 "Hitachi Data Systems Enhances Flash-Based Solutions Portfolio")
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.,has announced a multi-phased strategy to incorporate a new, original flash technology across its portfolio of enterprise and midrange IT solutions. The company plans to offer a series of integrated flash devices that will be based on a new flash memory management technology developed by Hitachi, Ltd. Leveraging the new technology, the company’s flash-based products will achieve greater levels of performance, scalability and capacity compared to solid-state products available on the market.
In addition, HDS announced the immediate availability of a flash acceleration feature for its enterprise solution, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), that enables it to achieve more than 1,000,000 random read IOPS. This increase of approximately 3 times the performance of the current VSP allows customers to increase systems consolidation and virtual machine density by up to 100 percent, defer capital expenses and operating costs, and improve quality of service for open systems and virtualised applications.
“Up to now, the use of flash media to effectively support the demands of high-performance and time-sensitive cloud-based applications has been limited due to flash memory characteristics and controller performance. These conditions have forced customers to make compromises in cost, capacity and resilience,” said Roberto Basilio, Vice President, Infrastructure Platforms Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems. “Foreseeing this, Hitachi realised that the best way to incorporate flash media across the entire IT stack was to develop solutions based on original Hitachi intellectual property. This development strategy yields the performance and end-to-end data management capabilities our customers require. The new flash memory controller designed by Hitachi lets us bring to market a series of products designed from the ground up to accelerate computing for big data and mission-critical applications and databases. These uses require real-time processing, enterprise robustness, security and a small environmental footprint.”
The Hitachi Data Systems flash roadmap spans across servers, storage and appliances to enable compute acceleration, caching and high-performance storage media use cases. The foundation of this strategy is built on the new flash memory controller developed by Hitachi, Ltd. with high performance and write endurance.
The new flash memory controller enables efficient flash solutions that accelerate computing for mission-critical applications requiring real-time processing, enterprise robustness, security and a small environmental footprint. These applications include indexing, OLTP databases, decision support, email and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).