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  • Oracle 10gR2 Databases on Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc® The Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc®, delivers a highperformance, intelligent and scalable multiprotocol solution. This document describes best practices for using Oracle databases on Linux with NAS connectivity provided by the Highperformance NAS Platform through the NFS protocol. The document discusses baseline configuration recommendations for both Oracle and High-performance NAS Platform heads.View PDF 
  • Guidelines for Optimized Backup and Recovery of Oracle 11g Database with Automatic Storage Management Using Hitachi Disk Array Replication In today’s competitive business environment, an irrecoverable data loss in an enterprise can quickly result in revenue loss, reputation loss and customer dissatisfaction. Enterprises are therefore looking for high quality cost-effective backup solutions to protect their business against this risk. In order to meet this challenge, Hitachi Ltd., and Oracle have partnered to deliver an industry leading backup and recovery system by combining Hitachi storage and Oracle 11g Database with Automatic Storage Management (ASM). This document is a joint effort by Hitachi and Oracle to provide guidelines for optimizing backup and recovery of Oracle 11g Database with ASM using Hitachi storage.View PDF 
  • Deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g on the Hitachi Adaptable Modular 2000 Family Businesses juggling increasing demands for processing power from mission-critical applications like Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 11g and from increasing numbers of users who need 24/7 access to data, require solutions that increase scalability, availability and performance. Database and storage administrators know that the scalability and performance of applications are dependent upon the scalability and performance of the underlying storage system.View PDF 
  • Replication Solutions for Hitachi Modular Storage Systems Protecting data and information critical for the operation of a business, whether it is a large enterprise or a small to medium sized business, is becoming increasingly important. Large enterprises have a staff of IT professionals that support their storage environments and are typically responsible for ensuring that the data will be available in the case of an operational error or a catastrophic event. For smaller businesses, managing the storage environment and ensuring that critical data will always be available is more difficult as they often have a minimal or non-existent IT staff. As a result, data is often not regularly backed up or replicated to another system or site for protection. The perceived cost, complexity and/or time involved are often overwhelming, resulting in delays in addressing the need or just ignoring the potential problem.View PDF 
  • Migration Experience IBM XRC to Universal Replicator In this case study, we will look at a large financial institution that is experiencing dramatic growth in many areas of its business, resulting in a significant increase in its critical business data. This data must be protected through replication to a remote site, but the financial institution must stay within current budget constraints. This data is spread across multiple storage systems, and as a result, the write fidelity and integrity of the data must be maintained at both the local and the remote sites.View PDF 
  • Disaster Recovery: A Mainframe Perspective Well-planned business continuity and disaster recovery plans and capabilities are critical to organizations operating in 24x7 environments. Avoiding any disruption to operations is a priority for most enterprises when faced with planned or unplanned real or potential outages. In addition to ensuring the ability to continue business operations, recent government compliance regulations and recommendations are driving businesses to consider out-of-region replication options, enabling them to continue operations or at least recover quickly from largescale disruptive events.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 
  • 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 (3.5MB) 
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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 
  • 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 the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ Family* 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 
  • Deploying Oracle 11g RAC with Hitachi Enterprise-class Storage Systems The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V provides a number of technologies that can significantly reduce the costs and effort associated with storage provisioning and performance management of Oracle Database Environments. This document provides an analysis of the I/O profile of each of the Oracle on-disk database data structures. This analysis is then applied to identify tuning goals, best practices and appropriate storage technologies that can be used to simplify deployment and management and provide for predictable performance and growth.View PDF 
  • Best Practices for Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) on Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning Software Prior to today, networked external storage was introduced in a step fashion. First, the current and some future storage capacity requirements were studied. Then, the minimum required capacity was purchased and installed. Over time, expansion disks were added as necessary to increase storage capacity in “step” increments. However, in current IT systems, with the spread of Internet-based business, video and movie content, and all types of digital data, the amount of data handled on a daily basis is rapidly increasing. Since the future storage capacity requirements are forecast to be very high, initial introduction costs are rising dramatically. These costs place pressure on estimating and managing capacity, just when the process is becoming extraordinarily complex.View PDF 
  • Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning Software Best Practices Guide Oracle Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software has the potential to provide significant benefits to storage, system and database administrators. These may include simplified management, improved performance and better control of costs. However, to achieve the maximum benefits from Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, there are best practices to follow when configuring and managing the application environment. This document collects some best practices for using Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software with the Oracle® Database system when used with Oracle Automated Storage Management (ASM).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 
  • 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 
  • 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 Tuning Manager Software Rules of ThumbThe 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 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 (3.5MB) 
  • 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 
  • 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 
  • 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 
  • 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 
  • 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 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 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."View PDF 
  • Replication needs of the enterprise can be addressed with various business continuity software components and Hitachi Thunder 9500™ V Series modular storage systems from Hitachi Data Systems. The flexibility of Hitachi Data Systems replication solutions allows each organization to choose the best solution based on their data distribution, disaster recovery, and backup requirements, and the location of their main and backup sites.
