Storage architectures that were originally designed for direct attachment to a single server cannot meet the increased bandwidth and connectivity requirements of a switched-based storage network. This paper clarifies the architectural requirements to realize the full potential of storage networks and elaborates on the advantages of classifying storage products according to their function-centralized or distributed-rather than their packaging.
"In collaboration with Microsoft and QLogic, Hitachi Data Systems delivered the first Microsoft-designated Simple SAN Solution for Windows Server Environments, tailormade for the needs of the SMB/SME. The Plug-and-play SAN Kit for Hitachi TagmaStore™ Adaptable Modular Storage and Workgroup Modular Storage systems combines low-cost SAN hardware and innovative software, allowing IT administrators to connect two or more servers to an initial SAN, and extend SAN connectivity between the data center and a distant workgroup. The Plug-and-play SAN Kit, when combined with the Adaptable Modular Storage or Workgroup Modular Storage systems, delivers the most scalable, high-performance, and highly available SAN infrastructure in its class. Leveraging the Microsoft Virtual Disk Service (VDS) technology for standardized access and the wizard-driven graphical user interface (GUI) of QLogic SANsurfer Express software, an administrator can quickly deploy a SAN, often in less than one hour."
One of the challenges for the business technologist choosing storage for any business is to balance high availability with increased cost. In many ways, the choice of storage is similar to the choice of insurance. This position paper clarifies why the cost-effective Thunder 9500 V Series storage systems is the right choice for most small-medium size businesses, providing availability and disaster recovery capabilities unmatched in the modular/distributed space.
"With BFW microwave technology, users of midrange storage solutions can now incorporate synchronous data replication into their ongoing business continuity planning process. BFW networks provide a cost-effective alternative to conventional telecommunications carrier-based solutions. Hitachi Data Systems, McDATA, Redline Communications, and CONPUTE have successfully implemented remote synchronous replication based on microwave network connectivity. This combination of existing off-the-shelf technologies promises to revolutionize recovery-time and recovery-point objectives for the business applications of small- and medium-sized enterprises. The solution delivers the same level of data protection and disaster preparedness enjoyed by large enterprise data centers, at a fraction of the cost."
This white paper provides information on the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS1000 storage solution for Microsoft Exchange Server, based on the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) – Storage program. This document details a tested configuration capable of supporting 16,000 users with a 1-IOPS-per-user profile and user mailbox size of 250MB. The guiding design philosophy of this solution is modularity, so that this configuration can be scaled in both directions, to a minimum of 4,000 users, or beyond 16,000 users.
Hitachi Data Systems has been working closely with Microsoft to offer tightly integrated solutions that help improve availability of key applications based on Microsoft Windows applications, such as Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server. This application brief offers suggestions on how to solve common challenges facing the small and medium-sized enterprise in the areas of application and storage management.
This solution “cookbook”—one of a series of “best practices” guides for Hitachi Data Systems staff and Hitachi TrueNorth™ Channel partners—focuses on implementing tiered storage resources as integrated elements in a mainframe IBM® DFSMS (System Managed Storage) environment. It provides sample configurations, explanations, and “what to expect” descriptions for applying both high-availability, high-performance internal Fibre Channel storage of the Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform as well as externally attached Fibre Channel and serial ATA (SATA) intermix storage.
Health care providers are adopting health care information technology (IT) to increase productivity, profitability, and the quality of patient care delivery. Adoption of health care IT will continue to expand around the globe, resulting in new challenges for the IT organization.
Experts agree that audit log management is a critical element of any organization's risk management strategy. Audit log data (or just log data) can provide a complete record of access, activity, and configuration changes for applications, servers, and network devices. It can be used to alert management and administrators to unusual or suspicious network and system behavior. Additionally, log data can provide auditors with information required to validate security policy enforcement and proper segregation of duties. Lastly, IT staff can mine log data during rootcause analysis following a security incident; this is particularly important for the recovery and/or damage cleanup as well as the remediation activities.
