Nowhere is Hitachi Data Systems success more evident than in the success of our customers. From large multinational corporations to small and medium businesses (SMBs), our data storage solutions deliver positive results that reach across every aspect of businesses. Our customers benefit from the various features our solutions offer such as data protection, online data protection and virtualized storage.
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Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property Selects Secure Hitachi Storage for Swiss Innovation
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Tungs' Taichung Metroharbor Hospital Ensures High Quality Healthcare Services with Hitachi Storage Environment
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Qualcomm Evolves Data Centers with Hitachi Virtualized Tiered Storage
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West Valley Manages Critical Data with Hitachi Data Protection Suite
With more than 20,000 students and 1,000 staff, West Valley-Mission College District near San Jose, California, needs to backup and protect class schedules, emails and class assignments. With ArcScale as systems integrator, West Valley selected Hitachi Data Protection Suite, powered by CommVault.
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Electro-Motive Diesel
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V (2) and Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500 systems (3)
Software: Hitachi Universal Replicator, Hitachi ShadowImage®, Heterogeneous Replication, Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot, Hitachi Device Manager, Hitachi Tuning Manager and Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services, including hardware and software implementation or quick start services, the Remote Copy Planning and Design service, project management and a six month technical resident
"Hitachi Data Systems was the only storage vendor that was dedicated to solving our business issues, while not trying to dilute the resulting solution." — Anuraag Bhargava, Electro-Motive Diesel
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Advanced Information Systems
Hardware: Hitachi Thunder 9585V modular storage system and Hitachi Network Storage Controller 55
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy Remote Replication and Hitachi In-System Heterogeneous Replication software bundles, Hitachi Resource Manager utility package’s Performance Monitor feature, and Hitachi HiCommand Protection Manager software
Services: 24/7 professional services provided by DataOne Asia, a Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner
"Our continued success in a very competitive industry relies on the technology and services that support our business. The products, price, and performance provided by Hitachi Data Systems and DataOne Asia are remarkable." — Suphot Punnachaiya, Assistant Vice President of Technical Operations, Advanced Info Service
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Ohlone College: Newark Center for Health Sciences and Technology
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500 (2)
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous/Extended Distance software, Hitachi ShadowImage® Heterogeneous software
"The Hitachi Data Systems solution is strategically aligned with Ohlone College Newark campus’s environmental stewardship and energy conservation goals and with providing the teaching and learning environment with a state-of-the-art storage system needed for technology innovation now and in the future." — Leta Stagnaro, Associate Vice President, Newark Center, Ohlone College
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National Computing and Information Agency
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® VM
Software: Hitachi ShadowImage® Heterogeneous Replication
"We have been able to experience a wide range of advantages, including efficient distribution and use of resources, cost effective deployment and operation, reduced power consumption with fewer server systems, as well as reduced system failure time through pilot consolidation and Personnel Policy Support System deployment by setting up the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM." — Official Eung-Su Kim, National Computing and Information Agency
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Ontario Science Centre
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500
Software: Hitachi Data Protection Suite 6.1, powered by CommVault®, Hitachi Device Manager software, Hitachi Resource Manager utility package, Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager software
Services: Provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Platinum Channel Partner FlexITy Solutions, Inc.
"The Hitachi implementation has brought a new level of reliability, unseen before, to our core infrastructure along with a greater flexibility to efficiently manage more storage with less effort.
That makes everyone happy. I like happy." — Peter Legat, Associate Director, Information Services, Ontario Science Centre
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Tripnet
Solutions: Business Continuity
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500 and Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000
Software: Hitachi In-System Replication software bundle, Hitachi TrueCopy® Remote Replication software bundle, Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software and Hitachi Device Manager software
Services: Implementation Service for Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500 provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
"We have noticed that the Hitachi Data Systems brand is a real assurance for quality when speaking with our customers. Some even say, ‘Great, if you are using Hitachi we are confident that it will work flawlessly and don’t need to go into the details of how it works,’ which is of great value for us as it speeds up the sales process and helps us close more deals." — Ulf Persson, Managing Director, Tripnet
Industry: Services: Storage Outsourcing/Management
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China Telecom Corporation Limited Guangdong (Guangdong Telecom)
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V, Hitachi Lightning 9980V™ storage system
Software: Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot
"Hitachi Data Systems was able to consolidate our storage and provide better storage and power utilization rates, helping us to ensure that our service levels are always kept high." — China Telecom Corporation Limited Guangdong
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Sinar Mas Group
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® and legacy Hitachi Lightning 9970V™ and Thunder 9520V™ storage systems
Software: Hitachi Universal Volume Manager software
"We are committed to sustainable development and changing the image of our industry. Thanks to Hitachi Data Systems — their solutions and services helped us to achieve exactly that." — Tina Yun-Chin Lee, CIT of APP China, Asia Pulp and Paper Group, Ltd. Sinar Mas Group
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Bishop Burton College
Campus expansion and the ever-increasing generation of electronic data led Bishop Burton College, an education institute in the North of England, to invest, re-design, and centralize management of its data storage network. With the Plug-and-play SAN Kit for Hitachi TagmaStore Modular Storage, Hitachi Data Systems provided a scalable and robust solution, supporting future growth and making it possible for Bishop Burton College to reduce IT costs and efficiently allocate storage resources.
"We needed an economical and reliable solution to address current and future needs. C>Ways seamlessly implemented the Plug-and-play SAN Kit for Hitachi TagmaStore Modular Storage, which has improved our ability to manage storage capacity to meet individual user needs." — Alan Anderson, IT Manager, Bishop Burton College
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Shaanxi Telecom
Hardware: Hitachi NAS, powered by BlueArc® (3100C)
"Hitachi Data Systems was able to understand our needs and provide the right solutions that catered to our requirements. With their solution, we can now grow our business without worrying whether our data storage infrastructure can meet our business needs." — Shaanxi Telecom
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InfoVision Optoelectronics
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V
Software: Hitachi Universal Volume Manager, Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager and Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager
"The Hitachi Data Systems products and solutions fully satisfied our requirements. The consolidated storage platform with virtualization technology has provided us a flexible SAN infrastructure that can help us to meet future business growth." — Fu Bin, Maintenance Department, InfoVision Optoelectronics
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Capital Library of China
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000
"The Hitachi Data Systems solution not only provides more capacity in tiered storage to satisfy the continuous growth of data, but it also improves the operational efficiency of the Digital Library of the Capital Library." — Li Nianzu, Vice-Director, Capital Library Information Center, The Capital Library of China
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Green Cross Life Insurance
Hardware: Hitachi Content Archive Platform, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500
Software: Hitachi Content Archiver software (supporting Hitachi Content Archive Platform)
"We used to search countless paper documents manually to find the information needed by our customers. This process took us at least an hour, sometimes even more than one whole day. By setting up Hitachi Content Archive Platform and building an image system, however, we can now search all types of documents needed by the main office as well as all branches; thus, we enable Green Cross Life Insurance to provide differentiated services and respond immediately to customer demands." — Byeong-su Kang, Manager, Information Service Team, Green Cross Life Insurance
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Folksam
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V, Hitachi Universal Storage Platform, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500
Software: Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager, Hitachi Storage Services Manager, Hitachi Device Manager, Hitachi Tuning Manager, Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous and Hitachi Universal Volume Manager software
Services: Implementation, customer education and 24/7 support services provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
"Hitachi Data Systems has proven to be a strong supplier with many good characteristics. They are not limited to products and competence, but also have customer care and service-mindedness beyond the usual." — Stefan Strömberg, Technical Storage Architect, Folksam
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De Montfort University
With the University degree program moving towards a modular-based structure and students working across different faculties or schools, De Montfort University needed a single view of its disorganized and dispersed data. A storage area network built on Hitachi high-end modular storage and the advanced management capabilities of Hitachi HiCommand Suite software enabled De Montfort University to consolidate, access, and back up all of its information in one complete system.
"Hitachi Data Systems together with Viglen Storage Group provided us with a complete solution—they did not just sell us "a box" but actually sat down with us and went through the whole project, from concept and design all the way through installation." — Chris Semmens, Services Support Leader, De Montfort University
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Banco Leon
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100, Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® VM, Hitachi Thunder 9585VTM modular storage
Software: Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot, Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager, Hitachi ShadowImage® Replication in-system and Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous/Extended Distance remote replication software; Resource Manager utility package; Hi-Track® Monitor
"The bank’s customers also benefit from the Hitachi Data Systems
solution on a daily basis, since “information is available to them at any time, and, especially, in real time." — Wilfredo Soto, Vice President of IT, Banco Leon
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Easynet Spain
"We found the Hitachi Data Systems solution to be very superior technically, and the reliability and monitoring characteristics of the modular storage give us confidence in the SAN." — Anthony Stanton, Technical Director, Easynet Spain
"Hitachi Data Systems was the winner, hands down. We liked Hitachi's modular storage design and Hitachi's quality/price ratio for services. It was clear that we could easily and endlessly scale our operations along Hitachi's comprehensive technology road map." — Anthony Stanton, Technical Director, Easynet Spain
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eBay
Hardware
Enterprise storage: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform and Network Storage Controller 55: Hitachi Lightning 9980V multi-cabinet, Lightning 9970V single-cabinet and Lightning 9960 systems
Modular storage: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500 and 200; Workgroup Modular Storage 100; Hitachi Thunder 9585V ultra high-end and Thunder 9570V high-end systems.
"Hitachi Data Systems has absolutely been the easiest vendor to work with. We've looked at the other vendors, but were concerned about potential restrictions or too much of a focus on other products besides storage. The Hitachi Data Systems team was very flexible and wanted to understand our needs." — Heather Peck, Senior Manager Site Infrastructure, eBay
"We saw results immediately when we went live with Hitachi Data Systems. The storage went live in our environment seamlessly, with little impact on our databases." — Heather Peck, Senior Manager Site Infrastructure, eBay
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Nielsen//NetRatings
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000, Hitachi Network Storage Controller 55
Software: Hitachi Resource Manager™ utility package, Hitachi NAS Manager suite of software and Hitachi Device Manager, Hitachi Tuning Manager, Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager, Hitachi ShadowImage® Heterogeneous Replication and Hitachi Universal Volume Manager software
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems and partner AR Systems
"Finally, our storage architecture now delivers a significant gain in performance. The flexibility and velocity of the Network Storage
Controller 55, in particular, helps us to manage all the servers, the connections and the failover in a completely transparent manner.
" — Eric Celeyrette, Director of Technical Operations, Nielsen//NetRatings
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Ressources Mutuelles Group
Hardware: Hitachi TagmaStore® Network Storage Controller model NSC55
Software: Hitachi Universal Replicator software
"Ideally, we were looking for a storage vendor to provide scalability,
reliability, performance, and integration capabilities, as well as a
cost-effective and growth-oriented business continuity solution.
We found it all with the Hitachi TagmaStore Network Storage
Controllers." — Laurent Lucas, Head of IT Production, Ressources Mutuelles Group
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Pixorial
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500, Hitachi NAS, powered by BlueArc® (3100)
Services: Provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Platinum Channel Partner Advanced Systems Group (ASG)
"While a couple of vendor products had the performance and
scalability we liked, only Hitachi Data Systems proved to have the densest shelves on the market plus value added benefits that no other vendor could provide at the time." — Joshua Terry, Director of Systems Engineering, Pixorial
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Gmarket
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform 1100
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy Heterogeneous Remote Replication software bundle, Hitachi Resource Manager utility package, Hitachi Universal Replicator software and Hitachi HiCommand Tuning Manager software
When Gmarket, a burgeoning Internet retail company, began experiencing errors and interruptions in its database systems, it sought out a premier business continuity plan. An Application Optimized Storage solution from Hitachi Data Systems, based on the Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform, became the framework for a three data center disaster recovery architecture. Gmarket now has a resilient, high-performance platform to support its exponential growth.
"The three data center disaster recovery solution [from Hitachi Data Systems] is designed to meet global standards and to support content and services so that we can continue to compete effectively in the global Internet shopping mall market." — Mok Ju-young, Technology Team Manager, Gmarket
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Henner Group – GMC
Solutions: Modular Platform, Business Continuity
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500 (2)
Software: Storage Navigator Modular 2 program, Hitachi ShadowImage® Replication, Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager, Hitachi Global Link Manager and Hitachi Device Manager software
Services: Provided by Platinum Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Scasicomp
"The performance of our infrastructure and the high availability of our data are key for our business. That’s why, based on the recommendation of our integrator, Scasicomp, we have chosen a storage solution recognized for its reliability, robustness and flexibility, the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500."
