Hitachi Data Systems upgrades infra solns, claims 30 pc reduction in TCO

BANGALORE, INDIA: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., has unveiled enhancements to three key infrastructure solutions: Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) all flash system, Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform, and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP).

The enhancements will result in reduction of total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 30 percent compared to alternative solutions and up to double the performance benefits of previous generations, said Vivekananda Venugopal, vice president and managing director of HDS India.

According to Venugopal, the new turbocharged solutions maximize IT investments and help customers achieve unsurpassed operational savings despite today's relentless data growth and cloud infrastructure complexities.

HUS VM all flash system, Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform, and the enhanced Hitachi UCP portfolio give enterprises a more efficient IT platforms on the market to accelerate insight, improve decision-making and free up resources to attain innovation that transforms businesses. Cost-effective flexibility and elasticity of private cloud deployments offer the speed and ability to sustain peak workloads. These benefits are vital to support the service levels enterprises require to meet user demands.

The trio of infrastructure technologies announced today builds on the content cloud solutions and services unveiled by HDS in May 2013. They deliver the performance, efficiency and economics needed for the foundation of seamless enterprise cloud environments. The technologies also achieve a new milestone in the Hitachi Data Systems 3-tiered strategy for infrastructure, content and information, which builds on existing IT investments to provide a single virtualization platform for all data to support cloud and enable big data.

"Customers today are focused on business transformation. They need information solutions that improve business processes and simplify IT so they can, in turn, become more agile to react to market conditions and innovate more quickly," said Roberto Basilio, vice president, Storage Platforms Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems. "The days of capex spending are behind us. The technologies we are announcing today redefine the economics of storage by delivering opex savings that are essential to a business's bottom line. By eliminating performance hiccups associated with disparate architectures and information silos in the data center environment, HDS sets a flexible yet powerful foundation for private cloud and big data platforms that helps to accelerate insight, improve decision-making and free up resources for customers to innovate with information."

"The enhancements HDS has just rolled out to its key flash, unified and converged storage solutions should significantly help customers to get a greater impact for their IT dollar," said Terri McClure, title, Enterprise Strategy Group. "The virtualization, efficiency and automation HDS provides can allow businesses to shift resources from tactical and maintenance operations that support the status quo to more strategic initiatives that support business goals. The fact that HDS can deploy a converged infrastructure solution and integrated computing options to support private cloud environments in less than one week is a real point of differentiation. We expect enterprises and mid-market companies to get excited about these new capabilities and quickly start reaping the benefits."