No matter how much data you have to store and manage—no matter how complex your present multivendor storage environment—there's a new approach that makes things simpler: Services Oriented Storage. It's an approach that delivers a flexible, sustainable storage architecture that IT can reconfigure and optimize to meet changing business needs.
Using a services-oriented approach, you can develop repeatable processes that focus on meeting SLAs and deliver storage as reusable services. It's much more efficient than the traditional, narrow-focus, task-oriented approach of addressing user requests by 'reinventing the wheel' each time, adding redundancy and needless complexity.
You can adopt a services-oriented approach now, without losing your investment in your existing assets, and scale up at your own pace. Using it, you'll be able to respond quickly to change, and deliver any and all required service levels promptly.
A Complete Strategy for a Sustainable Architecture
Hitachi Data Systems has all the hardware, software, services, and partnerships to help you build a sustainable storage architecture that can support your business at every turn quickly and without costly and disruptive upgrades:
- Virtualization
Virtualize and pool multi-vendor storage up to 247PB. Integrate and optimize enterprise systems and modular midrange systems. Scale from very small to very large based on your needs. Learn more >> - Tiered Storage Management
Match application QoS to your heterogeneous storage assets. Learn more >> - Thin Provisioning
Eliminate costly over provisioning—buy more only when your physical space is full.
Learn more >> - Common Management
Administer multivendor storage one way, centrally. Scale up without complexity. Learn more >> - File and Content Services
Consolidate, archive, protect, and search all your data seamlessly. Learn more >>
When you make Services Oriented Storage your strategy, you can stop treating each department's or each application's needs as one more problem to be solved separately. Because Services Oriented Storage is flexible and adaptable, you can develop repeatable processes and practices and use them over and over to deliver exactly the service levels everyone wants—quickly and painlessly.
Stop the pain. Sustain.
Services Oriented Storage addresses the growing pains of unsustainable, legacy storage architectures. Learn how taking an architectural approach can help you get more out of your existing storage assets and meet your users' storage demands with ease.
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Services Oriented Storage Solutions
Listen to Claus Mikkelsen, our Chief Scientist, talk about Services Oriented Storage Solutions - what it means to our customers, and why Hitachi Data Systems is the only vendor able to deliver.
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Watch the video to learn how Services Oriented Storage can help align IT capabilities to your business needs.
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Hu Yoshida, Chief Technical Officer
Hu Yoshida, our Chief Technical Officer, discusses Services Oriented Storage and the benefits to IT professionals.
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Jim Livingston, Director of IT Infrastructure and Operations, University of Utah
Jim Livingston, the Director of IT and Operations at the University of Utah, talks about the benefits of Services Oriented Storage and offers advice for getting started.
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Don’t just listen to us, here’s what the Analysts say:
Gartner Webcast
featuring Dave Russell, Gartner Analyst, Hu Yoshida, Hitachi Data Systems CTO, and Jim Livingston, University of Utah Director of IT Infrastructure and Operations
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Press and Analyst Coverage
"With the release of this architecture, Hitachi has clearly thrown down the gauntlet in the storage market to make services oriented storage solutions a reality in the data center." - Evaluator Group.
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