— André Bigot, Assistant ITD Director, Henner Group – GMC
Industry: Insurance
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Universiteit van Maastricht (Maastricht University)
Solutions: Replication, Storage Management
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous and Storage Navigator Modular 2 program
Services: Project coordination provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner PQR
“We were looking for one centralized storage platform for all e-mail related data. Key requirements were futureproof capacity, flexibility
and good value for money. The Adaptable Modular Storage 2500 is a complete storage solution that fully meets our requirements in the
area of scalability.” — Maurice Steijvers, Team Leader, Automation of Centralized ICT Organization (ICTS), Maastricht University
Industry: Education
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Ziggo
Solutions: Enterprise Platform, Modular Platform, Storage Management, Business Continuity/Replication
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V (2); Hitachi Universal Storage Platform (2); Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300 (4), as well as 1000 (3) and 500 (1) systems; and Hitachi NAS Platform 3200, powered by BlueArc®
Software: Hitachi Device Manager, Hitachi Tuning Manager, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager, Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager, Hitachi Universal Replicator, Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous and Hitachi Replication Manager software
Services: Data migration from NAS to Hitachi NAS Platform 3200, as well as quarterly performance and capacity analysis, and reporting services provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
"The storage platform from Hitachi Data Systems offers us maximum flexibility in supporting the organization, which is essential in the dynamic telecom market." — Peter de Boer, Manager of Core Systems, Ziggo
Industry: Telecommunications
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News International
Solutions: Storage Management: Hitachi Service Operations Centre
Hardware: Hitachi NAS Platform 3100, powered by BlueArc® (2); Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300 (4), Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® (2)
Software: Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, Hitachi Universal Volume Manager and Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager software; Hitachi Performance Monitor feature; Storage Navigator program
"The Service Operations Centre has given us the flexibility to complete important storage projects, while continuing critical activity across our infrastructure to support the deadline driven business day-to-day." — Alun Evans, Infrastructure Team Leader, News International
Industry: Other
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Universiteit van Maastricht (Maastricht University)
Solutions: Replication, Storage Management
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous and Storage Navigator Modular 2 program
Services: Project coordination provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner PQR
“We were looking for one centralized storage platform for all e-mail related data. Key requirements were futureproof capacity, flexibility
and good value for money. The Adaptable Modular Storage 2500 is a complete storage solution that fully meets our requirements in the
area of scalability.” — Maurice Steijvers, Team Leader, Automation of Centralized ICT Organization (ICTS), Maastricht University
Industry: Education
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Ilsan Hospital
Hardware: SAN with Hitachi Universal Storage Platform, Hitachi Lightning 9970V single-cabinet enterprise storage and Hitachi Thunder 9585V ultra high-end modular storage
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy Heterogeneous Remote Replication Software bundle
"We selected the Universal Storage Platform to support relevant solutions in the future and effectively utilize heterogeneous storage now through virtualization." — Chung Sung-jik, Head of the Medical Information Team, Ilsan Hospital
"Stability, scalability, manageability, and economy are the utmost important factors for an IT infrastructure model. Hitachi products were chosen because of these advantages in the Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform…[and] Hitachi Data Systems' high reliability as a storage solutions provider." — Chung Sung-jik, Head of the Medical Information Team, Ilsan Hospital
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Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IGE)
Solutions: Storage Economics, Modular Storage
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300, 500 and 200
Software: Hitachi Resource ManagerTM utility package; Storage Navigator Modular 2 feature; Hitachi Device Manager and Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous software
Services: Services for data migration from a direct attached storage (DAS) architecture to the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
“The corporate culture presented by Hitachi Data Systems is impressive and credibly demonstrates that developing a sustainable, independent solution that isn’t merely based on quarterly figures is important to the storage specialist.” — Rolf Leuenberger, Head IS Operations, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
Industry: Legal - Patents, Trademarks, Copyright
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Intellidyn Corporation
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500
Software: Hitachi Resource Manager utility package and Hi-Track Monitor
Services: Provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Platinum Partner Consiliant Technologies
Intellidyn Corporation processes, analyzes, and compiles millions of intricate information records in order to deliver customized consumer data, faster and more comprehensively than the competition, with zero-defect. Challenged with an avalanche of industry regulations, expanded services, and 24/7 availability demands, Intellidyn turned to Hitachi Data Systems for a very nimble, responsive, and ultra-scalable storage design. The solution was based on the Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS500.
"Out of the box, without tuning, the Hitachi solution gave us an immediate 300 percent improvement of application performance." — Rajeev Kumar Gagneja, Chief Technology Officer, Intellidyn Corporation
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iplan networks
Hardware: Hitachi Network Storage Controller 55
Software: Hitachi ShadowImage® Heterogeneous Replication and
Hitachi Universal Volume Manager software
Services: Hitachi Data Systems Customer Services and Support providing 24/7 hardware and software support. Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services, providing in-system replication, virtualization and tiered storage implementation, and online data migration of critical applications; and Hitachi Data Systems Academy training
IPLAN, the first telecommunications company to use IP technology in Latin America, employs networks designed to meet the current and future high-speed information transmission needs. To support these leading-edge capabilities, IPLAN sought to increase application performance and availability without giving up centralized management capabilities, and to cost-effectively improve backup and restore times. Hitachi Network Storage Controller and Hitachi software provided the solution.
"We have been consolidating and integrating our applications using Hitachi storage solutions for five years. This policy allows us to quickly meet our organization’s business needs, improve storage availability, maximize our service platforms´ security and dramatically streamline information management."
Diego Francia
CIO
IPLAN
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News International
Solutions: Storage Management: Hitachi Service Operations Centre
Hardware: Hitachi NAS Platform 3100, powered by BlueArc® (2); Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300 (4), Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® (2)
Software: Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, Hitachi Universal Volume Manager and Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager software; Hitachi Performance Monitor feature; Storage Navigator program
"The Service Operations Centre has given us the flexibility to complete important storage projects, while continuing critical activity across our infrastructure to support the deadline driven business day-to-day." — Alun Evans, Infrastructure Team Leader, News International
Industry: Other
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Ziggo
Solutions: Enterprise Platform, Modular Platform, Storage Management, Business Continuity/Replication
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V (2); Hitachi Universal Storage Platform (2); Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300 (4), as well as 1000 (3) and 500 (1) systems; and Hitachi NAS Platform 3200, powered by BlueArc®
Software: Hitachi Device Manager, Hitachi Tuning Manager, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager, Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager, Hitachi Universal Replicator, Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous and Hitachi Replication Manager software
Services: Data migration from NAS to Hitachi NAS Platform 3200, as well as quarterly performance and capacity analysis, and reporting services provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
"The storage platform from Hitachi Data Systems offers us maximum flexibility in supporting the organization, which is essential in the dynamic telecom market." — Peter de Boer, Manager of Core Systems, Ziggo
Industry: Telecommunications
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National Healthcare Group
Hardware: Hitachi Network Storage Controller 55 (2), Hitachi Workgroup Modular Storage (2) and McDATA Sphereon 2700 32-port switches (4)
Software: Hitachi HiCommand Dynamic Link Manager and Hitachi Universal Volume Manager software and Hitachi TrueCopy Heterogeneous Remote Replication and Hitachi In-System Heterogeneous Replication software bundles.
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
National Healthcare Group, one of Singapore's largest health care organizations, needed to consolidate disparate systems and improve business continuity to remove barriers to better patient services and lower operation costs. The solution? Hitachi Data Systems' tiered storage virtualization and advanced replication using a dual Hitachi TagmaStore Network Storage Controller design and support from Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services.
"Thanks to Hitachi Data Systems, our storage is no longer the limiting factor in terms of reliability and availability. This is one important step toward ensuring that our applications are always on and ready to meet the needs of our patients. — Linus Tham, CIO, National Healthcare Group
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NoWon District Office
"It is remarkable that all the disparate storage systems are now integrated into a single system. Especially satisfying is the fact that outmoded equipment is being reused after value adjustment. As the midrange product families are utilized for sstorage-to-storage mirroring, we do not worry about saving important data or backup because we have enough capacity," said the IT Manager of NoWon District. "The HDS system has proven its reliability in the finance and securities sectors, and we are deeply interested in the disaster recovery system which will be linked to Hitachi Lightning 9980V enterprise storage system."
"The budget was set up in December 2003 and the storage integration plan started from May 2004 and completed by October 2004. As the project took as long as one year, the district office had high expectations on the new system. In fact, electronic signing process is now significantly faster, resulting in improved overall performance." — Lee Ki-jae, Administrator of NoWon District Office
Pacific Hydro
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 200
Software: Hitachi Resource Manager utility package
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
When Pacific Hydro, a fast-growing Australian renewable energy company, faced rapid growth with an inflexible storage infrastructure, it sought out a centralized, cost-efficient tiered storage solution. Hitachi Data Systems answered the challenge with a solution based on the Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS200, which would serve as the framework for an easy-to-manage storage area network (SAN).
"The implementation was as smooth as silk. Hitachi Data Systems and Global Storage proposed a clear-cut solution to our storage problem, and we trusted them to deliver on it, which they did perfectly." — Daniel Hayward, Global IT Manager, Pacific Hydro
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Port of Brisbane Corporation
Hardware: Hitachi Modular Storage
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy Remote Replication software and Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot software
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems Technology Partner ordyss
The Port of Brisbane, Australia, expects to double ship-freight tonnage on its docks by the year 2025 and is building new wharves to accommodate the growth in shipping traffic. To shore up existing data storage, Port technology officials engaged Hitachi Data Systems and its Technology Partner ordyss to build a highly available and scalable network environment and one of the world's first Microsoft stretch clusters using Hitachi storage.
"Today, we’re confident that our data is safe. The Hitachi storage cluster solution allows the Port to provide the greater security and expanded services that simply were not possible before this implementation." — Tony Marles, IT Manager, Port of Brisbane Corporation
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University
As Shanghai Jiao Tong University's data center demands grew, its diverse storage systems were unable to keep up, prompting the university to seek a better-integrated, more expandable storage system. Hitachi Data Systems provided the answer with a solution built on Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage and Hitachi software.
"The SAN system with the [Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage] model AMS500 as its core has provided high stability, reliability, scalability, and ease-of-management for our storage environment in the Network Information Center." — Mr. Huang Bao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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SingHealth
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform 100, Hitachi Thunder 9520 and Hitachi Workgroup Modular Storage
Software: Hitachi Resource Manager utility package and Universal Volume Manager, Universal Replicator ShadowImage Heterogeneous Replication, HiCommand Dynamic Link Manager, HiCommand Device Manager, HiCommand Protection Manager and HiCommand Storage Services Manager software
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
"Hitachi Data Systems was the only vendor that offered a proven storage virtualization solution together with a commitment to 100 percent uptime on the Fibre Channel disks. The solution the company offered was perfectly tuned to our business needs, and no existing IT investments went to waste." — Fong Choon Khin, Group Chief Technology Officer, SingHealth
"The idea is to have a simplified, central point of management for multiple tiers of storage. This allows us to start at a manageable cost base and add storage as needed." — Fong Choon Khin, Group Chief Technology Officer, SingHealth
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University Hospital Center
Hardware: Hitachi Thunder 9570V high-end modular storage system, Hitachi Workgroup Modular Storage 100
Software: Hitachi Resource Manager utility package with the Performance Monitor feature and Hitachi HiCommand Device Manager, Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot and Hitachi HiCommand Dynamic Link Manager software
Being able to connect to the right information at the right time is critical to saving lives. For the University Hospital Center of Nancy, France, it means sharing timely data such as patient records and lab results in order to make informed decisions. Hitachi Data Systems prescribed a storage area network (SAN)/network attached storage (NAS) architecture to replace disparate systems and bolster data storage health.
"Our Hitachi SAN/NAS architecture helps provide the same peace of mind for our hard-working health care professionals that they strive to give their patients." — Francis Daul, Head of Operations, University Hospital Center
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BT Retail
As it evolved from the world’s oldest communications company to one of the leading providers of communications solutions across the globe, BT Group plc (formerly British Telecommunications plc) has always been at the forefront of innovative communication services. When BT Retail, one of its group businesses, introduced a new portfolio of consumer Internet products and services, it selected Hitachi Data Systems to help manage its storage demands.
