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GDPS/Tagmastore USP Qualification Test (by IBM) For many years now, IBM has been improving the quality of GDPS® code delivery. The implementation of some of the IBM copy technologies by non-IBM manufacturers has introduced the need to validate the compatibility and interoperability of non-IBM equipment with GDPS. Hitachi, who has implemented the IBM technologies Metro mirror (PPRC) and z/OS® Global Mirror (XRC) on their disk subsystems, is the first storage vendor to go through with qualification. The Hitachi disk subsystems, installed in the IBM GDPS Solution Test lab configuration, have been used during execution of the entire GDPS qualification test suite.View PDF
Business Continuity Planning: Examples of Risk Analysis Workshop Outcomes Developing adequate business continuity/risk management plans is a complex challenge requiring expertise that most organizations do not have internally. This paper examines how the Risk Analysis Workshop from Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services can guide organizations through the process of evaluating their current plans and determining what remediation may required.View PDF
Best Practice Library: Guidelines for Hitachi TrueCopy Remote Replication Software and Hitachi Universal Replicator Software This document provides best practices for tailoring remote data replication solutions based on Hitachi TrueCopy Heterogeneous Remote Replication software bundle with TrueCopy Synchronous and TrueCopy Asynchronous software, and Hitachi Universal Replicator software for Universal Storage Platform and Network Storage Controller, including the qualification, design, implementation, operation, and tuning in remote replication environments based on these offerings.View PDF
Hitachi NAS Products with Symantic AntiVirus Scan Engine Implementation This performance brief provides a technical overview of features and benefits of the integration solution developed by Hitachi, Ltd. The solution is employed with the Hitachi NAS Blade for TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform and Network Storage Controller or the Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage and Workgroup Modular Storage with NAS Option (all Hitachi network attached storage (NAS) products/“Hitachi NAS products”) with Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine software.View PDF (3.7MB)

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A Blueprint for Matching Network Storage Architecture to Business Applications Requirements from Core to Edge Storage architectures that were originally designed for direct attachment to a single server cannot meet the increased bandwidth and connectivity requirements of a switched-based storage network. This paper clarifies the architectural requirements to realize the full potential of storage networks and elaborates on the advantages of classifying storage products according to their function-centralized or distributed-rather than their packaging. View PDF (1.6MB)

A Cost-effective SAN for the Small-to-Midsized Business "In collaboration with Microsoft and QLogic, Hitachi Data Systems delivered the first Microsoft-designated Simple SAN Solution for Windows Server Environments, tailormade for the needs of the SMB/SME. The Plug-and-play SAN Kit for Hitachi TagmaStore™ Adaptable Modular Storage and Workgroup Modular Storage systems combines low-cost SAN hardware and innovative software, allowing IT administrators to connect two or more servers to an initial SAN, and extend SAN connectivity between the data center and a distant workgroup. The Plug-and-play SAN Kit, when combined with the Adaptable Modular Storage or Workgroup Modular Storage systems, delivers the most scalable, high-performance, and highly available SAN infrastructure in its class. Leveraging the Microsoft Virtual Disk Service (VDS) technology for standardized access and the wizard-driven graphical user interface (GUI) of QLogic SANsurfer Express software, an administrator can quickly deploy a SAN, often in less than one hour."View PDF

A Distributed Storage System As The Core of Your Business One of the challenges for the business technologist choosing storage for any business is to balance high availability with increased cost. In many ways, the choice of storage is similar to the choice of insurance. This position paper clarifies why the cost-effective Thunder 9500 V Series storage systems is the right choice for most small-medium size businesses, providing availability and disaster recovery capabilities unmatched in the modular/distributed space.View PDF

A New Look at Remote Data Replication for the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise "With BFW microwave technology, users of midrange storage solutions can now incorporate synchronous data replication into their ongoing business continuity planning process. BFW networks provide a cost-effective alternative to conventional telecommunications carrier-based solutions. Hitachi Data Systems, McDATA, Redline Communications, and CONPUTE have successfully implemented remote synchronous replication based on microwave network connectivity. This combination of existing off-the-shelf technologies promises to revolutionize recovery-time and recovery-point objectives for the business applications of small- and medium-sized enterprises. The solution delivers the same level of data protection and disaster preparedness enjoyed by large enterprise data centers, at a fraction of the cost."View PDF

AMS1000 ESRP Storage Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server This white paper provides information on the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS1000 storage solution for Microsoft Exchange Server, based on the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) – Storage program. This document details a tested configuration capable of supporting 16,000 users with a 1-IOPS-per-user profile and user mailbox size of 250MB. The guiding design philosophy of this solution is modularity, so that this configuration can be scaled in both directions, to a minimum of 4,000 users, or beyond 16,000 users.View PDF

Active Archiving: Hitachi Content Archive Platform (by IDC) "HDS’ foundation of hardware, software, and professional services offerings and its proven expertise and excellence in delivering best-of-breed technology will prove invaluable in building out a long-term active archive approach. HDS expertise in developing best-of-breed storage-tiered solutions on which a set of common storage services can be used while making use of heterogeneous and standards-based approaches to storage management provides an excellent foundation for active archiving."View PDF

