Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) E series

Main article: Storage system

2020

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) E590 и E790

On December 9, 2020 the Hitachi Vantara company announced expansion of a lineup Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform of series E models of the average level VSP E590 and E790 entirely based on a flash memory and NVMe.

Hitachi Vantara expanded a lineup of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform of series E with models of the average level VSP E590 and E790

According to the company, in the updated series E the intellectual built-in management tools allowing to simplify all aspects of operation of solutions of series E from fast installation before the automated configuring and intellectual performance management are implemented. For the clients planning larger infrastructures and needing more perfect end-to-end analytics, also provide to coordination of workflows and automation of the VSP system of series E compatibility with the software of management of a corporate class of Hitachi Ops Center.

VSP E590 and E790 models represent the platforms of a form factor 2U providing the proper performance and level of simplicity thanks to the integrated data protection and abilities to manage with copying of data for security and simpler daily data management. In them the same SVOS RF operating system, as in the VSP 5000 series, for reduction of amount of data and optimization of efficiency is used.

The Advanced Data Reduction (ADR) technology based on artificial intelligence in a product line of Hitachi VSP of series E optimizes efficiency of use of capacity.

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) E990

On April 22, 2020 the Hitachi Vantara company presented solution Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) E990 – the platform of data storage for mid-scale businesses.

As noted in Hitachi Vantara, the high performances and low delays shown by E990 platform allow to provide maximum efficiency of business applications, and industry-leading opportunities of deduplication of data guarantee cost reduction on DWH. The powerful management system of Hitachi Ops Center based on the artificial intelligence (AI) is capable to simplify configuring and providing resources of storage for the AI systems, machine learning and containerized applications. E990 platform in combination with Hitachi Ops Center provides as a part of family of the solutions Hitachi Vantara for medium-sized enterprises option of DWH entirely based on NVMe flash memory. It complements the wide range of powerful infrastructure solutions which have high performance and provide an absolute guarantee of data availability for business of any scale.

The company also announced program system of EverFlex from Hitachi Vantara which provides the simple and flexible choice of options of acquisition for E990 platform and all complex of the solutions Hitachi Vantara. EverFlex includes different pricing models on the basis of the actual consumption, from a simple payment for use of products before the configured services with payment depending on the end result and the "Storage System as Service" model.

According to forecasts, amounts of data will increase by 23%, and budgets of the companies on data storage will increase on average only by 10% therefore solutions on reducing costs of DWH will be necessary for mid-size companies. The provided Hitachi VSP E990 platform with the solution Hitachi Ops Center provides high rates of deduplication of data – 4:1 that twice exceeds possibilities of the closest competitor of the company and guarantees release to 75% of capacity of DWH, claim in Hitachi Vantara.

As industry experts from analytical company 451 Research believe, 43% of buyers of DWH are not ready to satisfy the growing needs for the future. Hitachi Vantara VSP E990 in combination with the Ops Center system is intended for the solution of this problem. The management tools provided in Ops Center based on AI optimize selection of resources of storage to such applications with benefit to 90%. They also allow to eliminate up to 70% of the tasks of configuring and providing resources which are carried out manually, providing an opportunity four times to accelerate the analysis of root causes of problems for search and fault recovery.

According to the producer, Hitachi Vantara VSP E990 allows to solve the problems of reliability of infrastructures of data facing many enterprises: a third from them still faces interruptions in work or considerable falling of performance which are connected with insufficient reliability of storages. The platform uses architecture entirely based on a non-volatile memory (NVMe) and has high rates of IOPS at low price (no more than $0.03 for input-output operation per second) and also the ultralow delays optimized for the most exacting applications to resources.

The presented solution EverFlex expands the choice of available pricing models on the basis of the actual consumption, providing predictability of the prices when using storages by analogy with cloud services. First of all it, according to the developer, will allow customers to pay only the used components and to bring expenses on technologies into accord with commercial use, providing economy of costs to 20% due to elimination of need to pay for the backup capacity necessary in each system. Additional services will provide further cost reduction and will help to avoid interruption of business operations thanks to providing the operational services focused on result providing stabler service levels without increase in load of personnel.

According to the statement of the producer, VSP E990 platform suits the partners focused on innovations and aiming to provide important advantages to the customers from among mid-size enterprises.

"The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform E990 platform brings storages of the middle class to higher level. VSP E990 represents a system entirely based on NVMe which supports both memory of a class of DWH (SCM), and NVMe-over-fabric (NVMEoF) technology, is capable to be scaled up to nearly 6 million IOPS and more than 16 Petabyte of effective capacity, provides the guaranteed reduction of amounts of data in the ratio 4:1 "without any questions" only due to compression and deduplication and provides an absolute guarantee of data availability. Medium-sized enterprises for which the stock is necessary for building of crucial workloads should study the advantages offered Hitachi VSP E990", 'Eric Burgener, the vice president for researches of group of the corporate infrastructure systems, platforms and technologies of IDC company noted'