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Next Stop -- Business Growth
Corporate Growth
When you think about sustainable business growth, what comes to mind is the need for more capacity, more power, and greater throughput. The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V significantly outperforms other storage systems with a blistering 3.5 million input output operations per second of maximum performance. That’s an advantage of between 75-500 percent over other enterprise storage systems on the market and a 40 percent increase over its predecessor. The performance of the Universal Storage Platform V comes from a newly designed switched internal architecture and a unique 4 gigabyte Fibre Channel Switch backplane that dramatically speeds the transfer of data.
How about storage capacity and throughput? The story here is a multi-faceted one with increased capacity and throughput associated with both the Universal Storage Platform V and virtualized port performance for external storage. Internally, 224 front-end 4 gigabyte Fibre Channel ports offer a 250 percent advantage over previous versions. Offering stepped up support for the mainframe environment, storage connectivity is provided through a combination of 112 4 gigabyte FICON ports and 112 ESCON ports. Beyond this, virtualized storage port performance for external storage improves up to 500-percent over its predecessor. Additionally, the Universal Storage Platform V supports 64,000 open systems volumes, a 300-percent increase over its predecessor.
New and Evolving Application Requirements
But what happens when business needs change? Traditionally, storage administrators have set aside or allocated storage to meet the changing needs of applications based on forecast potential and not actual use. The approach has been both inefficient and costly resulting in over-allocated, but under-utilized storage capacity or new data requirements that continually exceed forecasts requiring last minute acquisition of costly storage.
The antithesis of this traditional approach is Dynamic “Thin” Provisioning. Where traditional provisioning allows storage to be allocated to an application before it’s going to be used; Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning™ software presumes that until an application has actually written a particular block of data in a virtual volume, the storage is available to be used by any application. With Dynamic Provisioning, your storage services will quickly and efficiently respond to changing business needs as if they were anticipated through prior planning.
Provisioning and Management in a Mixed Environment
Beyond speed, capacity, and the ability to quickly respond to changing business requirements, the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V also offers an opportunity for greater cost savings and efficiency. Further demonstrating the art of being business aware, internal management features can provide external storage virtualization software for managing heterogeneous storage systems. And, the Universal Storage Platform V provides the ability to provision and then manage differentiated storage services to any storage application that can attach to it, including NAS, virtual tape library or other content archive. Translation – substantial business benefits including greater simplicity, improved efficiency, and an overall reduction in the total cost of ownership.
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