Hitachi Data Systems redefines unified storage

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Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., on Tuesday redefined unified storage with the new Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) and single management framework.

Now available in Sri Lanka, 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 also announced that its entire hardware product portfolio, including the new HUS, will be supported by Hitachi Command Suite management software. As the first enterprise-class vendor to provide a single software management platform for all of its products, Hitachi Data Systems is helping its customers further reduce costs and complexity throughout the data centre.

According to Hitachi Data Systems ASEAN Emerging Markets and Indonesia Managing Director Terrance Maximus Tangit, “Data is the foundation of any organisation. 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.

The traditional definition for unified management has focused on managing file and block on these general-purpose lower-end storage platforms. This all changes today as we bring to market the first enterprise-class unified storage solution to help our customers in Sri Lanka and around the world manage their data, reduce costs and gear for growth.

Hitachi Unified Storage helps organisations meet application availability and performance requirements with lower investment. Customers can deploy storage for all data types and easily grow to meet expanding requirements, while still meeting service level objectives for critical business applications.”

“IT organisations in mid-sized and large enterprises are struggling with a deluge of data and increasingly diverse data management needs.

They require storage solutions that meet their growth requirements while simplifying operations, reducing the total cost structure, and quickly adapting to changing business needs,” said IDC Information and Cloud research Vice President Richard Villars, “Hitachi Unified Storage provides enterprises with a single foundation for efficiently managing block, file and object data without making trade-offs in performance, scalability or capacity utilisation.”