Hitachi Data Systems has introduced the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform (USP) V an intelligent storage services platform, which it claims is able to significantly outperform competing storage systems.
The USP V offers 3.5 million input/output operations per second (IOPS) of maximum performance, and, fueled by its next generation large-scale heterogeneous virtualization layer and Hitachi architectural innovations, substantially increases virtualized storage port performance for external storage by up to 500% over its predecessor, highlighted Hitachi.
Hitachi has also announced a 4Gb/s fiber channel switch (FSW) backplane for enterprise-class storage platforms, making Hitachi the only company with a switched internal architecture and a unique switched backplane architecture as well, providing customers with a fast, cost-effective way to process and transfer data through a storage controller engine, claimed the company.
The USP V facilitates linkages across a spectrum of enterprise, mid-range and low-end storage systems, delivering unified, advanced storage services that span multi-dimensional virtualization, provisioning, partitioning, and replication capabilities-in effect enhancing the value of clients' existing storage environments, noted Hitachi.
With the refined fourth generation massively parallel crossbar switch architecture as its engine, the USP V delivers 3.5 million IOPS, an advantage of between 75-500% over other enterprise storage systems in the market and a substantial 40% increase over the current Hitachi Universal Storage Platform, said Hitachi.
Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V
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