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Efficiency, Resiliency Are Top Priorities for Smart Data Replication
Protecting business data is vital because it plays an ever more important role in today’s business environment. Data must also be retained to meet governmental compliance regulations. But there’s another critical reason to make sure data is retained, protected and preserved: disaster. A company needs its business data to survive if the company itself is to survive. With these business continuity needs and data protection requirements in mind, Hitachi Data Systems designed a comprehensive set of replication solutions.
Hitachi offers replication solutions for local (in-system) and remote deployments. With in-system copies or clones, business application data volumes can be created with either Hitachi ShadowImage® or Copy-on-Write Snapshot software, while remote replication can be performed with Hitachi TrueCopy® (synchronous) or Hitachi Universal Replicator (asynchronous).
Hitachi TrueCopy provides a host- and network-independent data replication solution over metropolitan distances. Because it is synchronous, each write to primary storage is also written to the remote storage system before the write complete acknowledgement is sent back to the host. As a result, both storage systems have the same copy of the data and are completely in sync.
The asynchronous replication capabilities of Hitachi Universal Replicator ensure availability of up-to-date copies of data in dispersed locations, including multiple data centers as well as remote and hot standby data centers. Universal Replicator maintains the integrity of a replicated copy without affecting processing, even in the case of network outages or bandwidth shortages.
Management of an organization’s various business data replication needs can get very complicated very quickly. That's why, in addition to our award winning suite of business continuity solutions, we also offer the knowledge and services of experienced business continuity professionals. These highly skilled experts can help identify your business’s unique requirements and develop a plan to address the requirements, taking into account your unique budget and staffing situation. If you don’t have the staff, skills or time to implement the solution, you can engage our professional services team to perform implementations as well. |
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Hitachi Replication Manager Offers a Single Tool for Open Systems and Mainframe Environments
Introduced this spring as part of a larger launch of the Hitachi Storage Command Suite, Hitachi Replication Manager allows customers to increase operational efficiencies and improve resilience in replicated environments. In other words, it makes management easier and it protects data more effectively – two major priorities in today’s storage landscape.
Hitachi Replication Manager configures, monitors, and manages Hitachi replication products for both open systems and mainframe environments. It builds on existing Hitachi technology by leveraging the powerful replication capabilities of storage systems and combining robust reporting, mirroring and features previously available in separate offerings. Replication Manager decreases management complexity while increasing staff productivity and providing greater control than previously available solutions through a single, consistent user interface that provides an intuitive GUI manages system, site, region or global replication storage solutions.
With Hitachi Replication Manager, replication is no longer restricted to experienced storage administrators. This powerful tool can simplify the management of the replication infrastructure and help achieve Recovery Time and Recovery Point Objectives (RTO and RPO) to improve administrative efficiency. |
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Hitachi Data Protection Suite: Centralized, Unified Data Protection
 The Hitachi Data Protection Suite is a unified solution delivering high-performance data backup, granular data recovery, advanced storage management, intelligent migration, classification and replication — all under a single pane of glass, accessible over the Web. It lowers total cost of ownership by reducing administrative time and effort, while increasing capacity utilization compared to point solutions. Regardless of the data or the application, the Hitachi Data Protection Suite provides a single and consistent way to manage it.
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A Blueprint for Business Resilience and Operational Efficiency
 In today’s always on business world, fast and continuous access to applications and data is essential for success. As a result, business continuity has become an integral part of the business and IT lexicon—and an increasingly larger portion of the IT budget.
Although large scale disasters are foremost in most people’s minds when it comes to business continuity, application failures, system malfunctions, hacker attacks, and human error are far more likely to interrupt operations. In addition, corporate scandals and concerns over privacy have led to regulations governing secure data retention and protection.
For Hitachi Data Systems, business continuity means first understanding your key business challenges and requirements, including risk exposure, regulatory compliance, and best practices. Then, it calls for providing solutions designed to protect organizations against loss of access to data while increasing business resilience and operational efficiency. Learn more about Hitachi Data Systems Business Continuity Solutions |
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Hitachi Storage Command Suite—Device Manager Logical Groups and LDEV Labels Best Practices, September 10, 2008, 9am PST, online
This WebTech session introduces and outlines best practices for using two important features of the Hitachi Storage Command Suite: grouping and naming storage resources with meaningful labels using Logical Groups and Logical Device (LDEV) Labels. John Harker, Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Malcolm Muir, Sr. Competitive Software Analyst, will explain that, when used properly, they can greatly ease the complexity of storage management. Logical Groups and LDEV Labels are shared among many of the products in the Hitachi Storage Command Suite and are one of the key integration points of the suite as a whole. More...
Interop New York, September 15-19, 2008, The Javits Center, New York, NY
See the future of business technology at the Interop Conference and Exhibition. This year's event focuses on ten key technologies that every IT organization should be thinking about in 2008. Interop gives you the most comprehensive view of the tools and technologies that are part of a solid information technology strategy. More...
Heterogeneous Storage Capacity Reporting and Planning, September 17, 2008, 9am PST, online
Reporting on storage capacity utilization by application can be challenging, especially when the environment includes heterogeneous storage systems, and the installation of host based agents is prohibited. Richard Jew, Senior Product Marketing Manager, will introduce the new Hitachi Storage Capacity Reporter, powered by APTARE®, software that can help storage administrators create application based storage capacity reports without requiring host based agents to improve storage capacity utilization and planning. More...
Storage Developer Conference, September 22-25, 2008, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara, CA
Now in its fourth year and again expected to draw more than 250 developers and engineers participating in over 50 sessions in multiple tracks, the Storage Developer Conference (SDC) is the only event created by the storage industry for the storage industry. SDC provides the information and know-how to further advance solutions with features that shorten time to market for a developed solution, increase acceptability and interoperability in production environments, and help participants understand where storage technologies are heading. More...
IDC Virtualization Summit, Sep 23, 2008, InterContinental Chicago, Chicago, IL
The IDC Virtualization Summit is designed to help IT and business executives answer key questions about how to effectively exploit virtualization in all aspects of the organization. This year's program will focus on strategies to integrate server, storage, client and I/O virtualization. More...
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