The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM (USP VM) delivers proven enterprise-class functionality with advanced virtualisation of external attached storage, logical partitioning, thin provisioning and universal replication.

Confronted with escalating data growth, large businesses are challenged to improve application performance and availability, business continuity and backup windows. They must also simplify the management of increasingly complex infrastructures.

The Hitachi USP VM is offered in a rack mounted storage services platform that delivers the same advanced storage services available in the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V with a lower cost and smaller footprint. It enables large businesses to package and deliver 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. It is ideally suited for migrating data from storage systems reaching the end of their useful or environmental lives, or for load balancing purposes to improve application performance.

The Hitachi USP VM with Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software supports both internal and external virtualised storage. It simplifies storage administration and improves performance to help reduce overall power and cooling costs.