Today Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced upgrades and additions to its Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G series portfolio. These upgrades and additions will be for the VSP G400, G600 and G800 storage platforms and include embedded NAS functionality, cloud-optimization and enhanced VMware integration. These upgrades combined with new analytics software and Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) management enable customers to optimize their disparate virtualized and cloud environments, while reducing costs, risk and management headaches using a single storage platform.
Today Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced upgrades and additions to its Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G series portfolio. These upgrades and additions will be for the VSP G400, G600 and G800 storage platforms and include embedded NAS functionality, cloud-optimization and enhanced VMware integration. These upgrades combined with new analytics software and Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) management enable customers to optimize their disparate virtualized and cloud environments, while reducing costs, risk and management headaches using a single storage platform.
Organizations are always jungling a few key things when it comes to storing and managing data. The biggest issues that must be dealt with are costs and optimization. Not only do these have to be dealt with but many organizations have disparate environments such as virtualization, remote and core data centers and need flexible solutions to address them. Enter the HDS VSP G Series that has been built to deal with these issues.
In order to help customers reduce capital expenditures, HDS is adding two high-performance NAS modules to its VSP G series. These NAS modules provide a single, compact form factor, SAN/NAS storage platform for all workloads. Not only does this give user a single platform for workloads but it also means less power, cooling, and space will be used in the data center. Using Hitachi’s Data Migrator to the Cloud (DM2C) software, customers can leverage their existing investments (including remote offices where IP infrastructure is dominant, large data centers that use robust Fibre Channel technology, or a cloud strategy that leverages Hitachi Content Platform (HCP), Hitachi Managed Cloud Services, Microsoft Azure or Amazon S3 cloud services) by creating automated, intelligent, content- aware data management policies to ensure that data is automatically and seamlessly tiered to private, public or hybrid cloud platforms, freeing up critical Hitachi Accelerated Flash for tier 1 applications.
HDS has been working with VMware for some time now. This relationship carries on here as the updates to VSP G series fully support VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes. Using Virtual Volumes (also written as VVOLS) will give customers granular VM control by enabling application specific storage service levels to each VM, thereby maximizing storage resources. HDS is also delivering scalable VM protection by simplified VMbackup, recovery and cloning services with its Hitachi Virtual Infrastructure Integrator 3.0.
HDS has also introduces its new Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor (HIAA) that will be available in its VSP G series family. HDS claims that HIAA can use intelligent analytics to increase performance and reduce costs and risks. HIAA increases performance while reducing risk by finding and resolving issues before they happen. Not only does it tackle performance issues, HIAA finds capacity issues as well, even in third party storage. HIAA can also help customers improve future performance and save costs through capacity planning.
Availability
The upgraded HDS VSP G series is available now.
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