Hitachi’s VSP Flash Configuration reaches milestone in HDS Flash Strategy

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS) has announced that its Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) all-flash configuration has achieved the highest Storage Performance Council (SPC-1) benchmark result for an enterprise storage system. Hitachi VSP all-flash configuration allows organizations to maximize the return on their investments in flash technology while accelerating application performance, maximizing server virtualization environments, and enabling high-speed private cloud deployments.

Hitachi claims that VSP with flash acceleration and Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage bring customers the best performance available from an enterprise storage system – delivering the fastest response times at a better price-performance ratio than competitive systems.

The SPC 1 result announced today further demonstrates our commitment to provide industry leading flash-based technologies, as well as the superiority of the Hitachi VSP architecture and our system flash optimization engineering. More and more, customers are asking for application and server virtualization acceleration with less disruption to their environment and less risk. With Hitachi VSP, we can start customers down the path toward a private cloud with confidence, unified management and performance to spare, said Asim Zaheer, Sr. Vice-President, Worldwide Marketing, Hitachi Data Systems.

The Hitachi VSP architecture demonstrated scalability of true enterprise storage with response times between 7 and 18 times lower with varying loads than the midrange HP 3PAR StoreServ 10000 system.