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Hitachi unveils modular storage series

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BANGALORE,INDIA: Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd, and a provider in oriented storage solutions, today unveiled its next-generation line-up of midrange storage systems, the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS) 2000 Series.

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It focuses to deliver improved performance, connectivity, scalability, reliability and ease-of-use to midrange customers, said a press release. Customers could benefit by implementing a sophisticated, cost-effective midrange storage platform to scale the growth of storage environments and diverse application requirements.

John Mansfield, senior vice president, global storage solutions strategy and development, Hitachi Data Systems stated: “Hitachi Data Systems is leveraging its deep R&D expertise and storage innovation to offer customers best-in-class technologies and solutions that deliver ease of management, reliability and scalability, aimed at meeting the ever-growing demands of midrange customers.

He added that AMS Series 2000 would deliver tangible efficiencies not only to business operations, but also to the environmental of the data center. It is a very powerful value proposition that would enable Hitachi data systems to accelerate its penetration into the midrange storage market.

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“The Hitachi AMS Series 2000 delivers up to 4x the performance compared to prior generations, and also offers storage consolidation for iSCSI, NAS, and Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) connections.

It comprises three models: the Hitachi AMS 2100, the Hitachi AMS 2300, and the Hitachi AMS 2500. The entire portfolio of midrange storage systems meets the benchmarking standard "Five 9's" of availability, 99.999 per cent uptime.

It also announced additional updates to its midrange storage portfolio with security and data protection capabilities enhancements to its Hitachi USP VM storage system for those customers interested in enterprise-class functionality in a smaller configuration.

The new Hitachi midrange portfolio provides a comprehensive set of solutions that deliver an industry-first platform as well as enterprise-class functionality ideally suited for midrange environments such as, storage virtualization, dynamic tiering and advanced replication, allowing customers to further enhance the return on storage assets investments, the release added.

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