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ESG Lab Results: Hitachi Data Ingestor with Hitachi Content Platform

Brian Garrett - Vice President ESG Lab

This video (and accompanying report) documents hands-on evaluation and testing of Hitachi Data Systems' edge-to-core storage solution, combining the Hitachi Data Ingestor as the bottomless and backup-free cloud on-ramp with the Hitachi Content Platform object storage. The report and video focus on Hitachi Data Ingestor as a distributed edge device providing users with transparent connectivity to object based, private cloud storage, eliminating the need to perform backup, capacity planning, and other data storage management activities at remote and branch offices (ROBOs).

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ESG Steve Duplessie reviews the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

ESG Steve Duplessie reviews the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

Twice as fast, twice as dense and it consumes about half the power, space and cooling of the traditional USP system”, says ESG’s Steve Duplessie in this quick review of Hitachi Data Systems’ Virtual Storage Platform

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  • Unstructured Data Efficiency and Cost Savings in Virtualized Server Environments

    Virtual server initiatives are straining already overwhelmed file storage environments. Unstructured data is growing faster than ever, thanks largely to the proliferation of endpoint capture devices and advances in hardware and software that allow bigger, richer files to be created. Virtualization is exacerbating the problem because many organizations are underpinning their virtualized environments for both server and desktop virtualization with file servers, since it can be much easier to manage the virtual server storage environment using NAS. This further accelerates the growth rate of unstructured data.

  • Hitachi Data Systems Storage: Improving Storage Efficiency Can Be a Catalyst for IT Innovation

    At this point, the IT industry has been around for a long time. But it is still maturing and evolving in surprisingly rapid ways. Storage provides a case in point that these days, IT needs to manage storage differently.

  • HDS HCP Anywhere: Easy, Secure, On-Premises File Sharing

    This ESG Lab review documents hands-on testing of the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) Anywhere solution with a focus on ease of use, security, and efficient deployment.

  • Lab Validation Report: Hitachi Unified Storage VM and Hitachi Command Suite, 2013

    ESG Lab recently completed hands-on testing and analysis of Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) and Hitachi Command Suite (HCS) 7.3 software. This report focuses on the evolutionary enhancements to both HUS VM and HCS that enable the Hitachi Data Systems vision of one platform for all data providing shared storage services in the data center and private cloud. This validation also focuses on how HUS VM and HCS improve administration, operations, provisioning, performance, and resilience for enterprise storage environments.

  • Lab Validation Report Summary: Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) and Hitachi Command Suite, 2013

    With HUS VM, Hitachi Data Systems delivers a scalable, efficient, virtualized storage platform. Designed to bring enterprise-level capabilities to the midmarket, HUS VM offers infrastructure that enables IT in mid-sized organizations to deliver comprehensive, enterprise-class storage services. Hitachi Command Suite (HCS) simplifies HUS VM management, allowing complete control of Hitachi storage systems and virtualized external storage leveraging common management practices from a centralized console. Hitachi Tuning Manager monitors end-to-end application to storage performance, identifying performance bottlenecks and automatically reporting on capacity trends.

  • Hitachi Is the Leader in Virtualization—Customer Case Studies
    Each enterprise has ongoing plans to further leverage and enhance their shared virtualized storage infrastructure, and further engage the common storage services capability of the Hitachi virtualization solutions. (September 2007)
  • Lab Validation: Hitachi Data Ingestor with Hitachi Content Platform - ESG

    This report documents hand-on evaluation and testing of Hitachi Data Systems’ edge-to-core storage solution, combining the Hitachi Data Ingestor as the bottomless and backup-free cloud on-ramp with the Hitachi Content Platform object storage. The report focuses on Hitachi Data Ingestor as a distributed edge device providing users with transparent connectivity to object based, private cloud storage, eliminating the need to perform backup, capacity planning, and other data storage management activities at remote and branch offices (ROBOs).

