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    HP, Hitachi Ship New Converged Petabyte Storage System

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    September 27, 2010
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      There’s a new converged enterprise storage system available in the market as of Sept. 27, and both Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems are claiming that it’s theirs. There’s no controversy here: They’re both right.
      HP and Hitachi both announced a new converged-type storage platform for midrange and larger enterprises.
      Hitachi actually builds the hardware and labels a portion of those produced under its own name, the VSP (Virtual Storage Platform); HP buys the rest, puts its own logo on them and services them as if they came out of its own manufacturing facilities.
      Turns out HP sells about 60 percent of the lot when both companies come out at the same time with the same product, eWEEK learned.
      Hitachi’s Virtual Storage Platform and HP’s XP P9500 disk array both feature storage architecture that not only puts everything under the sun into one box (computing, storage and networking components), but it also scales three-dimensionally, Hitachi Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Hu Yoshida told eWEEK.
      So-called ‘3D’ optimization
      What does “three-dimensional” mean in this context?
      “We’re talking about adapting flexibly for performance, capacity and multivendor storage asset utilization,” Yoshida said. “VSP’s data migration capabilities greatly reduce outage windows. It has page-level [same as so-called ‘chunks’ of data] dynamic tiering that automates the page-based movement of data to the most appropriate storage media to simplify and optimize tier costs and performance.
      “Using the new 2.5-inch SAS hard drives, it contains the highest-density storage available today. It also uses 30 percent less power for capacity stored than competitive arrays, so it is a most efficient enterprise storage platform.”
      The arrays fit in a standard 19-inch-wide rack and can include solid-state disk drives that are configured alongside the 2.5-inch SAS drives to provide the quick data tiering.
      The Hitachi VSP and HP’s P9500 can provide more than 100,000 I/Os per second, HP StorageWorks Research and Development Director Kyle Fitze told eWEEK. The P9000 SmartTiers software automatically moves data to between solid-state disks and the 2.5-inch disk drives based on application performance requirements.
      The system can scale from as few as five drives in a single cabinet to as many as 2,000 drives configured across six cabinets, Fitze said.
      Fitze, who’s responsible for the company’s Hitachi relationship, told eWEEK that the new arrays have no trouble whatsoever scaling up to manage as many as 5 million objects and 255 petabytes of data-under one management server.
      The new Hitachi and HP arrays include native integration-basically plug and play-with VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, which provides full administrative visibility from individual virtual machine to storage logical unit, Yoshida said. This improved control and transparency into the movement and activities of VMs aids in overall protection of large-scale multivendor environments, he said.
      Both companies said the arrays are now available. The systems begin at about $250,000.
      Here is a technical deep dive into the new arrays.

      Chris Preimesberger
      https://www.eweek.com/author/cpreimesberger/
      Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.

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