Hitachi RAID - Lightning 9900 V Series

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Are You Ready to Succeed in the New Economy?

Introducing Hitachi's second-generation intelligent storage systems with first-rate benefits: Simplified infrastructure and management.Protection for your critical information. Optimized resource utilization. A reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and a more rapid return on investment (ROI).

The world’s economy presents all of us with previously unimagined opportunities—and challenges. Both are often accompanied by an abundance of data—billions of transactions and enormous amounts of text, video, graphical, and audio data that are stored, accessed, and transferred every day, and growing rapidly. But the data itself is just the beginning. Exploiting data for a competitive advantage is what really matters.

Data. Collect, analyze, and transform it into information so that you can make knowledgeable business decisions at lightning speed. Use it to streamline business processes, to more accu-rately forecast inventory, to better service customers, and move products to market faster—that’s when it becomes the enabler for success.

Lightning 9900 V Highlights

Exploit the power of intelligent storage to simplify management.

Introducing our second-generation storage systems with first-rate benefits. The Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Series, with three times the bandwidth of the first generation and virtual ports, offers a storage platform that enables customers to simplify their infrastructures through massive consolidation. Combined with Hitachi Freedom Storage Software and the HiCommand management framework, these systems support "set and forget" management, protect data assets and optimize resources. With the single-cabinet Lightning 9970V and the multi-cabinet Lightning 9980V you can:

    Simplify infrastructure and management through
  • Maximized consolidation and storage resource pooling
  • Seamless scalability with non-disruptive expansion to over 70TB
  • Single system management through a unique virtualization-enabled layer HiCommand management framework


    • Protect critical information and business continuity with
  • 100 percent data availability guarantee
  • Instant, user-defined, point-in-time copies
  • Non-disruptive, real-time copies for backups, quick recovery, application testing and data warehousing/mining
  • Off-site redundancy with complete data integrity


    • Optimize resource utilization with
  • Multi-dimensional scalability, including capacity, bandwidth, connectivity, workload mix and embedded applications
  • Multi-protocol compatibility—Fibre Channel, FICON® and ESCON®
  • Simplified heterogeneous host access to dynamic storage pools
  • Support for DAS and SAN
  • Future-proof compatibility with NAS, iSCSI blade technology
The Lightning 9900 V Series is powered by Hitachi's second generation Hi-Star switched architecture. That means no single point of failure and instant data access, around the clock. We're so confident about the reliability of the Lightning 9900 V Series, we back it up with a 100 percent availability guarantee. Combined with Hitachi's sophisticated Hitachi Freedom Storage Software, HiCommand management framework, and top-ranked professional services, the Lightning 9900 V Series lays the foundation for the Hitachi TrueNorth vision —a strategic direction based on open industry standards, collaboration with strategic partners, policy-based automation tools and the world's finest storage systems.