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.

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