Hitachi Data Systems Corporation announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Leaders" quadrant in the, "Magic Quadrant for Midrange Enterprise Disk Arrays, 2H07"¹ report. Hitachi Data Systems' midrange storage line-up offers industry-leading performance and value-delivering many enterprise-class storage services such as RAID-6, Logical Cache Partitioning, Host Storage Domains, Virtual Ports , Power Savings Storage, Role-Based Security Access and many other capabilities that other midrange systems do not offer. The highly scalable and versatile Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage and Workgroup Modular Storage lines (models AMS1000, AMS500, AMS200, and WMS100) deliver multi-protocol connectivity throughout the entire midrange product portfolio.
As an integral component to Hitachi's Services Oriented Storage Solutions strategy, the Hitachi AMS and WMS midrange storage systems complement the Universal Storage PlatformTM V and the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM as tiered or archive storage, especially when configured with SATA disk for lower costs. Utilizing the external virtualization services of the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V series, customers can incorporate midrange Hitachi AMS and WMS systems, integrated under the same storage management umbrella, and benefit from the same common storage services. This is yet another example of Hitachi delivering unmatched cost-effectiveness and scalability to customers.