"The introduction of new services always creates exacting demands on the data storage systems, and this is particularly the case with new Internet-based services such as IPTV. We have worked closely with Hitachi Data Systems and have been very impressed by their dedication to the project, understanding of our business, and ability to deliver on rigorous SLAs." — Dave Ealham, Infrastructure Programme, BT Retail
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Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten
While the amount of stored data keeps growing, the Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten (Bank for Netherlands Municipalities or BNG) wants to enable its employees to retrieve stored documents quickly. This is why BNG replaced its Hitachi Lightning 9970VTM single-cabinet enterprise storage SAN solution with a system that offers improved scalability. The organisation opted for the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ model USP100, which, besides the greater storage capacity and better performance, offers more management capabilities.
"We were nearing the capacity limit. Hitachi Data Systems saw this coming, too. We have regular contact with Hitachi Data Systems, and quickly found ourselves negotiating a new solution that was more future-proof and scalable." — Fred Apon, IT Infrastructure Specialist, BNG
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TietoEnator
Customers come first at TietoEnator, one of Europe's largest IT providers. In the face of unyielding growth in the volume of data TietoEnator was storing and managing for its customers, it was clear that both storage virtualization and data consolidation were necessary to keep pace with 24/7 customer requirements. That's why the company chose to rely on the performance, scalability, and availability excellence of Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platforms.
"With Hitachi Data Systems, we boosted our data storage services competitiveness by offering new functionality, greater capacity,
and unparalleled performance. All of this adds up to best serving our customers' continuously growing storage needs and tight availability demands." — Tuomo Iso-Aho, Department Manager at the Processing and Network Division, TietoEnator
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Asia Pulp and Paper
The fast-growing Asia Pulp and Paper has emerged as one of the world's top 10 paper producers. That growth has required a flexible, secure data management system to handle all the key company information, making it both accessible and secure. The company turned to Hitachi Data Systems for deliver the critical platform they needed: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™.
"By maximizing the utility of our storage assets while improving system performance, scalability, and ease of management, the
Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ has promised us a broader and easier approach of business expansion in the future." — Yunjin Li, IT Director, Asia Pulp and Paper
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Alibaba (China) Technology Company
Running the world's largest e-commerce platform for international trading requires high performance and secure, reliable
storage systems. Tremendous growth in the market and in the Web-based services Alibaba offers worldwide demanded even greater levels of performance and capacity from the company's storage infrastructure - on a whole new scale. Hitachi Data Systems provided the solution, based on Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ and Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager software.
"Since using the Hitachi Data Systems storage solution, upgrading has become easy. In fact, we have already upgraded the storage
system two times and both times have successfully implemented the expansion online." — Lu Guoliang, Director of Database Projects, Alibaba (China) Technology Co., Ltd.
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ENSO
German energy provider ENSO Strom AG was facing industry competition, new regulations, and expanding business. Its existing storage infrastructure was complex and not entirely flexible for the scalability and security the company would require to meet these challenges. The Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform helped reenergize the ENSO IT environment with a highly available and scalable business continuity solution.
"We've been profiting from the new Hitachi infrastructure for a year and see significantly more beneficial operations as a result. The administrative complexity and scalability issues are gone. Instead, ENSO has a powerful, secure, and compliant storage infrastructure." — Mathias Zirkler, IT Manager, ENSO
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ABN AMRO
Intelligent Hitachi Storage Brings Cost Savings, Increased Usability to Large Netherlands Mortgage Provider.
The merger of Bouwfonds Hypotheken and several divisions of ABN AMRO in January
2006 established ABN AMRO Hypotheken Group, one of the largest specialist mortgage providers in the Netherlands. It also created storage integration and legislative compliance challenges. Hitachi Data Systems helped the new company address these challenges with the Hitachi Universal Storage PlatformTM and Hitachi Content Archive Platform.
"The Content Archive Platform sees to it that we store exactly the right amount of data, neither too much nor too little."— Koen Teeuwisse, IT Administration Manager, ABN AMRO Hypotheken Group
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Wuhan University of Technology
To effectively and securely implement centralized data storage and disaster tolerance services throughout the campus, Wuhan University of Technology chose two Hitachi high-end modular storage systems and Hitachi True Copy Synchronous disaster-tolerant software.
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Amphia Hospital
When three hospitals in the Breda region merged in 2001 to form the Amphia Hospital, the entire IT infrastructure had to be revised. All data and systems were accommodated at two different locations. There was an urgent need for greater storage capacity for digital patient dossiers, X-ray images, and scans.
"Patient dossiers are now available at all three locations of the Amphia Hospital. The digitisation of data enables us to work in a location-independent way." — Erik van Velzen, ICT Project Consultant, Amphia Hospital.
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Francaise Des Jeux
Française Des Jeux, the French national lottery, supports 41,000 lottery outlets in France, one per 1,400 inhabitants. The State holds a 72 percent stake in the lottery, which has been regulated by the government virtually since its creation. Keen to keep up with what's new, the lottery company has launched an average of one new product a year for the past ten years, and has chosen Hitachi storage to support this progress.
"Hitachi Data Systems delivers improvement of data access times, reduction of the maintenance costs, and simpler administration." — Christophe Carette, Systems Manager, Française Des Jeux.
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Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ Hitachi Network Storage Controller
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous/Asynchronous
Services: Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
“The combined experience of CSC and Hitachi Data Systems in data
migration projects ensured that distance proved no obstacle to a
large scale relocation of IT operations from the US to Australia.” — Danny Willmott, Director, Managed Computing Services, Computer Sciences Corporation Australia
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University HealthSystem Consortium
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V
Software: Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager, Hitachi ShadowImage® Heterogeneous Replication
“We are very, very happy with our new response times. Every stored
procedure and standard query that we could measure is running
between 200 and 800 percent faster on the Hitachi system.” — Steve Carlberg, Project Manager, University HealthSystem Consortium
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Neopost (France)
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Solutions: Modular Platform, Business Continuity
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100 (2)
Software: Hitachi In-System Replication software bundle (includes Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot and Hitachi ShadowImage® Replication software), Hitachi Device Manager and HitachiTrueCopy® Synchronous software
“Performance and reliability — this is what our customers demand of us. We apply the same principles to our storage! We would like a solution that is capable of supporting our performance requirements, our professional constraints, and our service commitments. With the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100 solutions, we consider it done.”
Eric Defaux, Technical Manager DSI Distribution, Neopost France
Industry: Manufacturing, Retail, Services
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Gangnam-Gu Office
Gangnam is a relatively new urbanized district of Seoul, Korea, but it has quickly become the most prosperous urban area in the country. The district delivers extensive civil services through online methods, including kiosks. To continue stably managing its offerings, Gangnam needed to consolidate storage and establish a disaster recovery plan. Hitachi Data Systems helped the Gangnam government develop a tiered storage virtualization environment, based on the Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform.
"From this storage consolidation and disaster recovery system project, I was most impressed with the high-performance solutions from Hitachi Data Systems and the systematic maintenance support from LG Hitachi.” Hyang-soo Jung Computing Development Team Manager Gangnam-Gu Office
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Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
To create an intercontinental disaster recovery system that would overcome bandwidth limits and ensure secure, highly available global data access, Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade chose to employ solutions from Hitachi Data Systems.
"At first, it was very demanding to set out this gigantic project as a disaster recovery system project in order to connect Korea in Asia to the U.S. in North America. But now this disaster recovery center provides incredible benefits, which exceeded our expectations, and it also contributes to diplomatic bridge building.” Park Nam-sun Diplomatic Information Officer Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
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Iccrea Banca
Iccrea Banca of Italy has taken its missioncritical data infrastructure to the highest level of capabilities for disaster recovery. Over the course of the last decade, the financial institution has successfully implemented Hitachi Data Systems solutions to evolve and safeguard its IT environment. Iccrea Banca and its customers enjoy the protection of a comprehensive business continuity plan.
"Since day one, Iccrea has been able to maintain efficiency in the data center. We have been able to realize remarkable stability, maximize administrative simplicity, and contain technology costs with Hitachi Data Systems.” Sandro Rullo Head of Management and Systems Service Iccrea Banca
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Maaf Assurances
When MAAF Assurances needed to implement an electronic data management environment to better manage a high volume of transactional documents, the decision was made to also centralize its IT infrastructure to better support and protect the company’s information. The solution? The Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform, Brocade SilkWorm directors, and a suite of Hitachi management tools for optimum performance, availability, and reliability across the enterprise.
"While EMC and incumbent IBM were considered for our restructure project, Hitachi Data Systems was awarded the job. We had great ambitions in terms of deadlines and quality. These conditions were respected perfectly by the Hitachi team.” Jean-Pierre Giquel Director of IT and Telecommunications MAAF Assurances
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SDV (Sparda-Datenverarbeitung eG)
Banks are currently under particular pressure from the competition. It is important, therefore, that IT optimally supports bank business processes. Long response times and obsolete systems are hindrances in this case. For this reason, Sparda- Datenverarbeitung eG in Nuremberg, the IT service provider of the Sparda and PSD banking group, decided to renovate and consolidate the group’s existing storage architecture, based on the Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform.
"In comparison to the competition, Hitachi storage could be upgraded with a much more flexible partitioning feature and more comprehensive capabilities for microcode upgrades.” Bernd Bohne Department Manager of Databases and Central System Engineering Sparda-Datenverarbeitung eG
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X-Tention Informationstechnologie GmbH
Medical devices have considerable IT requirements. After all, technical defects must not trigger any medical emergencies. For this reason, the Kreuzschwestern clinic in Wels, Austria, and the X-Tention system house, its data management company that specializes in health-care systems, rely on storage solutions from Hitachi Data Systems.
"With the tiered storage solution from Hitachi Data Systems, we can grow in a flexible and safe manner.” Harald Waibel Product Manager X-Tention Informationstechnologie GmbH
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Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd., Suderland Plant
With Nissan manufacturing plants being opened across Eastern Europe, the company’s operations were relying heavily upon shared applications across the network. Nissan was also under pressure to reduce costs while improving efficiency; the company’s Sunderland, United Kingdom, manufacturing plant needed an ultra-reliable storage infrastructure to ensure data was always available and protected. The Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform with Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage provided the structure and security Nissan required to create a more efficient business environment.
"We needed a storage system that not only guarantees business continuity for all of our applications but also ensures they are working effectively. Hitachi’s technology improves reliability and business efficiency, making it a perfect choice for Nissan.” Neil Melville Manager Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd.
Sunderland Plant
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Ozcare
With its data storage and management spread across dozens of sites, health and community service provider Ozcare faced severe challenges in keeping systems reliable and information available. An innovative, affordable solution from Hitachi Data Systems and Technology Partner ordyss turned the tables, supporting high data availability with business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities, and allowing Ozcare to focus on providing the best possible services.
"The combined speed, reliability, and support of the [Hitachi Data Systems] solution really stood out as a shining example of exemplary technology.” —Tom Dunn-Marler Information Technology Coordinator Ozcare
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Star Hub Limited
Time to market is extremely crucial in the highly competitive info-communication arena. For StarHub, Singapore’s second largest info-communication company, the deployment of a strategic storage infrastructure plays a key role in accelerating the rollout of new products and services ahead of the competition—and in managing its explosive data growth. Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform and Hitachi legacy storage systems help reduce maintenance costs and backup times while boosting data availability.
"Over the years, the Hitachi Data Systems team has proven its commitment, on not just one occasion but several. They have never failed us." James Woo Head of Information Services StarHub
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Seceti
Seceti, a major Italian company of ICBPI Group specializing in outsourcing services for payment systems, was seeking help with the task of connecting more than 8,000 ATMs and processing transactions at 225,000 POS terminals. By selecting solutions from Hitachi Data Systems, Seceti improved efficiency, continuity, and security in its financial services activities.
"The technology of Hitachi Data Systems came in to play in response to our needs for virtualization. What convinced us was the suitability of the solution.” Guido Gatti Engineer and IT Consultant Seceti – ICBPI Group
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ec Telecom
ec Telecom sees a significant efficiency boost in customer service through Hitachi Storage Management Solutions. Operating in a fast-changing market, ec Telecom found its systems failing to keep pace with the company's growth, especially when increasing user demands slowed performance to intolerable levels. The company selected a storage management solution that builds on Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage and Hitachi Link Manager software. ec Telecom's customer service center has seen a 50 percent increase in response time and significant improvement in stability.