  • Tiered Storage Economics: Defining and Calculating the Economic Benefit of Tiered Storage Solutions This paper examines trends observed by Hitachi Data Systems consultants and IT analysts, which indicate that purchasing only cheaper disk solutions to reduce short-term capital expense can produce a negative long-term impact on operating expense. It then considers multitiered storage, a method of incorporating cheaper disk technology into a comprehensive tiered storage architecture, which can effectively reduce both capital and operating expense, while providing the levels of service necessary in today’s complex and evolving storage infrastructures.View PDF 
  • Tiered Storage in the Real World: Calculating the ROI and Cost Savings of a Move to Tiered Storage by a Large Financial Institution (LFI) Is there true value, a fast return on investment (ROI), and verifiable cost savings involved in a move to virtualized tiered storage? This case study documents specific and quantifiable business and economic value achieved by one enterprise company after its first year in a new storage architecture built on Hitachi tiered storage.View PDF (1.7MB) 
  • Tuning Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server Performance With a Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform providing consolidated capacity to many RegBank enterprise applications, administrators logically turned to Hitachi Data System Global Solution Services (GSS) organization for help. Using a combination of Hitachi HiCommand® Tuning Manager software, custom Tuning Manager software reports, Exchange Server expertise, and simple rules of thumb, the Hitachi Data Systems professional services consultants solved the ATM application performance problem, and gave RegBank administrators the tools and knowledge to ensure storage systems used by the enterprise messaging environment remain fully optimized. View PDF (1.4MB) 
  • Tuning Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Performance Best PracticesBest practices and performance services offered by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services (GSS) for Microsoft SQL Server applicationsView PDF 
  • Universal Replicator Software Architecture Overview Hitachi Universal Replicator Software Architecture Overview Enterprises are faced with the challenges of meeting business applications’ service levels, including increased resilience and protection from local and regional disruptions, while dealing with complex infrastructures and tight budgets. This white paper illustrates the advanced technology capabilities of Hitachi Universal Replicator software that work with Hitachi enterprise storage to improve business continuity, reduce costs and complexity, and increase business resilience.View PDF (1.2MB) 
  • Universal Storage Platform: Configuring Externally Attached SATA Storage This solution “cookbook” focuses on using SATA technology for archive applications in a tiered storage environment and provides sample configurations, explanations, and “what to expect” descriptions for implementing an externally attached SATA storage resource.View PDF (1.8MB) 
  • University of Utah Health Sciences Center Storage Economics Study University of Utah Health Sciences Center (UUHSC) in Salt Lake City, Utah, had experienced growth and a storage access rate that required a move to a virtualized storage or storage area network (SAN) architecture. UUHSC sought increased disk utilization, reduction in storage management labor, multitiered storage, ShadowImage capabilities for data redundancy, and elimination of the backup process from production instances of data. Hitachi Data Systems was chosen to supply the solution, which collapsed current SANs and storage (new and old) and virtualized it behind the Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform.View PDF 
  • Using Data Protection Suite to Address Evolving Data Protection Requirements (by Glasshouse) "It’s time for some serious changes in data protection -- and they’re here. The ways that we have been backing up and archiving data for the last few decades no longer meet today’s requirements. Thankfully, vendors such as Hitachi Data Systems and CommVault have seen these changes coming, and have taken steps to address them."View PDF 
