HDS to Offer Series of Products Based on New Hitachi Flash Controller;
Introduces Flash Acceleration for Hitachi VSP Achieving More Than One
Million IOPS Performance
KUALA LUMPUR — August 24, 2012 — Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS),
a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., (TSE: 6501), today
announced a multi-phased strategy to incorporate a new, original flash
technology across its portfolio of enterprise and midrange IT solutions.
The company plans to offer a series of integrated flash devices that
will be based on a new flash memory management technology developed by
Hitachi, Ltd. Leveraging the new technology, the company’s flash-based
products will achieve greater levels of performance, scalability and
capacity compared to solid-state products available on the market today.
In addition, HDS announced the immediate availability of a flash
acceleration feature for its industry-leading enterprise solution,
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), that enables it to achieve more
than 1,000,000 random read IOPS. This increase of approximately 3 times
the performance of the current VSP allows customers to increase systems
consolidation and virtual machine density by up to 100%, defer capital
expenses and operating costs, and improve quality of service for open
systems and virtualized applications.
“Up to now, the use of flash media to effectively support the demands of
high-performance and time-sensitive cloud-based applications has been
limited due to flash memory characteristics and controller performance.
These conditions have forced customers to make compromises in cost,
capacity and resilience,” said Johnson Khoo, Managing Director, Hitachi
Data Systems Sdn Bhd. “Foreseeing this, Hitachi realized that the best
way to incorporate flash media across the entire IT stack was to develop
solutions based on original Hitachi intellectual property. This
development strategy yields the performance and end-to-end data
management capabilities our customers require. The new flash memory
controller designed by Hitachi lets us bring to market a series of
products designed from the ground up to accelerate computing for big
data and mission-critical applications and databases. These uses require
real-time processing, enterprise robustness, security and a small
environmental footprint.”
The Hitachi Data Systems flash roadmap spans across servers, storage and appliances to enable compute acceleration, caching and high-performance storage media use cases. The foundation of this strategy is built on the new flash memory controller developed by Hitachi, Ltd. with high performance and write endurance. The controller has many advantages:
• Sustained throughput 4 times greater than current generation solid-state drives (SSDs) that are based on multi-level cell (MLC) technology.
• More than 5 years endurance for enterprise workloads.
• Inline zero block compression.
• Secure erase functions.
The new flash memory controller enables efficient flash solutions that accelerate computing for mission-critical applications requiring real-time processing, enterprise robustness, security and a small environmental footprint. These applications include indexing, OLTP databases, decision support, email and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
New Hitachi VSP Flash Acceleration
A key milestone in the first phase of the Hitachi Data Systems flash technology strategy is the flash acceleration feature available today for Hitachi VSP. This new performance option:
• Raises the scalability limit of VSP by up to 3 times.
• Lowers I/O response time by up to 65%.
• Enhances Hitachi Dynamic Tiering and flash device value.
• On average, enables VSP customers to see 2 times more performance with typical OLTP workloads.
The new flash acceleration feature is enabled nondisruptively with a single license key. VSP customers can assess the performance benefits of flash acceleration by contacting their Hitachi Data Systems representative to secure a trial license. This feature is available to new customers today, as well as to existing VSP customers through a microcode update.
Later this year, Hitachi Data Systems will deliver additional highly efficient, available and resilient flash-optimized solutions. These new solutions will improve customers’ return on flash investments and lower operating expenses when compared to alternative or single-purpose flash products.
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