Addressing Common Challenges in SME with HDS and Microsoft Solutions Hitachi Data Systems has been working closely with Microsoft to offer tightly integrated solutions that help improve availability of key applications based on Microsoft Windows applications, such as Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server. This application brief offers suggestions on how to solve common challenges facing the small and medium-sized enterprise in the areas of application and storage management.View PDF

Addressing Federal Governments Disaster Recovery Requirements with Hitachi Storage As a result of the events of September 11, 2001, the realization has emerged that the failure of a single firm within the complex infrastructure of the United States can, in fact, threaten the U.S. economy, This paper demonstrates how Hitachi Data Systems solutions, based on systems, software, and professional services, can meet or exceed disaster recovery requirements proposed by several governmental agencies.View PDF

Services Oriented Storage Solutions from Hitachi Data Systems for Microsoft Exchange To optimize messaging performance, data protection, and resilience in case of an outage, comply with regulations, and reduce costs, organizations must consider how their storage infrastructure supports Microsoft Exchange. Hitachi Data Systems integrates Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Platform and Exchange 2003 Server improvements with Services Oriented Storage Solutions that align corporate business and IT objectives and help improve price performance, availability, and functionality.View PDF

Services Oriented Storage for Aligning Business and IT (by IDC) "Hitachi Data Systems, a leading supplier of storage systems, software, and services to enterprises around the globe, offers a broad suite of tightly integrated storage hardware, software, and services offerings under its Services Oriented Storage Solutions? solutions portfolio. The solutions should be on the short list for companies that are seeking to get the maximum return on their application investments."View PDF

Applying Tiered Storage in a Mainframe Environment with Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform This solution “cookbook”—one of a series of “best practices” guides for Hitachi Data Systems staff and Hitachi TrueNorth™ Channel partners—focuses on implementing tiered storage resources as integrated elements in a mainframe IBM® DFSMS (System Managed Storage) environment. It provides sample configurations, explanations, and “what to expect” descriptions for applying both high-availability, high-performance internal Fibre Channel storage of the Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform as well as externally attached Fibre Channel and serial ATA (SATA) intermix storage.View PDF (1.7MB)

Assessing Risk for Health Care Health care providers are adopting health care information technology (IT) to increase productivity, profitability, and the quality of patient care delivery. Adoption of health care IT will continue to expand around the globe, resulting in new challenges for the IT organization.View PDF

Audit Logging for Storage (by SNIA) Experts agree that audit log management is a critical element of any organization's risk management strategy. Audit log data (or just log data) can provide a complete record of access, activity, and configuration changes for applications, servers, and network devices. It can be used to alert management and administrators to unusual or suspicious network and system behavior. Additionally, log data can provide auditors with information required to validate security policy enforcement and proper segregation of duties. Lastly, IT staff can mine log data during rootcause analysis following a security incident; this is particularly important for the recovery and/or damage cleanup as well as the remediation activities.View PDF

Backup Technology: Overview and Perspectives One enterprise may operate with decidedly different definitions of backup activities than another. But all organizations are challenged to choose the backup technologies that will enable acceptable backup windows and contribute to disaster recovery and business continuity efforts. This white paper defines the types of backup technologies available–from traditional tape backup to newer disk-to-disk options that augment tape practices.View PDF

Best Practice Library: Guidelines for Hitachi TrueCopy Remote Replication Software and Hitachi Universal Replicator Software This document provides best practices for tailoring remote data replication solutions based on Hitachi TrueCopy Heterogeneous Remote Replication software bundle with TrueCopy Synchronous and TrueCopy Asynchronous software, and Hitachi Universal Replicator software for Universal Storage Platform and Network Storage Controller, including the qualification, design, implementation, operation, and tuning in remote replication environments based on these offerings.View PDF

Best Practices for Hitachi Storage Supporting Microsoft Exchange Server 2003: A Configuration Guide Microsoft Exchange Server is the world’s most pervasive messaging and collaboration system. Improvements in Exchange Server 2003 enable it to exploit storage area networks (SANs), giving users and administrators new levels of scalability and availability. Hitachi Data Systems markets highly reliable and scalable storage systems that are frequently used to support critical business application—including Microsoft Exchange Server. This paper describes best practices for configuring TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform, Lightning 9900 V Series and Thunder 9500 V Series Hitachi storage systems for Exchange Server.View PDF (5.4MB)

Business Continuity Blueprint: Synchronous Data Replication Business continuity has become one of the top issues facing enterprises globally. Data growth is exploding, and more and more enterprises must have 100 percent access to data 24/7. At the same time, internal and external threats to data uptime are increasing every day. The caprices of Mother Nature and fragile power grids make headlines worldwide and malicious system attacks require corporations to proactively think about—and plan for—successful disaster recovery and business continuity. Simply put, your business cannot afford to just wait and react to the havoc that internal or external forces can wreak on your data.View PDF

Business Continuity Planning: Examples of Risk Analysis Workshop Outcomes Developing adequate business continuity/risk management plans is a complex challenge requiring expertise that most organizations do not have internally. This paper examines how the Risk Analysis Workshop from Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services can guide organizations through the process of evaluating their current plans and determining what remediation may required.View PDF