  • Using Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager 5.0 Software for a Highly Available Microsoft Exchange 2000 Configuration As Windows 2000 takes on additional mission-critical applications, these applications must provide the same (or better) quality of services as those provided by the S/390 world, including high availability and data protection. This paper shows how Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager™ software combined with the Hitachi Lightning 9980V™ storage system helps protect end users from hardware/media failures, logical failures and potential disasters.View PDF 
  • Using Hitachi ShadowImage and Hitachi TrueCopy Software with the IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition Version 8.1 The global growth of e-business and the rapid increase in data volume make high availability of very large databases a necessity for 24/7 data-oriented businesses. This paper, which is based on the results of a joint test project by Hitachi and IBM, describes a sample configuration setup and usage of the IBM DB2 Universal Database with Hitachi ShadowImage™ and Hitachi TrueCopy™ software for the Lightning 9900™ V Series.View PDF 
  • Using Hitachi Storage, Legato NetWorker and Tape (by Glasshouse) Recent research and IT press coverage suggests that many organizations are turning to disk?to?disk backup. The challenge lies in understanding all of the new options and deciding which is right for you. The focus of this white paper will be to help navigate through the options afforded by disk?to?disk technology and articulate how to leverage your Hitachi storage systems in conjunction with LEGATO NetWorker and your tape environment.View PDF 
  • Using the Hitachi Cache Partition Manager Feature with Hitachi TagmaStore Model AMS1000 Performance Brief This performance brief is designed for individuals who are responsible for advising or implementing the hardware and data layout phase for an application or database system, with a goal of achieving the highest level of performance. It familiarizes readers with the behavior of workloads when using the Cache Partition Manager feature (part of the Hitachi Resource Manager™ utility package) on Hitachi TagmaStore® Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS1000.View PDF (2.4MB) 
  • The intent of this white paper is to highlight the options afforded by disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) technology and to articulate how Hitachi storage systems can be leveraged in conjunction with VERITAS Backup Exec 10 for Windows Servers.
  • The focus of this white paper is to help navigate through the options afforded by disk-to-disk technology and articulate how to leverage your Hitachi storage systems in conjunction with VERITAS NetBackup and your tape environment.
  • What Issues Does Storage Virtualization Solve? The Benefits of Hitachi’s Virtualization Solutions (by IDC) "Hitachi’s virtualization products are competitive in terms of storage-pool scale, flexibility of architecture, and ability to achieve centralized management of multi-vendor products. These capabilities, combined with the software functionality of the HiCommand Suite storage management software, have Hitachi well positioned to support its Services Oriented Storage Solutions (SOSS)."View PDF 
  • iSCSI: Networked Storage for the Masses Small and medium-sized businesses used to be excluded from the benefits of storage networking, but now can take advantage of these benefits through iSCSI-based SANs deployed across IP networks. This paper describes how these businesses can gain higher productivity, reduced implementation costs, and enhanced SAN management capabilities through the Hitachi TrueNorth™ iSCSI SAN Solution, with McDATA®.View PDF 
  • Tiered Storage and Virtualization in the Real World The subject of this case study is Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), a respected FORTUNE 500 firm in the financial and insurance sector.
