Hitachi virtualization and tiered storage solutions, as part of Hitachi Data Systems Services Oriented Storage, enable organizations to strategically align business applications and storage infrastructure so that cost, performance, reliability and availability characteristics of storage can be matched to business requirements.
Tiered storage designs are a natural for both the enterprise Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ family and the midrange Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage systems with their ability to support a mix of drive types, sizes and speeds along with advanced RAID options. Solutions based around a Universal Storage Platform add the ability to virtualize both internal and external heterogeneous storage into a single pool with well defined tiers and the ability to transparently move data at will between them.
Virtualization and tiered storage solutions provide a cost effective simplified way of handling growing data volumes and reduce the effort required to manage data, improving storage utilization and availability and even improving backup, recovery and archiving.
Properly designing and implementing multitiered storage architectures can positively alter both current and long term costs. Comprehensive virtualization and tiered storage solutions from Hitachi Data Systems enable easy movement of data, depending on its characteristics, to appropriate, cost efficient storage.
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