"The USP V takes performance to another level," said Tony Asaro, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "This is also innovation at its best-improving the architecture of a storage system to raise its performance at nearly all levels-in leaps. Performance is not discussed as often as it should be-if your applications don't perform well-then your business suffers."

Hitachi also announced, what it claimed as the world's first 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel Switch (FSW) backplane in an enterprise-class storage platform. It provides customers with a faster and cost-effective way to process and transfer data through a storage controller engine.

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