HDS launches virtual storage platform

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has announced a new storage platform, along with new software, to increase its presence in the virtualisation market.

The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) introduces the company's new 3D scaling technology, which it claims can "dynamically scale up, scale out and scale deep" to help customers deal with the current data explosion, whilst using a multi-vendor data centre environment.

Using 2.5in SAS hard disks, it has a very high density and offers page-level automated tiering to organise data into the suitable tiers.

HDS claimed the VSP uses 30 per cent less power consumption for capacity when compared to its rivals and reduces total cost of ownership by 33 per cent in the first year.

Hu Yoshida, chief technology officer and vice president at HDS, claimed the VSP was built for virtualised server environments, adding: "With unique 3D scaling and management, customers can deliver capacity and computing resources as quickly as virtual servers are created," he said.

To compliment the VSP, HDS has also launched Hitachi Command Suite management software to help users control their virtual environments. Coupled together, it claimed the VSP and software set new benchmarks for the virtualised world.

"Under conditions of shrinking budgets, organisational change and increased competition, enterprises are being challenged to make information both available and secure while their IT organisations are asked to do more with less," said Jack Domme, chief executive (CEO) of HDS.

"We are solving the industry's most pressing challenges with our approach of one platform for all data, coupled with our leadership in virtualisation technology."