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Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform

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 align IT and business initiatives.

Features at-a-glance

• Superior performance: 2 million I/Os per second, 81GB/sec aggregate internal bandwidth
• Superior scalability: 32PB of total storage capacity including up to 332TB of internal storage
• Superior connectivity: up to 192 Fibre Channel, 64 ESCON, or 48 FICON ports
• Powered by the third-generation Universal Star Network™ crossbar switch architecture
• Virtualization of internal and externally attached storage
• Logical partitioning of internal and externally attached storage resources
• Universal replication across heterogeneous platforms
• Active workload balancing and tuning
Single-pane-of-glass management with HiCommand® software

Related Documents:

Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform - brochure (pdf) 
Hitachi TagmaStore USP Quick Reference Guide (pdf)  
Hitachi TagmaStore USP Architecture Guide

White Papers:

Business Continuity and the Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform (pdf)  
Hitachi Application Optimized Storage Solutions for Aligning IT and Business Objectives (pdf)
Hitachi Universal Replicator Advanced Technology (pdf)