| |September 20169CIOReviewQuestion 2: Every all-flash vendor advertises high IOPS numbers. But IOPS is not the only part of performance that one needs to consider. How is Hitachi doing things differently in this space?In the rush to deploy flash, it is easy to assume that the many flash solutions on the market are basically the same. Since flash systems provide greater performance and efficiency benefits than the disk systems they are replacing ­ users tend to assume that any flash storage system is a "good-enough" flash storage system.Many IT departments are now realizing that there are fundamental differences in flash storage solutions that can impact the overall success of a deployment. Hitachi Data Systems can help sort through the flash trade-offs and advantages through better performance consistency and reliability. We have worked with a number of customers who have learned the hard way that not all flash is the same. We need to ask the customer to stop looking at cost per terabyte and start looking at cost per I/O. Hitachi Flash Storage A series dramatically reduces cost per I/O, lowering the power significantly. Customers can realize an average of 5:1 more effective capacity and optimize data reduction rates with performance through optional deduplication tuning.Question 3: Key developments include the increasing prevalence of flash as it approaches and then overtakes hard disk in terms of cost-effectiveness, and the maturation of technologies like hyper-converged, software-defined and hyper-scale storage. Where is Hitachi Data Systems headed with such expected developments?In today's fast-paced world, organi-zations that depend on technol-ogy to drive business innovation are intensifying the pressure on IT to deliver services faster and more cost-effectively than ever before. IT spends almost a quarter of their time and resources evaluating and install-ing increasingly disparate hardware components. To solve this problem, organizations should evaluate con-verged infrastructure solutions. Hi-tachi UCP converged infrastructure solutions offer integrated computing options, simplified management and improved utilization that cut TCO by 30 percent.IDC predicts that converged systems - with a growth rate of 54 percent per year - will account for over one-third of enterprise cloud deployments in 2016. The hyper-converged market last year grew at 116 percent and the growth rate in 2016 is expected to be 94 percent and the market should pass 1.5 billion USD worldwide. Hitachi Data Systems believes that to truly unlock the value of a Software-Defined Infrastructure, technology must simplify operations through automation, drive insight through better access to information and create agility through abstraction by turning fixed assets into flexible resources. Software Defined Infrastructures (SDI) free data from traditional hardware and location constraints, making it more accessible for existing and new analytics-driven workloads. Each of HDS' platforms unlock the value of SDI by helping customers achieve greater levels of information access through virtualized, hyper-converged and scale-out architectures that are built to accelerate the journey to IT-as-a-service through an application-led, software-defined approach to IT. Also, it can expedite business insight and allow business to transform the information and data into insights that bring value to companies to develop competitive advantage.
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