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Hitachi Unified Storage The Platform for One Goal When you can’t afford to compromise your service levels
About Unified Storage
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Traditional unified storage systems provide access to both file and block data. Why Customers Are Turning to Unified Storage –
But before you choose one, there is much to consider. and What They Should Know About It.
In these tough economic times, meeting business goals means
Meeting service level commitments is vital to a business. So, a unified storage solution
storing, protecting, and delivering data when and where it’s needed, Unified storage also requires
should be able to meet required levels of performance, data protection, and data
as economically as possible. Unified storage enables you to save unified management: the same
availability. And, it should simplify management of multiple data types across your storage. storage system management
through consolidation, and to repurpose the system quickly when for block and file is needed.
This guide is designed to help you select a unified storage solution capable of meeting your business needs change. Without that, the critical goal of
organization’s goals. consolidation and simplification
But unified storage should mean more than file and block has been compromised.
consolidation. It needs to be able to turn this data into objects so
Contents Unified Storage,
that all your data can be fully searchable. And truly unified storage
Consideration #1: Protecting Your Data and Applications Environment needs unified management tools that simplify set-up and operation. What’s Next?
Consideration #2: Benefits of Intelligent Data Tiering and Migration It should scale easily to meet expanding requirements, and integrate Evaluator Group, 2011
Consideration #3: Common Management Across Your Storage seamlessly with other data center functions, from automated migration
Hitachi Unified Storage and intelligent tiering to cloud computing. Download
How Different Industries Use Hitachi Unified Storage
Responding to these needs, Hitachi offers unified storage of
Solution Environments that Benefit from Hitachi Unified Storage
all data – without compromise.
What They’re Saying About Hitachi
Additional Resources
Consideration #1:
Protecting Your Data and
Applications Environment
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Challenge: Solution:
IDC research shows that data Data is growing at a rate of approximately 50% annually A software-based solution that leverages the advantages of Identifying easier, faster and
volumes are growing at roughly Organizations are hard pressed to manage all that data while disk-based data protection to provide application-aware recovery more reliable ways to complete
50% year over year. backup and recovery tasks
trying to meet service levels and backup windows. that meets your RTO and RPO requirements. and support data protection
Organizations need to spend continues to be a major challenge
more and more money each year Host-based backup and recovery methods designed for Hitachi Application Protector offers these advantages: for enterprises and smaller
on simply meeting needs for removable media are not space efficient. Proprietary formats organizations alike…. Hitachi
regulatory and legislative Windows interface for easy installation, set-up, and use. continues to develop new backup,
add complexity, which can lock you in with legacy vendors.
compliance, let alone meeting any Your application and backup administrators can backup reovery and data protection tools
corporate objectives and policies. because a new generation of
Protecting the data for business-critical applications only and recover without waiting for storage administrators
And IT often has to manage this innovative thinking brings a new
with a budget that does not seem adds to the challenge. Backup and replication schemes that way of protecting data.
Application-aware, snapshot-based data protection
to align with the data demands. are application-unaware make it difficult to find all the files
associated with an application, lengthening the time it takes Support for common applications, including Microsoft® Exchange Hitachi Application
Storage Savings through Protector datasheet,
Unified Design to recover an application. Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft SharePoint
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Ben Woo, IDC,
Scalability from midrange storage to enterprise-level storage
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Consolidated data protection across platforms, servers, Download
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Consideration #2:
Benefits of Intelligent
Data Tiering and Migration
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Challenge: Solution:
As organizations acquire and save more and more data, it becomes A dynamic storage hierarchy plus intelligent tiering can ensure that SNIA (the Storage Networking
increasingly important to store it cost effectively. Important data should the right data is on the right device at the right time. Industry Association) reported
that 68% of all data is dormant 90
be kept on the highest-performing storage, while older, inactive data days after its creation. To put this
Hitachi Dynamic Tiering and automated migration:
should be moved to more dense, less expensive disks. in very plain language, at least
Can handle both block and file data 68% of the data that resides on
Moving that data manually and ensuring it is on the right-performing, your most expensive storage
most cost-effective storage is both time-consuming, and a costly Offer dynamic, policy-based data movement and management and is protected by your most
stringent policies and processes
administrative effort. Support a broad range of storage platforms and applications, is most probably not being used
for flexibility and granularity by anyone!
The newly introduced HUS also supports many advanced
storage features… designed specifically to enhance data Include sophisticated management tools The Business Value of
growth management …There are multiple benefits of dynamic Intelligent Tiered Storage,
Offer search capabilities across all tiers Enterprise Storage Group
provisioning, all of which are significant in deferring future
storage acquisition costs and alleviating some of the
administrative management burden.
