The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V (USP V) delivers proven enterprise-class functionality - advanced virtualisation of external attached storage, logical partitioning, thin provisioning and universal replication - with the industry's most reliable, scalable and highest performing storage services platform.

As legal and regulatory requirements for long term data protection and retention intensify, many enterprises face escalating data growth. Simultaneously, they must improve application performance, availability, business continuity and backup windows, while simplifying the management of increasingly complex infrastructures.

Hitachi USP V, powered by the Hitachi Universal Star Network™ massively parallel crossbar switch architecture, executes the Services Oriented Storage Solutions approach to storage management by Hitachi Data Systems. The platform enables common storage services, including virtualisation, thin provisioning and business continuity across storage assets from Hitachi Data Systems and other providers - whether file, object or block based.

The USP V further extends the enterprise-class capabilities introduced with the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform. With Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software, it supports both internal and external virtualised storage, simplifies storage administration, improves performance and helps reduce overall power.