Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), today announced significant performance enhancements to its already ground-breaking advanced midrange storage system, the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage, model AMS1000. By virtue of introducing new multi-processing technologies to the AMS1000, the system provides a new price-to-performance ratio in midrange storage systems thereby setting a new industry standard.

The 20 percent performance boost to the AMS1000 adds to the storage systems’ unique business enabling capabilities first unveiled in April, 2006 such as 32 logical cache partitions, non-disruptive “on-the-fly” data movement across multiple tiers of storage, enterprise-class RAID-6 data protection, and a key industry-first: sophisticated multi-protocol support for iSCSI, NAS, and Fibre Channel SAN, embedded in a single system. The AMS1000 also offers 4 Gigabit per Second Fibre Channel SAN Connectivity, enhancing the performance of applications such as video-on-demand and medical imaging. No other storage vendor can provide such an integrated solution within a midrange storage system without the aid of external appliances and/or host software. Simply put, the AMS1000 is one of the most flexible midrange storage systems on the market today.

“Driven by escalating costs, not only in terms of yearly outlays for storage, but also in energy and support costs, users are looking to consolidate and maximize the efficiency of storage assets,” said John Webster, Principal IT Advisor of Illuminata, Inc. “By giving customers the ability to dynamically move application data between different classes of storage within the system, now coupled with a performance enhancement and multi-protocol interfaces, the AMS1000 is worthy of consideration as a flexible, long-term data consolidation platform.”