Hitachi Vantara offers AI-driven
data centre operations solutions
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itachi Vantara has announced a
powerful next-generation storage
and infrastructure foundation with
a new scale-out, scale-up architecture for
any workload at any scale.
The solution includes Hitachi Virtual
Storage Platform (VSP) 5000 series,
the company’s latest enterprise-class
storage array, along with the new Hitachi
Ops Center management software and
updated Hitachi Storage Virtualization
Operating System.
“The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
5000 series is the proving ground for our
customers to gain a digital advantage
over their competition and achieve better
business outcomes,” said Brad Surak,
www.intelligentdatacentres.com
“Hitachi Vantara is delivering the
foundation for modern, enterprise
infrastructure innovations that our
customers require, with new solutions
that are engineered using future-proof
technology to take on the data centre
challenges of tomorrow.”
The foundation for today’s
modern, enterprise infrastructure
Hitachi VSP 5000 series provides the
core data storage foundation for all digital
business operations with the speed and
scale to power existing workloads as
well as new, data-intensive workloads
emerging through multi-cloud and AI-
driven environments.
It is agile enough to store block and file
data and supports workload diversity
ranging from traditional mission-critical
business applications to containers to
mainframe. Hitachi VSP 5000 series
enables all workload consolidation that
maximises operational efficiencies.
All-new architecture
The VSP 5000 series is a completely new,
enterprise-class flash array optimised
to deliver best-in-class performance
and resiliency by taking full advantage
of SAS architecture, NVMe and storage
class memory (SCM). Powered by the
new Hitachi Accelerator Fabric, it is an
excecptionally fast NVMe flash array,
which can help users get to insights
and business outcomes faster with up
to 21 million IOPS. Resource-intensive
application owners can also see a
dramatic improvement with response
times as low as 70 microseconds.
The VSP 5000 series with the new
dedupe optimiser uses advanced Machine
Learning (ML) algorithms to perform
on-the-fly optimisations of dedupe
processes based on block size and other
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Together, these technologies can
accelerate data centre workloads and
deliver future-proof IT with a new,
innovative architecture that is the ideal
foundation for modernising data centre,
cloud and DataOps environments.
Chief Product and Strategy Officer at
Hitachi Vantara.