"The Storage Management solution, which runs on the backbone of Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage, delivers the significantly improved system performance, reliability, and scalability that we need to keep our business at the forefront in today's highly competitive market environment." Edmund K.K. Chan, Assistant General Manager, ec Telecom
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Eldorado
Eldorado achieves rapid growth by implementing scalable storage solutions from Hitachi Data Systems while maintaining business continuity. To increase storage capacity quickly and improve performance in support of its distribution system, Eldorado, a Polish retailer and wholesaler, needed a simple and scalable solution. Hitachi Data Systems and its partner Solidex, a member of the Hitachi TruNorth Channel Partner Program, designed a highly scalable storage repository and unified heterogeneous solutions with modular storage.
"The storage solution from Hitachi Data Systems has helped us better utilize the available processing and storage capacity. Improved performance is an important factor in the development of our business data and a key to the company's long-term success. With Hitachi, we have been able to achieve our goals." Jacek Podsiadly, Information Technology Department Manager, Eldorado
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First International Bank of Israel (FIBI)
First International Bank of Israel (FIBI) drives business performance with Hitachi Data Systems. Employees and customers of FIBI, Israel's fifth-largest banking group, depend on secure and uninterrupted access to the bank's data and applications. However, with demand for storage capacity growing 100 percent a year, the existing infrastructure was showing signs of stress, with increased application downtime and slow data recovery. With the help of Hitachi Data Systems, the bank redefined its storage strategy.
"With our tiered storage architecture from Hitachi Data Systems, we've improved storage utilization, dramatically cut our total cost of ownership (TCO), and optimized the performance of our business-critical applications." Oded Tiagger, Production, BCP and DRP Manager, EDS-FIBI
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Guangzhou Urban Planning (GUP)
The metropolitan planning bureau moves storage backup forward with Hitachi high-speed integration platforms. The planning office for the city of Guangzhou, China, was seeking to reform its data storage management infrastructure to share and store vital data, such as geographical images, construction permits, approval processes, and multimedia data, across the enterprise. The city deployed Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS 200 and Hitachi high-end modular storage to unify information exchange and storage.
"Hitachi Data Systems has allowed us to economize on costs, guarantee our investments, and simply do our job better, faster, and more reliably." Li Shi Jin, Director of Automation, Guangzhou Urban Planning Bureau
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L + L Lieferservice and Logistik
Hitachi Data Systems optimizes central service providers' tasks to support therapeutic shoe manufacturers. The fact that health claims, high tech and loyalty to Germany as the production location do not contradict -- but rather sensibly complement each other -- is demonstrated by L+L Lieferservice and Logistik in Vettelschoss, under whose auspices traditional brands such as Birkenstock, Birkis, Tatami, Papillio, Betula, Footprints and Alpro are produced. As the company grows, availability demands increase. Hitachi Data Systems helped answer this high-availability challenge with Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage.
"In particular, the high-availability [Hitachi storage] functions won us over. Manual intervention for the failover is no longer necessary. In addition, we can expand the flexible hardware." Echard Thomas, IT Engineering Manager, L+L Lieferservice and Logistik
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HUK-COBURG
Juggling three computer centers, HUK-COBURG chooses the newest Hitachi virtualization technique for efficient data security. Hitachi Data Systems provided a solution that embraced both new and legacy Hitachi storage and addressed three computer centers to provide heightened performance and security that HUK-COBURG required.
“Hitachi Data Systems was the only bidder whose virtualization capabilities corresponded to our expectations of transparent classification while at the same time matching our price expectations.” Jorg Reh, Acting Department Manager, Informatics Operation and Manager, Production Control, HUK-COBURG
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Punjab National Bank of India
Punjab National Bank selects scalable and reliable Hitachi Storage Solutions. To address competition from other banks while providing superior services to customers, India's second-largest public-sector bank selected Hitachi Data Systems solutions for storage consolidation. This greatly improved efficiency and lowered costs.
"Technology provided by Hitachi Data Systems has placed a significant role In Punjab National Bank's overall efficiency performance level and quality of service." R.K. Bansal, Operational Head, IT Division, Punjab National Bank
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Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO)
The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO) unites 21st century users and 200 years of history via Hitachi Data Systems. The SPTO registers all intellectual property in Spain. With three million paper files, the organization needed to modernize storage and improve user experiences. A move to new offices led the SPTO to seek a scalable, high capacity storage architecture. It chose Hitachi Data Systems to supply and manage the solution implementation to deliver online services in a secure, well-managed archive that is supported by virtualization and remote data protection.
"The highly secure and scalable storage architecture from Hitachi Data Systems enables us to safely manage all of our records. At the same time we can offer online users a fast, responsive experience." Jose Antonio Martin Perez, IT Director, Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO)
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UUSee
UUSee New media chooses Hitachi Data Systems for high-performance, centralized storage solutions. UUSee is an added-value provider of broadband services, such as Internet TV and interactive new media, to almost 10 million users around the globe. The company prides itself on advanced media transmission technology and content partners. UUSee selected Hitachi storage solutions that would support the company as it strives to become the new leader in interactive broadband media.
"The AMS1000-based storage system has brought with it high performance, reliability, and expandability. It has effectively resolved the challenges our Web site faced as business developed and actively ensures the possibility of future development for our Web site." Zhang Xiaoli, Director of Operations, UUSee
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Vanke Enterprises
Vanke Enterprises builds for the future with Hitachi Data Systems storage management solutions. When Vanke needed to upgrade the company's original storage and e-mail systems, its IT managers realized that the foundation for the new system environment would need to be built on secure data storage. To achieve data security, the company needed to upgrade its software and hardware, so it selected solutions from Hitachi Data Systems.
"After using the Hitachi high-end modular storage, our e-mail system and primary database achieved 99.99 percent availability." Zhang Yibo, Manager, Group Information Center, Vanke Enterprises
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Villeroy and Boch
Economical storage solutions for Europe's leading ceramics manufacturer ensures quick response times worldwide. The performance capability of man and machine at Hitachi Data Systems prompted Villeroy and Boch to change storage providers. Now, the company's online, e-mail, and archiving data are administered in a homogeneous storage landscape. Products from Hitachi Data Systems form the cornerstone of the infrastructure, which was designed to be highly available and centrally managed and to include archiving capabilities.
"With Hitachi storage and software, I can now guarantee an almost online-like read access for the archived data and simultaneously improve the response times for the SAP systems through the reduced size of the database in primary storage." Bernard Schneider, Manager of IT Operations, Villeroy and Boch
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ZR West
Pension data was safely stored and efficiently managed, thanks to Hitachi storage and software. As the computer center for the German pension fund in Westphalia and Rhineland, ZRWest is responsible for a truckload of pension notices each month. The data for these notices are safely stored on Hitachi storage systems. Hitachi Hi-Command Storage Services Manager software ensures that the capacity is efficiently utilized and the information is readily available for the pension specialists.
"If a user calls and complains about a slow application, Hi-Command Storage Services Manager software shows what it can do. Using the software, I can track the entire path of the data down to the hard drive, and I can see exactly if there is a problem or a bottleneck." Dieter Potempa, Storage Manager, ZRWest
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Zuellig Pharma Asia Pacific
Zuellig Pharma Asia Pacific improves efficiency and mitigates business risks with Hitachi Data Systems in Asia/Pacific. With Hitachi Data Systems as its strategic IT partner, Zuellig Pharma realigned its IT infrastructure using the Hitachi Data Systems managed service approach to meet its current and future operational and strategic needs. Built on Service Oriented Storage Solutions (SOSS) from Hitachi Data Systems, the new infrastructure also furnished the top Asian health care distribution solutions provider the flexibility to capture new market opportunities.
“Zuellig Pharma needed a long-term strategic technology and business partner who would understand its needs and be able to meet its long list of requirements. Hitachi Data Systems was proven in the IT industry and, given its capabilities, a compatible partner.” John Dickson, CIO, Zuellig Pharma Asia Pacific
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Alcan Engineering Pty, Ltd.
Hardware: Hitachi modular storage and high-end modular storage models
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems and Technology Solutions Provider SureBridge IT
“We have not had a problem in the five years we’ve had a Hitachi SAN, and the relationship with Hitachi Data Systems and SureBridge IT has been excellent.” — David Frazer, Manager IT Operations , Alcan Engineering
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EFAFLEX
Every company makes customer-orientation a priority, and Bavarian manufacturer EFAFLEX takes that seriously. An extremely diverse range of offerings transforms each of the high-speed industrial doors the company manufactures into an individual custom-made unit. To ensure that the SAP application behind this process nevertheless provides acceptable response times, EFAFLEX chose the Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS500 from Hitachi Data Systems to ensure fast data transfers.
“Since then the implementation of the Hitachi Data Systems solution, there haven’t been any calls due to agonizing slow response times.” Karl Weinberger, IT Manager, EFAFLEX
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People's Bank of China
Supporting an important international bank that processes huge amounts of credit business daily, the systems at the Export Import Bank of China handle data that is extraordinarily important for the entire banking organization. The bank required a proven disaster recovery solution and needed to ensure uninterrupted data availability and service continuity. A high-end Hitachi Data Systems solution outperformed the bank’s previous disaster backup standard, as set by China’s State Council.
With support from advanced and innovative solutions from Hitachi Data Systems, the Export Import Bank of China has achieved powerful disaster backup capabilities.
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Hopital de La Tour
Hopital de la Tour, located in Meyrin, Switzerland, is the largest private hospital in the area. However, it still has plenty of local competition. The latest in state-of-the-art equipment helps immeasurably in this regard. When the hospital recognized the need to move to a Picture Archiving Communication System (PACS), it chose to work with Hitachi Data Systems to implement a storage area network (SAN) to support the PACS.
“Hitachi Data Systems has an impressive list of references and is interested in cultivating long-term business relationships. Not all suppliers make such commitments. In addition, 24-hour support seven days a week is absolutely essential for us-and Hitachi Data Systems is providing this with its Geneva branch.” Michael Lawson, Director IT and Telecommunication, Hopital de la Tour
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People’s Bank of China
To serve a growing corporate and personal credit system, the People’s Bank of China was seeking a reliable and secure storage solution. The selected network would need to be highly stable, usable, high-performance, enterprise-class, and capable of supporting overall system expansion. Hitachi Data systems responded with a solution for business continuity and consolidation based on Hitachi Universal Storage Platform.
“The integrated, all-in-one solution of hardware, software and services provided by Hitachi Data Systems completely satisfies all the current and future storage capacity requirements of corporate and personal credit system.” Lu Xialong, Spokesman, Software Development Center, People’s Bank of China
City College of Manchester
One of the UK’s largest educational facilities, City College Manchester supports a growing number of students from around the world, and over 1,200 employees. In order to provide 24/7 access to essential materials and services online, the college needed a data storage and protection system to support this continued growth. Through IT solutions provider Viglen, the college deployed Hitachi hardware and software and now enjoys enhanced information availability for students and teachers.
“For us, it’s all about providing an infrastructure to support online learning, both now and in the future. The Hitachi Data Systems storage solution from Viglen equips us to provide a resource unlike anything we’ve managed before.”—
John Goulden, Network Support Manager, City College Manchester
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EDB Sweden
Eager to address trends in customer demand, leading Nordic IT services company EDB have developed an innovative solution for managing their tiered storage environment. Because traditional models for tiered storage outsourcing created cost and labour inefficiencies for employees and clients, EDB worked with Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services to implement a Policy-based Dynamic Tiered Storage (PBDTS) with virtualization to overhaul its storage management and develop a more efficient business model.
“Our customers help us identify where we need to go, but Hitachi Data Systems helps us identify how to get there.”—
Peter Bellman, Unit Manager, Capacity Services, EDB Sweden
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Indiana University
University IT departments have broad responsibilities for supporting the full range of academic, research, and campus programs. When Indiana University needed to upgrade an end-of-life SAN architecture to improve capacity and service levels and guarantee reliability, Hitachi Data Systems was called to the head of the class. The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ delivered sophisticated virtualization, tiered storage management, and exceptional administrative tools.
