Hitachi AMS 2000 Midrange Storage Platform Family Scores Record Marks in SPC-1 Benchmark

In SPC-1 benchmark testing, the Hitachi AMS 2500 achieved the fastest throughput results among all midrange storage competitors with dual controllers. With an impressive throughput result of  89,491.81 SPC-1 IOPS and an 8.98 millisecond average response time,  the Hitachi AMS 2500 provides the best performance and response times for key business applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Oracle, SAP or any other online transactional processing application, allowing users to more effectively scale their workloads at a best-in-class price point.

The Hitachi AMS 2100 achieved among the best SPC-1 Price-Performance ratio in its class at $5.95/SPC-1 IOPS, bringing high performance to a new affordable price level and allowing customers to realize a lower total cost of ownership. With companies scrambling to find ways to manage data growth without increasing storage expenses or performance penalties, this impressive price-performance ratio reiterates Hitachi's continued efforts to help customers establish a path towards optimizing their storage environment. This results in greater return on their storage asset investments and lower overall power and cooling consumption.

"Hitachi has raised the bar on value and performance for modular storage," said Mike Walkey, senior vice president of channels, Hitachi Data Systems. "As our customers' storage demands grow, the highest levels of performance are often necessary to meet challenging infrastructure requirements. With the industry's leading performance in response time and an extremely attractive price-performance ratio, our customers are able to meet SLA agreements, enable better operational efficiencies, simplify their management, and reduce total cost of ownership."

"This latest benchmark is impressive and demonstrates that Hitachi will continue to deliver exceptional value to support customer IT infrastructures, both today and in the future," said Tony Palmer of ESG Lab. "Hitachi's AMS 2000 Family delivers the type of performance required to satisfy both the growing storage environments and dynamic application requirements of today's midrange customers."