Hitachi upgrades its Universal Storage Platform

NEW DELHI: Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.

has announced enhancements to the Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform

(USP). Hitachi has extended its USP solution with performance and functionality

enhancements, including a 25-per cent boost to overall system performance,

delivering a 2.5 million IOPS (input-output operations per second) of maximum

power.

According to a Hitachi statement, the boosted USP has the ability to make

critical applications such as Oracle Financials and Microsoft SQL Server scream

at peak velocity, while improving the performance of virtualized tiered storage

environments.

"The Hitachi USP still has no head-to-head competition," said Tony

Asaro, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "It is still the only

enterprise-class storage system that also provides external storage

virtualization. It is still the only storage virtualization platform that

leverages the same data management software that is also used on its flagship

storage system products. Additionally, with 3,000 installed, clearly there is

strong demand in the market. We feel that Hitachi will continue to gain momentum

and that their best-in-class USP will just keep getting better and better."

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