One enterprise may operate with decidedly different definitions of backup activities than another. But all organizations are challenged to choose the backup technologies that will enable acceptable backup windows and contribute to disaster recovery and business continuity efforts. This white paper defines the types of backup technologies available–from traditional tape backup to newer disk-to-disk options that augment tape practices.
Microsoft Exchange Server is the world’s most pervasive messaging and collaboration system. Improvements in Exchange Server 2003 enable it to exploit storage area networks (SANs), giving users and administrators new levels of scalability and availability. Hitachi Data Systems markets highly reliable and scalable storage systems that are frequently used to support critical business application—including Microsoft Exchange Server. This paper describes best practices for configuring TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform, Lightning 9900 V Series and Thunder 9500 V Series Hitachi storage systems for Exchange Server.
Business continuity has become one of the top issues facing enterprises globally. Data growth is exploding, and more and more enterprises must have 100 percent access to data 24/7. At the same time, internal and external threats to data uptime are increasing every day. The caprices of Mother Nature and fragile power grids make headlines worldwide and malicious system attacks require corporations to proactively think about—and plan for—successful disaster recovery and business continuity. Simply put, your business cannot afford to just wait and react to the havoc that internal or external forces can wreak on your data.
Developing adequate business continuity/risk management plans is a complex challenge requiring expertise that most organizations do not have internally. This paper examines how the Risk Analysis Workshop from Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services can guide organizations through the process of evaluating their current plans and determining what remediation may required.
Business continuity has become one of the top issues facing enterprises globally. Data growth is exploding, and more and more enterprises must have 100 percent access to data 24/7. At the same time, internal and external threats to data uptime are increasing every day.The caprices of Mother Nature and fragile power grids make headlines worldwide and malicious system attacks require corporations to proactively think about—and plan for—successful disaster recovery and business continuity. Simply put, your business cannot afford to just wait and react to the havoc that internal or external forces can wreak on your data.
"In today’s business environment, providing the best technology is no longer enough. Large IT expenditures, such as storage infrastructures and storage software investments need to be justified to value-conscious managers. To help you realize the powerful financial benefits of your investments, Hitachi Data Systems has developed this white paper, which throws light on the various benefits that can be accrued when deploying storage area management (SAM) software, and the various ways to quantify those benefits."
This paper examines the challenges associated with data assets, identifies and defines a few key regulations that are affecting organizations, and examines how a business focused approach and a flexible storage infrastructure can help organizations resolve data governance issues.
While storage administrators should be supporting business and its activities, they may find themselves overwhelmed with the task of data protection. This white paper is presented to offer five steps administrators can take to gain an understanding of their infrastructure operations and map data protection challenges to answers for their organization.
This paper describes a process for matching applications to designated tiers of storage. Each storage tier identified maps to a desired level of service quality required by the enterprise. Using this process, the storage manager can plan an optimal arrangement of storage platforms to meet the availability, performance, and scalability service-level requirements of business applications.
Well-planned business continuity and disaster recovery plans and capabilities are critical to organizations operating in 24x7 environments. Avoiding any disruption to operations is a priority for most enterprises when faced with planned or unplanned real or potential outages. In addition to ensuring the ability to continue business operations, recent government compliance regulations and recommendations are driving businesses to consider out-of-region replication options, enabling them to continue operations or at least recover quickly from largescale disruptive events.
This document outlines a set of steps that organizations can use as a basis to implement their own encryption approach for securing data at-rest; each step is further expanded to include several checklist items. The outlined steps offer a comprehensive view of the elements that should be addressed, but it is recognized that organizations may only need to use a subset of the steps.
An important question facing organizations is whether they could continue to function in the face of a sudden event–hurricane, tornado, earthquake, terrorist attack, for example–that brought mission critical systems to an unexpected halt. This article examines how various remote replication options can best meet any given organization’s recovery plan for depending on the balance of three factors: recovery speed, data consistency and cost.
