Hitachi Data Systems : Customer Newsletter
January 2010
New Gartner Magic Quadrant Keeps Hitachi as a Leader
New Midrange Report Is Now Available
New Gartner Magic Quadrant Keeps Hitachi as a Leader The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage family is again in the Leaders Quadrant. Leaders have the most complete vision and highest ability to execute. Our understanding of market needs, innovation and well-articulated plans led to this recognition. It means you can count on us when building your storage strategies.
Read the 2009 Magic Quadrant for Midrange Disk Arrays
Make Your Data Center More Efficient and Resilient
Economize. Virtualize. Protect.
Make Your Data Center More Efficient and Resilient Server virtualization reduces the physical assets you must manage and protect, but the right storage for protecting virtual servers is critical. Hitachi solutions for VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V give you flexibility to select the right platform.
Increased data protection
Reduced cost and complexity
Less downtime
Greater utilization
View more on business resilience and efficiency
Customers Weigh in on Storage Virtualization
Third-party research highlights benefits and ROI
Customers Weigh in on Storage Virtualization Recent research from TechValidate shows that Hitachi customers gain outstanding results from storage virtualization, including:
78% of respondents report their investment paid off in 12 months or less.
Hitachi customers virtualized an average of 119TB of storage – and as much as 1.2PB.
Examine more customer results from TechValidate


The Economics of Archiving

The Economics of Archiving

Improve Your Archive Practices

Gain insights to manage storage costs and derive value from your storage assets including measurement of success. Presented by David Merrill, our Chief Economist.
Watch archive economics explained




Customer Spotlight: National University of Singapore

Customer Spotlight:
National University of Singapore

Storage Supports Data Intensive Research

The University’s Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) required a user-centric IT infrastructure that allowed maximum flexibility to support researcher needs. With the virtualization enabled Hitachi NAS platform, CQT is able to meet that requirement while supporting a growing number of researchers with a limited staff.
Discover how CQT succeeds with Hitachi NAS




Live WebTech Webinars

Live WebTech Webinars

Storage Advice from Experts

Join us for these upcoming WebTech webinars:

Reduce Storage Cost with Hitachi File and Content Solutions
Increase Savings with File Systems, Thin Provisioning and Storage Reclamation
How to Manage Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning

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How to Virtualize
How to Virtualize

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Future of Tiers
Future of Tiers

Hu Yoshida talks tiered storage in the SearchStorage blog