Hitachi introduces services oriented storage solutions

Bangalore

17th May, 2007

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation have announced the launch of Services
oriented storage solutions based on the new Hitachi universal storage platform
V. The new solution is supposed to alter the current stranglehold that storage
architectures have on business flexibility by unleashing a services-oriented
approach and specific functionality that enables business units and IT to tailor
storage services to business needs and ensure that business units only pay for
what is actually used. Services oriented storage solutions applies
service-oriented architecture (SOA) concepts to storage to deliver a platform
that offers sets of automated functions delivered as services to the business
which can be invoked as needed.

"Beyond providing data migration, replication and storage aggregation,
storage virtualization must enable common storage services so that dynamic
business process requirements and their instantiated applications can use a
common, managed heterogeneous storage infrastructure," said Carl Greiner,
senior VP, Infrastructure and Software, OVUM.

"The elimination of unique storage solutions and management to address
each storage requirement will maximize leverage and lead to a truly optimized
storage infrastructure. The realized benefit of storage virtualization will be
the enablement of a common, consolidated, leveraged, dynamic, and managed
portfolio of heterogeneous storage services," he added.

The newly announced Hitachi universal storage platform V packages and
delivers key storage services such as business continuity services, content
management services, non-disruptive data migration, volume management across
heterogeneous storage arrays, dynamic thin provisioning, storage security
services (immutability, logging, auditing, data shredding), data de-duplication,
I/O load balancing , data classification and file management services.