Businesses are increasingly looking for value-driven storage and data management solutions within their IT infrastructure. As part of the Softsource portfolio to address these needs the Softsource partnership with Hitachi Data Systems provides a quality solution for a more efficient, resilient and agile business environment. Hitachi Data Systems delivers complete storage solutions to the most demanding companies - large and small.

The hardware and software products are the foundation for Services Oriented Storage Solutions, providing dynamic tiered storage, common management, data protection, and archiving — enabling organizations to align their storage infrastructure with their unique business requirements.

Storage strategies include:

Cloud

If you are considering cloud computing—whether it's within your IT organization or as a public services provider—Hitachi Data Systems portfolio of agile cloud technologies accelerate and simplify the adoption of enterprise cloud computing environments with the industry’s most integrated set of compute resources that create a single pool of virtualized block, and file and content storage to support the diverse uses evolving in cloud computing today and enable organizations to adopt cloud services at their own pace. As part of the new agile cloud offerings, Hitachi Data Systems also unveiled the new Hitachi Content Platform to provide essential security, reliability and multitenancy for cloud infrastructures.

Tiered Storage Solutions

In a tiered storage environment, the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM simplify infrastructure and reduce costs throughout the enterprise storage network. Advanced virtualization capabilities ensure that these storage systems easily support tiered storage management, while Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager, Hitachi Universal Volume Manager and Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager software allow you to configure, manage and move data across the entire storage pool, including volumes on other vendors' storage systems, from a common storage management software platform.

Storage Consolidation

Are you still running your business-critical applications on server-internal or direct attached storage? Are some of your storage systems maxed out while others are barely used? Are your storage management costs growing faster than your budget? How about your environmental costs—electricity, cooling, even floor space? Are your backup windows exceeding the time allotted? Are you able to meet the availability and performance levels demanded by your users and applications? The formation of centralized storage pools that can be managed as a whole and shared across applications and servers improves storage utilization and efficiency. You can help your business reach new levels of productivity and performance by consolidating your storage – it reduces your number of footprints, helps reduce operating expenses, and increases your overall flexibility.

Storage Management

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. If a Storage Management solution looks good to you, but you don't know where to start, talk our storage specialists here at Softsource. We understand the intricacies of taking a layered approach to management and can provide a wide variety of successful solutions leveraging the Hitachi Storage Command Suite.

Hitachi offers a broad portfolio of solutions to address your specific, yet changing, requirements. To find out the full range of strategies and services available or to discuss your specific requirements phone Softsource now: 09 918 3712