Hitachi launches midrange storage systems

To coincide with the launch, the company has also announced six improvements to its Hitachi Universal Storage Platform family.

The AMS Series 2000 includes the Hitachi AMS 2100, the Hitachi AMS 2300, and the Hitachi AMS 2500.

The company claims the series delivers up to four times the performance compared to previous generations, and offers storage consolidation for iSCSI, NAS, and Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) connections.

"The AMS 2000 range is a fantastic option for Australian small and medium sized businesses," said Simon Elisha, chief technologist A/NZ.

"Providing ease of management, high performance, large capacity and low acquisition cost, it is a great platform on which to build an IT infrastructure," he added.

According to John Mansfield, SVP of Global Storage Solutions Strategy and Development, Hitachi Data Systems is 'leveraging its R&D expertise and storage innovation to offer customers best-in-class technologies and solutions that deliver ease of management, reliability and scalability'.

Hitachi Data Systems has also updated its midrange storage portfolio with security and data protection to its Hitachi USP VM storage system.

It claims the new portfolio provides solutions that ‘deliver a functionality ideally suited to midrange environments such as, storage virtualisation, dynamic tiering, and advanced replication’.