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HDS to intro Xeon E5-based server line-up

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., announced that it will expand its family of blade and rack server products for the enterprise market.

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The forthcoming Hitachi Compute Systems will be based on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family introduced recently.

“By leveraging the new Intel Xeon processor E5 family, upcoming Hitachi Compute Systems will feature faster performance, higher density and greater energy efficiency,” said Roberto Basilio, vice president, Infrastructure Platforms Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems. “Hitachi Compute Systems offer innovative designs with unique advantages in scalability, flexible I/O configuration and high availability."

Hitachi Compute Blade and Hitachi Compute Rack servers based on Intel Xeon processors are part of an expanding portfolio of pre-tested converged data center solutions that offers tight integration between Hitachi storage, compute and data networking systems, says a release.

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"They are ideal servers upon which to build converged data center solutions. Seamless management integration with Hitachi Data Systems storage and data networking components give customers an easy operational interface. This saves costs, reduces errors and allows faster, more effective deployment and management of virtual IT environments — all of which create greater efficiencies across the data center,” he added.

Hitachi Data Systems converged data centre solutions are pre-configured and optimized for applications such as Microsoft Exchange 2010, SAP HANA and solutions with VMware.

“Through its new innovations, the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family provides exceptional energy efficiency, increased security, flexible performance and the opportunity for streamlining customer’s data centers,” said Dylan Larson, director of marketing for Intel’s Datacenter Infrastructure Group. “Hitachi platforms take advantage of these innovations to deliver the versatility and performance that every customer is demanding.”

The new server products and converged solutions, based on the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family are expected in 2012.

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