Thursday, 17 May 2007

Hitachi Intros SOA-based Storage Soln

Hitachi has rolled out Services oriented storage solutions based on the new Hitachi universal storage platform V. "Beyond providing data migration, replication and storage aggregation, storage virtualisation must enable common storage services so that dynamic business process...

Hitachi has rolled out Services oriented storage solutions based on the new Hitachi universal storage platform V.

"Beyond providing data migration, replication and storage aggregation, storage virtualisation 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 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," he added.

According to the company, the 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 and the like.