1,400 Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Shipped

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd, announced that enterprise customers across all industries are transforming their data centres and laying the foundation for cloud computing models using Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP).

By offering performance, capacity and open, multivendor storage virtualisation for large businesses and enterprises, Hitachi VSP helps organisations build scalability with virtualised server environments and pave the way for cloud deployments.

Customers include GRZ IT Centre Linz (Austria), Schweizerische Mobiliar (Switzerland), Seattle Children’s (United States), and Teliti Datacentres (Malaysia).

In less than one year, HDS has shipped more than 1,400 VSP systems to hundreds of customers and added new footprints, making VSP the most successful product introduction in HDS history.
 
"Organisations continue to look for simple and effective solutions to develop and manage their virtualised data centres to reduce risk and operational costs, increase sustainability, and realise greater return on their storage assets," said Hu Yoshida, chief technology officer, Hitachi Data Systems. "Hitachi VSP is a cornerstone of our vision to transform data centres into dynamic information centres where content is seamlessly accessible and resides in a virtualised environment. Customers benefit from the ability to scale up, out and deep for unprecedented levels of agility and cost savings in their virtualised data centres. Coupled with the system’s data migration and page-level dynamic tiering, enterprises can greatly reduce outage windows and automate data movement to the most appropriate storage location to simplify and optimise tier costs and performance."
 
According to a recent survey conducted by TechValidate, a research organisation that provides organisations with third-party customer data, more than half of enterprises powered by Hitachi VSP have increased performance up to 50 percent. These enterprises point to simplification of storage management as the most critical business challenge addressed by VSP in their data centres. Additionally, organisations expect to save up to 50 percent on administration and energy costs as compared to competitive offerings, making it the most efficient enterprise storage platform on the market today.
 
"In the business intelligence division of GRZ IT Centre Linz , a powerful data warehouse solution is a prerequisite for queries in seconds, as well as up-to-date records and borderless OLAP cubes. As the existing storage infrastructure was at its full capacity, GRZ IT Centre Linz needed to invest in a new system and advanced technology. We selected Hitachi VSP based on its easy integration into the existing tiered storage approach, improved performance, higher scalability, an excellent cost-performance ratio, and optimal service quality. Since implementation, we’ve seen extremely impressive performance results, including throughput of a single database server of 2.5 MB/sec and reduced loading time in half. Furthermore, with Hitachi VSP, we have massively reduced the storage costs per TB", said Ernst Nimmervoll, managing director, GRZ IT Centre Linz GmbH, Austrian computer centre.

"The scalability and performance of Hitachi VSP fully meets our expectations while at the same time reducing energy costs. Furthermore, management of the new Hitachi Command Suite has become significantly easier. In summary, the result is a TCO savings of 25%", said Renato Grendelmeier, head of storage, Schweizerische Mobiliar, Swiss insurance organization.

"As a clinical care facility with a team of over 4,700 employees, we depend on Hitachi VSP as a core component of our IT infrastructure to deliver unified access to a wealth of hospital applications and provide exceptional patient care. We deployed Hitachi VSP as part of our Virtual Desktop Infrastructure project. We are benefiting from faster response times and improved desktop performance", said Mike Kindle, senior director, Enterprise Architecture, Seattle Children’s, child health care and pediatric centre.

"Our data centre offers cloud computing services with virtualisation capabilities and provides provisioning on demand with thin provisioning technology. Hitachi VSP, deployed with VMware technology, enables Teliti to deliver benefits in performance, flexibility, power consumption and TCO to our customers. Additionally, VSP enables Teliti to reduce disk drive costs by up to 70% compared with non-tiered and non-virtualised storage platforms and achieve significant reductions in power, cooling and floor space costs", said Encik Musa Mohd. Lazim, chief executive officer, Teliti Datacentres, IT service provider in Malaysia.