MIDRAND, South Africa and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501) today announced that Gijima, a leading Black-owned South African Information and Communications Technology (ICT) company, selected the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) arrays to reduce energy costs while also improving the performance and scalability of its data infrastructure.
Gijima's state-of-the-art data center hosts business-critical systems for many of the company's biggest clients. Due to explosive data growth, data centers across the globe increasingly consume large amounts of electricity and account for an estimated 4% of the total greenhouse emissions worldwide. Based on these critical requirements, it became imperative for an enhancement of its storage systems while also focusing on improving sustainability and efficiencies while lowering their carbon footprint and overall costs.
Gijima successfully identified and deployed Hitachi VSP systems at its production data center and additional arrays for disaster recovery. The all-flash storage systems replaced bulkier spinning-disk arrays, significantly consolidating the physical infrastructure, reducing from nine racks to three in the production data center, and freeing up additional racks at the disaster recovery site. As a result, the new deployment provides a much smaller footprint and a considerable reduction in power consumption, which will reduce CO2 emissions and help Gijima save on energy costs.