HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS UNVEILS LINEUP OF SOFTWARE-DEFINED INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation announced new and enhanced offerings for software-defined infrastructures. The company announced it is:

• extending its Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) to an expanded Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) family
• expanding the Unified Compute Platform (UCP) family to cover core to edge or small to large converged and hyper-converged infrastructure models
• introducing the Hyper Scale-Out Platform (HSP) for fast-growing data analytics workloads
• bringing to market new software to automate the provisioning and protection of application environments

With the newest additions to the Hitachi VSP family – the G200, G400, G600 and the upcoming G800 – Hitachi Data Systems is can address customer workload requirements from entry to the mainframe with a single software stack. Extending the reach of software capabilities that are built into Hitachi SVOS allows the entire VSP family to offer native heterogeneous storage virtualization and multi-site active-active storage – as well as fully compatible data migration, replication and management. Customers now have the ability to choose systems based on the necessary capacity, performance and price required to meet their business goals, not because of functional difference.

Customers looking at smaller systems will now get access to the same virtualization technology that has existed in prior HDS high-end systems.

The latest additions to the UCP family include the hyper-converged Hitachi UCP 1000 for VMware EVO:RAIL, and the converged Hitachi UCP 2000, both use new rack servers and target small to medium or remote or branch office environments. The Hitachi UCP 6000 converged model integrates the recently launched Hitachi CB 2500 blade servers, and delivers unmatched price-performance for mission critical workloads. The UCP family, with industry leading Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director infrastructure automation software, allows customers to drive operational efficiencies through rapid deployment and provisioning of infrastructure for managing an agile data center, prepared to change workloads to match business needs.

The hyper-converged architecture of the new Hitachi Hyper Scale-Out Platform (HSP) provides cost-effective compute performance and on-demand capacity. Capable of ingesting massive amounts of mixed data types across a distributed, clustered architecture, the simple, automated management of HSP allows elastic data growth by using Hitachi file system technology with open source management and virtualization software. HSP is the ideal scale-out platform for Hadoop environments, allowing users to analyze data in place and eliminate the need to move large data sets to perform analytics functions for big data.