Hitachi Data Systems Brings Radical Efficiency to Enterprise Storage with Virtualization to 32 PetaBytes.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. Corporation
Revolutionary Hitachi TagmaStore(TM) Universal Storage Platform
Redefines TCO and Business Value
Virtualization and Universal Replication Breakthroughs Enable a
New Paradigm for Storage Deployment and Management
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HIT), today announced its new Hitachi TagmaStore(TM) Universal Storage Platform, a combination of revolutionary advances in hardware and software that radically improves storage efficiency and significantly reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. ) of enterprise storage. The platform, which extends Hitachi's leadership in performance and capacity, powers virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. breakthroughs, including logical partitioning, management of externally attached heterogeneous storage, and universal storage-agnostic replication. Hitachi Data Systems will provide professional and consulting services through its Global Solution Services organization to help customers obtain the highest benefits from the Universal Storage Platform. "The Universal Storage Platform represents a new category in the industry as its powerful architecture enables new levels of virtualization and replication not possible in previous generations of enterprise storage. It supports a new operational paradigm capable of delivering a holistic Application Optimized Storage(TM) approach across an entire enterprise," said Scott Genereux, senior vice president of global marketing and channels, Hitachi Data Systems. "The result is a new economics framework for information infrastructures, providing organizations with millions of dollars in potential cost savings." Radical Efficiency(TM) A recent SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via (Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA ) survey of customer pain points ranked "Total Cost of Ownership" number one. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. ITCentrix, an independent software and services firm, customers can expect the Universal Storage Platform to deliver significant TCO benefits. "It's currently too expensive to provide a common management solution for the fragmented data assets of a corporation," said Dave Vellante, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of ITCentrix. "Based on our extensive analysis, nothing else compares to this product, which in some configurations will deliver a 160 plus percent internal rate of return on a $3.4M investment over 3 years. This changes the dynamics of the storage industry." These savings are achieved through the Universal Storage Platform's ability to aggregate up to 32 Petabytes of internal and external storage into a single virtual storage pool, with common functionality and application Quality of Service (QOS), managed from a single console. This new platform dramatically reduces management overhead and software licensing costs, at the same time extending the latest software advances to older or depreciating de·pre·ci·ate v. de·pre·ci·at·ed, de·pre·ci·at·ing, de·pre·ci·ates v.tr. 1. To lessen the price or value of. 2. To think or speak of as being of little worth; belittle. storage assets. By adopting this unified management structure, Hitachi removes the need for, and cost of, multiple and overlapping software products. For example, within a conventional SAN each storage device requires independent replication software. In contrast, Universal Replicator See port replicator. replicator - Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or software resides on the Universal Storage Platform only, eliminating the need for multiple software licenses In computing, software that is copyrighted and licensed under a software license is done under a variety of licensing schemes. For end-users there are proprietary licenses and there are free software licenses, and there are proprietary Within these schemes are further classifications. , upgrades and maintenance contracts, further reducing the total cost of ownership. Breakthrough Innovations Several breakthrough innovations from Hitachi, Ltd. implemented in the Universal Storage Platform and accompanying software enable these significant economic and information architecture benefits: --Hitachi Universal Star Network(TM) - The third-generation of Hitachi's unique massively parallel See MPP. , mega scalable crossbar switch An earlier telephone switch. First used in the late 1930s, it was a mechanical device that used magnets and metal bars (crossbars) to close connections. Crossbar switches have been replaced with electronic switches (large-scale, specialized computer systems). See ESS and DMS. architecture delivers an unsurpassed 68 Gigabytes per second of cached bandwidth, 2 Million IOPs (input output operations per second), 256 concurrent memory operations, and supports 332TB of internal storage capacity--representing advantages over other storage products of 850%, 500%, 800%, and 395%, respectively. --Hitachi Universal Volume Manager software - Hitachi extends its Virtual Storage Ports/Host Storage Domains technology into the first large-scale embedded virtualization layer, enabling up to 32 Petabytes of internal and external storage to be aggregated into one common pool and managed by a single set of tools and software. Combined with Volume Migration, Universal Volume Manager enables policy-based data lifecycle management across multiple tiers of storage. --Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager software - The first storage implementation of the logical partitioning feature from Hitachi, Ltd.'s large-scale servers, the Virtual Partition Manager allocates internal and external physical storage resources, including ports, cache and disk, into independently-managed Private Virtual Storage Machines. Partitions can be dynamically modified to meet application Quality of Service requirements based on changing business priorities. --Hitachi Universal Replicator software - Continuing to advance Hitachi's superior asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. remote replication technology, the Universal Replicator features several industry firsts, including heterogeneous