HDS Introduces Non-Disruptive Migration Service

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., has introduced a non-disruptive migration service capability that migrates from Hitachi enterprise storage to Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) and is the industry’s first storage migration solution that eliminates host and application downtime. Non-disruptive migration by Hitachi allows organisations to significantly reduce risk, eliminate business disruption, and more efficiently manage migration processes across multivendor storage systems, resulting in 90 percent less effort compared to industry averages.

Leveraging proven Hitachi migration methodologies, non-disruptive migration uniquely enables host-transparent storage migration that allows IT organisations to mitigate the outage window due to data migrations and reduce risk and expenditures.

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“In today’s business climate, organisations need to accelerate innovation and reduce operational expenses to increase their competitiveness,” said Hu Yoshida, vice president and CTO, Hitachi Data Systems. “Only HDS provides the migration capabilities to eliminate downtime while dramatically reducing the risks and costs associated with adopting new technologies. The key to achieving this capability is that virtualisation, specifically our proven Hitachi controller-based storage virtualisation, is at the core of our new service and gives us distinct advantages in efficiency and cost effectiveness. By leveraging our new non-disruptive migration service capabilities, organisations can more efficiently manage migration processes to meet business requirements through a comprehensive methodology that addresses the people, process and technology involved in the transition.”

By offering best-in-class performance, capacity and open, multivendor storage virtualisation for large businesses and enterprises, Hitachi VSP helps organisations build massive scalability with virtualised server environments and pave the way for cloud deployments. The core technology of non-disruptive migration is a new feature of Hitachi VSP, built on the foundation of near-instantaneous failover and recovery capabilities of Hitachi clustering.

For organisations seeking a greater return on their enterprise IT assets, Hitachi Global Services migration consultants leverage non-disruptive migration to conduct technology refreshes to Hitachi VSP in a matter of days.