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. - 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
- Industrial-strength virtualization, replication, migration, and single-pane management across heterogeneous storage systems
- Guaranteed application QoS and chargeback capabilities through Private Virtual Storage Machines
- Any-to-any data replication
- Advanced data lifecycle management
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