Reaching previously unattainable levels of consolidation, the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V has
redefined the storage industry. It represents the world's first implementation of a large scale, enterprise-
class virtualization layer combined with thin provisioning software. That means the virtualization of
internal and external heterogeneous storage into one pool has finally been achieved. Customers can
obtain the consolidation benefits of external storage virtualization with the efficiencies, power and cooling
advantages of thin provisioning in one integrated solution.

Everyone from mid-sized growing companies to the largest global organizations can now benefit from the
industry's highest performing and most scalable storage solution. It is backed by a set of storage and data
services that include thin provisioning with Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software, application-centric
storage management and logical partitioning, as well as simplified, unified data replication across
heterogeneous storage systems.

Everyone from mid-sized growing companies to the largest global organizations can now benefit from
the industry's highest performing and most scalable storage solution. It is backed by a set of storage and
data services that include thin provisioning with Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software, application-
centric storage management and logical partitioning, as well as simplified, unified data replication across
heterogeneous storage systems.

An integral component of the Hitachi Services Oriented Storage Solutions architecture, the Hitachi
Universal |Storage Platform V provides the foundation for matching application requirements to different
classes of storage. The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V 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 system