Services-Oriented Approach Optimises Storage Resources

Highlighting the need for flexibility and optimisation in storage, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation noted that a services-oriented approach makes it easier for organisations to get the most value out of their existing storage resources. The Hitachi uVALUE Convention 2008 held in Tokyo recently shed light on the challenges of the storage industry and affiliated solutions. The convention was hosted by the Information Telecommunication and Systems Group of Hitachi.

The amount of digital data created and stored continues to grow at an unabated pace in Asia Pacific. New regulatory and compliance requirements are driving organisations to store more data for longer periods of time and retrieve archived data. A services-oriented approach to storage provides customers the agility to align with changing business requirements by leveraging current investments.

“Consolidation, increasing utilisation, eliminating redundancies, and archiving of stale data are some of the fundamental ways to address the issue of exploding data and storage growth. Innovation in key Hitachi technologies like controller-based storage virtualisation, dynamic provisioning and active archive enables Hitachi Data Systems to offer storage services that have tangible customer benefits like cost effectiveness, maximum utilisation of existing resources, and business agility to mention a few,” said Hu Yoshida, vice president and CTO, Hitachi Data Systems.

Hitachi’s services oriented approach to storage, when combined with Hitachi’s controller-based storage virtualisation technology, can be easily deployed to externally attached, multi-vendor storage devices. Customers can gain many benefits including storage consolidation, improved utilisation of assets, reduced TCO, and a lower environmental footprint across the enterprise.

“In the last couple of years, Hitachi Data Systems has been focussed on producing innovative technology with the help of its R&D expertise and the services oriented approach it has adopted has been extremely successful in solving customer challenges associated with managing the explosive growth of structured and unstructured data in Asia Pacific,” said Yoshida.

The theme for the Hitachi uVALUE Convention 2008 was ‘Information Society Renaissance with renewed collaboration; aiming for the realisation of a more knowledge-focused, secure and sustainable world’ and extended to all aspects of Hitachi’s IT business including storage.