replication, disk-based journaling, protection against link failure, "pull" copying, and multi-data center support, greatly simplifying disaster recovery solutions for customers. "Simplifying storage management is no longer a 'need to have' among customers but a 'must have' in order to reduce the total cost of ownership of their storage networks," said Tony Asaro, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "Two major initiatives to achieve lower storage TCO include storage consolidation and implementing intelligence in the fabric. The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform is an enterprise-class storage system that enables massive consolidation, and at the same time is a virtualization platform used to manage other external storage systems. This an exciting new approach that brings the value of both of these cost saving initiatives from a leading storage vendor that has been providing storage systems and software for mission-critical applications for years." Commenting on today's announcement, Brian Frank, senior director, architecture and infrastructure, for United Airlines, said, "Enterprise storage environments consist of a body of storage devices that need direction. As we all know, anything with more than one head is a monster; therefore the new Universal Storage Platform will allow for an intelligent storage head that will empower an enterprise to virtualize To cause a virtual technique to be performed. See virtualization. all other storage as submissive sub·mis·sive adj. Inclined or willing to submit. sub·mis  sive·ly adv.sub·mis devices under the Universal Storage Platform. Enterprises like ours are dealing with the explosive growth in all areas of information lifecycle management Information Lifecycle Management refers to a wide-ranging set of strategies for administering storage systems on computing devices. Specifically, four categories of storage strategies may be considered under the auspices of ILM. and the staffing required to handle this growth. The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform will enable enterprises to deal with this growth by attaching, virtualizing, and managing all of our diverse storage systems from a single pane A rectangular area within an on-screen window that contains information for the user. A window may have many panes. See menu pane. of glass. As a result, we believe enterprises will achieve radical performance efficiencies, reduce TCO and increase ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ." A New Paradigm New Paradigm In the investing world, a totally new way of doing things that has a huge effect on business. Notes: The word "paradigm" is defined as a pattern or model, and it has been used in science to refer to a theoretical framework. "The next big thing in high-end enterprise storage arrays is array virtualization and partitioning, which will enable precise matching of application requirements to storage resources, providing improved security for individual applications and enhanced functionality. These types of innovations will transform the disk control unit into a universal storage server supporting heterogeneous storage systems," said Josh Krischer, vice president and research director, Gartner. The Universal Storage Platform will empower IT executives to look at storage deployment and management in a whole different way. By placing the Universal Storage Platform at the apex of their storage infrastructure and attaching existing storage systems directly or through a Storage Area Network (SAN), CIOs can gain significant savings through radical efficiencies of scale. These efficiencies can be achieved through single-pane-of-glass management across all functions, by matching data's value to the appropriate class of storage, and allocating and optimizing resources to meet the application's QoS for any customer workload. Device allocation criteria can include availability, performance, capacity, and cost. Today, the Universal Storage Platform can move mainframe data to midrange midrange Epidemiology The halfway point or midpoint in a set of observations; for most data, MR is calculated as the sum of the smallest observation and the largest observation, divided by 2; for age data, one is added to the numerator; a midrange is usually storage systems--an industry first. In the future, the Universal Storage Platform will be able to underpin applications such as Enterprise Content Management (ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. ) by aggregating all sources of information and protocols across the organization and optimizing the placement of content across all tiers of storage. About Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Data Systems leverages global R&D resources to develop storage solutions built on industry-leading technology with the performance, availability and scalability to maximize customers' ROI and minimize their risk. By focusing on the customer's perspective as we apply the best hardware, software, and services from Hitachi and our partners, we uniquely satisfy our customers' business needs. With 2,800 employees, Hitachi Data Systems conducts business through direct and indirect channels in the public, government and private sectors in over 170 countries. Its customers include more than 50 percent of Fortune 100 companies. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.hds.com. About Hitachi, Ltd. Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company, with approximately 326,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2003 (ended March 31, 2004) consolidated sales totaled 8,632.4 billion yen ($81.4 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors, including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. . For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.hitachi.com. (C) 2004, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation. Hitachi Data Systems is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark and service mark of Hitachi, Ltd. TagmaStore, Universal Star Network, Application Optimized Storage, and Radical Efficiency are trademarks of Hitachi Data Systems Corporation. All other trade names, trademarks, and service marks used herein are the rightful property of their respective owners. |
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