With the introduction of the Hitachi TagmaStore Network Storage Controller model NSC55, Adaptable Modular Storage models AMS200 and AMS500, and Workgroup Modular Storage model WMS100, Hitachi Data Systems opens new possibilities to organizations of all sizes for aligning storage infrastructure with application and business needs. These organizations now have a wide variety of choices in storage systems when building Services Oriented Storage Solutions from Hitachi Data Systems that match application requirements, such as performance, availability, functionality, and cost, to storage attributes.
This white paper portrays IDC’s recent ROI analysis of two Hitachi Data Systems customers that deployed Fibre Channel (FC) SAN solutions for migrating networked storage. The results indicate that enterprises successfully implementing FC SANs can reduce hardware, software, facility, and staffing costs significantly, while benefiting from storage flexibility, scalability, and quality of service in a high-growth environment.
For the Hitachi Thunder 9500™ V Series modular storage systems, Hitachi Data Systems offers two internal mirroring solutions: Hitachi ShadowImage™ In-System Replication and Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot software (formerly known as Hitachi QuickShadow). This paper provides a brief look at these software solutions and then presents an in-depth evaluation of Copy-on-Write Snapshot software capabilities, with periodic comparisons to ShadowImage In-System Replication software facilities.
Organizations using Fibre Channel fabrics face security challenges, such as preventing access to data by unauthorized parties. This white paper briefly describes new security features within Fibre Channel that address these concerns as well as the Hitachi implementation of this functionality.
For many years now, IBM has been improving the quality of GDPS® code delivery. The implementation of some of the IBM copy technologies by non-IBM manufacturers has introduced the need to validate the compatibility and interoperability of non-IBM equipment with GDPS. Hitachi, who has implemented the IBM technologies Metro mirror (PPRC) and z/OS® Global Mirror (XRC) on their disk subsystems, is the first storage vendor to go through with qualification. The Hitachi disk subsystems, installed in the IBM GDPS Solution Test lab configuration, have been used during execution of the entire GDPS qualification test suite.
This document provides best practices for the design and implementation of Hitachi HiCommand® Dynamic Link Manager and Hitachi storage systems with IBM's Advanced Virtualization feature for IBM p5® servers and IBM AIX® 5.3.
Hitachi HiCommand® Backup Services Manager, powered by APTARE®, actively avoids data loss, speeds backup performance, improves the success rate of backup and recovery, and offers rapid troubleshooting capabilities. Most importantly, Backup Services Manager software delivers a quantifiable return on investment (ROI), lowering a wide range of operational and capital costs. In a far-reaching analysis of the total business value to an organization from deploying Backup Services Manager software, Hitachi Data Systems has identified 15 areas of hard and soft cost savings in three main categories.
Storage environments have grown far too large, too complex, and most importantly, too critical to the operation of the business to manage storage on an ad hoc basis, as has been the prevailing practice. This white paper details a layered Storage Area Management architecture , employed in the HiCommand SAM Suite, that can deliver the required level of storage service–in terms of capacity, performance, availability, recoverability, scalability, and associated services–to your business applications.
By tightly integrating backup and recovery processing with the needs of missioncritical applications, a software product now offered by Hitachi Data Systems is able to match data protection services with how business users view and understand their data. Hitachi Backup and Recovery software, powered by CommVault®, leverages a powerful platform architecture designed from scratch to provide comprehensive, integrated data protection and data management of heterogeneous storage infrastructures.
HDS, one of the world’s leading storage suppliers, has recently addressed customer issues regarding services management processes with a new set of storage management consulting services. In this IDC White Paper, we discuss storage market trends; examine the portfolio of HDS’s services, ITIL; and then discuss the specific services that HDS has built around the ITIL approach to service management to help its customers design and implement best-practice storage management processes within their organizations.
Services Oriented Storage Solutions apply service-oriented architecture (SOA) concepts to storage to deliver a platform that can be readily reconfigured and optimized to changing business requirements; these solutions deliver a process-oriented service approach to storage rather than the piecemeal, task-oriented approach, which leads to needless redundancies, over-subscription of storage, management complexity, and compliance exposure.
