Innovation - Storage News and Trends

June 2008

Increase Operational Efficiency and Business Resilience with Hitachi Storage Command Suite, the Single Software Suite for Managing the Entire Hitachi Storage Family

In managing tiered SAN storage infrastructures, storage administrators often encounter a few major business challenges. First, they must control or reduce costs while managing storage growth. They must meet service level agreements while responding to the ever changing needs of business units. And they must attempt to minimize risks by taking a proactive approach to problems of availability and recoverability.

It's a huge burden to bear and storage teams may find themselves overwhelmed trying to wring new efficiencies from increasingly complex storage infrastructures. The Hitachi Storage Command Suite — the newest enhancement to the management software suite formerly known as the Hitachi HiCommand® Suite — provides the single, essential management interface for all Hitachi storage systems.

Hitachi Storage Command Suite helps complement Hitachi storage systems hardware to produce the fastest, most reliable, and easiest to manage storage platforms available. It supports the management of diverse, heterogeneous solutions by design, supporting open systems and mainframe environments, as well as storage from other vendors virtualized by Hitachi Data Systems arrays.

The release of the Hitachi Storage Command Suite represents an evolution of storage management capabilities – now adding advanced replication management functions, as well as major enhancements to storage resource management and tiered storage that extend capabilities and improve usability, helping to improve the productivity and efficiency of storage administrators.

New Addition: Hitachi Replication Manager

Hitachi Replication Manager is a new software tool for management, consolidation and simplification of replication operations. It configures, monitors, and manages Hitachi storage system-based replication products for both open systems and mainframe environments in a way that simplifies the operations, automation and monitoring of the critical storage components.

New Addition: Hitachi Storage Capacity Reporter, powered by APTARE®

Hitachi Storage Capacity Reporter delivers storage system, host and application level storage capacity reporting without the need for host agents across heterogeneous storage systems. It features rich reporting capabilities, including both current and historical capacity views, forecasting and predictive analysis, and custom reporting. With improved custom storage capacity reporting, it offers a clear view of how storage capacity is used and how to optimize storage utilization.

New Enhancements to Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V and Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM

Along with the release of Hitachi Storage Command Suite, Hitachi also announced several major upgrades to the Universal Storage Platform. With a new maximum cache of 512GB for the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and 128GB for the Universal Storage Platform VM, storage administrators can isolate larger workloads and separate the storage demands of different applications from each other, leading to higher quality of service.

Other enhancements include new disks (400GB FC 10Krpm disk and 1TB SATA II 7200rpm disk), as well as new IPv6 support for the Universal Storage Platform’s management interface. This improves the security of its service processor and supports US government procurement requirements. Finally, the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform now offers mainframe support for SATA.

Hot Topics	Expert Insight	Best Practices
Dynamic Provisioning Differentiation	Storage Management Enhancements	Networking and Optimizing Replication
What if there was a way to improve storage utilization, optimize performance and improve IT efficiencies at the same time? Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software is a dramatic step toward improving utilization and automation in SAN storage.	Josh Krischer & Associates discusses replication management tools and storage capacity reporting software, as well as significant advances in tiered storage, performance management and their integration with Services Oriented Storage Solutions.	Market leading data replication from Hitachi Data Systems is at the heart of a resilient infrastructure, although it means nothing without the networking. Hitachi Data Systems has teamed up with Brocade to offer the best networks for the job.
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Success Story:

FlexITy Solutions united, managed and replicated its storage with Universal Storage Platform(TM) VM. More...

Application Brief:

Using Hitachi Device Manager Software and Best Practices Guide. More...

Storage Strategies:

Services Oriented Storage Solutions. Watch a video to see how you can optimize your storage and reduce your costs. More...

Blog post:

I can’t believe I bought the whole thing.
Hu Yoshida, CTO of Hitachi Data Systems

IDC IT Forum, June 4-5, 2008, Westin Waterfront Hotel, Boston

The IDC IT Forum & Expo is a two-day conference and exhibition designed for IT and business executives interested in how technology can be used to enable and transform business models and processes. The tracks are organized by topic to facilitate networking opportunities for attendees with similar interests and challenges. More...

Symantec Vision 2008, June 9-12, 2008, The Venetian, Las Vegas

Symantec Vision is a must-attend industry event that gives you the opportunity to evaluate the latest solutions, share and discuss best practices with your peers from around the world, and learn tips and tricks from developers leading the way. More...

Infrastructure Management World,
June 16-18, 2008, Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, Washington, DC

The premiere data center event for virtualization, ITIL and the greening of IT infrastructure. More...

Managing External Virtualized Storage with Hitachi Device Manager, June 18, 2008, 9am PST, online

John Marotta, e-Learning specialist for the Hitachi Data Systems Academy organization, will discuss how to effectively simplify the management of external storage through the use of Device Manager Logical Groups. More...

SNIA 2008 Summer Symposium, July 21-24, 2008, Sainte Claire Hotel, San Jose

The Symposium will be an opportunity for all SNIA members to participate in various Committee, Forum, Technical Work Group and Birds of a Feather Sessions. More...

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