Lightning increased the ante in the high-end storage market as its maximum capacity of 37TB compares to a maximum capacity of 19TB for EMC's Symmetrix 8000 and 11TB for IBM's Shark. HDS intends to increase the overall throughput of the Lightning 9960 . Approximately 800 Hitachi-branded Lightning 9960s have been sold to date. The single-cabinet 9910 replaced HDS' prior generation Freedom Storage 7700E product. This product replaces the 5800 product and is up to 6x faster.
Thunder is important in another regard - channel revenues.
As highlighted by research from industry analyst firms GartnerGroup and Evaluator Group, HDS has the taken the leadership position in disaster recovery. X5 NAS product. Although many storage vendors are addressing the SSP market, we believe that HDS has more focus in this space than many others. HDS continues to derive substantial storage revenues from the SSP market. This has particular appeal to the SSP market, where capacity demands can be unpredictable.