Midrange Data Storage Platform makes SPC-1 benchmark.
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With throughput result of 89,491.81 Storage Performance Council (SPC-1(TM)) IOPS(TM) and 8.98 msec typ response time, Adaptable Modular Storage 2500 provides performance required for business or other online transactional processing applications. Series, which adds models 2100 and 2300, also offers storage consolidation for iSCSI, NAS, and Fibre Channel SAN connections. Features include symmetrical active-active Controllers with Dynamic Load Balancing and SATA/SAS Backplane.
Original Press Release:
Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Family Midrange Storage Platform Scores Record Marks in SPC-1(TM) Benchmark
Hitachi Beats Competitors with Fastest Midrange System and Impressive Price-Performance Ratio
Hitachi Midrange Storage Delivers Customers Cost Efficiency Improvements
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -March 24, 2009 - Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced its next-generation midrange storage platform, the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family, achieved overall best-in-class Storage Performance Council (SPC-1(TM)) benchmark results for a midrange storage system.
In SPC-1 benchmark testing, the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500 achieved the fastest throughput results among all midrange storage competitors with dual controllers. With an impressive throughput result of 89,491.81 SPC-1 IOPS(TM) and an 8.98 millisecond average response time, the Adaptable Modular Storage 2500 provides the best performance and response times for key business applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Oracle, SAP or any other online transactional processing application, allowing users to more effectively scale their workloads at a best-in-class price point.
The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100 achieved among the best SPC-1 Price-Performance ratio in its class at $5.95/SPC-1 IOPS(TM), bringing high performance to a new affordable price level and allowing customers to realize a lower total cost of ownership. With companies scrambling to find ways to manage data growth without increasing storage expenses or performance penalties, this impressive price-performance ratio reiterates Hitachi's continued efforts to help customers establish a path towards optimizing their storage environment. This results in greater return on their storage asset investments and lower overall power and cooling consumption.
"Hitachi has raised the bar on value and performance for modular storage," said Mike Walkey, senior vice president of Global Channels, Hitachi Data Systems. "As our customers' storage demands grow, the highest levels of performance are often necessary to meet challenging infrastructure requirements. With the industry's leading performance in response time and an extremely attractive price-performance ratio, our customers are able to meet SLA agreements, enable better operational efficiencies, simplify their management, and reduce total cost of ownership."
"This latest benchmark is impressive and demonstrates that Hitachi will continue to deliver exceptional value to support customer IT infrastructures, both today and in the future," said Tony Palmer of ESG Lab. "Hitachi's Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family delivers the type of performance required to satisfy both the growing storage environments and dynamic application requirements of today's midrange customers."
About the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family In October 2008, Hitachi announced the next-generation of midrange storage platforms, the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family. With an emphasis on operational efficiency, this series delivers several times the performance compared to prior generations, and also offers storage consolidation for iSCSI, NAS and Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) connections. The Adaptable Modular Storage family is comprised of three models: the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100, the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300, and the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500. The entire portfolio of midrange storage systems meets the benchmarking standard "Five 9's" of availability.
The Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family has many advanced features such as symmetrical active-active Controllers with Hitachi Dynamic Load Balancing, SATA/Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Backplane for maximum configuration flexibility, "Spin down; Spin up" Power Savings Feature, and is optimized for Virtual Server Environments.
For more information on the SPC-1 Results for the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family, visit:
Adaptable Modular Storage 2500:
http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00078
Adaptable Modular Storage 2300:
http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00077
Adaptable Modular Storage 2100:
http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00076
About SPC
The SPC is a non-profit corporation founded to define, standardize and promote storage system benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable performance data to the computer industry and its customers. SPC membership is open to all companies, academic institutions and individuals. The SPC created the first industry-standard performance benchmark in 2001, targeted at the needs and concerns of the storage industry and its goal is to serve as a catalyst for performance improvement in storage. For a complete list of SPC-1, SPC-2, SPC-1C, and SPC-2C Results, visit http://www.storageperformance.org/home
About Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation provides Services Oriented Storage Solutions that enable heterogeneous storage to be dynamically provisioned according to business needs and centrally managed via industry leading Hitachi storage virtualization software. With over 4,000 employees, and as an integral part of the Hitachi Storage Solutions Group, Hitachi Data Systems delivers storage infrastructure platforms, storage management software, and storage consulting services through direct and indirect channels in over 170 countries and regions. Its customers include nearly 60-percent of the top 100 companies on the Fortune 500®. For more information, visit the company's website at www.hds.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT/TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 390,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2007 (ended March 31, 2008) consolidated revenues totaled 11,226 billion yen ($112.2 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials, logistics and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at www.hitachi.com.
