AMS1000

Features: Hitachi Data Systems, has announced its enhanced midrange storage system, the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage, model AMS1000.

Hitachi said in a statement that the AMS1000 offers 4 Gigabit per second Fibre Channel SAN connectivity, enhancing the performance of applications such as video-on-demand and medical imaging. No other storage vendor can provide such an integrated solution within a midrange storage system without the aid of external appliances and/or host software.

The 20 per cent performance boost to the AMS1000 adds to the storage system’s business enabling capabilities first unveiled in April, 2006 such as 32 logical cache partitions, non-disruptive “on-the-fly” data movement across multiple tiers of storage, enterprise-class RAID-6 data protection, and sophisticated multi-protocol support for iSCSI, NAS, and Fibre Channel SAN, embedded in a single system.

"Performance is one of the fundamental core aspects of a storage system," said Tony Asaro, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "The processing power of a storage system is one of the key elements that impact performance. Customers should plan for performance requirements today and for the future and they need a storage system that can meet their requirements as they grow."

It enables clients to mix and match multiple tiers of storage in a single rack (including 73GB, 146GB and 300GB Fibre Channel and 500GB SATA drives), consolidate Fibre Channel SAN, NAS or iSCSI attached storage within a single rack—with the ability to isolate resources for consistent quality-of-service, secure multi-level access and deliver non-disruptive volume migration.