    Fidelity National Information Services faced a number of infrastructure challenges, which ultimately lead to its decision to implement an integrated, tiered storage architecture based on the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform. Challenges included reducing a large number of planned and unplanned outages plaguing the current environment, which consisted of isolated storage area network (SAN) islands of various EMC storage systems, and reliance on tape-based data protection. Other challenges involved cutting storage infrastructure costs while offering internal customers a more competitively priced set of support levels and services for hosting and managing their application data. View PDF 
 
  • HUK-Coburg (case study)
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  • Aarhus United Industry: Manufacturing
    Solution: 2 Hitachi Thunder 9570V™ high-end modular storage systems, Brocade® SilkWorm® Fibre Channel switches, Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs, 2 IBM p650 Unix servers, 2 Windows 2000 servers, 1 Windows NT server, SAP, Oracle, Lotus Notes
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  • Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited (AIS) Industry: Telecommunications
    Solution: Business Continuity/Consolidation; Hardware— Thunder 9585VTM modular storage system and TagmaStore Network Storage Controller model NSC55; Software— TrueCopy Remote Replication and ShadowImage In-System Replication software bundles, Resource Manager utility package’s Performance Monitor feature, and HiCommand Protection Manager software; Services—24/7 professional services provided by DataOne Asia, a Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner
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  • Aegon Industry: Financial Services
    Solution: Lightning 9900™ Series, Hitachi ShadowImage™ Software
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  • AOK Industry: Health Insurance
    Solution: Hitachi Lightning 9960™, Hitachi Lightning 9980V™ multi-cabinet enterprise storage, McDATA Intrepid™ 6140 directors Hitachi TrueCopy™ synchronous remote replication software, rako® URM Fibre Channel, SAP
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  • Atos Origin Industry: Information Services
    Solution: Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform and
    Hitachi Thunder 9585V™ ultra high-end modular storage. Hitachi HiCommand® Storage Services Manager software,
    Hitachi TrueCopy™ Heterogeneous Remote Replication software
    bundle, Hitachi Universal Volume Manager software
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  • Austrian Federal Computing Centre (BRZ)Industry: Government, IT Services
    Solution: Hardware: Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform models USP600 and USP100 and Hitachi Thunder 9585V™ ultra high-end modular storage, Software: Hitachi TrueCopy™ Heterogeneous Remote Replication software bundle, Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager software, and Hitachi Universal Volume Manager software
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  • B-Source SA Industry: Financial Services
    Solution: Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform, supporting business continuity objectives and tiered storage architecture
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  • Banco Leon, S.A. Industry: Banking/Finance
    Solution: Consolidation and Business Continuity: Hardware—Hitachi Thunder 9585VTM modular storage (two systems); Software—Hitachi TrueCopy Remote Replication, Hitachi ShadowImage In-System Replication, Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot, and Hitachi HiCommand Dynamic Link Manager software; Hi-Track “call-home” service/remote maintenance tool; and Hitachi Resource Manager utility package
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  • BAWAG P.S.K. Industry: Financial Services
    Solution: Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform model USP600; Hitachi Thunder 9585V™ ultra high-end modular storage, Hitachi Data Protection Suite, powered by CommVault®, Customer Care Services, Storage Performance Assessment Service
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  • Bishop Burton College Industry: Education
    Solution: Consolidation/Simplification: Plug-and-play SAN Kit for TagmaStore Modular Storage. The kit runs on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 platform and incorporates: Hardware—Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS200, QLogic SANbox Express 1403 Fibre Channel switch, QLogic SANblade Express QLA210 host bus adapters, all necessary connectors, cables, and drivers, plus a user’s guide; Software—QLogic SANsurfer Express
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  • Bitburger Brauerie Industry: Manufacturing
    Solution: Hitachi Thunder 9570V™ high-end modular storage systems, Third-party software and services provided by system integrator Kramer & Crew GmbH
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  • BRE Bank SA Industry: Banking/Finance
