Hitachi Announces the Hitachi Storage Command Suite -- Industry's Only Seamlessly Integrated Heterogeneous Storage Management Software Portfolio
Hitachi Enables Customers to Take Command of Block, File and
Content-Based Storage Assets
Introduces Major Software Breakthroughs in Operational Efficiency
With Reduced Risk, Complexity and Cost Advantages
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented
Storage Solutions, today ushered in a new wave in storage resource
management, with the introduction of the industry's fastest, most
reliable and simple-to-use unified portfolio of highly-advanced
storage management software solutions. The next-generation Hitachi
Storage Command Suite is uniquely architected to combine advanced data
management and protection capabilities in a simple, centralized
interface, which provides the foundation for customers to achieve
significant improvements in operational efficiency and business
resilience throughout the enterprise.
"Hitachi continues to pave the way for high-end enterprise storage
innovation in a big way through the unique ability to integrate the
highest levels of hardware and software sophistication," said Sean
Moser, senior director, Global Software Product Management, Hitachi
Data Systems. "The combination of the Hitachi USP V and Hitachi
Storage Command Suite provides a comprehensive services oriented
approach to storage management, which makes it generations ahead of
any competitor product in the market today. The differentiated value
customers can achieve by being able to assimilate all of their
heterogeneous storage assets into a unified pool, as opposed to
disparate islands of storage, is tremendous."
The Hitachi Storage Command Suite consists of integrated software
tools which help customers more easily manage their storage
infrastructure and protect their block, file, and content data assets.
This is particularly critical as storage environments are quickly
growing more complex and robust enterprise applications are introduced
frequently across multiple business units with corresponding,
stringent service-level agreements (SLAs). As a result of the rapid
growth of data stored across multiple distributed and multi-vendor
storage infrastructures, organizations are challenged with growing
risk and costs associated with application availability, performance
and data recoverability.
Supporting Hitachi's Services Oriented Storage Solutions strategy
which leverages the company's market-leading virtualization
technology, the Hitachi Storage Command Suite provides much needed
pain relief to these pressing challenges by delivering non-disruptive
data mobility, advanced replication and tiered storage management
services across heterogeneous file, object and block-based storage
assets -- thereby dramatically reducing the overall risk and costs
that are commonly associated with storage management. The Hitachi
Storage Command Suite provides application-centric capacity and
performance management spanning the entire storage infrastructure, as
well as fine tuned delivery of storage system performance,
availability, recoverability and functionality, in a way that
seamlessly aligns to the vital business requirements of customers.
"As storage capacity demands rise exponentially, managing IT risk,
controlling costs, and maximizing IT assets and capabilities are
essential enablers of successful and profitable business operations,"
said Laura DuBois, program director, Storage Software, IDC.
"Integrated suites of storage and replication management software
represent an evolution in this market space. Enterprises that deploy
integrated solutions, such as the Hitachi Storage Command Suite, will
be better able to maximize efficiencies within their storage
infrastructure. Improved storage economics are achieved by enabling
storage administrators to manage a greater amount of capacity per
person. This, combined with a comprehensive IT risk management and
data protection strategy, creates a powerful arsenal that goes beyond
simply protecting data."
Introducing the Hitachi Storage Command Suite
With today's announcements of the Hitachi Storage Command Suite
and the enhancements to the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform(TM) V
and Universal Storage Platform VM, Hitachi is once again delivering
customers more measurable value on an integrated services oriented
storage platform--a unique advantage over competitors. Today, Hitachi
is introducing new and improved software management services that
synergistically complement the enhanced Universal Storage Platform V
family, including the new Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning(TM) software
(see separate press release).
The new Hitachi Storage Command Suite includes:
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Hitachi Replication Manager is a new software tool for management,
consolidation and simplification of replication operations. This
new tool provides customers with the ability to better manage
their Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time
Objectives (RTO) for both mainframe and open systems
environments. This allows organizations to better protect an ever
growing volume of data assets and improve their operational
resiliency.
Hitachi Storage Capacity Reporter is a critical new software
solution that delivers storage array, host and application-level
storage capacity reporting across heterogeneous storage systems,
without the need for host agents. It features rich reporting
capabilities including both current and historical capacity
views, forecasting and predictive analysis, and custom reporting
capabilities. With improved custom storage capacity reporting,
customers will have a clear view of how storage capacity is used
in order to optimize storage utilization.
Hitachi Device Manager is a core component of the new Storage
Command Suite that provides a common framework for configuring
and provisioning storage on Hitachi storage systems and
virtualized external storage. Customers will benefit from
powerful, flexible management and reporting tools that help them
efficiently manage the ever-increasing volumes of storage.
Hitachi Tuning Manager is an automated, intelligent and path-aware
storage resource management tool that maps, monitors, analyzes
and reviews storage network resources from the application to the
storage device. Re-architected for vastly improved scalability,
flexibility and usability, Hitachi Tuning Manager software allows
storage administrators to troubleshoot performance problems,
enables alerts to proactively identify potential problems before
they occur, and forecasts storage requirements to meet service-
level agreements.
Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager enables the non-disruptive movement
of data volumes to match application quality of service
requirements through an easy-to-use interface. Designed to
enhance and streamline data migration by integrating the
provisioning process, this allows for simplified tiered storage
management functions. Customers benefit from being able to
quickly, easily and non-disruptively match application
requirements and priorities to the appropriate tier of storage,
based on cost and performance.
Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Advanced protects critical data
against various types of failure, including hard disk drive, and
other hardware and logical failures. With improved load
balancing, path failover, and recovery capabilities to additional
operating system platforms, customers benefit from improved
availability and reliability while optimizing performance of
their storage infrastructures.
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"Little is said about how easy or hard it can be for storage
administrators to manage their storage resource management tools,"
said John Webster, principal IT advisor, Illuminata. "Administrators
are in a bind when they are being managed by the management
applications, as can be the case when they are complex and rely on
repetitive, manual process. With the Hitachi Storage Command Suite,
much has been done to reduce the proliferation of application
host-based monitoring and reporting agents, and to replace archaic
command line interfaces with a powerful, integrated management
software platform."
About Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation provides Services Oriented
Storage Solutions that enable heterogeneous storage to be dynamically
provisioned according to business needs and centrally managed via
industry-leading Hitachi storage virtualization software. As an
integral part of the Hitachi Storage Solutions Group, Hitachi Data
Systems delivers storage infrastructure platforms, storage management
software, and storage consulting services through direct and indirect
channels in over 170 countries and regions. Its customers include
nearly 60-percent of Fortune 100 companies. For more information,
visit the company's Web site at http://www.hds.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE:HIT) (TOKYO:6501), headquartered in Tokyo,
Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately
390,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2007 (ended March 31, 2008)
consolidated revenues totaled 11,226 billion yen ($112.2 billion). The
company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in
market sectors including information systems, electronic devices,
power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials, logistics
and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit
the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.
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Hitachi Data Systems
Laurie Spindler, 408-970-7097
laurie.spindler@hds.com
or
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