Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS) has announced a multi-phased strategy to incorporate a new, original flash technology across its portfolio of enterprise and midrange IT solutions. The company plans to offer a series of integrated flash devices that will be based on a new flash memory management technology developed by Hitachi, Ltd. Leveraging the new technology, the company’s flash-based products will achieve greater levels of performance, scalability and capacity compared to solid-state products available on the market today. In addition, HDS announced the immediate availability of a flash acceleration feature for its industry-leading enterprise solution, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), that enables it to achieve more than 1,000,000 random read IOPS. This increase of approximately 3 times the performance of the current VSP allows customers to increase systems consolidation and virtual machine density by up to 100%, defer capital expenses and operating costs, and improve quality of service for open systems and virtualized applications.
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Roberto Basilio, VP, Infrastructure Platforms Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems said, “Up to now, the use of flash media to effectively support the demands of high-performance and time-sensitive cloud-based applications has been limited due to flash memory characteristics and controller performance. These conditions have forced customers to make compromises in cost, capacity and resilience. Foreseeing this, Hitachi realized that the best way to incorporate flash media across the entire IT stack was to develop solutions based on original Hitachi intellectual property. This development strategy yields the performance and end-to-end data management capabilities our customers require. The new flash memory controller designed by Hitachi lets us bring to market a series of products designed from the ground up to accelerate computing for big data and mission-critical applications and databases. These uses require real-time processing, enterprise robustness, security and a small environmental footprint.”
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Mark Peters, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, said, “With this announcement, it’s clear that Hitachi Data Systems is looking to claim a leadership position in driving the use of flash throughout the IT stack. Having direct access to the vast hardware engineering resources of Hitachi clearly offers the potential for competitive advantage and differentiation, while Hitachi Data Systems own evolving software management platforms provide the flexibility to place flash wherever it can maximize performance, reliability and cost effectiveness. Hitachi Data Systems strategy of incorporating flash as a part of end-to-end data management is an obvious difference from, and likely advantage over, many of the point-product flash offerings that are appearing in the market today.”
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