Must be a slow day for news: Hitachi comes late with mid-range wanna-be

Hitachi just released a new AMS SAS disk array.    Hmmm.... That's news?

Didn't EqualLogic do that, when..... 2 years ago

Ah yes, say the unfortunate slow news day editors, but the new Hitachi arrays have load balancing.

Something that 3PAR (and EqualLogic too) have has been doing for their customers for many years already.

And the new Hitachi products will have thin provisioning in the future.

Hmmm...  3PAR is in its 3rd generation of Thin Provisioning technology already and almost everybody else in the industry has some form of it or another.

Don't tell me.... The AMS products will be easier to use than their USP-V products.

Seriously, has there ever been a reason to be excited about Hitachi's execution and commitment to mid range products?

Comments

[nate]

HDS was certainly impressed with their AMS2000 line when they came to my company and presented it about 3 weeks ago. The local reps didn't even have any knowledge of it at the time. As I sat through the presentation which was impressive, certainly looked a lot better than the AMS1000 line, I couldn't help but think to myself "3PAR has been doing that for 4-5 years" throughout most of what they were saying they were doing with this new system. And after they drilled me on configuration and performance data I'm still waiting on a price quote and a configuration. Meanwhile I've locked in my T400 pricing for the quarter and expect the 150TB demo unit on the floor in a matter of weeks. There wasn't anything HDS said that made me think we should go with their half baked solution over a T-class. In a year when their promises are delivered and tested(several of which were under NDA), it might be a more level playing field, but right now it's not.

I just wish our data center supported the high density nature of the 3PAR system, as-is we have to split it into two racks since the datacenter can't support the weight/power requirements of putting the system in one.

Boss wanted to make sure the new system had a funny name associated with it, so we're going to name it "Mr T", and I already told my 3PAR sales rep he has to get me a life side cardboard cutout of Mr. T to put next to the array when it gets installed.

I still think 3PAR should hand out 256MB USB flash drives as chunklets to customers/potential customers. I suggested that to my local SE over a year ago and still haven't seen it yet..

[marc farley]

Mr. T! - That's nice. Thanks!

[Steven Schwartz - The SAN Technologist]

Maybe in Three years from now HDS will put SSD drives in the AMS? I also find it interesting that HDS themselves consider most of the AMS and the entire WMS line 3rd tier storage.

[Nick Triantos]

Marc,

How A/A is the AMS2000? It is true symmetric A/A without ALUA reporting Active/Optmized on all paths or an A/A "impersonation" via ALUA which is really Asymmetric A/A reporting Active/Optimized and Active/Unoptimized paths.