“We knew exactly what our technical needs were. Hitachi Data Systems exemplified the strengths we were seeking in array-based virtualization technology and we wouldn’t have to compromise on I/O performance, reliability or scalability. And Hitachi’s storage platform offered a single management interface to manage the entire storage environment,” says Lowden. “We consulted with dozens of other IT institutions across the country and received very favorable recommendations for anything Hitachi. But because we’re a public entity with a public bidding process, we must be good stewards of financial assets and we assumed that the Hitachi solution would be too expensive. The university purchasing department awards the bids and we were incredibly pleased to learn that Hitachi was the lowest bid and was awarded the contract for an entire SAN infrastructure.”—
Rob Lowden, Director, Enterprise System Infrastructure, University Information Technology Services (UITS), Indiana University
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Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe (St. John’s Ambulance relief organization)
To save lives and to help those who are ill—these are the primary goals of St. John Ambulance relief organization in Vienna, Austria. The availability of important data for patient care or quick medical transport in case of emergency is an around the clock requirement. For this reason, St John Ambulance - also called “Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe” - modernized their storage infrastructure for the coming years by integrating a new storage area network (SAN) solution from Hitachi Data Systems.
"We wanted to implement an open SAN infrastructure that gave us some room to expand in the future. We got just what we wanted in the solution from Hitachi Data Systems."—
Ing. Florian Kattinger, IT Manager, Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe
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Michelmores LLP
Michelmores LLP is a leading regional law firm with 260 employees across three sites in London and the Southwest of England. Growing fast in a competitive market, the firm required a new storage architecture to support its current IT requirements and provide a platform for future improvements, such as e-mail compliance and workflow management. Through IT solutions provider ABSNet, Michelmores deployed a Hitachi Data Systems solution and has benefited from increased flexibility, scalability, and resilience
“The highly flexible and scalable solution from Hitachi Data Systems allows us to grow and innovate in a competitive market. The resilience of the system and its automated monitoring also means I don’t have to worry about business continuity.”—
Simon Clarke, ICT Manager, Michelmores
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Taishin Bank
A robust storage area management system that supports 200 computers and nearly a dozen main application systems is meeting the requirements of this innovative bank in Taiwan.
“This is the bank’s first, most complex, and largest disaster recovery project ever. After the backup site is activated, users can log on, connect successfully, and use all the various services provided by Taishin Bank.”—
Spokesman, Taishin Bank
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ESG Elektroniksystem - and Logistik - GmbH
A new storage solution should be cost effective, state of the art and flexible. For ESG, migrating data to Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS) enhanced not only the consolidation of the distributed storage solutions, but also the server landscape.
"We now have a uniform, flexible and scalable storage solution that optimally meets the requirements of our applications." - Erich Donhauser, Director of IT Service and Operations, ESG Elektronksystem—and Logistik—GmbH
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Anthogyr: Dental Implant and Instrument Specialist
Dental implant and instrument specialist Anthogyr designs, manufactures and markets dental implants, rotating instruments and peripheral material for dental implantology. With a significant design and research and development operation at the heart of its operation, which relies on computer-aided design and production management environments, Anthogyr requires high performance and availability. Hitachi Data Systems answered this challenge with a storage solution supporting business continuity and top performance.
"Our goals of availability and access to our application environment were fully accomplished thanks to the implementation of the virtualization of our information system. Our new Hitachi storage system delivers all of its value on the level of availability and performance of our applications." -
Nicolas Pommier, IT Manager, Anthogyr
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Sigtuna City Council
Sigtuna City Council’s traditional data backup system was unable to cope with the increasing volume of data associated with its range of online public services. Working with local reseller Exello, it identified the Hitachi Data Protection Suite, powered by CommVault®, as the best solution for its backup needs in terms of speed, reliability and scalability. Since deployment, backup time has fallen from 39 hours to 16 hours, while data volume has grown from 1.3TB to 3.5TB.
"We’re very pleased with the product and the service from Hitachi Data Systems and Exello. We have the ideal combination of local, native language support and technical expertise from the solution supplier." - Lars Eneslatt, IT Manager, Sigtuna City Council
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St Cuthbert’s College, an Independent Girls Day and Boarding School
With its strong international reputation, St Cuthbert’s College is one of the leading academic institutions in New Zealand. To enhance the learning process, St Cuthbert’s created a strategic plan to also become one of the foremost information communications technology (ICT) schools in the country and turned to Hitachi Data Systems and partners to provide the storage capacity and reliability that would support digital literacy.
"We wanted as little downtime as possible and the highest guarantee that it would work the first time around. We basically turned (the AMS200) on, and it hasn’t hiccupped since." - Stuart Mainwaring, Information Services Manager, St Cuthbert’s College
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TUI InfoTec
At the start of 2005, TUI InfoTec, the IT service provider of Europe's leading tourism group TUI, decided to fundamentally modernize its storage infrastructure. There were two primary goals: to set up an on-demand concept that the company can use to pay for exactly what it uses and to consolidate the heterogeneous data storage assets.
"Thanks to the virtualization from Hitachi Data Systems, we were able to quickly implement the consolidation and thus simplify our environment. The storage virtualization allows us to implement central management over several storage levels very cost effectively." - Michael Wamser, Head of Infrastructure and Storage, TUI InfoTec
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Voyages Hotels and Resorts
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage, model AMS500
Software: Hitachi ShadowImage® Replication software and Hitachi TrueCopy Remote Replication software
Services: Provided by Commander
An Australian travel company specialising in experienced-based holidays in wilderness locations, including Ayers Rock, Queensland, the Kimberley, and Tasmania, Voyages Hotels and Resorts manages tailored eco-tourism and cultural experiences of individual guests spread across more than 1700 hotel rooms, campgrounds, and lodges. To meet the challenges of administering these wide-ranging holidays, Voyages turned to Hitachi Data Systems for the sophisticated information technology systems and processes they needed.
"Due to the size and importance of the project it was really about minimising the business risk, and to give us some peace of mind. We felt the people that make storage [Hitachi] probably have the best insight into storage issues."
Greg Hucker
IT&T General Manager
Voyages Hotels and Resorts
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King Mongkut’s University
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS200
Software: Hitachi ShadowImage® Replication software and Hi-Track® Monitor (software tool/service)
Services: Provided by Acer Computer Company, Ltd.
The mission of Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) is to create the next generation of Thailand’s leading scientists and technologists. To help accomplish this goal, the university developed several new interactive learning applications—but its existing storage infrastructure was insufficient to support video streaming. To facilitate these new applications, manage storage costs, and protect critical data, KMUTT tapped Acer Computer Company and Hitachi Data Systems for a modular storage solution.
"Although KMUTT has never purchased Hitachi Data Systems storage products in the past, the university’s analysis demonstrated that the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage system would provide better performance and greater capacity than other proposed storage brands."
Dr. Bundit Tipakorn
Assistant Professor
KMUTT
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Infoterra
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000 (2) and Adaptable Modular Storage 500 (1)
Software: Hitachi HiCommand Device Manager software, Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot Software
Infoterra, a leading provider of geo-information products and services, delivers reliable geospatial knowledge to customers worldwide — when and where they need it. In order to provide this innovative service, the company required a data storage solution that could cope with vast geospatial mapping image files, which often reach 8 to 12 terabytes (TB) in size, and make them readily available for customers to access. Through leading IT reseller S3, Infoterra deployed Hitachi hardware and software to meet this business challenge.
"The Hitachi Data Systems storage solution from S3 has granted us business agility; we can now roll out new customers in mere hours compared to the days it used to take. Geospatial imaging files create more data than you could imagine, which was causing major storage problems. The solution has solved a very serious business inhibitor, we can now provide a resource quickly and efficiently."
Mark Curtis
Divisional Technical Manager
Infoterra
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FlexITy Solutions
"All customers, regardless of size, are looking for enterprise features to effortlessly manage, protect, archive and maintain data assets throughout the lifecycle. So were we…. The Hitachi platform has everything we need to unite, manage and replicate storage." — Chris Sator, Director, Data Center Solutions, FlexITy
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KILN
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000 and Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500
"We faced a tough storage challenge — escalating data growth, shortening backup windows, and a fast growing business. The Hitachi Data Systems solution meets all our needs, and we have the reassurance that our storage is future-proof." — Ian Cowe, Systems Analyst, Kiln Ltd.
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University Hospitals of Strasbourg
Hardware: Hitachi Network Storage Controller 55 (2)
Software: Hitachi Resource ManagerTM utility package and Hitachi HiCommand® Device Manager, Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager, Hitachi ShadowImage® Heterogeneous Replication, and Hitachi TrueCopy® Remote Replication software
Services: Implementation Services provided by Stordata Company
"Since implementing our first Hitachi Data Systems storage solution in 1999, we have not experienced any unplanned downtime and require only two hours of planned shutdown per year for installing firmware updates, giving us an availability rate of 99.98 percent. Now, our new Network Storage Controller infrastructure has totally redundant components enabling updates at any time, corrective maintenance and "hot" extensions." — Daniel Kanja Head, Production Department, University Hospitals of Strasbourg
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Foothill-De Anza Community College District Police Department
Hardware: Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100
Software: Hitachi Storage Navigator Modular 2 software
"We learned that the Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100 would give us an excellent price point along with all the enterprise-class storage features in a cost-effective, easy-to-use platform." — Ron Levine, Chief of Police, Foothill-De Anza Community College District Police Department
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Capital Securities
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage PlatformTM, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500, Hitachi Thunder 9570VTM modular storage
"Storage is so important to the financial sector that Capital Securities puts almost all critical information in the storage. Therefore, we demand the most robust hardware. We are confident in Hitachi’s attention to quality. We have been using Hitachi storage solutions for years. Their excellent stability validates our initial choice. I have nothing but good things to say about their performance!" — Mr. Alex Chia, Executive Vice President and Head of IT Department, Capital Securities Corp.