    Solution: Hitachi TagmaStore® Adaptable Modular
    Storage model AMS500, Hitachi Resource Manager™ utility package, Hitachi TrueCopy™ Remote Replication, ShadowImage™ In-System Replication, Copy-on-Write Snapshot, HiCommand® Dynamic Link Manager software
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  • CASDEN Banque Populaire Industry: Banking/Finance
    Solution: Hardware: Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS500 Software: Hitachi TrueCopy Synchronous software
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  • Daegu Bank Industry: Banking/Finance
    Solution: Hitachi Thunder 9585V storage system, Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solution
    provided by Hyosung Information Systems, SAN
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  • De Montfort University Industry: Education
    Solution: Storage Management, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery, and Consolidation: Hardware—Two Hitachi high-end modular storage systems; Software—HiCommand Device Manager and HiCommand Storage Services Manager software; Services—Provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services and partner Viglen Storage Group
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  • Delta NV Industry: Utility
    Solution: Hitachi Freedom Storage Thunder 9570V systems (2), Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager, Brocade® Silkworm® 3200 and 3800 switches, Hitachi TrueCopy, FalconStor NAS Gateway
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  • eBay Industry: Internet
    Solution: Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform; Hitachi Lightning 9980V™ multi-cabinet, Lightning 9970V™ singlecabinet,
    and Lightning 9960™ systems, Hitachi Thunder 9585V™ and Thunder 9570V™ systems
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  • Eesti Uhispank Industry: Banking/Finance
    Solution: Hitachi Thunder 9570V high-end modular storage, Hitachi Thunder 9580V™ ultra high-end modular storage, Hitachi HiCommand® Device Manager software, Hitachi TrueCopy remote replication software
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  • Euronext.liffe Industry: Financial Services
    Solution: Hitachi Lightning 9960™, Hitachi Lightning 9980V™ multi-cabinet enterprise storage, Hitachi TrueCopy™ remote replication software, Hitachi ShadowImage™ in-system replication, Cisco MDS 9509 switches and FCIP blades
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  • Experian Industry: Information Services
    Solution: Lightning 9960™
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  • Federal Austrian Railways Industry: Transportation
    Solution: Lightning 9900™ Series, SAN
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  • Folksam Industry: Insurance
    Solution: Hardware: Two Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform USP100 models, two Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage AMS500 models, NetApp V3020c MetroCluster, and Cisco MDS 9509 Director switches; Software: HiCommand Dynamic Link Manager, HiCommand Storage Services Manager, HiCommand Device Manager, HiCommand Tuning Manager, TrueCopy Synchronous, and Universal Volume Manager software; Services: Implementation, customer education, and 24/7 support services
    provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
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  • Gmarket Industry: Retail: Online Commerce
    Solution: Hardware: Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform,model USP1100 Software: Hitachi TrueCopy™ Heterogeneous Remote Replication software bundle Hitachi Resource Manager™ utility package
    Hitachi Universal Replicator software
    Hitachi HiCommand® Tuning Manager software
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  • Group Health Cooperative Industry: Healthcare
    Solution: TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform model USP100, TagmaStore Network Storage Controller model NSC55, Thunder 9585V™ storage system, Resource Manager utility package, Universal Volume Manager, Volume Migration software, and TrueCopy Heterogeneous Remote Replication software bundle
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  • GRZ IT Center Linz GmbH Industry: IT Services
    Solution: Lightning 9970V™ Systems, Brocade Silkworm 3800 Fibre Channel Switches, GF960 NAS Gateway, Microsoft SQL Server, Lotus Notes
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  • Hattrick Industry: Leisure - Internet gaming
    Solution: Hitachi Thunder 9570V high-end modular storage, Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager™ path manager, McDATA ES4500 switches
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  • HDFC Bank Industry: Banking/Finance
    Solution: Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform, Hitachi
    Lightning 9900™ V Series enterprise and Hitachi Thunder 9500™ V
    Series modular storage systems. Hitachi ShadowImage™ Heterogeneous In-System
    Replication software bundle, Hitachi HiCommand® Storage
    Services Manager software
