Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS)
• Best price/performance ratio
• Great flexibility and availability, high performance and easy to manage
• Typical high-end capabilities, such as cache partitioning and RAID-6
• Models AMS200 and AMS500— ideal for small companies
• Model AMS1000—ideal for midsized and large companies
• Scalability from less than 1TB to more than 400TB SATA and Fibre Channel intermix
• Dual protocol that supports Fibre Channel, iSCSI or NAS (AMS1000 only)
• Upgrade potential along the entire line, from AMS200 to AMS500 to AMS1000
Hitachi Workgroup Modular Storage
• Easy to install, ideal for small companies and first SANs
• Offers great capacity, scalability, and performance
• Based on SATA, highly cost-effective
• Complements the entire line of Hitachi equipment for tiered storage solutions
• Shares the management, migration, and backup tools with other Hitachi hardware lines
Hitachi Content Archive Platform
• Provides a robust “active archive” for long-term, fixed-content data preservation
• Easy to integrate into the existing storage infrastructure
• Great performance and availability
• High scalability and over 20PB of total data files
• Enables compliance with regulations concerning the protection of and access to corporate information
• Simplifies archiving and the quick search for data though metadata
Hitachi Simple Modular Storage
Provides small and medium businesses (SMBs) with enterprise-class storage features that are cost-effective and simple to install, manage, back up and restore.
Available with single or dual controllers, it includes 6, 8 or 12 hard disk drives [high-performance SAS (serial-attached SCSI) or cost-effective SATA II] in a RAID-6 (dual parity) configuration for industry-leading data protection.
It ships with all software necessary to install, manage and back up data, including new Hitachi Storage Navigator Modular 2 software, developed for the SMB customer with an easy-to-use graphical user interface or GUI that includes installation, maintenance and configuration wizards.
Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100 is fully integrated with Microsoft® Windows platforms, including SQL and Exchange as well as all major Linux, most UNIX and other server operating systems. Network Attached Storage
Analyst’s Opinions
Hitachi Data Systems Virtualization Solutions: “There’s no direct competition for
Hitachi’s Virtualization Solutions.” Gartner - November 2006
Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V: “Storage virtualization is the key technology
that enables a large scale consolidation of heterogeneous storage environments….
Hitachi’s USP V* platform has no present equal.” Illuminata - April 2007
Eco-friendly Storage Solutions: “The competition’s solutions use between 24 percent
and 52 percent more power, cooling, and space within a five-year period as compared
to Hitachi’s USP V* platform, using virtualization and Dynamic Provisioning**.” , IT Centrix - April 2007
*Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V
*Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software |