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NASA
Hardware: Dell Servers
Software: Hitachi Content Archive Platform (Hitachi Content Archiver software only)
"The Hitachi archival software makes our hardware clusters appear as a single archive. That means we don’t have to manage different applications with separate interfaces... which greatly expedites the way we’re able to monitor and access content." — Curt Tilmes, Computer Scientist, NASA
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500
Software: Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot, Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous and Hitachi ShadowImage® Replication software
At the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), the Internet is a vital platform to allow for students and teaching staff to communicate and share teaching materials. The electronic exchange of e-mail and multi-media documents, in particular, is growing at an unprecedented pace as teaching becomes more lively and interactive. The university’s IT services department realises that in order to better facilitate this interactive learning, it is necessary to constantly scale up its data storage infrastructure. Hitachi Data Systems was asked to provide a data management and disaster recovery solution that delivers highly reliable and scalable e-mail and storage services, while minimising data loss
"For years, we have been using storage solutions from Hitachi Data Systems because of its unmatched reliability and performance in the industry. With that in mind, we expanded our storage infrastructure to include AMS500 storage systems and a Disaster Recovery solution from Hitachi to enhance service reliability and ensure prompt data recovery while providing the best possible e-mail services for the university." — Mr. Kenneth Lai, SAN Design and Operations In-charge, Information Technology Services Center, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Innlandet Hospital Trust
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500 (soon to add Adaptable Modular Storage 1000) and Hitachi Network Storage Controller 55 (2)
Software: Hitachi HiCommand® Device Manager software
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems partner Ementor and Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
"You need to rely 100 percent on your IT infrastructure to deliver mission critical data around the clock, 365 days a year. Hitachi Data Systems fulfills that requirement!" — Frode Finne, CIO, Innlandet Hospital Trust
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Sealed Air
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V and Hitachi Lightning 9980V™ storage systems (2)
Software: Hitachi Storage Command Suite, including Hitachi Device Manager and Basic Operating System/Basic Operating System V; Hitachi Resource Manager utility package; Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager and Hitachi ShadowImage® Heterogeneous Replication
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems Customer Services and Support, which provides services for Hi-Track® Monitor, and Hitachi Data
Systems Global Solution Services, which provides services for mainframe migration, MOD conversion, in-system replication, and Hitachi Device Manager and Virtual Partition Manager software
“With the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V, we’re able to unite previously isolated storage environments to gain enterprise-wide virtualization and migration capabilities that meet even our most demanding workloads.” — Bryan Cripps, Storage Architect, Sealed Air
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Crown Macau
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500 and 200 systems
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous, Hitachi Device Manager, Hitachi Tuning Manager and Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot software, as well as Hitachi Data Protection Suite, powered by Commvault®
"Most importantly, there have been no failures in the last six months, while reliability has been good. This is especially important for us as our services and facilities are key competitive differentiators." — Albert Tang, General Manager, Information Technology, Crown Macau
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SmartyHost
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000
Software: VMware Virtualization Infrastructure
Service: Implementation services provided by SmartyHost business partner Optus/Alphawest
“As a high-growth company we needed something that would scale as we grew, was easy to manage and operated independently of any particular server vendor. We went with the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000 with VMware Virtualisation software and leveraged Optus/Alphawest to help with implementation.” — Anoosh Manzoori, Founder and CEO, SmartyHost
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Cedacri
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™
Software: Hitachi Universal Replicator
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
“The adoption of Hitachi Data Systems solutions has enabled us to implement advanced storage services, while taking the maximum advantage of the existing resources. Moreover, we could rationalize the management of the entire environment through centralized and common management tools.” — Elena Campidoglio, Senior Information Technology Executive, Cedacri
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Visy
Hardware: Hitachi Network Storage Controller; Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc®
Software: Hitachi Data Protection Suite, powered by CommVault®; Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous/Asynchronous remote replication software and Hitachi ShadowImage® Heterogeneous Replication software
Services: Provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Acer and Hitachi Data Systems Credit Corporation
“Hitachi Data Systems came to us with the capability to not only replace our existing storage, but also provide the ability to consolidate backups from multiple technologies back to a single technology. That is the Hitachi value-add.” — Michael Krull, Manager of IT Infrastructure, Visy
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Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP
Hitachi Simple Modular Storage Solution 100
“The reliable Hitachi Simple Modular Storage Solution 100 provides us with the high performance to manage large virtual test environments and the flexibility to ensure smooth migration to the live architecture when testing is complete.” — Craig Hawthorne, Senior Infrastructure Analyst, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP
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Shanghai Railway Bureau Ticket Center (The Ministry of Railway)
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ (2) and Hitachi Network Storage Controller (1) with McDATA 4700 Switches (4)
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous, Hitachi ShadowImage® Heterogeneous Replication, Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager and
Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager software and Hitachi Resource Manager utility package
Services: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform Enablement Services provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
“The two Universal Storage Platforms not only resolve potential system failure due to database errors via asynchronous data replication inside the master Universal Storage Platform, but they also avoid the effects of hardware failures on the system via the synchronous data replication between the two Universal Storage Platforms.” — Shanghai Railway Bureau Ticket Center
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Sichuan Changhong Electronics Group Corporation
Hardware: Hitachi Network Storage Controller and Hitachi Workgroup Modular Storage 100
Software: Hitachi Universal Volume Manager, Hitachi ShadowImage® Replication and Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous/Extended Distance (remote replication) software
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
“We selected the Hitachi Network Storage Controller because of its strong and economical virtualization integration functions. The SAN solution from Hitachi Data Systems has helped us break down data silos and integrate and unify heterogeneous storage resources.” — Mr. Ren Zonggui, Deputy Director of Operation and Management Department, Changhong
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Daya Bay Nuclear Power Operations and Management
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™
Software: Hitachi Storage Services Manager
The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ features a high-availability design and has no single point of failure, which is vital in the operations and management of a critical facility such as the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station. — Daya Bay Nuclear Power Operationsand Management
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Jubilee International High School
Solutions: Capacity and Consolidation/Simplification: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 200 and Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot software
“Our goal is to provide the best IT resources for the school, so we needed an industry-led storage platform. Viglen really listened to our needs and the Hitachi Data Systems solution it suggested meets them perfectly.” — Michael Gobey, IT Manager, Jubilee International High School
Industry: Education
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St. Mark's Catholic School
Solutions: Capacity and Consolidation/Simplification: Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100
“The Hitachi Simple Modular Storage system has allowed us to continue expanding the availability of online resources for students, while backing up their coursework and exam details. They’re now much better equipped to achieve success.” — Don Emil, Network Manager, St. Mark’s Catholic School
Industry: Education
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Centrum Rozliczeń i Informacji CERI sp. z o.o., a BRE Bank Group Company
Solutions: Consolidation/Simplification and Availability
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 200 and 500
“The solutions from Hitachi Data Systems formed an important part of our high availability data storage and processing system.Hitachi storage systems provided the performance required for processing in key areas of the company’s operations.” — Slawomir Sadowski, IT Systems Director, Centrum Rozliczeń i Informacji CERI sp. z o.o.
Industry: Services
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HBO+EMTB
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage
Services: Provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Itaba3
“Hitachi is consistent and their platform is future proof; they don’t
have a reputation for change like other vendors do.” — Kia Hunter,
IT Manager, HBO+EMTB
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E.ON IS
Solutions: Virtualisation/Green Solutions/Migration
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage PlatformTM, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000, Hitachi Workgroup Modular Storage 100
Software: Hitachi Universal Volume Manager, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager
Services: Storage solution consultancy and migration support and monitoring provided by Hitachi Data Systems
“Hitachi Data Systems’ heritage of working with large enterprises like
E.ON IS means they understood our priorities and challenges well and
had the technical know-how and solutions to address them.
They provided invaluable onsite support throughout the project.” — Peter Arrell, Head of Storage UK, E.ON IS
Industry: Utilities
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Norwich Union
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V
and Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000
Software: Hitachi Device Manager, Hitachi ShadowImage®
Heterogeneous Replication and ShadowImage Replication, Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous, Hitachi Universal Volume Manager, Hitachi Replication Monitor, Hitachi Tuning Manager, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager
Services: Storage solution consultancy and migration support and monitoring provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
“We were pleased to find that the solution put forward by Hitachi
tackled all of our concerns head on, from the technology right
through to the cost model.” — Roly Goram, Operational Technical Authority,
IT Operations, Norwich Union
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Conwy County Borough Council
Solutions: Consolidation/Disaster Recovery
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500 (2)
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy® Extended Distance software
Services: Hi-Track® Monitor (“call home” service and remote maintenance tool) and onsite and offsite 24/7 support provided by Hitachi Data Systems and Hitachi Data Systems Platinum Partner Viglen Storage Group
“Providing secure data storage to support essential services to the and support we’ve been able to streamline our storage environment and focus on other concerns.” — Will Valintine, Principal Technical Support Analyst, Conwy County Borough Council
Industry: Local Government
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Rothschild
Soltuions: Tiered Storage, Availability
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ and Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous, Hitachi Device Manager and Hitachi ShadowImage® Heterogeneous Replication software
“The attitude of the Hitachi team was excellent — they showed real enthusiasm and commitment for our project, rather than the ‘sell it and move on’ approach so often seen from other vendors.” — Steve Pikett, Head of IT, Rothschild
Industry: Finance
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Alberta Justice
Hardware: Hitachi TagmaStore® Network Storage Controller
model NSC55 and Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS500
Software: Hitachi Data Protection Suite, powered by CommVault and Hitachi Universal Volume Manager software
Services: Provided by Hitachi TrueNorth™ Channel Partner Axidata Inc.
“Alberta Justice has a highly flexible, scalable, and reliable design to
meet exponential demands for storage, compliance, and even future
media formats that will emerge in tomorrow’s electronic courtrooms.
Hitachi Data Systems has served us well.”
— Robin Seaman, Network Manager, Alberta Justice
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City of Winnipeg
Hardware: Hitachi TagmaStore® Network Storage Controller model NSC55 and Hitachi high-end modular storage
Software: Hitachi Resource Manager™ utility package
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
“We were familiar with Hitachi Data Systems’ reputation for quality
and service. After an HDS Customer Engineer installed the Hitachi
midrange system, we saw the flexibility and acceleration that
disk-to-disk backup provides.”
— Tim Rushforth, Systems Analyst, City of Winnipeg
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Atos Worldline
Hardware: Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc®; Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000 (three systems, one with NAS Option) and Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500
“From the beginning to the end of the project, Hitachi Data Systems
was a perfect companion.”
— Dominique Michiels, Technical Services Director, Atos Worldline
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Netgroup
Solutions:Virtualization, Tiered Storage
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V (2), Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500
Software: Hitachi Basic Operating System V, Hitachi Tuning Manager, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software
Services: Provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Credocom
“Our main priority is to safeguard and optimize our clients’ operations. That is why we only invest in the best and most reliable technology on the market. Our data centers contain what is probably the country’s strongest backbone of solutions. This is a backbone we have chosen to base on storage from Hitachi Data Systems.”
Jesper Dyhr, CEO, Netgroup
Industry: Information Technology: Hosting/Cloud Computing
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International School of Bangkok
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 200
Software: Hitachi Data Protection Suite, powered by CommVault®
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems Partner Acer, Inc./Acer Computer Co., Ltd.
“After installation by Acer of the Hitachi Adaptable Modular
Storage system and Hitachi Data Protection Suite software, we
are impressed by the overall performance without using costly
tape backup. Moreover, the data backup time is cut shorter, from
24 hours to only 12 hours. Therefore, system administrators can
take more time to focus on IT systems.”
— Mr. Stephen Lehmann, Director of IT, International School Bangkok (ISB)
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Spoleto Municipality
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 200 in storage area network (with 10 host bus adapters and 2 Brocade® switches)
Software: Hitachi Resource Manager utility package
Services: Provided by Filippetti Consulting and Technologies
and Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services.
“Before the fulfilment of this project, it took us a lot of time to
distribute a circular among the council offices. We had to prepare
the circular, print it and then have interested employees sign it.
Now, thanks to the new solution, every council employee, from
the usher to the office worker, has access to the electronic mail and
the services on a PC from every point of the network, regardless
of the carried out task.”
— Vincenzo Russo, Project Manager, Spoleto Municipality
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CSC – The Finnish IT Center for Science
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage PlatformTM, Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000 systems
Software: Hitachi Device Manager and Basic Operating System management software, Hitachi Universal Volume Manager and Basic Operating System V virtualization software, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager, Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager
“The biggest asset of the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform is its
virtualization features. Thanks to virtualization, servers are able to
utilise the capacity of storage systems of different brands and we no
longer have to worry about the interoperability of the programs.”
— Ari Lukkarinen, Development Manager, CSC – The Finnish IT Center for Science
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Kennedys
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000 systems (2)
“Working alongside Hitachi partner Intercept, we’ve successfully
overhauled our core IT infrastructure. Not only that, but we’ve done it without disruption to our employees and clients, we’ve done it to budget and we’ve done it to deadline.”
— Ian Lauwerys, IT Director, Kennedys
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National Library of Scotland
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000 (2)
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy® Extended Distance software
and Hitachi ShadowImage® Replication software
“This solution has given us the resilience, scalability and security
to expand our digitisation of Scotland’s literary archive. We look
forward to leveraging Hitachi and Viglen Storage Group’s expertise
to expand this pioneering tool in the future.”
— David Dinham, ICT Manager, National Library of Scotland
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Clinique Saint Augustin
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 200
Software: Provided by NextiraOne
About the choice of Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 200: “We wanted to use the most open system, [one] that is capable not
only of integrating our existing ‘occupation’ solutions but also of changing towards future Computerized Patient File solutions.”
— Estelle Carrard, Manager of Information Systems, Hospital Association of the West
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Businesslink Pty., Ltd
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™; Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage
Software: Hitachi Tuning Manager, Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, Hitachi Storage Capacity Reporter, Hitachi Basic Operating System V, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager, Hitachi Universal Replicator, Hitachi Universal Volume Manager, Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager
Services: Consulting services provided by Hitachi Data Systems Business Consulting Group
“Hitachi demonstrated strategic vision, technology, research and development expertise and financial insight around delivering storage within a shared service network. As a result of the Hitachi
storage consolidation and virtualisation strategy, we are in a better
position to manage data growth and provide cost efficient services
to our customers simultaneously.”
— Pat Richards, Managing Director, NSW Businesslink
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Yuan Ze University
Hardware: Hitachi Workgroup Modular Storage 100 and Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100
Software: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems Partner Acer, Inc.
“After reviewing all the major brands of solutions, we concluded
that the Hitachi price-to-performance ratio best meets our needs and wants.”
