Hitach's Services Oriented Storage Solutions

Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, has introduced Services Oriented Storage Solutions, to enable storage to be provisioned and charged back according to business needs, not technology constraints.

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.

According to Carl Greiner, senior vice president, Infrastructure and Software, OVUM. “The elimination of unique storage solutions and management to address each storage requirement will maximise leverage and lead to a truly optimised storage infrastructure. The realised benefit of storage virtualisation will be the enablement of a common, consolidated, leveraged, dynamic, and managed portfolio of heterogeneous storage services.”

Hitachi Services Oriented Storage Solutions claims to offer companies the ability to present business clients with a menu of storage attributes such as performance, availability, cost and security, and charge for those services based on the client’s selection.

“IT managers can use capabilities like those included in Hitachi’s Services Oriented Storage Solutions to change the interaction between IT departments and their business customers,” said Richard Villars, vice president, Storage Systems, IDC. “IT managers can shift the emphasis of their discussions from infrastructure impediments to the business services required to support rapid application deployment, greater resiliency and ongoing cost-of-use.”