With an employee base of 2,900, Hitachi Data Systems conducts business directly and through resellers in the public and private sectors in more than 170 countries and regions, including the rapidly emerging economies in China, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe. Its customers include more than 50 percent of the Fortune 100 companies.

Gartner Dataquest has recognized Hitachi Data Systems as the market leader in enterprise storage revenue and as the fastest growing storage management software vendor. Rapid growth of Hitachi’s modular storage family market-share along with it’s award-winning channel partnership program have made Hitachi Data Systems an important force in the midrange storage market.

Disk

WMS-Series

As an entry point to our new midrange systems line, the SATA-based Hitachi TagmaStore™ Workgroup Modular Storage model WMS100 offers high capacity, easy-to-install data storage ideal for small-to-medium-sized business (SMBs). The WMS100 provides the foundation for Application Optimized Storage™ solutions, matching requirements for the cost-effective scalability and performance in a small footprint while maintaining the reliability edge provided by renowned Hitachi engineering. Example uses would be businesses deploying a first SAN to move from inefficient and costly server-internal or server-attached storage to a centralized, easy-to-manage configuration or those with fast-growing Microsoft Exchange or database applications.

For larger companies, the WMS100 complements the Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage, Universal Storage Platform, and Network Storage Controller in tiered storage deployments, which require common management tools, near-line backup, and data movement for data lifecycle management applications.

AMS Series

As the core offerings in our midrange storage line, the Hitachi TagmaStore® Adaptable Modular Storage systems AMS200 and AMS500 are the most scalable, high-performance, high-availability systems in their category. Leveraging many high-end features, such as cache partitioning and RAID-6, the models AMS200 and AMS500, are ideal for any small and midsized businesses (SMBs) that are generating fast-growing amounts of data and need to meet application requirements for availability and performance in a small footprint. The most recent member of the Adaptable Modular Storage line, the model AMS1000, supports large businesses as well.

USP Series

With capabilities well beyond any other storage system, the Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform establishes a new industry category, reaching previously unattainable levels of consolidation and bringing to reality the virtualization of internal and external heterogeneous storage into one pool.

This platform provides a comprehensive set of storage and data services including large-scale virtualization of internal and external heterogeneous storage for application-centric storage area management and simplified and unified data replication. As an integral component of Application Optimized Storage™ solutions, the Universal Storage Platform is the architectural foundation for matching application requirements to different classes of storage.

The Universal Storage Platform will enable you to deploy applications within a new framework, fully leverage—and add value to—current investments, and more closely

NSC Series

The Hitachi TagmaStore™ Network Storage Controller, model NSC55, blends enterprise-class functionality with a modular, rackmounted, small footprint package to meet the business needs of entry-level enterprises and fast-growing midsize organizations, while supporting distributed or departmental applications in large enterprises. The NSC55, powered by the Hitachi Universal Star Network™ crossbar switch architecture, delivers the innovative controller-based virtualization, logical partitioning, and universal replication introduced with the category-creating Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform for open systems and mainframe environments. Now, smaller organizations can enjoy the same benefits as large enterprises in deploying and managing their storage infrastructure in ways never possible before.

Thunder Series

Whatever the size of your business, we have a Hitachi Thunder 9500™ V Series modular storage system that's sure to fit. As part of our Application Optimized Storage™ solutions, Thunder 9500 V Series systems can precisely match your business application needs. The Thunder 9570V™ and Thunder 9585V™ systems support high performance, high capacity, and high connectivity features that make them perfect for information-intensive industries like oil exploration, life sciences, health care, and rich media. The smaller models—the Thunder 9530V™ entry-level storage deck and the SATA-based Thunder 9520V™ Workgroup Modular Storage—are ideal for standalone deployment in retail outlets, business franchises, and professional offices.

Each of the Thunder 9500 V Series storage systems can complement our TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform and Lightning 9900™ V Series enterprise storage systems in tiered storage deployments which require common management tools and data movement for Data Lifecycle Management applications. Able to support both Fibre Channel and Serial ATA disk drives, the high-end Thunder 9570V and Thunder 9585V systems also offer cost-effective backup, archiving, and compliance solutions all in one box, or paired with the larger enterprise systems. With the Thunder family, you gain the intelligence of automated management in affordable, easy-to-grow packages.

Lightning Series

As part of our Application Optimized Storage™ solutions, the Hitachi Lightning 9900 V Series offers a storage platform that enables customers to simplify their infrastructures through massive consolidation. Combined with Hitachi storage software and the HiCommand® Storage Area Management Suite, these systems meet business application requirements for the highest levels of availability, scalability, and performance while supporting “set and forget” management, protecting data assets, and optimizing resources.

The Lightning 9900 V Series is powered by our Hi-Star™ crossbar switched architecture. That means no single point of failure and instant data access, around the clock. We're so confident about the reliability of the Lightning 9900 V Series storage systems, we back it up with a 100 percent data availability guarantee. The Lightning 9900 V Series systems can be paired with Hitachi Thunder 9500™ V Series modular storage systems in tiered environments for such applications as content distribution, backup, data archiving, and compliance.

Management Solutions

Data Replication

Advanced approaches to disaster recovery always involve data replication, which can also help eliminate downtime associated with system upgrades and scheduled maintenance and take your business to the next level by providing secondary access to data without impacting regular production workloads. To keep your business up all the time and make it more productive, explore the many data replication technology options from Hitachi.

Data Protection

With the CommVault Common Technology Engine (CTE) as its foundation, the Hitachi Data Protection Suite of software is a unified platform comprising solutions for data backup and recovery, migration, archiving, and replication—all through a single, easy-to-use point of control. In fact, the CTE provides common metadata, unified cataloging, indexing, and movement of data at various levels of granularity via a common user interface and policy engine.

Data Movement

Data warehousing and data mining applications require moving information between heterogeneous environments at high speeds, while minimizing impact on overall network throughput. The Hitachi Data Movement software eliminates information exchange constraints, while enabling rapid and efficient information sharing and content distribution.

Backup and Recovery

With the average cost of downtime estimated at $1 million per hour or more, can you afford to wait until the unforeseen crisis hits? The right software will help you protect your data, minimize downtime, and restore data efficiently and easily. HiCommand Backup Services Manager software, powered by APTARE®, manages and reports on the entire backup environment to actively avoid data loss, improve backup performance and success rates, provide rapid troubleshooting capability, and lower operational costs.

Storage Area Management

Hitachi Data Systems has built its Application Optimized Storage™ solutions on a common set of management and software tools across the entire storage product line, providing you with the ability to manage business application service levels all the way to the storage device. Through the Hitachi Storage Area Management module's application-centric approach, you can match application requirements to storage attributes, thus better aligning IT with business objectives. Hitachi Data Systems also offers software to manage and optimize storage capacity and performance. Hitachi software modules enable you to monitor, visually render, and administer your data infrastructure as a whole, including storage from multiple vendors.