The Information Explosion The creation, organization, and distribution of data stored in files are
driving much of the growth in organizations' overall storage capacity
today. As data and information continue to grow, organizations are
responding by making corresponding investments in their storage
environments. According to IDC, annual spending on file-based storage
solutions increased from $12.1 billion to $15.6 billion between 2007 and
2010. For organizations in industries such as biosciences, healthcare,
entertainment, design, and business services, the information explosion
is particularly pressing. Consequently, the efficient storage,
organization, long-term retention, and timely retrieval of files are at
the core of these businesses and are driving demand for file-based
storage solutions as well as the need for better information management
strategies.
IT Efficiency: Shades of Green In today's cost-constrained business environment, organizations are looking to deploy green IT solutions that can enable their datacenters to operate more efficiently and reduce operating expenses yet still handle increasing demand for computing resources. By deploying various technologies such as virtualization throughout the datacenter, organizations can reduce their consumption of energy, thereby becoming more green.
Dynamic IT: The Impact of Virtualization Server virtualization has played a prominent role in the growing desire among organizations to transform the entire IT environment. As enterprises extend and rationalize their virtualized environments, they want to use existing assets more efficiently; deploy new datacenter assets in smaller, timelier increments; and reduce the operational costs of administering those more dynamic assets. Along with virtualization's benefits, however, come challenges to the IT department in terms of technology, management, and organizational issues.
Data Center Transformation - New Directions for IT In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations increasingly require solutions and services that are delivered by a responsive IT department. In order to deliver such services, IT can no longer rely on the traditional datacenter model in which hardware and software assets are provisioned for the business in a process that is often lengthy, inefficient, and expensive and ultimately fails to deliver required service levels. To meet dynamic business services needs, IT must change the model of its datacenters by incorporating flexible and agile infrastructure and processes that support the costeffective and timely delivery of services.
The Evolution of the Data Center and the Role of Virtualized Infrastructure and Unified 3D Management Enterprise data centers are going through an evolutionary transformation. Both technology and business factors are influencing this transformation. The advent and proliferation of virtual infrastructure, which separates logical from physical structures, is the cornerstone of this transformation. Other technology trends contributing to this transformation include IT service automation, converged infrastructure, scale out server and storage architectures and unified management of different technology domains.
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)
Virtual Storage Delivers a 3-Dimensional Approach to Storage Scaling The new Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) updates HDS' flagship platform. The "3D scaling" enables users to independently scale performance, scale capacity and scale wide, integrating legacy assets and allowing the VSP to ultimately scale to multiple data centers.
