server blade modules
•Depending on the two blade models available, 192GB and 256GB of memory are available
•Multiblade SMP interconnect technology
 
Hitachi Compute Blade 320, Ideal to consolidate applications at the edge.
Compute Blade 320 offers:
- 6U chassis houses up to 10 server blade modules
- 110-volt power option for simple deployment
 
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Hitachi Storage
Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Family  (AMS 2000)

Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage models 2100, 2300 and 2500 are extremely scalable and reliable systems. Their SAS-based drive architecture delivers industry-leading price/performance for midrange systems. The 2000 family is the only midrange storage product line with symmetric active-active controllers that automatically performs many complex and time consuming tasks routinely faced by administrators.
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP)
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is the only 3D scaling storage platform designed for all data types. It is the only storage architecture that flexibly adapts for performance, capacity and multivendor storage. Combined with unique Hitachi Command Suite management software, it transforms the data center.
 
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.
 (USP V)

Reaching previously unattainable levels of consolidation, Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V has redefined the storage industry. It represents the world's first implementation of a large-scale, enterprise-class virtualization layer combined with thin provisioning software. That means the virtualization of internal and external heterogeneous storage into one pool has finally been achieved.
 
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.
 
Hitachi Converged Data Center Solutions
Whether you’re just getting started with private cloud or growing an existing environment, Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) is an ideal foundation that combines server, storage, network and management components.  UCP provides predictable reliability, quick cloud value and the exceptional flexibility to integrate with your current infrastructure to grow automation at your pace.
Easily scalable, UCP provides comprehensive and simplified management with deep integrations for fast provisioning and “worry free” scaling for environments. Eliminate the guesswork you might usually experience with rolling out new infrastructure or services.
The orchestrated management of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform enables your IT execution to be aligned with businesses processes. It further reduces the complexity and maintenance challenges associated with disjointed and inefficient management of underlying cloud infrastructures.
 
Bring business critical workloads to cloud using an integrated infrastructure with comprehensive management to provide predictable reliability in a robust, enterprise cloud platform
Capitalize on quick cloud value with faster deployment of cloud infrastructure and resource allocation as well as deep automation and orchestration for simplified management
Have your cloud, your way with exceptional flexibility that enables you to protect IT investments as well as grow the level of automation over time, at your pace
 
Hitachi Networking
The Hitachi Data Systems relationship with Networking vendors brings together two technologies from market leaders in storage systems and networking infrastructure to offer customers comprehensive storage solutions. Combining Hitachi storage products and products from marketleaders as BROCADE, CISCO, EMULEX and QLOGIC allows customers to enjoy the flexibility and scalability with the proven reliability and performance of Hitachi storage. As part of the relationship, Hitachi Data Systems and its vendors have certified the interoperability of these products. See also BROCADE, CISCO, EMULEX and QLOGIC.

 
 
Hitachi Software
Information has become our most valuable asset. The challenge for global businesses lies in making information both available and secure. Solutions from Hitachi Data Systems help organizations transform raw data into valuable information by delivering on a vision that IT must be virtualized, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable. Data drives our world – and information is the new currency.
HDS solutions help customers transform their data centers into information centers. Information centers deliver capacity and compute resources as quickly as virtual servers.
Increase IT staff productivity while improving data access and operating expense
Enable pay-per-use, multitenant storage services while maintaining enterprise-class security and privacy
Achieve energy efficiency without compromising the reliability and availability of the infrastructure
Hitachi Data Systems offers a complete portfolio of software solutions in the area of:
•Storage Resource Management
•Replication
•Backup/Recovery
•Content Archiving
•File Services
Dynamic Tiering
Hitachi Dynamic Tiering software simplifies storage administration, improves performance and reduces costs in a tiered storage environment. Through automation, Dynamic Tiering eliminates the complexity of managing multiple tiers and moving data around to align storage tiers with business needs. Use your tiered storage infrastructure efficiently.
Gain top tier performance with information stored largely on less expensive tiers.
Automatically move fine-grained pages, positioning data according to workload. This maximizes service levels and minimizes total storage costs.
Improved Performance at Lower Cost
Typically, over 80% of data access activities involve less than 20% of your storage.
Hitachi Dynamic Tiering leverages this pattern to deliver improved performance at reduced storage costs. Dynamic Tiering also uses Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning technology, thus inheriting its advantages:
•Simplified provisioning
•Capital savings
•Self-optimizing performance
•Highest Return on Solid State Drive Storage

Take the guesswork out of deploying expensive solid state drives and associated data classification as a Tier 0 data accelerator. Hitachi Dynamic Tiering moves only the most active data to the highest tier, automatically optimizing SSD usage. Even a small percentage of SSDs can dramatically improve overall performance. This technology also requires less power than disks. When combined with a higher percentage of energy-efficient SATA drives, SSDs can reduce drive count and improve overall system power consumption.