Hitachi implements Streaming-Optimized Storage I/O tech delivering 1,200 streams of HD video simultaneously
Hitachi today announced a new technology which makes simultaneous streaming of 1,200 high-definition video streams. Interesting thing about this technology is that its completely software based with absolutely none streaming-proprietary hardware components. Hitachi has developed this technology by improving its original real-time OS that manages video data I/Os in the storage. The video delivery performance has been enhanced by improving storage I/O efficiency of the OS, which now fully utilizes multi-core CPU capabilities.
This technology enables larger amount of video data to be handled by a storage system, thus drastically reducing the amount of equipment necessary for a large video delivery service.
Hitachi has implemented a prototype of a streaming-optimized storage with this technology based on Hitachi midrange storage product, and measured that this prototype can deliver up to 12Gbps of video data (1,200 streams of 10Mbps HD video).
