Corporate: Enterprise Strategy Group
- Hitachi Data Systems Helps Users Realize Maximum Benefits from Virtualization
Hitachi is helping customers extend the benefits of virtualization to include servers and storage systems. With the introduction of Hitachi Storage Cluster for Microsoft Hyper-V and Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter 2 for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, Hitachi not only demonstrates this end-to-end capability but also its ability to integrate across virtualization platforms. Customers want to see the value of virtualization extended throughout the IT infrastructure. Hitachi's advances in business continuity and disaster recovery helps customers quickly reach beyond basic consolidation. (May 2009)
- Hitachi Leads with SAS
Use of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives are a key component of HDS’s new AMS family of mid-range systems. ESG analysts Steve Duplessie and Mark Peters discuss how SAS drives, along with other key features of the AMS family, combine to create an excellent, flexible, easy-to-use mid-range storage platform.
- ESG Lab Validation Report: Universal Storage Platform V
ESG Lab tests on the USP V focused on verifying thin provisioning of internal and external storage, creating large logical pools of capacity and the system’s improved performance, which Hitachi delivers within the context of its Services Oriented Storage Solutions architecture. The authors conclude that thin provisioning can essentially eliminate the need for storage provisioning and customers can create large logical volumes without any cost, allowing the application to keep growing and growing as needed. ESG analysts have spoken to customers who have implemented thin provisioning and they report that they spend literally no time provisioning storage except when creating new volumes. (March 2008)
- Hitachi Broadens and Deepens Content Services
The trifecta of announcements that Hitachi made at CeBit, do cross-reference each other, but do not do justice to the power of the overall vision that brings them together. …These have been combined with a determination by Hitachi executives to move beyond its current position as a provider of seemingly bulletproof, but not always very exciting, disk hardware platforms. (March 2008)
- Hitachi Data Migration Services
By using the HDS storage virtualization technology to perform data migrations, the process is fast and completely transparent—even in heterogeneous storage system environments. Additionally, data migrations can happen online while users and applications are accessing data on these platforms. (January 2008)
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Hitachi Is the Leader in Virtualization—Customer Case Studies
Each enterprise has ongoing plans to further leverage and enhance their shared virtualized storage infrastructure, and further engage the common storage services capability of the Hitachi virtualization solutions. (September 2007)
- HDS Makes Storage Simple
HDS is going after the SMB, ROBO and departmental storage market and the timing is great. ESG believes that virtual machines will help to drive storage networking growth in all three areas. Additionally, iSCSI is extremely successful and is now a mainstream storage interconnect. There are hundreds of thousands of storage networks out there but the potential is for millions. That is the opportunity that HDS sees on the horizon. (October 2007)
- Hitachi USP V Enterprise-Class Services Oriented Storage Solutions (ESG Lab Validation Report)
ESG Lab has performed multiple hands-on testing of the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform (USP), starting in August, 2004 just prior to when it was first released. At that time, we focused on its performance, scalability and various features, and paid especial attention to its external storage virtualization capability. At the time, the notion of an Enterprise-class storage system that supported external storage virtualization was unique, a notion which persists to this day, and yet the value of such a system is obvious and compelling. (May-2007)
- Service Oriented Storage Solutions
"What is the concept of Service Oriented Storage Solutions and why is it important? Service Oriented Storage Solutions is the idea of leveraging one’s storage infrastructure to provide a service to the business. How this manifests itself will depend on the IT department and its implementation of Service Oriented Storage Solutions. However, it is important that the actual Service Oriented Storage Solutions platform provides the necessary tools and technology to implement true Service Oriented Storage Solutions" (26-March-2007)
