The Foothill-De Anza Community College District serves 44,000 students throughout Silicon Valley. Chief of Police Ronald Levine chose Hitachi Data Systems over EMC, HP and NetApp "because of performance, reliability, ease of use and to maximize our return on investment."
Hitachi Simple Modular Storage is designed to run for years, without disruption. You can spend your valuable resources on managing securing and growing your business without the cost or complexity associated with disparate storage systems management on servers.
Foothill-De Anza Community College District's Storage Success
"Hitachi's Simple Modular Storage is important to our mission because of high availability. We can't go to a district attorney or judge and say our information is unavailable from our data source. The solution has to be scalable; we have to have easy access to our data and very quickly."
— Ronald J. Levine, Chief of Police, Foothill-De Anza Community College District
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The Simple Modular Storage is easy to install but offers the following enterprise-class features:
- Should any disk drive fail, your Simple Modular Storage will continue to operate without losing data.
- Tasks are simplified with the Hitachi graphical user interface that replicates volume changes with a point-in-time snapshot without impacting the host server performance.
- Simple upgrades are available to higher capacity, which quickly allows you to migrate to a larger unit while using your current device.
- The Simple Modular Storage connects to all major servers and operating systems including the HP-UX, IBM AIX and Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008.
- Cost and power efficient, SMS is fully compliant with ROHS regulations, ideal in our environmentally conscious world.
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