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  • HEROLD Business Data Industry: Media Publishing
    Solution: Thunder 9570V™, Hitachi TrueCopy™
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  • Hitachi Storage at Work: Basler Kantonalbank Industry: Banking/Finance
    Solution: Hitachi Thunder 9570V™ high-end modular storage
    Hi-Track® remote maintenance tool
    Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager™ path manager
    Hitachi Resource Manager Software™ utility package
    Hitachi TrueCopy™ synchronous remote replication software
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  • Hitachi Storage Solutions at Work: Intellidyn CorporationIndustry: IT Services, Services: Marketing Design
    Solution: Tiered Storage: Hardware: Hitachi TagmaStore® Adaptable Modular Storage
    model AMS500; Software: Hitachi Resource Manager™ utility package and
    Hi-Track® “call-home” service and remote maintenance tool
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  • Hjemmet Mortensen Industry: Publishing
    Solution: Thunder 9200™
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  • Holmesglen Institute of Technical and Further Education Industry: Education
    Solution: Hitachi Thunder 9570V™ storage system, iSCSI SAN, Cisco MDS 9216 Multilayer Fabric Switch
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  • IlSan Hospital Industry: Healthcare
    Solution: SAN with Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform, Hitachi Lightning 9970V™ single-cabinet enterprise storage, and Hitachi Thunder 9585V™ ultra high-end modular storage, Hitachi TrueCopy™ Heterogeneous Remote Replication software bundle
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  • Imperial Tobacco Australia Industry: Tobacco Manufacture
    Solution: Hitachi Freedom SAN, Thunder 9200™, Hitachi Path Manager
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  • Impsat Fiber Networks Industry: Telecommunications/Internet Services
    Solution: Hitachi Thunder 9570V, Disk Array Management Program, Hitachi Storage Service Manager, Hitachi Data Link Manager
    7x24 software and hardware support
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  • iomart Industry: Telecommunications/Internet Services
    Solution: Lightning 9900™ Series, Hitachi Software
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  • iplan networks Industry: Telecommunications
    Solution: Hitachi Thunder 9570V, iSCSI Solution
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  • iT-AUSTRIA Industry: Banking/Finance
    Solution: Lightning 9960™
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  • Jefferson Union High School District Industry: Education
    Solution: Solutions—Business Continuity/Capacity; Plug-and-play SAN Kit for TagmaStore Modular Storage; the kit runs on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 platform and includes: Hardware: TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS200, QLogic SANbox Express 1403 Fibre Channel switch, QLogic SANblade Express QLA210 host bus adapters, all necessary connectors, cables, and drivers, plus a user’s guide; Software: QLogic SANsurfer Express
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  • Karlsruher Industry: Insurance
    Solution: Lightning 9960™
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  • Korea Telecom Freetel Industry: Telecommunications
    Solution: SAN, Hitachi Lightning 9980V™ multi-cabinet enterprise storage system, Hitachi Resource Manager™ software utility package, Hitachi ShadowImage™ in-system replication software, Hitachi Performance Maximizer storage system optimization package
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  • Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives Industry: Financial Services
    Solution: Hitachi Lightning 9980V multi-cabinet and two Lightning 9970V single-cabinet enterprise storage systems, Hitachi True Copy Remote Replication software, Hitachi ShadowImage In-System Replication software, Hitachi Resource Manager utility package, Compatible PAV for IBM z/OS (formerly HPAV), Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager path manager software
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  • Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Industry: Government
    Solution: Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery: Hardware—Hitachi Lightning 9970VTM single-cabinet enterprise storage system; Software—Hitachi TrueCopy Remote Replication and Hitachi ShadowImage In-System Replication software; Services—Provided by LG CNS
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  • Large Financial Institution Industry: Financial Services
    Solution: Tiered Storage/Virtualization; Hardware—TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform model USP1100; Thunder 9585VTM ultra high-end modular storage, including systems with Fibre Channel drives and systems with the SATA Intermix Option; Software—HiCommand Storage Services Manager, Remote Replication, Universal Volume Manager, and Volume Migration software
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  • LG Electronics Industry: Electronics
