Hitachi Data Systems

Storage Management Solutions

Today's escalating storage demands challenge you to simultaneously increase capacity, support rapid access to enterprise information, and maintain 24/7 operations-all without additional budget or head count. Storage Management software can help you effectively manage your entire storage infrastructure-from the application to the disk spindle-and provide the quality of service your business needs.

Do you know where your storage is and how it is being used? Do you still use spreadsheets and white boards to keep track of your storage? Do you learn that an application needed storage only after it runs out? Or are you over-provisioning to avoid out-of-storage situations? Can you monitor data flow and provision your storage? How do you handle alerts? Is there any time left over for dealing with strategic issues?

Solutions: 3D Scaling

Server virtualization has significantly increased the utilization of server resources and reduced the number of real physical servers. Blade servers have reduced the footprint of the servers, conserving floor space and cooling in the data center. This consolidation of virtual servers is driving an increasing need to consolidate and scale up storage systems.

The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform scales in three dimensions.

• It can scale up to provide improved performance and throughput as its host servers consolidate and scale up
• It can scale out to deliver capacity, performance and bandwidth from a shared pool of resources as more and more host servers are connected to the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
• It can scale deep by connecting external storage, enabling existing multivendor storage or lower-cost modular storage to add their resources to the scale up and scale out demands of host servers. This extends the life of existing storage assets and increases the return on assets