Corporate: Evaluator Group
- Storage Virtualization: Spin Free
With its Intelligent Virtual Storage Controllers--the USP and the NSC--Hitachi has separated the 'brain' from the 'body' of storage--the innovation from the commodity. Hitachi has clearly changed the playing field with its breakthrough in simplicity via its controller-based virtualization technology while competitors have continued to focus on monolithic disk arrays based on aging 20th century designs and increased network complexity. (16-Jan-2007)