Hitachi's enhanced NAS platform

Hitachi Data Systems has announced enhancements to the Hitachi high-performance NAS platform powered by BlueArc. A company release said that the high-performance NAS platform now delivers more than one million IOPs (input-output operations per second) in the new four-node cluster configuration.

The ability to cluster up to four nodes with active / active clustering and fail-over improves the performance of the platform and enhances its availability and reliability, making it ideal for large enterprises focused on consolidation and companies requiring intensive file-processing.

The new platform reduces processing cycle times and increases the number of simultaneous users, thereby expanding information sharing and collaboration, and enabling seamless scaling of workloads and capacity.
In addition to doubling the performance of its high-performance NAS platform, Hitachi will now offer a maximum of 32 virtual servers per single node or cluster, a new cluster read caching feature, and a new FSX module. The cluster read caching feature enables customers in data-intensive verticals to accelerate performance in NFS environments.