New announcements include Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) 5000 Series models, VSP E-Series, and Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)
Hitachi Vantara shared its vision for the future of hybrid cloud data storage at the event ‘The Road Ahead: Digital Infrastructure for the Data-Driven’. During presentations by president, Digital Infrastructure, Mark Ablett (pictured) and chief product officer, Radhika Krishnan the company outlined steps it is taking to extend its industry leading storage virtualisation capabilities to deliver a distributed hybrid cloud data fabric.
The new hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions will help clients of all sizes cost-effectively meet the demands of enterprise, cloud native and AI applications, and lay the foundation for extending data fabrics to hybrid cloud environments.
“Today we are excited to announce enhancements to our portfolio that will play a key role in the future of hybrid cloud data strategies,” said Mark Ablett. “Our new VSP 5000 series and E-Series hybrid cloud products deliver performance, consolidation, and enterprise class data services seamlessly on-prem, off-prem, and for cloud-based storage. Clients want agility and performance to meet the demands of digital business, and we’re delivering both.”
Hitachi Vantara introduced new versions of its VSP E590 and E790 storage solutions for small and mid-sized enterprise clients. New hybrid storage options give clients the flexibility to consolidate diverse workloads in a single midrange platform.
In addition to economical all-NVMe storage, clients can now choose all-NVMe, all-SAS or a combination of the two. The addition of SAS expansion to VSP E590 and E790 addresses low latency requirements for applications and affordability for small and mid-sized enterprise clients, ensuring clients never compromise performance while making use of high capacity, low-cost media for data retention.
Featuring a simple, self-install setup with embedded management, VSP E Series systems can be up and running in 30 minutes. The new E-Series is integrated into the major hybrid cloud stacks to simplify the deployment and management of the data fabric from edge to core to cloud. Hitachi also announced Hitachi Replication Plug-In for Containers, which enables enterprise data services in container environments for stateful storage with the Hitachi VSP and E-Series family.
The VSP 5000 Series has expanded its enterprise-class features for clients who have large data requirements. New enterprise storage models, the VSP 5200 and 5600, accelerate application responsiveness and performance with a 42% improvement in data reduction efficiency, increasing more usable capacity. With end-to-end NVMe, the new VSP 5600 model once again smash records with 33 million IOPS and as low as 39 microseconds of latency. These capabilities accelerate application response and increase data centre consolidation opportunities. These arrays are also intelligent, with integrated real-time observability across the infrastructure stack with automated anomaly detection and root cause analysis.
Organisations increasingly expect on-premises IT resources to offer cloud-like agility and scalability. Hitachi Vantara is delivering both attributes in the new VSP 5000 Series with a ‘data in place’, non-disruptive upgrade path to the next generation of technology.
New to the VSP 5200 and VSP 5600, Hitachi Modern Storage Assurance additionally provides seamless upgrades to the next generation VSP technology – simplifying the procurement process for several years. Hitachi Modern Storage Assurance can be included in the original purchase of a new VSP 5200 or VSP 5600 or as part EverFlex. EverFlex is Hitachi Vantara’s as-a-service offering that allows clients to consume hardware, software and Services through a pay-per-use consumption model.
EverFlex enables clients to start small with only the capacity and performance they need today, and to scale to the largest configurations for data centre consolidation, while only paying for what they use.
Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) is Hitachi Vantara’s object storage software solution. HCP now delivers a greater than 2x improvement in performance for cloud gen apps through new optimisation settings that distribute the objects across the architecture more efficiently. A new scale-out policy engine optimises performance through data services that can be customized per use case or workload.
Hitachi Content Software for File, the most recent expansion of their object storage portfolio, also gained new capabilities. The solution now supports ingest from Amazon S3 object storage for high performance applications such as IoT sensors and video surveillance machines, which need to rapidly feed massive amounts of data into a central repository.