Hitachi unveils new suite of VTL Appliances

BANGALORE, INDIA: In the face of increased compliance regulations and rising data protection requirements, Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today introduced three new Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Appliances - the Virtual Tape Library Appliance Model 500M, the Virtual Tape Library Appliance Model 1000L, and the Virtual Tape Library Appliance Model 1000E - designed to answer the pressing customer challenges.

This comprehensive portfolio of VTL Appliances brings medium-sized businesses and enterprise customers the fastest and the most advanced disk-based data protection storage services available in the market today - eclipsing any other competitive offering in its class.

Organizations of all sizes are often challenged by long, inefficient and some times faulty backup operations due to the slow process of writing large amounts of data to tape. In addition, customers are faced with the expensive costs associated with keeping vast amounts of data available on their storage systems.

Combining the market-leading ProtecTIER data de-duplication technology from Diligent Technologies and powerful Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS) systems, the new Virtual Tape Library Appliances deliver the industry's fastest inline data de-duplication, while also maintaining 100-percent data integrity. Furthermore, the VTL Appliances eliminate redundant data, reducing physical storage needs by up to 25 times or more, and integrate into existing IT environments seamlessly, thereby preserving customers' storage infrastructure investments.

"With the announcement of Hitachi Data Systems' new VTL appliances, customers now have a simplified way of optimizing their existing storage environment and reducing their physical storage requirements many times over," said Scott Robinson, chief technology officer, Datalink, a leading information storage architect.

Commenting on today's announcement, John Mansfield, senior vice president, Global Solutions Strategy and Development, Hitachi Data Systems added, "Hitachi has a proven track record in successfully delivering powerful data de-duplication and data protection services to customers in large scale enterprise deployments. Today, we are making available these enterprise-grade storage services to medium-sized customers with new cost-effective VTL Appliances that are easy to implement and easy to manage. We believe these appliances will meet our customers' requirements for greater application availability, robust data protection, and long-term retention and protection of business-critical data assets."

"Hitachi's new VTL Appliances will provide customers with new choices for a range of IT environments," said Russ Fellows, Senior Storage Analyst for Evaluator Group. "Combining the power efficiency of Hitachi AMS storage systems with Diligent's streaming data de-duplication capabilities and integrated management may be the answer to improving backup that IT departments have been searching for."

New VTL Appliance for medium-sized customers

For customers requiring a high-performance, high-availability, yet cost effective disk-based VTL solution, the Virtual Tape Library Appliance Model 500M by Hitachi Data Systems delivers the fastest single-server data de-duplication performance and highest capacity to meet the requirements and budgets of medium-sized businesses.

This VTL Appliance can store more than 500 terabytes of backup data storage capacity, offering customers greater flexibility to accommodate their growing business environments, while also optimizing existing storage assets. Supported by the cost-efficient and high-performance Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage System (AMS) Model 500, the Virtual Tape Library Appliance Model 500M by Hitachi Data Systems offers customers an integrated set of advanced storage services that provides significant reliability and responsiveness improvements in the back-up, recovery and business continuity processes of medium-sized businesses.

The Virtual Tape Library Appliances by Hitachi Data Systems will be available worldwide through a network of over 1,500 value-added resellers, channel partners, systems integrators and the Hitachi Data Systems direct sales force.