Business Continuity Solution Blueprint: Asynchronous Long-distance Data Replication Business continuity has become one of the top issues facing enterprises globally. Data growth is exploding, and more and more enterprises must have 100 percent access to data 24/7. At the same time, internal and external threats to data uptime are increasing every day.The caprices of Mother Nature and fragile power grids make headlines worldwide and malicious system attacks require corporations to proactively think about—and plan for—successful disaster recovery and business continuity. Simply put, your business cannot afford to just wait and react to the havoc that internal or external forces can wreak on your data.View PDF

Business Continuity and the Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform and Network Storage Controller This white paper introduces new business continuity capabilities supported by the Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform, including cost-effective local and remote data protection and replication solutions. The Universal Storage Platform combines proven hardware and software with important technology innovations, enabling consistent and universal solutions to business continuity challenges and related business needs.View PDF

Business Continuity Solutions for Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ and Network Storage Controller™ Models This white paper highlights several key challenges that large enterprises face in real-world business continuity environments, particularly when business and regulatory requirements mandate long-distance replication of business information. View PDF

Calculating Return on Investment for Hitachi HiCommand Suite Software "In today’s business environment, providing the best technology is no longer enough. Large IT expenditures, such as storage infrastructures and storage software investments need to be justified to value-conscious managers. To help you realize the powerful financial benefits of your investments, Hitachi Data Systems has developed this white paper, which throws light on the various benefits that can be accrued when deploying storage area management (SAM) software, and the various ways to quantify those benefits."View PDF

Consolidating Microsoft Exchange Data with Hitachi Thunder 9500 V Series Storage Systems This application brief looks at the specific storage requirements for a consolidated Exchange environment. It then describes how you can address those requirements using Hitachi Thunder 9500™ V Series modular storage systems. It describes a basic storage configuration as well as automated, integrated solutions for fast backup and rapid recoveries of Exchange data.View PDF

Many organizations are consolidating servers and storage to simplify the IT infrastructure and reduce administrative and hardware costs. The Microsoft Exchange environment is often a good candidate for consolidation; the data is critical, growth is an ongoing problem, and administration tasks are significantly greater when spread across distributed servers and storage. This application brief looks at the specific storage requirements for a consolidated Exchange environment. It then describes how you can address those requirements using Hitachi Thunder 9500™ V Series modular storage systems. It describes a basic storage configuration as well as automated, integrated solutions for fast backup and rapid recoveries of Exchange data.

Data Governance: Regulatory Compliance and Business Continuity This paper examines the challenges associated with data assets, identifies and defines a few key regulations that are affecting organizations, and examines how a business focused approach and a flexible storage infrastructure can help organizations resolve data governance issues.View PDF

Data Protection - Five Steps to a Better Night's Sleep While storage administrators should be supporting business and its activities, they may find themselves overwhelmed with the task of data protection. This white paper is presented to offer five steps administrators can take to gain an understanding of their infrastructure operations and map data protection challenges to answers for their organization.View PDF

Designing Storage Tiers—Services Oriented Storage Solutions from Hitachi Data Systems This paper describes a process for matching applications to designated tiers of storage. Each storage tier identified maps to a desired level of service quality required by the enterprise. Using this process, the storage manager can plan an optimal arrangement of storage platforms to meet the availability, performance, and scalability service-level requirements of business applications.View PDF

Developing Return on Investment and Business Case Support for Storage Area Networks Practices Storage Area Networks are a major investment for enterprises. Hitachi Data Systems recommends that an organization conduct a return on investment (ROI)/business case analysis prior to SAN installation, and provides this paper to help customers build strong, accurate business cases for SAN deployment with a structured approach for calculating SAN ROI.View PDF

Disaster Recovery Issues and Solutions Well-planned business continuity and disaster recovery solutions are critical to organizations operating in 24/7 environments. This paper considers both disaster recovery technology and customer objectives and budgets in the architecting of the most fitting business continuity solution.View PDF

Encryption of Data At-rest Checklist This document outlines a set of steps that organizations can use as a basis to implement their own encryption approach for securing data at-rest; each step is further expanded to include several checklist items. The outlined steps offer a comprehensive view of the elements that should be addressed, but it is recognized that organizations may only need to use a subset of the steps.View PDF

End-to-End 2Gbps Fibre Channel SAN To enhance performance speed and gain other operational and business benefits, many companies are considering second-generation Fibre Channel (FC) 2Gbit/sec SAN solutions. This paper evaluates FC SANs for first-time deployment as well as FC architecture upgrades.View PDF

Ensuring Business Recovery and Continuity Through Long-distance Data Replication An important question facing organizations is whether they could continue to function in the face of a sudden event–hurricane, tornado, earthquake, terrorist attack, for example–that brought mission critical systems to an unexpected halt. This article examines how various remote replication options can best meet any given organization’s recovery plan for depending on the balance of three factors: recovery speed, data consistency and cost.View PDF (1.7MB)

Ensuring Data Integrity with Asynchronous Replication "This white paper outlines the key considerations for preserving data consistency and integrity during a worst-case disaster recovery scenario, and the essential capabilities that the data storage infrastructure must provide to ensure successful recovery with full data integrity."View PDF

Enterprise-class Solutions for the Midrange With the introduction of the Hitachi TagmaStore Network Storage Controller model NSC55, Adaptable Modular Storage models AMS200 and AMS500, and Workgroup Modular Storage model WMS100, Hitachi Data Systems opens new possibilities to organizations of all sizes for aligning storage infrastructure with application and business needs. These organizations now have a wide variety of choices in storage systems when building Services Oriented Storage Solutions from Hitachi Data Systems that match application requirements, such as performance, availability, functionality, and cost, to storage attributes. View PDF