Hitachi HiCommand Global Link Availability Manager software is a new storage path management solution designed in direct response to Hitachi Data Systems customer feedback to increase efficiency and availability in complicated mulitserver, multipath SAN configurations. It allows administrators to collectively manage and configure the data paths for multiple hosts from a single, easy-to-use console. The underlying path control functionality on each managed host is provided by Hitachi HiCommand Dynamic Link Manager software.
"The dramatic growth in enterprise SAN storage capacity is leaving storage administrators to play catch up, as they try to stay ahead of end-user demand for disk space. And, while technology advances have made it possible to quickly add more resources to the SAN, similar advances have not been applied to the task of allocating those resources to application hosts. Hitachi HiCommand Storage Services Manager software and the HiCommand Path Provisioning module rectify the disparity between capacity and the storage administrator’s ability to manage it."
This performance brief provides a technical overview of features and benefits of the integration solution developed by Hitachi, Ltd. The solution is employed with the Hitachi NAS Blade for TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform and Network Storage Controller or the Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage and Workgroup Modular Storage with NAS Option (all Hitachi network attached storage (NAS) products/“Hitachi NAS products”) with Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine software.
Services Oriented Storage Solutions are built upon a common framework of comprehensive storage, data, content, and application services providing the appropriate infrastructure, management, and data delivery to optimize storage for application requirements. The ultimate goal of Services Oriented Storage is to provide organizations with the ability to manage and optimize all their application storage requirements with a single universal storage platform that provides common storage and data services for heterogeneous environments.
E-mail has become a key application for the enterprise. As such, it needs to be available 24/7. This paper describes how the Hitachi SplitSecond™ Solution for Microsoft Exchange 2000 package dramatically reduces the amount of time required to recover and restore Exchange 2000 information stores.
This white paper examines the requirements for storage virtualization, the architectural choices of Hitachi, Ltd., the various components of this new Hitachi solution offered by Hitachi Data Systems, and its implications for customers and the industry.
With unique capabilities and technologies, Hitachi Data Systems and Cisco Systems, Inc., have made resilience of enterprise IT infrastructures a strategic imperative. Collectively, they offer the technology to safeguard and effectively replicate critical application data across long-distance multiprotocol storage networks, enabling continuous business operations and speeding application recovery in the event of a failure.
We face the challenge of implementing data protection and data security measures to meet a wide range of requirements that are not limited to regulatory compliance. Today, storage infrastructures (disk, arrays, IP and SAN fabrics, NAS and tape) are highly vulnerable to attack because of the gap between known security techniques and their level of implementation. Security and audit professionals daily face the process of securing the application, compute and network environment; however, storage security has often slipped under their radar because of the pace of technology change. Storage managers and administrators may be confronting these issues and technologies for the first time. This whitepaper starts from the basics: identifying key business drivers for data security, describing threats and attacks, summarizing security concepts and relationships, and describes storage security. It concludes with recommended storage security best practices to help close the gaps.
Today, many corporations, government departments, health care organizations, and education institutions can employ a unique answer to solving their data protection problems efficiently and effectively: Hitachi HiCommand® Backup Services Manager software, powered by APTARE®. Backup Services Manager software gives organizations the management tools for proactive visibility and enhanced control of data protection environments to achieve one goal: 100 percent data protection.
"Hitachi Data Systems, with its new midrange storage solutions (the TagmaStore WMS100, AMS200, AMS500 and NCS55), is developing a broad portfolio of solutions that addresses the unique business needs of mid-sized organizations. It is delivering a set of solutions that supports consolidated, networked storage, enables costeffective replication, supports long-term data archiving, and addresses the specific storage management challenges of IT managers at mid-sized organizations."
E-mail has become a key application for the enterprise. As such, it needs to be available 24/7. The Maxtime solution uses the "Thunder family" of storage systems in a Microsoft Exchange configuration to ensure highest level of availability.
