Customers Cite Performance and Simplified Management as Key Factors in Selecting Hitachi over Competitive Offerings
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — September 8, 2010 — Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi,
Ltd. (NYSE: HIT),
today
announced enterprise customers across all industries are selecting the
Hitachi Network Attached Storage (NAS) Platform over competitive
solutions to help them access and protect unstructured data, such as
email and video critical to their businesses, while reducing IT costs.
With the Hitachi NAS platform as the file sharing, file server
consolidation and data protection choice for enterprises, customers such
as Pixorial and SquareTwo Financial benefit from robust consolidation
and intelligent file tiering capabilities to minimize complexity in the
data center. These consolidation and data protection capabilities are
highly in demand and have driven approximately 200 percent growth in
fiscal year 2009 for the Hitachi file and content portfolio compared to
fiscal year 2008.
The increase of unstructured data, especially in industries such as healthcare, life sciences, entertainment and Internet services, is putting a strain on IT organizations who already have limited budgets and resources, to better and more quickly serve the needs of the business. At the same time, IT organizations are struggling to consolidate file servers with legacy NAS systems that do not have the scalability and performance capabilities needed to keep up with the demands of users. However, with the Hitachi NAS Platform, which is managing more than 40 petabytes of data with customers today, these enterprises can benefit from enhanced performance, scalability and simplified management to handle the most demanding data center application environments – all while lowering IT costs.
Pixorial: Exponential Growth Demands Optimal Performance with High Density Storage
A
state-of-the-art, online video sharing platform, Pixorial allows
consumers and organizations to easily send, upload, edit, organize and
share videos. Pixorial also archives digital masters and estimates each
customer video to be about seven gigabytes in size. With the volume and
type of file sharing and management needed to support Pixorial’s growing
business, the company implemented the Hitachi NAS Platform to manage
its massive data growth and to provide high performance file sharing and
tiering capabilities, decreasing overall costs per gigabyte and per
square foot stored, while ensuring no service interruptions to maximize
the customer experience.
“Our business model is based on cost per gigabyte per user by account subscriptions. This model helps us manage every opportunity as cost-effectively as possible while providing an easy to use video platform,” said Joshua Terry, vice president of systems engineering, Pixorial.“The Hitachi NAS Platform allowed us to build a storage infrastructure with the maximum amount of flexibility, density and capacity possible, while accommodating the high performance needs of our network.”
SquareTwo Financial: Scalable, Intelligent Storage Keeps Data Growth in Check
SquareTwo Financial’s
unique business model, experienced leadership team and innovative use of
technology make the company one of the most successful players in the US$40
billion asset recovery management industry. SquareTwo Financial creates an
effective way for companies and consumers to swiftly resolve their fiscal
commitments through the buying and selling of debt. The company gathers,
assimilates and analyzes client information, managing and storing millions of
case files, each one containing hundreds of records. Essential to its business,
SquareTwo Financial must have instant access to all client data, prevent disk
failure, data corruption and loss as well as keep client data available and
secure until each case is closed or the debt is sold to comply with federal and
state regulations.
To better manage its explosive year-over-year data growth, SquareTwo Financial implemented the Hitachi NAS Platform for centralized single-pane management of both block and file data. With a unified view of the data through a single interface that includes proactive performance monitoring and in-system and remote replication as well as dynamic provisioning capabilities, the Hitachi NAS Platform allows for the provisioning of new storage equipment in less than an hour.
“In addition to exceptional reliability, scalability and performance, we were looking for a NAS solution that could replicate between our data centers,” said Ken Vandenbark, vice president of IT operations and engineering, SquareTwo Financial. “We can now complete faster and easier backup and recovery and are able to keep our data current to within four hours of transactions, which allows for peace of mind from a compliance and litigation perspective.”
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About Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi
Data Systems provides best-in-class information technologies, services
and solutions that deliver compelling customer ROI, unmatched return on
assets (ROA) and demonstrable business impact. With a vision that IT
must be virtualized, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable, Hitachi
Data Systems offers solutions that improve IT costs and agility. With
more than 4,200 employees worldwide, Hitachi Data Systems does business
in more than 100 countries and regions. Hitachi Data Systems products,
services and solutions are trusted by the world’s leading enterprises,
including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 100 and more than 80
percent of the Fortune Global 100. Hitachi Data Systems believes that
data drives our world – and information is the new currency. To learn
more, visit: http://www.hds.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi,
Ltd., (NYSE: HIT
/ TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global
electronics company with approximately 360,000 employees worldwide.
Fiscal 2009 (ended March 31, 2010) consolidated revenues totaled 8,968
billion yen (US$96.4 billion). Hitachi will focus more than ever on the
Social Innovation Business, which includes information and
telecommunication systems, power systems, environmental, industrial and
transportation systems, and social and urban systems, as well as the
sophisticated materials and key devices that support them. For more
information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.
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