14 DAY TRIAL // Hitachi Data Systems announced today the expansion of its Network Attached Storage Platform, powered by BlueArc, with the introduction of two new solutions designed to deliver performance, scalability and management for the midrange segment. The company's new NAS 3080 and 3090 solutions have been endowed with the native Intelligent File Tiering, a feature that is designed to increase productivity and, simply, storage management. In addition, Hitachi claims that, with its new NAS Platform, customers can see up to a 30-percent increase in TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) savings, compared with competitive products available today.
“We offer organizations the most fully integrated, unified midrange storage solution to help them get a handle on their data and use it to manage their organization. Today, we are furthering our commitment to our customers by extending our NAS portfolio,” Miki Sandorfi, chief strategist, File and Content Services, Hitachi Data Systems, said. “Unlike other storage vendors that provide cobbled together, siloed solutions with disparate management, Hitachi Data Systems combines storage management software, content archiving, and data discovery solutions in one integrated platform to minimize complexity and reduce storage CAPEX and OPEX.”
According to Hitachi, the new NAS platform has been built to provide support to organizations that face problems due to the exponential growth of unstructured data. These problems are addressed with the NAS platform's capability to deliver up to two Petabytes of capacity and a 100K IOPS per node, while the native Intelligent Tiering capability allows customers to automatically move data among Fibre channel, SAS and SATA to achieve tiers based on pre-set policies.
The differences between the two solutions are that the NAS 3080 model can deliver up to one Petabyte of capacity, while the NAS 3090 can reach up to two Petabytes and deliver support for 256 terabytes of file system, superior to the 16-terabyte file system put forth by most of the other NAS offerings. Although no word on pricing, just yet, the company has announced that the platform is already available through its direct sales and channel partners.