Hitachi Data Systems has met the requirements of the Microsoft SQL Server Always On Technologies program. By providing highly available and reliable end-to-end storage solutions for SQL Server, Hitachi Data Systems helps to support mission-critical applications and ensure their availability.
In this case study, we will look at a large financial institution that is experiencing dramatic growth in many areas of its business, resulting in a significant increase in its critical business data. This data must be protected through replication to a remote site, but the financial institution must stay within current budget constraints. This data is spread across multiple storage systems, and as a result, the write fidelity and integrity of the data must be maintained at both the local and the remote sites.
"The newest and potentially market-changing solution for delivering these [storage solutions] capabilities is what IDC calls a networked storage controller (NSC). The NSC is a new category of products in the storage solutions market with both hardware and software elements that IDC believes will greatly influence the future of storage architectures. The use of NSCs will make it possible to extend many of the capabilities of intelligent controllers to multiple, attached storage systems without sacrificing performance or reliability. One of the first companies to deliver an NSC-based storage solution is Hitachi, which announced its TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform in September 2004...this white paper examines how products such as Hitachi’s Universal Storage Platform will play a critical role in helping IT managers deploy and manage "application-optimized" tiered storage solutions."
Hitachi Data Systems and Hitachi, Ltd., have tested and evaluated best practices for using Automatic Storage Management (ASM), a new feature introduced in Oracle Database 10g, to simplify file storage and administration tasks on the Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform. The evaluation shows that ASM on the Universal Storage Platform enables capabilities superior to those of file system databases.
In today’s 24/7 world, it is becoming increasingly difficult for organizations to manage growing, complex information sources. A comprehensive data management tool fully integrated with a powerful data protection strategy is needed. This answer is available in Microsoft® SharePoint® and Services Oriented Storage Solutions from Hitachi Data Systems, which feature the Hitachi Data Protection Suite, powered by CommVault®.
Protecting data and information critical for the operation of a business, whether it is a large enterprise or a small to medium sized business, is becoming increasingly important. Large enterprises have a staff of IT professionals that support their storage environments and are typically responsible for ensuring that the data will be available in the case of an operational error or a catastrophic event. For smaller businesses, managing the storage environment and ensuring that critical data will always be available is more difficult as they often have a minimal or non-existent IT staff. As a result, data is often not regularly backed up or replicated to another system or site for protection. The perceived cost, complexity and/or time involved are often overwhelming, resulting in delays in addressing the need or just ignoring the potential problem.
This white paper provides some background on risk management and traditional vulnerabilities, and offers an overview regarding pitfalls to avoid. More importantly, it reveals the need for a quantitative risk management approach that will reduce uncertainty. The key is to objectively evaluate alternatives and/or competing solutions while providing the business justification, through cost-benefit analysis, for selecting the optimal answer for each particular environment.
To optimize messaging performance, data protection, and resilience in case of an outage, comply with regulations, and reduce costs, organizations must consider how their storage infrastructure supports Microsoft Exchange. Hitachi Data Systems integrates Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Platform and Exchange 2003 Server improvements with Services Oriented Storage Solutions that align corporate business and IT objectives and help improve price performance, availability, and functionality.
"Hitachi Data Systems, a leading supplier of storage systems, software, and services to enterprises around the globe, offers a broad suite of tightly integrated storage hardware, software, and services offerings under its Services Oriented Storage Solutions? solutions portfolio. The solutions should be on the short list for companies that are seeking to get the maximum return on their application investments".
"Hitachi Data Systems, a leading worldwide supplier of storage and IT management solutions is well-positioned to enable mid-sized organizations to grow and better manage their information. Its storage systems and storage management products can provide simple yet scalable solutions that support ongoing capacity growth, centralize the process of organizing and using all storage assets, and significantly improve the efficiency of IT management organization."
# This white paper illustrates the benefits of storage consolidation, discuss the different approaches to accomplishing it, and highlight some considerations when using modular storage as the consolidation target.
The Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform is a new class of storage hardware, and its proper deployment can help IT departments save substantial amounts of money. Supporting large-scale infrastructure consolidation, multitier configuration, multitenancy access, and single-pane-of-glass storage management, the Universal Storage Platform fundamentally changes the economics of large-scale storage ownership.
Enterprises today need to know where hidden storage-related, operating expense costs reside, how much potential costs savings are buried in the storage infrastructure, and what successful methods and activities are being used by IT departments worldwide to harvest these savings. Storage economic analysis and operating expense reduction initiatives combine to form a deterministic process to reduce the cost of enterprise storage ownership.
Under pressure of ever-tightening budgets and increasing regulatory requirements for data security and storage, federal sector organizations are working to align information technology investments with mission-focused operational goals. In the federal sector, Hitachi Data Systems offers storage management hardware, software and services through a range of partners including Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Vion and others. Because it’s storage management offerings are vendoragnostic, Hitachi Data Systems enables customers to buy a solution they can trust will interoperate in a heterogenous storage environment, providing the ability to manage almost any current storage subsystems, matching applications to data for optimized operational performance.
"Use-case analysis demonstrates how the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform and Network Storage Controller work with HiCommand Storage Management Software to enhance storage management and enable enterprises to exploit the price and performance advantages of a multitiered storage environment, as well as the TCO improvements from more efficient management and higher levels of storage utilization. Enterprise storage managers investigating ways to better integrate existing storage assets and improve operating efficiencies are encouraged to evaluate offerings from Hitachi Data Systems."
With the release of the 16-port FICON adapter from Hitachi Data Systems, storage administrators now have the opportunity to increase performance of Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform. This new channel adapter for IBM® FICON® provides higher throughput to meet the needs of customers demanding maximum throughput for their storage systems.
The NSC55 addresses the growing need for highly available, high-function, highcapacity storage, in a packaging and price point to meet the unique requirements of smaller enterprises. Traditional modular storage systems, with their basic dualcontroller architecture, can no longer provide these organizations with the resilience, speed, and scalability necessary to satisfy today’s business requirements.
"To support company competitiveness and customer satisfaction, a chief goal of every IT organization is to ensure top performance by detecting and resolving potential problems before they occur. This goal requires a tool that allows you to define and continuously monitor and store critical performance and capacity thresholds, and send a warning to the proper persons to alert them of a potential problem before it occurs. Hitachi HiCommand® Tuning Manager software is an advanced performance and capacity management solution that was developed to solve these challenges. This application brief examines a sampling of the basic reporting, analyzing, forecasting, and troubleshooting capabilities of Tuning Manager software.
"The most advanced and integrated storage solution is of little use if IT departments do not change existing policies and procedures to automate repetitive administrative tasks. Effective implementation, always a major concern, is an especially critical issue when considering these emerging solutions. IT managers need to establish rules and procedures for naming conventions, application upgrades, as well as provisioning and replication policies. Choosing the right partner to assist in implementation is, therefore, a high priority. ...Based on its track record for innovation and delivering products that anticipate customer needs, we believe HDS should be on your list for consideration in any discussion of next-generation storage systems."
"By providing consultative services as part of its overall delivery of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, Hitachi Data Systems can help customers achieve greater alignment of business and IT through improved levels of availability, reduced storage costs, and enhanced risk mitigation. This approach supports customers’ business strategies and missions by allowing them to more quickly implement their Services Oriented Storage Solutions and achieve greater ROI in a shorter amount of time."
Is there true value, a fast return on investment (ROI), and verifiable cost savings involved in a move to virtualized tiered storage? This case study documents specific and quantifiable business and economic value achieved by one enterprise company after its first year in a new storage architecture built on Hitachi tiered storage.
With a Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform providing consolidated capacity to many RegBank enterprise applications, administrators logically turned to Hitachi Data System Global Solution Services (GSS) organization for help. Using a combination of Hitachi HiCommand® Tuning Manager software, custom Tuning Manager software reports, Exchange Server expertise, and simple rules of thumb, the Hitachi Data Systems professional services consultants solved the ATM application performance problem, and gave RegBank administrators the tools and knowledge to ensure storage systems used by the enterprise messaging environment remain fully optimized.