Evaluating the Business Value of Networked Storage (by IDC) This white paper portrays IDC’s recent ROI analysis of two Hitachi Data Systems customers that deployed Fibre Channel (FC) SAN solutions for migrating networked storage. The results indicate that enterprises successfully implementing FC SANs can reduce hardware, software, facility, and staffing costs significantly, while benefiting from storage flexibility, scalability, and quality of service in a high-growth environment.View PDF

Examining Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot Software Capabilities for Hitachi Thunder 9500 V Series Storage Systems For the Hitachi Thunder 9500™ V Series modular storage systems, Hitachi Data Systems offers two internal mirroring solutions: Hitachi ShadowImage™ In-System Replication and Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot software (formerly known as Hitachi QuickShadow). This paper provides a brief look at these software solutions and then presents an in-depth evaluation of Copy-on-Write Snapshot software capabilities, with periodic comparisons to ShadowImage In-System Replication software facilities.View PDF

Fibre Channel Security Protocols and Hitachi Storage Organizations using Fibre Channel fabrics face security challenges, such as preventing access to data by unauthorized parties. This white paper briefly describes new security features within Fibre Channel that address these concerns as well as the Hitachi implementation of this functionality.View PDF

GDPS/Tagmastore USP Qualification Test (by IBM) For many years now, IBM has been improving the quality of GDPS® code delivery. The implementation of some of the IBM copy technologies by non-IBM manufacturers has introduced the need to validate the compatibility and interoperability of non-IBM equipment with GDPS. Hitachi, who has implemented the IBM technologies Metro mirror (PPRC) and z/OS® Global Mirror (XRC) on their disk subsystems, is the first storage vendor to go through with qualification. The Hitachi disk subsystems, installed in the IBM GDPS Solution Test lab configuration, have been used during execution of the entire GDPS qualification test suite. View PDF

Guidelines for Installing Hitachi HiCommand® Dynamic Link Manager and Multi-Path I/O in a Virtual I/O Environment This document provides best practices for the design and implementation of Hitachi HiCommand® Dynamic Link Manager and Hitachi storage systems with IBM's Advanced Virtualization feature for IBM p5® servers and IBM AIX® 5.3.View PDF (2.5MB)

HiCommand Backup Services Manager, powered by APTARE: Determining Return on Investment Hitachi HiCommand® Backup Services Manager, powered by APTARE®, actively avoids data loss, speeds backup performance, improves the success rate of backup and recovery, and offers rapid troubleshooting capabilities. Most importantly, Backup Services Manager software delivers a quantifiable return on investment (ROI), lowering a wide range of operational and capital costs. In a far-reaching analysis of the total business value to an organization from deploying Backup Services Manager software, Hitachi Data Systems has identified 15 areas of hard and soft cost savings in three main categories.View PDF

HiCommand Layered Storage Area Management Architecture: The View From Application to LUN Storage environments have grown far too large, too complex, and most importantly, too critical to the operation of the business to manage storage on an ad hoc basis, as has been the prevailing practice. This white paper details a layered Storage Area Management architecture , employed in the HiCommand SAM Suite, that can deliver the required level of storage service–in terms of capacity, performance, availability, recoverability, scalability, and associated services–to your business applications.View PDF (1.7MB)

HiCommand Protection Manager software for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Organizations using Microsoft Exchange for e-mail services depend on Exchange backup and recovery to recover mailbox stores quickly, with minimal data loss, in case of unplanned downtime. Exchange’s traditional tape-based techniques suffer from serious limitations, however. Hitachi HiCommand® Protection Manager software for Microsoft Exchange alleviates this situation, offering rapid, simple backup and recovery for Microsoft Exchange.View PDF (1.4MB)

HiCommand Tiered Storage Manager Volume Migration Performance Report White Paper This performance brief examines tests run on Hitachi HiCommand® Tiered Storage Manager software in a lab environment to understand the relative performance when migrating data from one storage tier to another. The observations may be useful for storage planning and to establish recommendations for data migration using Tiered Storage Manager software on the Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform model USP600.View PDF

Hitachi Services Oriented Storage Solutions for Aligning IT and Business Objectives Services Oriented Storage Solutions are built upon a common framework of comprehensive storage, data, content, and application services providing the appropriate infrastructure, management, and data delivery to optimize storage for application requirements. The ultimate goal of Services Oriented Storage is to provide organizations with the ability to manage and optimize all their application storage requirements with a single universal storage platform that provides common storage and data services for heterogeneous environments.View PDF

Hitachi Backup and Recovery Software, Powered by CommVault: Unified, Scalable Data Protection for Distributed, Heterogeneous Environments By tightly integrating backup and recovery processing with the needs of missioncritical applications, a software product now offered by Hitachi Data Systems is able to match data protection services with how business users view and understand their data. Hitachi Backup and Recovery software, powered by CommVault®, leverages a powerful platform architecture designed from scratch to provide comprehensive, integrated data protection and data management of heterogeneous storage infrastructures.View PDF

