Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 is a unified storage system that provides high performance, high availability, and reliability. VSP G1000 scales to meet the demands of IT organizations’ ever-increasing workloads. When combined with server virtualization, the mission-critical storage virtualization of VSP G1000 supports a new breed of applications at cloud scale while reducing complexity. The following key features illustrate how VSP G1000 provides a Continuous Cloud Infrastructure for the enterprise: • Global storage virtualization enables an always-on infrastructure with enterprise-wide scalability that provides a complete separation between host and storage. The scalability is independent of connectivity, location, storage system, or vendor. Remote data center replication support allows provisioning and management of virtual storage machines up to 100 meters apart. • Integrated active mirroring enables volume extensibility between systems and across sites through the provisioning and management of active-active volumes up to 100 km apart. Combined with remote data center replication, this mirroring is an ideal solution for critical applications that require zero recovery point and recovery time objectives. Active mirroring is enabled by the Hitachi global-active device feature. • Unified storage with enterprise scalability allows you to centrally manage multivendor storage resources across all virtualized internal and external storage pools, whether deployed for SAN, NAS, or object storage. • Unified storage management software (Hitachi Command Suite) simplifies administrative operations and streamlines basic management tasks. • Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage offers a patented data center-class design and rack-optimized form factor that delivers more than 600 TB per system. It supports a sustained performance of 100,000 8K I/O operations per second per device, with fast and consistent response time. • Server virtualization integration with leading virtual server platforms provides end-to-end visibility, from an individual virtual machine to the storage logical unit, protecting large-scale multivendor environments

The SANsymphony software runs on standard x86 servers, providing one set of common storage services across all storage devices under its control. The combined storage capacity of the different devices is managed as shared pools to eliminate wasted space. Unlike storage systems communicate seamlessly reducing complexity and preventing downtime. Data is replicated between nodes leaving no single point of failure. You can seamlessly scale up and scale out choosing the most appropriate hardware manufacturer for each class of storage and servers. SANsymphony™ Software-defined Storage platform solves difficult storage-related challenges introduced by server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing and more general expansion, business continuity, and disaster recovery initiatives. It creates an active, transparent virtualization layer across disk storage devices to maximize the availability, performance and utilization of datacenters large and small.  The integrated set of centrally-managed data protection (CDP), provisioning, caching, replication, and migration functions operates uniformly over different models and brands, assimilating current and future equipment non-disruptively.  You will find that SANsymphony software cost-effectively speeds up applications, delivers uninterrupted data access and extends the life of your tiered storage investments, while giving you peace of mind.