Best practices and performance services offered by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services (GSS) for Microsoft SQL Server applications.
This solution “cookbook” focuses on using SATA technology for archive applications in a tiered storage environment and provides sample configurations, explanations, and “what to expect” descriptions for implementing an externally attached SATA storage resource.
University of Utah Health Sciences Center (UUHSC) in Salt Lake City, Utah, had experienced growth and a storage access rate that required a move to a virtualized storage or storage area network (SAN) architecture. UUHSC sought increased disk utilization, reduction in storage management labor, multitiered storage, ShadowImage capabilities for data redundancy, and elimination of the backup process from production instances of data. Hitachi Data Systems was chosen to supply the solution, which collapsed current SANs and storage (new and old) and virtualized it behind the Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform.
As Windows 2000 takes on additional mission-critical applications, these applications must provide the same (or better) quality of services as those provided by the S/390 world, including high availability and data protection. This paper shows how Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager™ software combined with the Hitachi Lightning 9980V™ storage system helps protect end users from hardware/media failures, logical failures and potential disasters.
Recent research and IT press coverage suggests that many organizations are turning to disk?to?disk backup. The challenge lies in understanding all of the new options and deciding which is right for you. The focus of this white paper will be to help navigate through the options afforded by disk?to?disk technology and articulate how to leverage your Hitachi storage systems in conjunction with LEGATO NetWorker and your tape environment.
This performance brief is designed for individuals who are responsible for advising or implementing the hardware and data layout phase for an application or database system, with a goal of achieving the highest level of performance. It familiarizes readers with the behavior of workloads when using the Cache Partition Manager feature (part of the Hitachi Resource Manager™ utility package) on Hitachi TagmaStore® Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS1000.
"Hitachi’s virtualization products are competitive in terms of storage-pool scale, flexibility of architecture, and ability to achieve centralized management of multi-vendor products. These capabilities, combined with the software functionality of the HiCommand Suite storage management software, have Hitachi well positioned to support its Services Oriented Storage Solutions (SOSS)."
Small and medium-sized businesses used to be excluded from the benefits of storage networking, but now can take advantage of these benefits through iSCSI-based SANs deployed across IP networks. This paper describes how these businesses can gain higher productivity, reduced implementation costs, and enhanced SAN management capabilities through the Hitachi TrueNorth™ iSCSI SAN Solution, with McDATA®
Industry: Education Solution: Consolidation/Simplification: Plug-and-play SAN Kit for TagmaStore Modular Storage. The kit runs on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 platform and incorporates: Hardware—Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS200, QLogic SANbox Express 1403 Fibre Channel switch, QLogic SANblade Express QLA210 host bus adapters, all necessary connectors, cables, and drivers, plus a user’s guide; Software—QLogic SANsurfer Express
Industry: Information Services
Solution: Lightning 9960™
Industry: Transportation
Solution: Lightning 9900™ Series, SAN
Industry: Banking/Finance
Solution: Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform, Hitachi
Lightning 9900™ V Series enterprise and Hitachi Thunder 9500™ V
Series modular storage systems. Hitachi ShadowImage™ Heterogeneous In-System
Replication software bundle, Hitachi HiCommand® Storage
Services Manager software
Industry: Education Solution: Solutions—Business Continuity/Capacity; Plug-and-play SAN Kit for TagmaStore Modular Storage; the kit runs on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 platform and includes: Hardware: TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS200, QLogic SANbox Express 1403 Fibre Channel switch, QLogic SANblade Express QLA210 host bus adapters, all necessary connectors, cables, and drivers, plus a user’s guide; Software: QLogic SANsurfer Express
Industry: Insurance
Solution: Lightning 9960™
Industry: Retail
Solution: Lightning 9960™ and 9980V™, SAN
Industry: Transportation
Solution: Lightning 9900™ Series
