Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today announced its new Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform, a combination of revolutionary advances in hardware and software that radically improves storage efficiency and significantly reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) of enterprise storage. The platform, which extends Hitachi's leadership in performance and capacity, powers virtualization breakthroughs, including logical partitioning, management of externally attached heterogeneous storage, and universal storage-agnostic replication. Hitachi Data Systems will provide professional and consulting services through its Global Solution Services organization to help customers obtain the highest benefits from the Universal Storage Platform.