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Saturday, March 3, 2007
BANGALORE: Hitachi Data Systems, provider of storage solutions, has announced enhancements to the Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc.
Displaying near linear scalability, the Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform, is designed to deliver more than one million IOPs (input-output operations per second) in the newly available 4-node cluster configuration.
John Mansfield, Vice President, Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems, said, "We have taken NAS to the next level by moving to 4 node clusters and dramatically elevating the level of performance that customers can expect from Hitachi's High-performance NAS Platform. Our unique architecture provides remarkably efficient resource consumption when clustering, relative to our competition. The increase in performance is considerable as it reduces the costs and resources associated with storing, managing and most importantly, accessing data. Our enhanced NAS platform is ideal for both enterprise customers who need large scale consolidation and users in data-intensive, high-performance computing markets, such as life sciences, Internet services and entertainment, who place a higher emphasis on performance and scalability."
The new High-performance NAS Platform is designed to reduce processing cycle times, increases the number of simultaneous users, thereby expanding information sharing and collaboration, and enables seamless scaling of workloads and capacity.
"Scalability is essential to high-end storage environments," said Tony Asaro, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, "High-end NAS systems are often limited to dual node architectures and relatively small file systems. The Hitachi high-performance NAS solution can scale up to 4 nodes and to a 512 terabyte name space and has the advantage of providing high performance for all data types including transactional and streaming I/O. Hitachi is well positioned to be a dominant player in the high-end NAS market including data center and high performance computing. They are a leading storage vendor that understands what it takes to support mission-critical environments that require leading-edge performance, data protection, reliability and scalability."
According to a press release, in addition to doubling the performance of its High-performance NAS Platform, Hitachi will now offer a maximum of 32 Virtual Servers per single node or cluster, a new Cluster Read Caching feature and a new FSX Module. The Cluster Read Caching feature enables customers in data-intensive verticals to accelerate performance in NFS environments.
© CIOL Bureau
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