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characteristics. This optimises between in-line and post-process dedupe for maximum data reduction with minimal performance impact, delivering up to 7:1 total reduction. The VSP 5000 series is purpose-built for today’s always-on digital business. Its self- protecting IO architecture and quadruple redundant fabric deliver an industry- leading 99.999999% availability. reduce storage costs and predict faults that could disrupt operations. Fabrics (NVMe-oF) without forklift upgrades or more hardware investments. The VSP 5000 series is the only storage system in the industry that offers the flexibility to mix NVMe and SAS flash media in the same system array to optimise cost and performance across workloads. Intelligent tiering leverages AI and ML to dynamically promote and demote data to an optimised tier to accelerate applications. Additional benefits of the Hitachi VSP 5000 Series, Hitachi Ops Center and SVOS: • An entry-priced model, Hitachi VSP 5100 comes loaded with value-added software that enables complete storage management, powerful system analytics and native copy data management • A 100% data availability guarantee for all VSP models including the new VSP 5000 series • For customers requiring nonstop operations that can survive a regional outage, Hitachi’s Global-Active Device (GAD) is available for the VSP 5000 Series and delivers synchronous clustering of applications between sites that are up to 500 kilometres apart • Easy-to-use Hitachi Ops Center Administrator templates can simplify management and streamline IT workflow • With Hitachi Ops Center, users can experience accelerated management automation to improve IT operational efficiencies and free staff to focus on innovations ◊ Transform data centre operations The VSP 5000 is a major advancement for organisations that are looking to modernise their data centre to meet the demanding service-level requirements across a wide range of workloads and edge-to-core-to- multicloud deployment models. The new Hitachi Ops Center brings AI to infrastructure management and operations to improve decision making and modernise resource delivery for maximum return on investment. Ops Center can accelerate customers toward an autonomous data centre by automating up to 70% of tasks and can offer faster, more accurate insights to diagnose system health and keep data operations running in top condition. The VSP 5000 series is designed so customers can start small and grow, as needed, to massive scale – all while delivering predictable service levels. It is designed to accelerate and consolidate multiple workloads of any type – traditional transactional systems, modern containerised applications, analytics and even mainframe – consolidating more applications than ever for cost savings and data centre footprint reduction. Its upgradeable architecture is future- ready to bridge from well-established storage technologies to the latest advances such as SCM and NVMe over Customers can instantly add new value to their existing storage infrastructure by leveraging a VSP 5000 model to virtualise their current systems, lowering TCO by up to 20%. Virtualisation will bring all the data services available with the VSP 5000 series to older systems. The VSP Cloud Connect Pack adds an HNAS 4000 file storage gateway to move data to a public cloud to free up additional data centre capacity. Data that is moved to the public cloud is enriched with metadata, making it indexable and searchable. Flexibility to optimise any workload Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) powers the VSP 5000 series and is optimised for scale-out architectures, NVMe performance and next-generation storage media including SCM. It incorporates AI intelligence that adapts to changing conditions to optimise any workload performance, www.intelligentdatacentres.com Issue 09 53