Microsoft Simple SAN
"Plug and Play SAN kit" Solution and the Microsoft Simple SAN Initiative
First to be awarded Microsoft Simple SAN designation. The Microsoft Simple SAN initiative enables small and mid size enterprises to easily and cost-effectively install and manage Storage Area Networks (SANs) in Windows Server environments. Microsoft requires storage vendors to provide a SAN kit that meets Microsoft Windows Hardware Qualification Laboratories (WHQL) Simple SAN requirements.
Hitachi Data Systems, in conjunction with QLogic, is the first Fibre Channel storage vendor to achieve Simple SAN for Windows Server designation. Now, with our Plug-and-play SAN Kits for Microsoft Simple SAN, your SAN can be installed, configured-up and running, in less than an hour. And it can be upgraded to grow as fast as your business.
Even the smallest enterprise can enjoy the benefits of our Plug-and-play SAN Kits for Microsoft Simple SAN. These customer installable SANs (Fibre Channel switch, HBAs, all software, cables, and components), are shipped with easy-to-follow instructions. Using these kits, Microsoft Windows Server users can fully exploit the enterprise-level quality of our Hitachi TagmaStore™ Adaptable Modular Storage or Workgroup Modular Storage. With a Simple SAN solution from Hitachi Data Systems you will be able to:
- Meet application service levels for business-critical and development data by monitoring and managing your storage more efficiently
- Increase productivity and improve employee performance with higher availability/accessibility to application data on Hitachi modular storage
- Save time by performing data replication and backup procedures more efficiently with advanced Hitachi software in Microsoft Windows Server environment
- Avoid downtime via our professional services and support capabilities for Microsoft platforms and applications
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"Microsoft and Hitachi Data Systems are working together to hide the complexity of SANs by ensuring interoperability of storage resources with the Windows platform and simplifying hardware set up. The Hitachi Data Systems kits, compatible with Microsoft's Simple SAN Initiative, give smaller organizations enterprise-class storage flexibility and reliability without the costs and complexity associated with traditional SANs."
-Dr. Claude Lorenson, Group Product Manager,
of the Windows Server Division at Microsoft Corporation
