Hitachi unveils green data centers

Bengaluru: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation announced the opening of its green data center in Yokohama, Japan. The Yokohama Third Center occupies 10,000 square meters of total floor space. The newly opened green facility incorporates power-efficient data center technology designed to achieve a rating of 1.6PUE.

The center provides customers a full range of flexible operations management services, including storage management, with a centrally managed and prompt troubleshooting service to help enterprises align the operation and management of information systems in a way that lowers the total cost of ownership (TCO), streamlines operations and contributes to the overall business strategy.

“Hitachi Data Systems is focused and committed to delivering green data storage technology that infuses eco-friendly innovation across the entire portfolio of products,” said Asim Zaheer, VP- Product and Competitive Marketing, Hitachi Data Systems. “Many of our products like the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and VM and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, and today with the Yokohama Third Center, provide significant improvements in capacity utilization, while lowering customers' power and cooling consumption rates.”

With Hitachi Data Systems, organizations require fewer storage devices and ultimately, less electricity and space, which results in immediate improvements to the overall economics of managing storage. The new data center marks another milestone in support of Hitachi's ongoing green projects like the IT Power-saving Plan and Eco-friendly Datacenter Project which are aimed at reducing 3,30,000 tons of carbon emissions and cutting down power consumption by as much as 50 percent by 2012.

Key features:

·         Environment-friendly data center

·         Integrated control center

·         Energy efficient facilities

·         Natural cooling systems for lower environmental building load

·         Robust structural design

·         Security