Hitachi Data Systems Optimizes Storage Management Through ITIL-Based Consulting Services (by IDC) HDS, one of the world’s leading storage suppliers, has recently addressed customer issues regarding services management processes with a new set of storage management consulting services. In this IDC White Paper, we discuss storage market trends; examine the portfolio of HDS’s services, ITIL; and then discuss the specific services that HDS has built around the ITIL approach to service management to help its customers design and implement best-practice storage management processes within their organizations.View PDF

Hitachi Data Systems: A Storage Security Leader "Storage professionals and vendors are slowly and begrudgingly recognizing that security is a necessity. But at Hitachi, the company has had a commitment to security in its engineering and business processes for years. The result of this dedication can be seen in the company’s “compliance ready” products and ongoing commitment to enhancing security capabilities in future product releases and integrating with common enterprise security infrastructure. ESG views Hitachi Data Systems as a storage security pioneer today and believes it will continue to maintain a leadership role for the industry in the future."View PDF

Hitachi Global Link Availability Manager Software Return on Investment (ROI) Analysis Hitachi HiCommand Global Link Availability Manager software is a new storage path management solution designed in direct response to Hitachi Data Systems customer feedback to increase efficiency and availability in complicated mulitserver, multipath SAN configurations. It allows administrators to collectively manage and configure the data paths for multiple hosts from a single, easy-to-use console. The underlying path control functionality on each managed host is provided by Hitachi HiCommand Dynamic Link Manager software.View PDF

Hitachi HiCommand Device Manager Software Overview and Use Cases Enterprises today are seeking ways to simplify their storage environments to help rein in storage management costs while supporting business agility and tasks such as provisioning. Not only is centralization and simplification of heterogeneous storage management essential, but administrating the storage infrastructures logically by line of business also becomes increasingly important in order to keep storage costs and business results aligned. This application brief considers these business challenges and examines how the enterprise can resolve such issues with Hitachi HiCommand® Device Manager software from Hitachi Data Systems.View PDF (2.4MB)

Hitachi HiCommand Path Provisioning Software "The dramatic growth in enterprise SAN storage capacity is leaving storage administrators to play catch up, as they try to stay ahead of end-user demand for disk space. And, while technology advances have made it possible to quickly add more resources to the SAN, similar advances have not been applied to the task of allocating those resources to application hosts. Hitachi HiCommand Storage Services Manager software and the HiCommand Path Provisioning module rectify the disparity between capacity and the storage administrator’s ability to manage it."View PDF

Hitachi HiCommand Tuning Manager Software Rules of Thumb: A Guide to Key Metrics The rules of thumb (RoT) provided in this application brief represent a guide to the key metrics found in Hitachi HiCommand® Tuning Manager software, an advanced reporting and analysis tool that enables performance monitoring and capacity forecasting for Hitachi storage systems. The findings detailed in this document offer a starting point for investigating I/O performance problems in your environment.View PDF

Hitachi HiCommand® Storage Services Manager Software Performance and Scalability: A Best Practices Guide This best practices brief assumes that the user is familiar with the Hitachi HiCommand® Storage Services Manager software product and the operating system (OS) that hosts Storage Services Manager client software, for example Microsoft Windows or Sun Solaris.View PDF (2.4MB)

Hitachi Multiplatform Backup/Restore Today's businesses demand heightened backup/restore capabilities. This paper examines the hierarchy of backup/restore processes and the enterprise storage solutions offered by Hitachi Data Systems to minimize backup/restore time.View PDF

Hitachi NAS Products with Symantic AntiVirus Scan Engine Implementation This performance brief provides a technical overview of features and benefits of the integration solution developed by Hitachi, Ltd. The solution is employed with the Hitachi NAS Blade for TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform and Network Storage Controller or the Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage and Workgroup Modular Storage with NAS Option (all Hitachi network attached storage (NAS) products/“Hitachi NAS products”) with Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine software.View PDF (3.7MB)