    Solution: Hitachi Lightning 9980V™ enterprise storage system, Hitachi Resource Manager™ utility package software, Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager™ path manager software, Performance Maximizer Package software, SAN, NAS
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  • LG Electronics, Inc. - Changwon Factory Industry: Electronics
    Solution: Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform, Hitachi Lightning 9980V™ multi-cabinet enterprise storage, Hitachi Universal Volume Manager software
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  • MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG Industry: Automotive Manufacturing
    Solution: HiCommand® Storage Services Manager software, Brocade® SilkWorm® fibre channel switches, Heterogeneous storage: Hitachi Data Systems, IBM®, Hewlett-Packard, ADIC™, Storagetek®, Multiple operating systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux and Windows, Oracle, SAP R/3, Lotus® Notes
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  • NACA Logistics Group Industry: Transportation
    Solution: Sun StorEdge 9970 storage system, SE9900 ShadowImage software, SplitSecond™ Solutions, a Hitachi Data Systems service offering
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  • National Healthcare Group Industry: Healthcare
    Solution: Tiered Storage/Consolidation

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  • NorgesGruppen Industry: Retail
    Solution: Lightning 9960™ and 9980V™, SAN
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  • Nowon District Office Industry: Government
    Solution: Hitachi Lightning 9980V enterprise storage system, Hitachi Resource Manager software, Hitachi True Copy software, Hitachi ShadowImage
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  • OBB Austria Industry: Transportation
    Solution: Lightning 9900™ Series
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  • Pacific Capital Bancorp Industry: Financial Services
    Solution: Hitachi TagmaStoreTM Universal Storage Platforms, model USP600, Hitachi Thunder 9585V ultra high-end modular storage
    Software: Hitachi HiCommand® Storage Services Manager, Hitachi Universal Replicator, and Hitachi Universal Volume Manager
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  • Pacific Hydro Industry: Utilities: Energy
    Solution: Hardware: Hitachi TagmaStore® Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS200 Software: Hitachi Resource Manager™ utility package
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  • Payserv AG Industry: Financial Services
    Solution: Lightning 9960™, 7700E
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  • Pieper and Associates Industry: Services: Marketing Design
    Solution: Hardware: Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage model AMS200, QLogic SANbox Express 1403 Fibre Channel switch, QLogic SANblade Express QLA210 host bus adaptors, all necessary connectors, cables, and drivers, plus a user’s guide Software: QLogic SANsurfer Express
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  • Port of Brisbane Corporation Industry: Transportation
    Solution: Business Continuity: Hardware: Hitachi Modular Storage; Software: Hitachi TrueCopy Remote Replication software and Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot software; Services: Provided by Hitachi Data Systems Technology Partner ordyss
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  • Postal Remittance and Savings Bank Industry: Financial Services
    Solution: Hitachi Hardware and Software with Nishan Systems IPS3300 Switch
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  • PT. Indonesian Satellite Corporation Tbk Industry: Telecommunications
    Solution: Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform models USP100 and USP1100; Hitachi TagmaStore Network Storage Controller model NSC55, Hitachi TrueCopy™ Heterogeneous Remote Replication software bundle, Hitachi Universal Volume Manager software, Hitachi ShadowImage™ In-System Replication software bundle and Hitachi Resource Manager™ utility package
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  • Ressources Mutuelles GroupIndustry: Financial Services, Insurance
    Solution: Tiered Storage/Consolidation; Hardware: Hitachi TagmaStore Network Storage Controller model NSC55; Software: Hitachi Universal Replicator software
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  • SCM Group Industry: Manufacturing
    Solution: Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
    Hitachi Thunder 9570V™ high-end modular storage, Hitachi Thunder 9520V™ modular storage, Hitachi ShadowImage™ in-system replication, Sun Fire servers, Linux Servers, Quantum M1500, Oracle®
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  • SEB, Sweden Industry: Banking/Finance
    Solution: Lightning 9960™
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  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University Industry: Education
