Services Oriented Storage helps businesses reduce complexity and eliminate waste, redundancy and duplication of effort in their storage infrastructure. Services Oriented Storage is a unique approach to aligning IT capabilities to business needs. It assures that data retention and management functionality needed multiple times and by multiple departments, applications or users, can be delivered quickly and consistently, meeting agreed-upon objectives and service levels across your entire infrastructure.
Services Oriented Storage provides a storage strategy so that your business can readily and cost effectively optimize your storage environment as your business needs change. Only Hitachi offers a complete strategy for Services Oriented Storage with proven implementations for some of the most demanding storage customers around the globe. Whether it’s reducing costs and streamlining operations, driving improved business continuity or protecting your information assets, and more—we offer best-in-class, industry leading solutions
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Hitachi virtualization and tiered storage solutions, as part of Hitachi Data Systems Services Oriented Storage, enable organizations to strategically align business applications and storage infrastructure so that cost, performance, reliability and availability characteristics of storage can be matched to business requirements.
Fundamentally, Business Continuity is about data protection. Business information, in whatever forms it takes, either represents value or enables ongoing business operations; which generate income. Any data interruption, temporary or permanent, can be associated with tangible financial losses.
Today's escalating storage demands challenge you to simultaneously increase capacity, support rapid access to enterprise information and maintain 24/7 operations, all without additional budget or head count. Storage Management software can help you effectively manage your entire storage infrastructure -- from the application to the disk spindle -- and provide the quality of service your business needs.
According to recent analyst research, 80 percent of today’s data is unstructured. Common examples are e-mail, maps, reports, contracts, images, movies, spreadsheets, Web content and presentations—content not included in structured data management systems.
Many of the world’s largest organizations in the financial services, telecommunications and other key industries rely on IBM® mainframe systems to run mission critical applications. Hitachi has a long history of supporting mainframe environments.