Hitachi SplitSecond Solutions for Microsoft Exchange 2000 E-mail has become a key application for the enterprise. As such, it needs to be available 24/7. This paper describes how the Hitachi SplitSecond™ Solution for Microsoft Exchange 2000 package dramatically reduces the amount of time required to recover and restore Exchange 2000 information stores.View PDF
Hitachi Storage Cluster for Windows Server 2003 Hitachi Data Systems provides support for Windows Server 2003 distance clusters and the majority node set technique using Hitachi TrueCopy™ Remote Replication software. Combining Windows Server 2003 majority node set clusters with TrueCopy Remote Replication software can provide for a robust, geographically distributed cluster. For many organizations, this configuration provides a valuable technique for mitigating disaster risk.View PDF
Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform: Virtualization without Limits This white paper examines the requirements for storage virtualization, the architectural choices of Hitachi, Ltd., the various components of this new Hitachi solution offered by Hitachi Data Systems, and its implications for customers and the industry.View PDF (1.0MB)
After more than a decade of dominating the desktop, a new generation of Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) storage disks and interfaces are moving into the enterprise. But using traditional parallel ATA storage for nearline and fixed content use has limited reliability. Enter Serial ATA (SATA). Once SATA technology matured, Hitachi Data Systems adapted it to drive the future of archival data storage. Lower cost, reliable technology is seamlessly integrated with primary storage to minimize a customer's management complexity and lower total cost of ownership. The result is a further proof point of the Hitachi Data Systems Services Oriented Storage Solutions, matching application requirements to storage attributes.
Hitachi Data Systems has been developing its storage platform with a services-oriented approach for many yearsServices Oriented Storage Solutions apply service-oriented architecture (SOA) concepts to storage to deliver a platform that can be readily reconfigured and optimized to changing business requirements; these solutions deliver a process-oriented service approach to storage rather than the piecemeal, task-oriented approach, which leads to needless redundancies, over-subscription of storage, management complexity, and compliance exposure.View PDF
Improving Business Resilience with Data Replication and Storage Area Network Extension Technology With unique capabilities and technologies, Hitachi Data Systems and Cisco Systems, Inc., have made resilience of enterprise IT infrastructures a strategic imperative. Collectively, they offer the technology to safeguard and effectively replicate critical application data across long-distance multiprotocol storage networks, enabling continuous business operations and speeding application recovery in the event of a failure.View PDF
Introduction to Storage Security (by SNIA) We face the challenge of implementing data protection and data security measures to meet a wide range of requirements that are not limited to regulatory compliance. Today, storage infrastructures (disk, arrays, IP and SAN fabrics, NAS and tape) are highly vulnerable to attack because of the gap between known security techniques and their level of implementation. Security and audit professionals daily face the process of securing the application, compute and network environment; however, storage security has often slipped under their radar because of the pace of technology change. Storage managers and administrators may be confronting these issues and technologies for the first time. This whitepaper starts from the basics: identifying key business drivers for data security, describing threats and attacks, summarizing security concepts and relationships, and describes storage security. It concludes with recommended storage security best practices to help close the gaps.View PDF
LUN Security Considerations for SANs While SANs reduce costs by pooling storage resources, they also expose data (addressed by logical unit or LUN) on shared storage to unauthorized access and overwrites by multiple hosts This paper describes approaches to providing LUN security, identifies where each might be used, and details the process of securing LUNs from unauthorized host access.View PDF
IT managers today are challenged to scale storage systems to serve growing data stores while ensuring non-stop availability. This paper presents the solution: changing the storage paradigm from server-attached storage to scalable storage area networks (SANs) by leveraging Fibre Channel switch and Lightning 9900™ Series system technologies.
The amount of data that is being stored and kept online is growing rapidly, but management resources are not. Storage consolidation is one solution. This paper examines the fast, bottleneck-free consolidation capabilities of the new Lightning 9980V™ storage system by measuring its performance in mixed workload conditions.
Managing Data Protection Environments to Assure 100 Percent Data Protection Today, many corporations, government departments, health care organizations, and education institutions can employ a unique answer to solving their data protection problems efficiently and effectively: Hitachi HiCommand® Backup Services Manager software, powered by APTARE®. Backup Services Manager software gives organizations the management tools for proactive visibility and enhanced control of data protection environments to achieve one goal: 100 percent data protection.View PDF (1.1MB)
Meeting the Needs of Mid-Sized Organizations (by IDC) "Hitachi Data Systems, with its new midrange storage solutions (the TagmaStore WMS100, AMS200, AMS500 and NCS55), is developing a broad portfolio of solutions that addresses the unique business needs of mid-sized organizations. It is delivering a set of solutions that supports consolidated, networked storage, enables costeffective replication, supports long-term data archiving, and addresses the specific storage management challenges of IT managers at mid-sized organizations."View PDF
Microsoft Cluster Server High-availability Configuration E-mail has become a key application for the enterprise. As such, it needs to be available 24/7. The Maxtime solution uses the "Thunder family" of storage systems in a Microsoft Exchange configuration to ensure highest level of availability.View PDF
The Thunder 9570V™ storage system is very effective for handling mid-range Microsoft Exchange 2000 enterprise e-mail systems. This performance brief highlights the importance of considering how RAID type, number of physical disks, I/O profiles and I/O rates will affect the type of configuration one selects for an enterprise e-mail system based on the Thunder 9570V system.
Microsoft SQL Server "Always On" Technologies Hitachi Data Systems has met the requirements of the Microsoft SQL Server Always On Technologies program. By providing highly available and reliable end-to-end storage solutions for SQL Server, Hitachi Data Systems helps to support mission-critical applications and ensure their availability.View PDF
