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Hitachi Helps Customers Achieve Improved Return on Storage Infrastructure Investments with Enhancements to Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Family
June 2010 by Marc Jacob
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., announced a series of valuable new capabilities
for the Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS) 2000 family that enable customers to achieve a better
return on their storage infrastructures. The new features include SAS disks for high density trays
and an expanded rack capacity to deliver high density tiered storage solutions that scale to
extremely large capacities. Hitachi Data Systems also announced new storage consolidation
solutions that give customers the flexibility to start small and later expand the number of host
ports as their businesses and data center operations grow, as well as new multiprotocol host
port options for AMS 2100 and 2300 models.
Hitachi Data Systems is a leader in providing high density storage solutions that perform at the
highest levels, while enabling customers to save capital expenditures and achieve a better ROI
from their storage assets. The AMS 2500 achieved better than 89,000 IOPS as measured by
the Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 benchmark. With the introduction of dense disk trays
for SAS drives, along with last year’s release of dense disk trays for SATA drives, Hitachi Data
Systems now provides high density tiered storage solutions that enable customers to save in
the following ways:
· More Fibre Channel host ports enable customers to consolidate more servers and
applications on a single AMS 2000 system to save on capital expenditures, facility costs,
energy costs, service costs and operations costs.
· Dense solutions enable customers to put more capacity, nearly a full petabyte, on a floor tile
to reduce consumption of expensive floor space in the data center.
· iSCSI and Fibre Channel multiprotocol solutions also enable the consolidation of storage for
both of these storage networks onto a single system to protect the storage system
investment for customers that are evaluating a switch between network protocols.
Details on the new high density SAS disk trays and expanded rack capacity include:
· Up to 38 SAS disks can be installed in a highly compact 4U (6.93” or 176mm) tray.
· 47U high rack that can accommodate 10 dense trays and an AMS 2500 controller all in a
single rack.
· SAS and SATA dense trays can be intermixed in the same system, enabling highly dense
tiered storage solutions.
· High performance SAS storage has twice the density of the standard disk trays.
Additionally, expanded host port options for the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100 and
2300 allow consolidation of storage for both Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage networks. They
provide investment protection for customers who use iSCSI networks today but want the
flexibility to transition to Fibre Channel networks in the future without replacing their storage
systems. Every system will ship with a standard number of Fibre Channel host ports. Customers
have the flexibility to purchase additional Fibre Channel ports to double the total port count or to
purchase additional iSCSI ports for a multiprotocol solution.