— Tung-Fu Chen
(陳通福), Office of Library and Information Services, Yuan Ze University
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TelstraClear
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™
Software: Hitachi Storage Services Manager, Hitachi Universal Replicator, Hitachi ShadowImage® Heterogeneous Replication, Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous and Hitachi Device Manager
Services: Provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Revera
“The Hitachi storage virtualisation technology enabled us to make
the transition without impacting customers in any way.”
— Andrew Crabb, Chief Information Officer, TelstraClear
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Sykehuspartner IKT
Solutions: Consolidation/Simplification, Virtualization
Hardware: Hitachi Network Storage Controller (2), Hitachi Universal
Storage Platform™ VM (1), Hitachi Universal Storage Platform 100 (4), Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000 (11), Hitachi Adaptable
Modular Storage 200 (2)
Software: Hitachi Storage Services Manager
Services: Provided by Atea, Hitachi Data Systems Sales and Contractual Partner
“This is a true pioneering project, which in the years to come will benefit all health [care in] Norway; we depend on extremely reliable partners along the entire value chain, and Hitachi Data Systems is definitely one of those partners!” definitely one of those partners!” — Roar Haldorsen, Section Manager Storage and Databases, Sykehuspartner IKT
Industry: Services: IT for Healthcare Institutions
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EPB Chattanooga
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ (2) and Hitachi Workgroup Modular Storage
Software: Hitachi Universal Volume Manager, Hitachi Device Manager, and Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager software; Hitachi ShadowImage® In-System Replication software bundle; and Hitachi Universal Replicator software (to be used once the disaster recovery site is complete)
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
“Between billing, customer service and IT, we calculated about a 74 percent increase in productivity since implementing the Hitachi SAN … the Hitachi solution is a big win for IT, for the company and, ultimately, for our consumers.” — David Johnson, Chief Information Officer, EPB of Chattanooga
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Victoria and Albert Museum
Solutions: Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000 (2)
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy® Extended Distance software and Hitachi
ShadowImage® Replication software
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
and Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Viglen Storage Group
“Not only did the solution from Hitachi Data Systems and Viglen Storage Group win against all of our criteria, but we then found out it was the most cost effective solution, too!” — Anton Benjamin, Infrastructure Manager, Victoria and Albert Museum
Industry: Public Sector
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Forsters LLP
Solutions: Capacity and Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500
Services: Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Intercept IT
“We’re not a 24/7 company, but with remote monitoring we know that even if there is an issue with a disk in the SAN out-of-hours, the team at Hitachi will respond straight away so there’s a replacement waiting for us when we get to work the next day.” — AJ Meade, IT Manager, Forsters LLP
Industry: Legal
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Düsseldorf University Clinic
Solutions: Consolidation
Hardware: Hitachi Modular and high-end Modular Storage
Software Hitachi LDEV Guard software (now called Hitachi Volume Retention Utility for IBM IBM® z/OS®) and Hitachi QuickShadow software (now called Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot software)
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems Strategic Partner Assistra AG
“Hitachi Data Systems and Assistra AG were the only bidders who could guarantee us a seamless expansion capability and who could guarantee us a seamless expansion capability and attractive price-to-performance ratio.” — Dr. Zbigniew Kowalik, Systems Engineering Manager, Düsseldorf University Clinic
Industry: Healthcare
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Payformance
Packaged Solution: Hitachi Content Archive Platform 500 (with hardware and software components)
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500
“There were also too many intricacies with the (incumbent) platform. That’s when we discovered the Hitachi Content Archive Platform, with out-of-the-box open functionality that can be managed from a single pane of glass.” — Jason Beckham, Director of Infrastructure, Payformance
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Vita Group Limited
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000 (2)
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous remote replication software; storage and performance management software from Hitachi Data Systems
Services: Implementation services provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Corpnet
“Vita Group is growing fast and I simply don’t have time to worry about the reliability of my systems. The storage hardware from Hitachi Data Systems has enabled us to keep business momentum going. Its support has also allowed us to feel confident we have made the best storage decision to take us into the future.” — Lex Moses, Chief Information Officer, Vita Group
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Helse Midt-Norge IT (Hemit)
Solutions: Enterprise Platform/Storage Management/Replication
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage PlatformTM V (2), upgrade from earlier-generation Hitachi Universal Storage Platform and Hitachi Thunder 9530VTM and Thunder 9570VTM systems
Software Hitachi Resource ManagerTM utility package; Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous and Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager software
Services: Provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Proact
“Based on [our] positive relationship, we decided to invest in a bigger Hitachi solution to meet new increased requirements, and in spring 2008 we installed a Hitachi Universal Storage PlatformTM V.” — Tone Musum, Group Leader, Operations Department, Helse Midt-Norge IT
Industry: IT for Health Care Institutions
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Accident Exchange
Solutions: Enterprise Platform, Replication, Tiered Storage
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage PlatformTM V (2)
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous, Hitachi ShadowImage® Heterogeneous Replication, Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot and Hitachi Protection Manager software; Hitachi Data Protection Suite, powered by CommVault®
Services: Provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partners Zycko and RSI
Technologies, Inc.
“As a rapidly scaling business in need of a dual site disaster recovery plan, we needed high performance storage to provide maximum reliability and scalability. With Hitachi technology, we have achieved this and more.” — Ray Ford, Chief Technology Officer, Accident Exchange
Industry: Services Automotive
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MTV Italy
Solutions: Storage Management
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 200
“We have had a very good experience with Hitachi Data Systems on the project and the deploying phases. One can easily realise that they are used to focusing on customers.” — Giuseppe Rolla, Director of Broadcast Services, Broadcast Services
Industry: Entertainment
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Bradford and Airedale Teaching Primary Care Trust
Solutions: Consolidation and Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000 (2)
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy® Extended Distance Software
Services: Hi-Track® Monitor (“call home” service and remote maintenance tool) and onsite and offsite 24/7 support provided by Hitachi Data Systems and Hitachi Data Systems Platinum Partner Viglen Storage Group
“Our server-per-application storage system badly needed updating.
With Hitachi Data Systems technology and support we have
centralised our data storage, created a sturdy disaster recovery
solution and created a platform for future IT projects.” — Martin Powis, Head of IT and Telecoms, Bradford and Airedale Teaching Primary Care Trust
Industry: Health Care
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Fidelity National Information Services
Solutions: Capacity Management and Virtualization: Hitachi Universal Storage PlatformTM VM and Hitachi Tuning Manager software
“The new Universal Storage Platform™ VM has given us the rock solid storage resource we needed to deliver reliable and timely service in a highly demanding market. We’re confident that it will stand us in good stead for a long time to come.” — Gerry Grady, Production Services Manager, Fidelity National Information Services
Industry: Financial Services
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Barry Callebaut AG
Hardware and Software Solution: Hitachi Content Archive Platform
“We are very pleased with our cooperation with Hitachi Data Systems. We have built a relationship of trust and we consider Hitachi Data Systems to be more of a strategic partner rather than a supplier. Together, we work on the future of Barry Callebaut as a global player. A reliable IT infrastructure is essential for this.” — Kris Vandaele, Corporate IT Manager, Barry Callebaut AG
Industry: Manufacturing: Cocoa and Chocolate Products
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Shrewsbury International School
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 200
Services: Provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Acer Computer Co., Ltd.
“After we gathered information from many brands and exchanged
information with other schools, we decided to choose Hitachi
Adaptable Modular Storage 200 from Hitachi Data Systems, which
is delivered by Acer Computer (Thailand) Co., Ltd., under the
co-brand Acer/Hitachi Data Systems. The key factors that affected
our decision were performance and support.” — Mr. Simon Mower, Director of ICT, Shrewsbury International School
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Insight Investment
Solutions: Virtualization, Replication and Backup
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V
Software: Hitachi Tuning Manager and Hitachi Device Manager software
Services: Provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner S3
“With Hitachi technology we’ve made the move to an enterprise
system without any difficulty. The visibility we have gained of
our data has enabled us to drive efficiencies throughout the
organisation.” — Peter Lethbridge, Head of IT, Insight Investment
Industry: Finance
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University of Texas: UT Medicine San Antonio
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000
Software: Hitachi Device Manager, Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager, Hitachi Performance Monitor, Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous and Hitachi ShadowImage® Replication software; Hi-Track® Monitor
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution
Services: Remote Copy Planning and Design, Implementation Service for Hitachi Device Manager Software, SAN Implementation Service, Implementation Service for Hitachi Remote Replication Software, Implementation Service for Hitachi In-System Replication Software
“Having a simplified storage solution that is highly available improves operational costs and efficiencies. Already, we’re managing more than three times the storage we had before and we’ve reduced the six hour nightly backups to a five minute task.” — Mike Walter, Chief Technology Officer, UT Medicine San Antonio
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Karnataka Bank
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V (Sun 9990V)
Software: Hitachi In-System Replication software bundle (includes Hitachi ShadowImage® Heterogeneous Replication and Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot software); Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager and Hitachi Tuning Manager software
“Our banking environment requires real time access to information with no room for data loss. We chose Hitachi Universal Storage
Platform V storage systems because they provided us with
enterprise-class functionality and data availability, which resonated
with our business mission and provided the reliability we required for business continuity.” — Anantha Krishna, Chairman, Karnataka Bank Limited
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Applica Incorporated
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V
Software: Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, Hitachi ShadowImage® Heterogeneous Replication, Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager
Services: Implementation services provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
“We have so many choices with the Hitachi Universal Storage
Platform™ V as our data center foundation. We went from pockets
of stored data and pretty tedious maintenance requirements to a streamlined, cost efficient and high-performance environment.” — Michael Fairclough, Senior Database Administrator [Oracle Applications], Applica
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Great Florida Bank
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 200 (supporting a Hitachi SAN)
Software: Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager version 5.7, Hi-Track® Monitor
“Before transforming our data protection strategies, managing data was constant and painful. We have leveraged all that with Hitachi
Data Systems. Now we are able to focus on other priorities that keep the bank running smoothly and moving forward.” — Hugo Torres, Director of IT, Great Florida Bank
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Industrial Electric Wire & Cable (IEWC)
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500
Software: Hitachi ShadowImage® Replication and Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot
Services: Implementation Service for Hitachi Adaptable Modular
Storage 2300 provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution
Services; presales, implementation and connectivity services provided
by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner AE Business Solutions
“Before, we were stifled by limited storage capacity and technology. With Hitachi, we've gained brand new capabilities and nondisruptive data protection that allow us to manage rapid business growth and deliver a broader, deeper set of services to customers.” — Matthew Stroh, SAP Basis Administrator, Industrial Electric Wire and Cable
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T-Hrvatski (Croatian) Telekom
Solutions: Enterprise Platform, File/Content Services
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V (3)
Software: Hitachi Universal Replicator; additional software provided by Hitachi Data Systems Technology Alliance Program (TAP) Partner Solix
Services: Provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Computech
"As our IT business grows, and more data need to be processed, new Hitachi platforms and Hitachi IT solutions continue to be our number one interest."
M.Sc. Vladimir Šac, IT Operations Department, T-Hrvatski Telekom
Industry: Telecommunications
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TNT
Solutions: Storage Virtualisation/Consolidation
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® VM
Software: Hitachi Device Manager and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning
Services: Storage solution consultancy and migration support and monitoring provided by Hitachi Data Systems
“Hitachi’s Dynamic Provisioning functionality really appealed to us
as it enables us to meet so many of our core requirements simply
and cost effectively.” — Julian Ariel, Storage Manager, TNT ICS
Industry: Services - Logistics
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Baoying Fund Management Limited
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® VM
Software: Hitachi ShadowImage® Heterogeneous Replication
“With the Hitachi Data Systems solution, two systems could now
be accessed by different business requests and not affect each
other. In addition, the analysis data copy could now be updated
more frequently.” — Baoying Fund Management Limited
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HDFC Bank Limited
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® 1100, Hitachi Universal Storage Platform 600
Software: Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager software
Services: Hitachi virtualized infrastructure installation
provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
“Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager [software] is the linchpin to our
change management process. It allows for nondisruptive migration
of volumes for change management to occur. It also allows change
management to be a seamless, repeatable process.