New Options for Managing Tiers of Storage in the Enterprise: The Role of the Networked Storage Controller (by IDC) "The newest and potentially market-changing solution for delivering these [storage solutions] capabilities is what IDC calls a networked storage controller (NSC). The NSC is a new category of products in the storage solutions market with both hardware and software elements that IDC believes will greatly influence the future of storage architectures. The use of NSCs will make it possible to extend many of the capabilities of intelligent controllers to multiple, attached storage systems without sacrificing performance or reliability. One of the first companies to deliver an NSC-based storage solution is Hitachi, which announced its TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform in September 2004...this white paper examines how products such as Hitachi’s Universal Storage Platform will play a critical role in helping IT managers deploy and manage "application-optimized" tiered storage solutions."View PDF
Optical Networks for the Enterprise This article from Computer Technology Review discusses the features, applications and performance of Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) and explains why this type of connectivity can provide a business with much more than simply access to massive amounts of storage at high speed across a region.View PDF
Optimizing Cache for Individual Workloads with Cache Partition Manager "Cache partitioning is a significant feature of the Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage and TagmaStore Workgroup Modular Storage. The Cache Partition Manager feature, included with the Hitachi Resource Manager utility package, gives administrators the ability to tune performance of a storage system according to the specific needs of each application. For the first time in a midrange modular storage product, cache resources can be efficiently and securely divided to accommodate a diverse range of application workloads on a single platform."View PDF
Optimizing Microsoft SQL Server Application Performance Case Study"Enterprise storage systems, such as the Hitachi Universal Storage PlatformTM, are large and complex, supporting hundreds of applications and thousands of users. Making the most of that power and optimizing performance in that environment can be daunting. Organizations want to know, “Where do I start? How should I configure our storage?” While these are seemingly simple questions, there is no one right answer to any of them. Every environment and its requirements are different. The mix of applications, the number of users, the number and type of servers, as well as the relative business priorities of all of these vary." View PDF
Oracle Database 10g Automatic Storage Management Best Practices with Hitachi Replication Software on the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ Family of ProductsOracle Database10g ASM provides storage cluster volume management and file system functionality at no additional cost. ASM increases storage utilization, performance, and availability while eliminating the need for third-party volume management and file systems for Oracle database files. As a result, ASM provides significant cost savings for the data center.View PDF
Oracle Database 10g Automatic Storage Management Feature Performance on the Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform Hitachi Data Systems and Hitachi, Ltd., have tested and evaluated best practices for using Automatic Storage Management (ASM), a new feature introduced in Oracle Database 10g, to simplify file storage and administration tasks on the Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform. The evaluation shows that ASM on the Universal Storage Platform enables capabilities superior to those of file system databases.View PDF
Organizational Considerations When Implementing Storage Area Networks When considering adaptation of pooled storage and SAN technology, organizational requirements should be a part of SAN planning and design. This paper reveals best practices, observed by Hitachi Data Systems consultants that contribute to successful technology transitions.View PDF
Protecting Microsoft SharePoint Environments with Hitachi Data Protection Suite In today’s 24/7 world, it is becoming increasingly difficult for organizations to manage growing, complex information sources. A comprehensive data management tool fully integrated with a powerful data protection strategy is needed. This answer is available in Microsoft® SharePoint® and Services Oriented Storage Solutions from Hitachi Data Systems, which feature the Hitachi Data Protection Suite, powered by CommVault®.View PDF
Oracle databases can crash when corrupted data is passed from an application to the storage system. This paper describes DB Validator software as used with the Lightning 9900™ V Series systems, a co-development effort by Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Data Systems, and Oracle, which prevents corrupted data from reaching the networked storage system and being written to the Oracle database.
Replication Management Overview and Perspectives Today's technology of choice for data protection/business continuity "replication" brings with it the challenges of ensuring various technologies work in unison to handle immense data loads and deliver the expected service levels. This paper considers replication management, its challenges, and the Hitachi Data Systems approach to actively configuring, managing, and monitoring heterogeneous storage environments and homogeneous Hitachi storage environments.View PDF
Risk Management and Business Continuity This white paper provides some background on risk management and traditional vulnerabilities, and offers an overview regarding pitfalls to avoid. More importantly, it reveals the need for a quantitative risk management approach that will reduce uncertainty. The key is to objectively evaluate alternatives and/or competing solutions while providing the business justification, through cost-benefit analysis, for selecting the optimal answer for each particular environment. View PDF
Solving the Top Six Enterprise Storage Issues Nowhere is the exponential growth of data felt more acutely than in the world of enterprise storage. In fact, the growth of storage budgets now threatens to eclipse the growth of an organization's overall IT budget. Instead of continuing to add more storage systems and significantly more management complexity, a more cost-effective, sustainable approach is required. That new approach is storage virtualization. View PDF
SWAN (Storage Wide Area Network) Backup and recovery tasks now can be quickly and efficiently completed over long distances, globally, via Storage Wide Area Networks or SWANs, bringing more security to the enterprise. This paper discusses the business requirements for SWANs, provides an overview of the current state of SWAN capabilities, and speculates on the future implementation of SWANs.View PDF
Simplifying Storage for Mid-Sized Enterprises (by IDC) "Hitachi Data Systems, a leading worldwide supplier of storage and IT management solutions is well-positioned to enable mid-sized organizations to grow and better manage their information. Its storage systems and storage management products can provide simple yet scalable solutions that support ongoing capacity growth, centralize the process of organizing and using all storage assets, and significantly improve the efficiency of IT management organization."View PDF
Consolidating storage on the Thunder 9520V system offers relief from the problems of managing growing amounts of distributed storage. The immediate benefits in better storage provisioning and simplified management can bring a rapid return on investment for the initial SAN implementation.
Storage Consolidation: Considerations when Utilizing Modular Storage Systems This white paper illustrates the benefits of storage consolidation, discuss the different approaches to accomplishing it, and highlight some considerations when using modular storage as the consolidation target.View PDF
