What is Services Oriented Storage Solutions?
Services Oriented Storage Solutions is a business-centric framework for aligning IT storage resources with constantly changing business requirements. It provides a dynamic, flexible platform of integrated storage services enabling organizations and users to optimize storage infrastructure while reducing cost and complexity.
Why Services Oriented Storage Solutions?
Hitachi is committed to helping organizations of all sizes reduce IT cost and complexity, manage risk, and increase operational efficiency by delivering services oriented storage solutions that closely align storage infrastructure with business requirements. We are the only vendor that can address a full range of storage requirements with a single integrated platform that includes virtualization, common management, tiered storage, and common data protection.
Services Oriented Storage Solutions Video
Listen to Claus Mikkelsen, our Chief Scientist, talk about Services Oriented Storage Solutions - what it means to our customers, and why Hitachi Data Systems is the only vendor able to deliver.
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Press and Analyst Coverage
"IT managers can use Hitachi's services oriented storage solutions to change the interaction between IT departments and their business customers. IT managers can shift the emphasis of their discussions from hardware infrastructure issues to the business issues of rapid application deployment/expansion, application availability, and ongoing cost of use." - IDC. Read more...
"With the release of this architecture, Hitachi has clearly thrown down the gauntlet in the storage market to make services oriented storage solutions a reality in the data center." - Evaluator Group. Read more...
"Because of its powerful controller-based virtualization engine, HDS is in a unique position to package and deliver storage services across heterogeneous data center assets and at the same time capitalize on industry momentum behind Service-oriented architecture (SOA). This strategy, if put into action and made tangible, has the potential to alter the competitive landscape of the storage business." - ITCentrix. Read more...
"So what should we look for? What should we demand? The answer: Highly virtualized storage systems that support both internal and external storage virtualization. This enables us to create utility; to break boundaries; to make IT invisible, to build a fluid data center; and to deliver Services Oriented Storage Solutions." - ESG. Read more...
"Hitachi Data Systems on Monday raised the stakes in the high-end storage battle with a high-performance system that blends virtualization and thin provisioning to provide a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to storage." - Enterprise Storage Forum. Read more...
"The most interesting and compelling feature of Hitachi's strategy is that management metrics, quality-of-service, service level objective/agreement and recovery point objective are applied across all services layers. Seeing enterprise storage in the context of deliverable services is [the] key to unlocking both the realizable and chargeable value of virtualized storage." - John Webster, principle IT advisor at Illuminata. Read more...