” — Harish Shetty, Senior Vice President of IT, HDFC Bank Limited
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National University of Singapore (NUS): Centre for Quantum Technologies
Hardware: Hitachi NAS, powered by BlueArc®, (2100);
Hitachi
Adaptable Modular Storage 500
“Universities are typically compared to commercial enterprises;
however, distinct differences exist in requirements and resources
present. Hitachi Data Systems has enabled us to achieve our
technological goals through virtualization, open standards and a best- of-breed strategy. With these, we are now empowered to push the
boundaries of knowledge even further than before.” — Darwin Gosal, IT Manager, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Austrian Federal Computing Centre
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® 600 (2) and
100, and Hitachi Thunder 9585VTM modular storage (2)
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy® Heterogeneous Remote Replication software bundle, Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager software and Hitachi Universal Volume Manager software
“Together with Hitachi Data Systems, we managed to migrate all data from different locations in record time.” — Wolfgang Danzinger, Director of IT Operations, Austrian Federal Computing Centre
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Pacific Capital Bancorp
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® (2) and
Hitachi Thunder 9580VTM modular storage (2)
Software: Hitachi ShadowImage® Heterogeneous Replication,
Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous remote replication, Hitachi Universal Replicator, Hitachi Storage Services Manager, Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager and Hitachi Universal Volume Manager
Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
“Because Pacific Capital Bancorp’s data needs continue to change and grow with its business needs, we went looking for a vendor to provide a complete storage infrastructure, technical guidance and ongoing support. Hitachi [Data Systems] had it all.” — Al Todd, Senior Vice President of IT, Pacific Capital Bancorp
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Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Amsterdam City Archive)
Solutions: File/Content Services, Replication, Green Solutions, Storage Management
Hardware: Hitachi Content Archive Platform
Software: Hitachi Replication Manager
Services: Provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Data Matters
" We were looking for an IT specialist to provide us with more than just a machine with software. A flexible attitude and thinking along
with us from our situation were the main conditions for cooperation. Hitachi Data Systems appeared to be the only supplier that really
understood our problems."
Bert Nijhoff - ICT Team Leader - Stadsarchief Amsterdam
Industry: Government: Public Services
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Betonwerk Godelmann KG
Solutions: File/Content Services, Replication, Green Solutions, Storage Management
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100
Software: Hitachi Data Protection Suite, powered by CommVault®
Services: Conception and implementation services provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner EDV-BV
"The concept that EDV-BV prepared with Hitachi Data Systems has worked exactly as it was supposed to. This means sensible planning,
problem-free migration and successful results." — Daniel Piehler, IT System Administrator, Betonwerk Godelmann KG
Industry: Services: Construction
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Waterschap Aa en Maas (Aa and Maas Water Board)
Solutions: Consolidation/Simplification and Availability
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500
Software: Hitachi In-System Replication software bundle (includes Hitachi ShadowImage® Replication software and Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot software); Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager, Hitachi Replication Monitor and Hitachi Device Manager software; and Hitachi Resource ManagerTM utility package
Services: Provided by i3 solutions
"The information at the Water Board is always available, which is extremely important for the performance of business critical processes that demand 100 percent uptime. Thanks to the Hitachi Data Systems SAN solution, our employees are now able to consult all data continuously." — Ton Ruisendaal, ICT Manager, Waterschap Aa en Maas
Industry: Government: Water Board
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MAAGNET Systems Sdn Bhd
Solutions: Modular Platform, Tiered Storage/Virtualization Modular Platform
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000
“Hitachi Data Systems has demonstrated its willingness to do more for us as a customer. Rather than merely selling the product, they have provided value added services that users appreciate."
— Jimmy Yeoh, Chief Executive Officer, MAAGNET Systems Sdn Bhd
Industry: Insurance
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Tungs’ Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital
Solutions: Business Continuity/Replication, Enterprise Platform, File/Content Services, Modular Platform
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® VM, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100 and 2300, Virtual Tape Library Solutions by Hitachi Data Systems and Hitachi NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc®
Software: Hitachi Data Protection Suite, Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer and Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous software
Services: System integration services provided by Hitachi Asia (Taiwan) Co., Ltd.
“We have felt the benefits of centralized management of storage equipment, as well as the stability of Hitachi products."
— Bill Wang, Director of Information Technology Department, Tungs's Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital
Industry: Healthcare
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Movistar - Telefónica Móviles de Chile
Solutions: Business Continuity Enterprise Platform File and Content Services
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V 600
Software: Basic Operating System, Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager
Services: SAN Implementation and 24/7 software and hardware support provided by Hitachi Data Systems Customer Services & Support and Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
"Hitachi Data Systems, as an integral consultant, helps Movistar solve business critical issues." — Luis Urzúa, Technology and Systems Operations Manager, Movistar
Industry: Telecommunications
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Bouygues Telecom
Solutions: Enterprise Platform, Modular Platform, Storage Economics, Virtualization
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V (9), Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300 (4)
Software: Hitachi Device Manager, Hitachi Tuning Manager, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager, Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, Hitachi ShadowImage® Replication and Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager software
“‘Our strength lies in the development and mastery of innovation.’ We expect our technology partners to be in line with this dynamic. It is the ability of Hitachi Data Systems to continuously develop technologies and innovative approaches to control them, which particularly attracted us.” — Pascal Picchiottino, Head of Infrastructure, Bouygues Telecom
Industry: Telecommunications
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Zen Internet
Solutions: Virtualisation, Business Continuity, Hosting
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100 (1), Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300 (3)
Software: Hitachi Tuning Manager, Hitachi Device Manager, Hitachi Replication Manager and Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous software; Hitachi Storage Navigator Modular program
“The Hitachi storage platform with virtualisation means we can consolidate our hardware at the same time as boosting our hosting capabilities, meaning lower data centre operating costs and enabling us to run our IT more economically over the long term.” —Graeme Hinchliffe, Senior Systems Designer, Zen Internet
Industry: Internet Technology: Services
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Aspen Healthcare
Solutions: IT Operations Solutions
Software: Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer
Services: Provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Ibertek
“With the Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer solution we can achieve full visibility of our entire infrastructure and be alerted to any issues in real time. This enables us to operate much more efficiently and deliver an enhanced service to our patients.” — David Williams, Director of Information and Technology, Aspen Healthcare
Industry: Healthcare
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City of Coquitlam
Solutions: Virtualization, Enterprise Platform
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® VM
Software: Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager
Services: Integration and migration services provide by TrueNorth Channel Partner Compugen
“We went from a data migration mindet to transparently moving dat and apps anywhere within the SAN environment using the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM. We've had no service disruptions, no service calls and plenty of improvement in performance and efficiency.” — Darren Browett Technical Services Manager City of Coquitlam
Industry: Government
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Corporation Bank
Solutions: Business Continuity, Enterprise Platform, Virtualization.
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V
Software: Hitachi Basic Operating System V, Hitachi Universal Replicator, Hitachi Replication Manager, Hitachi TrueCopy Synchronous and Hitachi ShadowImage Heterogeneous Replication software
“Since the deployment of Hitachi solutions, we have been able to significantly improve our recovery time objective and recovery point objective.” — S. Kumar Head of Data Cener Corporation Bank
Industry: Banking/Finance
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K7 Computing
Solutions: Storage Management, Modular Platform, File/Content Services.
Hardware: Hitachi NAS Platform 3100, powered by BlueArc, and Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500
“We opted for the Hitachi NAS Platform 3100 and Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500, which currently handles up to 65TB of data for us.” — Senthil Kumar Ramanujam Senior Manager IT and Networks K7 Computing
Industry: Information Technology
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Meuhedet Health Fund
Solutions: Modular Platform, Business Continuity, Replication
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100 (6)
Software: Storage Navigator Modular 2
Services: Installation, maintenance and support services provided by Hitachi Data Systems Customer Service and Support
“In our critical and fast paced environment, users complain loudly over any minor response time or downtime problem they may experience. Since the Hitachi storage solution was installed, I’ve heard nothing at all! My peace of mind is intact, and I’m grateful for that.” — Alex Fisher, M.D., Head of Radiology Services, Meuhedet Health Fund.
Industry: Healthcare
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Zhongda Hospital
Solutions: File/Content Services
Software: Hitachi Content Platform 500
“As early as 2003, Zhongda Hospital implemented an organization-wide "informatization" of its operations with the aim of building a high standard, high quality open platform that meets the needs of our development strategies. In 2009, our hospital implemented the Hitachi Content Platform. It does a great job in helping the hospital handle high volumes of data storage, archive, analysis and retrieval, and lays a solid foundation for further realizing our vision of digitalization.” — Dr. Naifeng Liu, Chief Hospital Manager, Zhongda Hospital
Industry: Healthcare
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Endeavour Foundation
Solutions: Modular Platform, Storage Management, Enterprise Platform
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300
Services: Integration and migration services provide by TrueNorth Channel Partner SureBridge IT
“Hitachi Data Systems and SureBridge were true partners in the process. They took the time to understand what we were trying to do from a business point of view, rather than rushing in with a solultion.” — Barry Sanders, Chief Information Officer, Endeavour Foundation
Industry: Services
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Qualcomm
Solutions: Virtualization, Enterprise Platform, Modular Platform, Storage Management
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000
Software: Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, Hitachi Tuning Manager, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager
Services: Remote Storage Management Services, Remote Provisioning and Remote Reporting Services provided by Hitachi Data Systems Service Operations Center; product supply and administrative services provided by Hitachi True North Channel Partner Bedrock Technology Partners
“We've been challenged to free up floor space and manage growth without deteriorating performance. Hitachi tiered virtualization will be the key building block of our storage architecture for better command over cost-efficient business and data growth.” — John Roden, Senior Manager IT, Qualcomm
Industry: Telecommunications, Information Technology
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BanReservas Bank
Solutions: Storage Management, Modular Platform, Business Continuity/Replication
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000
Services: Installation and configuration services provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Multicomputos
“Through the acquisition of the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000, we are protecting our information, following the ILM [information lifecycle management] standards by classifying data according to wha the best market practices establish.” — Orión Mejía, Chief Communications Officer, BanReservas Bank
Industry: Banking
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MAXCOM Telecommunications
Solutions: Storage Management, Enterprise Platform, Business Continuity/Replication
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V
Services: Provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Solvan
“The main differentiators we found in Hitachi Data Systems were the service, technological support, price and the empathy generated by Hitachi Data Systems in order to undersand our business and requirements.” — Maxcom
Industry: Education
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Viana
Solutions: Storage Management, Modular Platform
Hardware: Hitachi Adapable Modular Storage 2100
Services: Provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Solvan
“Price accessibility, innovations of the product, as well as the service, were conclusive differentiators that made us choose the technology of Hitachi Data Systems.” — Julian Souza, CIO, Viana
Industry: Retail
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Asia Pacific Telecom
Solutions: Storage Management, Business Continuity/Replication
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500
Software: Hitachi Tuning Manager, Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous, Hitachi ShadowImage Heterogeneous Replication
Services: System integration services provided by Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Stark Technology, Inc.
“Results of cost assessment showed that the adoption of Hitachi Data Systems solutions would save Asia Pacific Telecom 40 percent of OPEX and CAPEX while improving performance by 30 percent.” — Paul Chang, CIO, Asia Pacific Telecom Co., Ltd.
Industry: Telecommunications
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eClaris
Solutions: Storage Management,Modular Platform
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100
Software: Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, Hitachi Tuning Manager, Hitachi Device Manager
Services: Provided by Hitach TrueNorth Channel Partner FusionStorm
“Now we can ingest extremely large amounts of data and have very rapid read-write functionality without overwhelming the system, providing a productive environment for our senior consultants and clients to perform analyses without worrying or waiting for data.” — Jacques Nack Ngue, CISA, Founder and President, eClaris, Inc.
Industry: Services
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i/o On-Demand
Hardware: Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V
Software: Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, Hitachi Device Manager
Services: Installation and configuration services provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
“When you're building a bulletproof IT infrastructure, only the best performing storage platform will do. We chose the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V for its ability to handle pretty much anything we throw at it from a perfomance, availability and scalability perspective.”
David Shepard
Vice President of Major Accounts and General Manager
i/o On-Demand
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University of Costa Rica
Hardware: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000
Software: Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous/Extended Distance remote
“By purchasing Hitachi Data Systems solutions, we believe no failure will impact the development of information storage; these are modern and proven systems.” — Abel Brenes, Head of IT Center/CIO, University of Costa Rica.
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