Storage Consolidation: Considerations when Utilizing Modular Storage Systems Management resources are hard-pressed to keep pace with dramatically increasing data storage needs. This paper outlines the benefits of storage consolidation, and highlights considerations when using modular storage as the consolidation target (as an alternative to enterprise consolidation solutions).View PDF
Storage Consolidation: the Solution for Runaway Data Growth and Limited Management Resources Ever-increasing data stores are severely taxing management resources. This paper describes how consolidating storage systems around Hitachi Data Systems solution elements—the Lightning 9900™ Series and Lightning 9900 V Series systems and advanced function software, including the HiCommand® Management Framework (now called HiCommand Storage Area Management Suite)—can help administrators efficiently manage growing amounts of information, while improving productivity and reducing costs.View PDF
Storage Economics: Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform The Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform is a new class of storage hardware, and its proper deployment can help IT departments save substantial amounts of money. Supporting large-scale infrastructure consolidation, multitier configuration, multitenancy access, and single-pane-of-glass storage management, the Universal Storage Platform fundamentally changes the economics of large-scale storage ownership.View PDF
Storage Economics: Identifying and Reducing Operating Expenses in the Storage Infrastructure Enterprises today need to know where hidden storage-related, operating expense costs reside, how much potential costs savings are buried in the storage infrastructure, and what successful methods and activities are being used by IT departments worldwide to harvest these savings. Storage economic analysis and operating expense reduction initiatives combine to form a deterministic process to reduce the cost of enterprise storage ownership.View PDF
Storage Management and the Continued Importance of CIM, by Data Mobility Group "Storage networking users understand that the value of open standards--for both users and vendors--stems from a user's ability to select the most suitable products for a particular application or set of applications and then easily integrate those products into their computing environments. SMI-S provides an open, and industry-accepted, way of integrating storage devices with storage management applications, as well as storage management applications to each other."View PDF
Storage Virtualization: Aligning Storage Needs with Agency Operational Goals Under pressure of ever-tightening budgets and increasing regulatory requirements for data security and storage, federal sector organizations are working to align information technology investments with mission-focused operational goals. In the federal sector, Hitachi Data Systems offers storage management hardware, software and services through a range of partners including Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Vion and others. Because it’s storage management offerings are vendoragnostic, Hitachi Data Systems enables customers to buy a solution they can trust will interoperate in a heterogenous storage environment, providing the ability to manage almost any current storage subsystems, matching applications to data for optimized operational performance.View PDF (2.4MB)
Storage Virtualization: Analysis of the Benefits of Hitachi's Approach (by IDC) "Use-case analysis demonstrates how the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform and Network Storage Controller work with HiCommand Storage Management Software to enhance storage management and enable enterprises to exploit the price and performance advantages of a multitiered storage environment, as well as the TCO improvements from more efficient management and higher levels of storage utilization. Enterprise storage managers investigating ways to better integrate existing storage assets and improve operating efficiencies are encouraged to evaluate offerings from Hitachi Data Systems."View PDF
TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform Performance with IBM FICON With the release of the 16-port FICON adapter from Hitachi Data Systems, storage administrators now have the opportunity to increase performance of Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform. This new channel adapter for IBM® FICON® provides higher throughput to meet the needs of customers demanding maximum throughput for their storage systems.View PDF
Taking Modular Storage to New Heights: Hitachi TagmaStore Network Storage Controller Model NSC55 The NSC55 addresses the growing need for highly available, high-function, highcapacity storage, in a packaging and price point to meet the unique requirements of smaller enterprises. Traditional modular storage systems, with their basic dualcontroller architecture, can no longer provide these organizations with the resilience, speed, and scalability necessary to satisfy today’s business requirements.View PDF
Taking the Guesswork out of Networked Storage Performance and Capacity Management: Hitachi HiCommand Tuning Manager Software "To support company competitiveness and customer satisfaction, a chief goal of every IT organization is to ensure top performance by detecting and resolving potential problems before they occur. This goal requires a tool that allows you to define and continuously monitor and store critical performance and capacity thresholds, and send a warning to the proper persons to alert them of a potential problem before it occurs. Hitachi HiCommand® Tuning Manager software is an advanced performance and capacity management solution that was developed to solve these challenges. This application brief examines a sampling of the basic reporting, analyzing, forecasting, and troubleshooting capabilities of Tuning Manager software.View PDF (5.6MB)
The New Role of Storage in the Enterprise (by IDC) "The most advanced and integrated storage solution is of little use if IT departments do not change existing policies and procedures to automate repetitive administrative tasks. Effective implementation, always a major concern, is an especially critical issue when considering these emerging solutions. IT managers need to establish rules and procedures for naming conventions, application upgrades, as well as provisioning and replication policies. Choosing the right partner to assist in implementation is, therefore, a high priority. ...Based on its track record for innovation and delivering products that anticipate customer needs, we believe HDS should be on your list for consideration in any discussion of next-generation storage systems."View PDF
The Hitachi NanoCopy Advantage Addressing rolling disasters is a key component of a business continuity strategy. This paper describes point-in-time copy and real-time copy products, focusing on the use of Hitachi NanoCopy™ technology solutions from Hitachi Data Systems to address rolling disasters.View PDF
The Strategic Role of Services in Services Oriented Storage Solutions (by IDC) "By providing consultative services as part of its overall delivery of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, Hitachi Data Systems can help customers achieve greater alignment of business and IT through improved levels of availability, reduced storage costs, and enhanced risk mitigation. This approach supports customers’ business strategies and missions by allowing them to more quickly implement their Services Oriented Storage Solutions and achieve greater ROI in a shorter amount of time."