    Solution: Storage Management and Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery; Hardware—TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage Model AMS500; Software—Copy-on-Write Snapshot, HiCommand Dynamic Link Manager, ShadowImage In-System Replication, and TrueCopy Synchronous software and Hi-Track “call-home” service/remote maintenance tool
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  • SingHealth Industry: Healthcare
    Solution: Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platforms, model USP100, Hitachi
    Thunder 9520V™ workgroup modular storage, Hitachi Resource Manager™ utility package, Universal Volume Manager, Universal Replicator, ShadowImage™ In-System Replication, Dynamic Link Manager™, HiCommand® Device Manager, HiCommand Protection Manager, and HiCommand Storage Services Manager software
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  • South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and the South Carolina Crime Center Industry: Government
    Solution: Hitachi Thunder 9570V high-end modular storage system, HDS-NetApp® Enterprise NAS Gateway, Network Appliance (NetApp) SnapRestore software, Hitachi Resource Manager™ utility package
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  • Sykehuset Ostfold HF Industry: Healthcare
    Solution: Hitachi Lightning 9960, Hitachi Thunder 9570V™, Storage Area Network, McData™ 6064, Sectra RIS PACS
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  • TeboilIndustry: Energy, Oil
    Solution: Hitachi Thunder 9570V™ high-end modular storage, Hitachi Resource Manager™ utility package, Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager™ path manager, Hitachi ShadowImage™ in-system replication, Cisco 5428 iSCSI / Fibre Channel switch (redundant), Emulex™ 9002 FC adapters (redundant), ADIC® Scalar® 100
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  • The Good Guys Discount Warehouses Industry: Retail
    Solution: Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform model USP100, Hitachi Thunder 9570V™ high-end modular storage system, Hitachi ShadowImage™ In-System Replication, Hitachi Volume Migration, and Hitachi Universal Volume Manager software, and Hitachi Performance Monitor feature
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  • UDS Industry: Internet
    Solution: Consolidation, Storage Area Network, Hitachi Lightning 9980V™ multi-cabinet enterprise storage system, Hitachi Resource Manager™ utility package, Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager™ path manager, Hitachi Graph-Track™ performance monitor software, Hi-Track™® “call home” service/remote maintenance tool
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  • University Hospital Center of Nancy, France Industry: Healthcare
    Solution: Hardware: Hitachi Thunder 9570V™ modular storage system, Hitachi TagmaStore® Workgroup Modular Storage model WMS100
    Software: Hitachi Resource Manager™ utility package with the Performance Monitor feature and Hitachi HiCommand® Device Manager, Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot, and Hitachi HiCommand Dynamic Link Manager software
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  • University of Linz Industry: Academic Research
    Solution: Lightning 9970V™, SAN
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  • University of Utah Health Sciences CenterIndustry: Education, Healthcare
    Solution: Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform Model USP100, McDATA edge switches and core directors, Externally attached Hitachi Thunder 9585V™ ultra high-end and Thunder 9520V™ workgroup modular storage systems
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  • Virgin Mobile Industry: Telecommunications
    Solution: hp xp512 (Lightning 9960™ OEM version), SAN
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  • Volvo IT Industry: Automotive Manufacturing
    Solution: SAN, Lightning 9900™ Series, 7700E
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  • Webcentral Industry: Services: Web and Application Hosting
    Solution: Software: CommVault® Galaxy Services: Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services consulting and project management services
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  • Wing Lung Bank Industry: Banking/Finance
    Solution: Hitachi Lightning 9970V™ Single-cabinet Enterprise Storage System, Brocade SilkWorm 3800 Fibre Channel fabric switches, IBM OS/390® Version 2 Mainframes, Hitachi Resource Manager™, Hitachi TrueCopy™, Hitachi
    ShadowImage™, Hitachi Multi-platform Backup and Recovery, Implementation and Enablement Services for Hitachi True Copy and Hitachi ShadowImage, Data Migration Services
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  • WM-data Industry: IT Services
    Solution: Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
    Hitachi Lightning 9970V single cabinet enterprise storage, Hitachi Thunder 9570V high-end modular storage, Hitachi NAS Gateway 825, Hitachi HiCommand Storage Services Manager software, Hitachi ShadowImage in system replication, Hitachi QuickShadow copy-on-write snapshot
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