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Technical Briefing: A Review of
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9 Hitachi is redefining Unified Storage with a new midrange platform Hitachi Unified Storage is built with trusted Hitachi reliability
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for companies of all sizes. And it’s the only one that delivers unified to meet your requirements for application availability and
storage of all data – without compromise – providing: performance. It scales easily and keeps up with your service As data center storage capacities
grow to petabyte scale, Hitachi
level commitments for critical business applications. Unified Storage managed by
The most scalable unified storage on the market
Hitachi Command Suite 7 offers
Organizations want their unified storage solutions to support multiple ways to increase
A common management framework for your storage needs
a cloud architecture from edge to core, with performance and efficiency and make storage and
Enhanced features to maximize ROI, including automated capacity scalability and higher data efficiency. Hitachi is the data management in accelerated
tieringand migration for block, file and content data growth environments more
only vendor that provides these unified solutions based on a
efficient. The consolidation of
Among the fastest response times available common management platform. block, file, and object storage
under a single umbrella delivers
Cloud-ready solutions a more integrated, consolidated
and simplified management model
allowing IT to manage capacity
Meeting service level objectives for critical business growth with existing staff.
applications has never been easier, with highest levels of
performance, data availability and data protection for all Building a Storage Environment
file, block and object data. Unified Storage is designed to for Super-Efficiency,
exceed 99.999% data availability and advanced Evaluator Group,
management capabilities for nimble execution of April 2012
SLAs and customer expectations.
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How Different Industries
Use Hitachi Unified Storage
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Healthcare: Oil and Gas:
Storage takes up a large Regulatory requirements, the widespread adoption of electronic Energy consumption will increase significantly worldwide over As you follow the Oil & Gas
percentage of overall IT budget health records, and medical imaging applications are causing the next decade. To find new energy sources and determine workflow from upstream exploration
for providers, with a large portion and production into the so called
of outpatient centers (50%) unprecedented data growth in health and life sciences. their commercial viability the industry is gathering higher fidelity midstream and downstream,
and hospitals (57%) allocating Administrators must protect and manage the data intelligently data and using more sophisticated analysis. Data sets resulting applications like ERP for managing
more than 20% of their IT to ensure it’s available for patient-care decisions. from exploration can exceed a Petabyte per km². assets of production and
budget to storage. eventually resale come into play
Hitachi Unified Storage solutions can provide the speedy Hitachi Unified Storage solutions provide a unified storage and need storage solutions that are
IDC Health Insights’ 2010 EMR well integrated with the rest of the
data retrieval rates, high scalability, and organizational flexibility architecture and data management, simplifying operations for
and PACS storage survey infrastructure. The Hitachi Unified
the healthcare industry requires. Healthcare IT can deploy upstream oil and gas exploration. Storage solutions provide a simple
Addressing the Explosion of a storage infrastructure that can accommodate the vast growth way to consolidate disparate
Healthcare Data with Hitachi Field sensors, financial data, and even weather data can be storage solutions in a unifying
Unified Storage
of digital imaging and patient records files while meeting
integrated to help companies determine optimal production architecture and single
(solution profile) service level commitments critical for clinical and management framework.
and resale of known resources.
business applications.
Achieving Higher Quality
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Decisions Faster for
a Competitive Edge in
Oil & Gas (solution profile)
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Solution Environments that What They’re Saying
About Hitachi Data Systems
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Microsoft Exchange Server: Analysts:
Hiitachi Data Systems for
MS Exchange Server 2010 such as Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software and Hitachi Load solutions that make it easier quickly and cost effectively address a wider
range of data requirements.
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suited to Exchange 2010 environments, as well as optional Hitachi
Hitachi Converged Application Protector for MS Exchange consistent data protection.
Platform for Oracle Database HDS is the only storage company able to manage its full storage portfolio
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Oracle: using one common storage management software (Hitachi Storage Command
Suite v7) using the same GUI/CLI.
Hitachi Data Systems environments, we can help companies control CAPEX and OPEX while for Block, File and Content, April 2012
Object Storage Solutions
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VDI: Partners:
VDI for Hitachi As the workplace adopts powerful consumer devices, VDI virtualizes the to new
markets while giving our existing customers ongoing reliability and
desktop for a consistent end user experience. With all these devices being scalability that they have come to demand. It’s simple – in today’s market
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we count on HDS.
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for Cloud and Distributed IT
Solutions and our Edge-to-core Storage Solutions for Cloud
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and Distributed IT.Summary Additional Resources
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