About Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V or VM

The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V enables common storage services, including virtualization, thin provisioning and business continuity across storage assets from Hitachi Data Systems and other providers — whether file, object or block based. With Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software, it supports both internal and external virtualized storage, simplifies storage administration, improves performance and helps reduce overall power and cooling costs.

Hitachi Universal Storage Platform provides the foundation for matching application requirements to different classes of storage. The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform packages and delivers critical services such as:
• Virtualization of storage from Hitachi and other vendors into one pool
• Thin provisioning through Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning for nondisruptive volume expansion
• Security services, business continuity services and content management services
• I/O load balancing to improve application performance
• Nondisruptive dynamic data migration from Hitachi and other storage systems