HDS Unveils Hitachi Unified Storage Framework

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. has announced the new Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) and single management framework. HUS stores multiple data types with more flexibility and more balanced scalability than any other midrange solution. It helps customers manage their critical business applications and meet their growth requirements without compromising performance, scalability or cost efficiency. In addition, Hitachi Data Systems has announced that its entire hardware product portfolio, including the new HUS, will be supported by Hitachi Command Suite management software. As a provider of single software management platform for all of its products, Hitachi Data Systems is helping its customers further reduce costs and complexity throughout the datacentre.

Sean Moser, Vice President, Software Platforms Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems, said, “The roots of current unified storage products on the market today are based on the needs of smaller organisations that did not have the storage volumes, IT resources or budgets to acquire and manage separate platforms for block and file data.”

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“The traditional definition for unified management has focused on managing file and block on these general-purpose lower-end storage platforms. Hitachi Unified Storage helps organisations meet application availability and performance requirements with lower investment. Storage can be deployed for all data types and easily grow to meet expanding requirements, while still meeting service level objectives for critical business applications,” he added.

Hitachi Unified Storage efficiently provisions, tiers, migrates and protects all data, regardless of type, throughout its lifecycle. HUS further saves costs with data efficiency capabilities such as thin provisioning and automatic tiering. Built-in automation optimises performance and makes it predictable to assure customers that they will get the most out of their investment. Intuitive and easy-to-use software that comes with each system has been designed to simplify even the most complex environments.

Hitachi Unified Storage supports object data through an object-based file system that adds metadata for each file and enables automated tiering and migration, fast file snapshots and clones, faster replication over WAN, and fast data searches. Additionally, Hitachi Unified Storage supports Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) for a true object store with custom metadata and provides regulatory compliance. HCP can share HUS capacity with file and block applications from the same storage pool.

The new Hitachi Application Protector, that has also been introduced, is an application-aware, snapshot-based data protection, backup and recovery software suite for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and SharePoint environments. Integrated with Hitachi Unified Storage, Hitachi Application Protector allows administrators for each of these applications protect their data sets using familiar interfaces such as Microsoft Management Console.

The HDS strategy for unified management is to abstract the complexities of the underlying storage environment to create a service-oriented model in which organisations manage storage as a service to their consumers, regardless of the nuances of the underlying physical devices that serve up the storage.

Hitachi Command Suite software is a unified management framework for advanced data and storage management that improves operations, provisioning, performance and resilience for Hitachi block, file and unified storage environments.