  • The Economic and Operational Value of Storage Virtualization

    The 21st century is an interesting time to be a data center manager. Amazing technological advances that would have been thought impossible just a decade ago now are an everyday part of IT. One of the most notable is server virtualization. After organizations experienced many years of ever-expanding server sprawl to accommodate the growing number of applications that drive businesses, the ability to consolidate multiple server workloads on one piece of hardware was revolutionary.

  • HDS Accelerates Software Value; Agile Software Development Process
    Managing the rapid changes taking place in the enterprise can create its own set of challenges. Technology vendors work to stay ahead of the curve, developing new software and hardware solutions at a pace that matches the intense speed and flux of their customers’ requirements. Some vendors, such as Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), are looking to better align software development practices with the modern business environment. Knowing that customers must respond effectively to rapid change in order to succeed, vendors like HDS are exploring new development methodologies that accelerate release cycles, eliminate process waste, and tie development processes much more tightly to real time, real world requirements. HDS’s development teams utilized “agile” and rapid application development (RAD) methodologies in the latest release (V7.0) of the Hitachi Command Suite, a platform for managing virtualized storage and server environments. They customized their own new development methodology as an alternative to the traditional “waterfall” or sequential approach.
  • Storage Virtualization; What to Know and What to Look For
    All too often in IT generally—and in storage infrastructures specifically—there’s a tendency for an “assumption gap” to exist. This gap is generated by the fact that certain tools and technologies get catapulted to market acceptance—or at least rapid initial traction—so fast that it is assumed that everyone not only knows what the terms mean, but that everyone also agrees what they mean. The problem, then, is not only confusion, but also the fact that many users don’t want to be seen to be the laggards—certainly not from an understanding point of view—and so misunderstandings continue unchecked. As virtualization sweeps through IT, it looks as if a significant assumption gap is opening up around the topic of storage virtualization.
    This paper is an attempt to close that gap; in a pragmatic and accessible manner, it covers the real value of storage virtualization (from both business and IT perspectives) and offers explanations of the varying storage virtualization approaches with advice on how to make a technology and vendor decision. Although sponsored by HDS—which, of course, has its particular attributes outlined—this paper is designed to explain the benefits of storage virtualization in as generic a way as possible and not to merely promote one vendors’ approach.
  • Lab Validation Report: Hitachi NAS Platform; Efficient, Agile, and Powerful Network Attached Storage

    The ever-increasing volume of unstructured file data that enterprises need to share, manage, and protect has become a real problem for IT managers—particularly those that need to provide online access to shared files for revenue-generating workflows and processes. This report explores how the Hitachi NAS platform, powered by BlueArc, leverages Hitachi AMS and USP/VSP disk storage systems and tight integration with VMware to create a NAS environment with enterprise class scalability and performance that is easy to deploy and manage.

  • Hitachi Data Systems Silver Lining How HDS Enables Cloud Storage by ESG
    Data growth is one of the few sure things in life and a major IT cost even in a down economy. In fact, for many businesses, data growth is accelerating as more and more organizations use analytics to find new revenue opportunities or to tweak their business models and drive top and bottom line growth. Therefore, it is no surprise that ESG’s research finds that keeping pace with overall data growth is the number one storage challenge faced by IT managers today.
  • Transitioning to a Dynamic Data Center – The Keys for Successfully Migrating Your Business
    The speed of change in global markets and the challenges of new modes of business demand companies operate in and react to quickly changing landscapes. Nowhere is this more critical than in the means and methods the enterprise uses to power its business, typically via IT services. As a result, businesses will increasingly demand more from their IT departments, which presents new opportunities for IT teams to adopt new approaches and transform the data center itself so that it is more closely aligned to the business.
  • Brocade One and Hitachi VSP: A reference architecture for next generation data centers
    If you ask business executives today what they need most from their organizations, the majority would cite the ability to respond quickly to changing conditions. Shifting markets, constant communications, and competitors approaching from all corners of the globe converge to make business move and change at the speed of light. Failure to respond quickly can lead to decreased market share, lost revenue, and competitive takeover. As a result, today’s businesses want to become virtual enterprises that are agile enough to shift on a dime by leveraging “information centers” rather than legacy data centers. This has obvious implications for the IT departments that power business.

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