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Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V

With previously unattainable levels of consolidation, Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V redefines the storage industry. It is the world's first implementation of a large scale, enterprise-class virtualization layer combined with thin provisioning software. That means the virtualization of internal and external heterogeneous storage into one pool. You can combine the consolidation benefits of external storage virtualization with the efficiencies, power and cooling advantages of thin provisioning in one integrated solution.

Universal Storage Platform V is backed by a set of storage and data services that includes thin provisioning with Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software, application-centric storage management and logical partitioning. The result is simplified, unified data replication across heterogeneous storage systems.

USP V provides the foundation for matching application requirements to different classes of storage. USP V packages and delivers such critical services as:

• Virtualization of storage from Hitachi and other vendors into one pool
• Thin provisioning through Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning for nondisruptive volume expansion
• Security services, business continuity services and content management services
• I/O load balancing to improve application performance
• Nondisruptive dynamic data migration from Hitachi and third-party storage systems

USP V lets you deploy applications within a new framework, fully leverage—and add value to—current investments, and closely align IT with business objectives.

Benefits

• Reduces business risk
• Increases business agility
• Lowers total cost of ownership
• Helps comply with regulatory compliance and corporate governance
• Enables more eco-friendly data centers