Star Storage launches the new storage system – Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G1000 in Romania, dedicated to increase the availability, automation and flexibility of the environment of advanced Data Center

Star Storage, Romanian top provider for storage, archiving and information management solutions, IT Outsourcing and Cloud services, announces the launch of the new enterprise storage system Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G1000in Romania. The storage system – Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G1000provides customers the ability to build the most available, automated and agile environment for next-generation data centers. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G1000 is a high-performance storage platform that Star Storage makes available to all companies, and which is part of the Hitachi Data Systems portfolio dedicated to accelerate customer success with Business-Defined IT.

“The storage system, which we make available to our customers, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G1000 from Hitachi Data Systems is part of the Enterprise class. Now, through the VSP G1000 platform, companies have on hand the latest technologies dedicated to the IT infrastructure, which redefines critical data storage virtualization. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 equipment is spectacular in terms of performance, reliability, scalability, and advanced functionalities to ensure continuous availability of stored data.” said Radu Isaia, Presales Director, Infrastructure Solutions & Cloud Star Storage.

Hitachi VSP G1000 offers flexibility, along with planned data-in-place upgrades, also the system can start small and scale block-storage throughput performance of well over 3M IOPS, over 48GB/sec of usable bandwidth, and NFS ops/sec performance of over 1.2M in unified configurations. The highly adaptable system helps companies deploy a single platform for all data, by growing to seamlessly accommodate a wide variety of customer needs, including: a virtualization controller without internal capacity; unified storage system with up to 8-node Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS) clusters; the highly available infrastructure for Hitachi Content Platform environments.

“We are pleased to work with our trusted Platinum partner STAR STORAGE, with whom over the last 12 years we develop a great and stable partnership and we are proud of that. Together we enable our customers across industries to have a competitive advantage by using VSP G1000 as the foundation of an IT infrastructure that can adapt to continuously changing business needs, without disruption. That is what we are delivering today.” said Jan Kvinta, CEE General Manager Hitachi Data Systems. “Now any organisations with rising storage needs can use Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G1000 to have a rock-solid foundation for mission critical applications. More than that, with Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G1000 customers can plan for a significantly longer useful life of this technology because of its ready adaptation to changing business needs, without the pain and expense of constant technology replacements.“.

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G1000 offers major business benefits, including: RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) at minimum level, simplified management operations through the new version of Hitachi Command Suite, as well as efficient use of storage space. Among the most important features of the equipment are:

External SAN storage virtualization;
Fully redundant architecture;
Global Active Device (GAD) – possibility to configure multiple VSP G1000 storage systems in active-active storage cluster, so can run clusters metropolitan remote servers without downtime in case of total loss of one of the sites (or of any component of a site);
Non-Disruptive Migration (NDM) – feature for data migration from the older storage systems generation (USP V, USP VM, VSP), on the new VSP G1000, without any downtime (0 interruption);
Extreme, proven scalability outperforms other enterprise-class systems;
Hitachi NAS Platform hardware accelerated network protocols support up to 2GB/sec throughput for sequential workloads and up to 1.2 million NFS operations per second;
Create up to 8-node Hitachi NAS;
Platform clusters supporting up to 16PB usable capacity, 256TB file system pools, large single namespace up to maximum capacity, and up to 60,000 concurrent users;
Efficient caching makes up to 2TB global cache dynamically accessible by all connected hosts and Hitachi NAS Platform nodes;
Unmatched multiplatform connectivity allows up to 192 Fibre Channel 8Gb/sec or 96 Fibre Channel 16Gb/sec4 host ports;
Virtual SAN ports (host groups) management supports expanded connectivity and enables multiple concurrent host connectivity modes per physical port;
Hitachi NAS Platform nodes provide primary data deduplication using hardware-based SHA-256 calculation engines. They enable up to 90% capacity savings while maintaining high performance. Unlimited file clones;
Hitachi Accelerated Flash features innovative Hitachi-developed embedded flash memory technology for 4x per-device performance and reduced cost per gigabyte;
Latest 2.5 in. and 3.5 in. 6Gb/sec SAS drives;
Enterprise-level thin provisioning supports 128 pools with capacity of up to 5TB each, Tiering;
Dynamic tiering within a single standalone system or across an entire heterogeneous storage pool enables intelligent file tiering combined with automated migration. Its pools place the right data in the right place at the right time with no performance degradation;
Flexibility of placement in data center.

“Lunch of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G1000 is further proof that we are a company that puts great emphasis on the best technology in the world, that we make it available to our clients through solutions, services and products we offer. In today’s business environment increasingly volatile, we need efficiency, and to get it we have to implement new strategies related to use of continuous, more adaptable and scalable IT infrastructure. We are pleased that with launch Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G1000, our customers can access such technology.” saidCatalin Paunescu, Star Storage CEO.

About Star Storage S.A.

STAR STORAGE is a Romanian information technology services company with annual Gross Revenue of more than € 20 million, employing more than 400 people. Serving a large client base, it delivers storage, archiving and information management solutions in Romania and Republic of Moldova, having positioned itself as the Romanian industry leader.

The Company has more than 13 years of experience on the Romanian market and has succeeded to build an entire portfolio of solutions and services fulfilling the entire enterprise information lifecycle (from the moment of production up to the moment of storage, transformation, distribution or destruction) and playing a key role in the transformation process of organizations’ IT infrastructure into cloud-based architectures with improved control over the content. In addition to this portfolio, several outsourcing services – focused on content acquisition, enrichment, protection, recovery and content output – are provided to banks, non-banking financial institutions, public administrations, telecommunication operators and utility companies.

In addition to its national presence, the Company has started to expand its presence on the international level, primarily through strategic alliances with reputable international players.

Traditionally, Star Storage activity has been focused around large clients. However, the mid-market and SMB segments are now in the Company’s attention and part of the growth plan over the next 5-years.

For more information, visit www.star-storage.ro