New Enhancements for Enterprise Storage Niche
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, May 20, 2008

Hitachi has made enhancements to its Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software with support for local and remote replication of thin provisioned volumes.

The ability to remotely replicate thinly provisioned volumes enables customers requiring high availability and disaster recovery protection solution at much lower costs.

The wide selection of media, from flash-based to 1 terabyte SATA hard disk drives with large capacity and performance, will help in non-disruptively migrating volumes from cache to different types of disk drives, it's being claimed.

Hitachi is also expanding on its tiered storage strategy with support for 1 terabyte SATA II hard disk drives in both open systems and mainframe environments. These disk drives are designed to provide new range of storage density for efficient and cost-effective tiered storage implementation. Large capacity drives, for both mainframe and other platforms, will also allow for effective reductions in power, cooling, and floor space.

Flash-based drives will also be supported now on the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM storage services platforms.

Internal traffic handling within the Universal Star Network V architecture has been enhanced to deliver double the maximum cache capacity over its predecessor, to 512 gigabytes.


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