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Data Tiering

Maximize ROI with automated cloud migration, improve flash efficiency, free up top-tier flash for active data and critical applications, and enable cloud agility for data center modernization.

Cloud-Connected Flash – Automated Data-to-Cloud Migration

65% OF STORAGE SYSTEM CAPACITY IS USED TO STORE NONPRIMARY INACTIVE DATA*

  • Reduce storage costs by over 70% with automated cloud migration to Hitachi Content Platform, object storage and public clouds (Amazon, Azure and IBM Cloud)
  • Achieve multicloud agility with simplified data-to-cloud migration for VSP G Series and VPS F Series (unified configurations) with no additional complexity or gateways required
  • Deliver valuable business insights with Pentaho Analytics

*The Copy Data Management Challenge, IDC

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    Increase ROI with automated cloud migration.

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With the help of Hitachi solutions, we are able to fulfill our consolidation goal, and we benefit from the performance improvement in the environment.
– Bülent Saltürk, Infrastructure and Operations Division Head, Turkcell

Automate Intelligent Data Placement to Improve Performance

SIMPLIFY DATA LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT, IMPROVE STORAGE EFFICIENCY AND REDUCE COSTS

  • Automatically places data to increase performance and availability, provides highest efficiency, simplifies improvements to storage infrastructures, eliminates downtime during migrations
  • Reduces storage costs with self-managed storage tiers, automates optimal data placement to increase storage use and eliminates need for manual classification
  • Simplifies management efficiency by automating data placement based on storage costs, performance and data protection; saves administrative time and effort
  • Cloud-optimized with automatic file tiering to Hitachi Content Platform, Amazon S3, Microsoft® Azure™, or Hitachi Cloud Services

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    Increase storage performance and lower costs with automated data placement.

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CLOUD-CONNECTED FLASH LOWERS STORAGE COSTS OVER 70%

Migrate Inactive File Data to Private and Public Clouds

Keep Flash Requirements Predictable

Reclaim valuable top-tier flash.

Automate Data Lifecycles

Migrate inactive file data to your choice of cloud.

Reduce Complexity

Simplify storage migration with no gateway required.

AUTOMATED DATA TIERING IMPROVES APPLICATION PERFORMANCE

Automatically Moves Most-Active Data to Highest-Performing Storage Tier

Active Flash

Moves fine-grained pages to higher-performing storage tiers, in real time.

Granular Page-Based Data Movement

Supports highest efficiency and throughput.

Enhanced Data Placement

Automatically optimizes data placement for performance using an I/O rate-based heat index.

INCREASES ADMINISTRATIVE EFFICIENCY

Automatically Puts Data in the Right Place at the Right Time

Adjusts to Dynamic Workloads and Capacity Requirements

User-defined policies can automatically move data to align with business application needs and increase storage use.

Nondisruptive Data Migration Across Storage Tiers

Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager reduces complexity and risks while eliminating application downtime during migrations.

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Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager for Mainframe
Easily manage storage service levels by DFSMS storage groups or individual volumes.

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Active Flash for Hitachi VSP Gx00
This report on lab test results describes how active flash improves performance by immediately reacting to workload changes.
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From our point of view, data availability is the key factor. Since we started using Hitachi solutions more than six years ago, we have never experienced any failures in our storage infrastructure. Hitachi reliability gives us a clear competitive edge.

– Bernard Grzywna, Director of the IT Maintenance Department, Alior Bank S.A.

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We are highly satisfied with the newly developed [Hitachi] solution. Not only have we switched smoothly to a modern storage environment, but we have also revolutionized the storage business model in one go and prepared our institution to deal with any eventualities when it comes to data growth.

– Matthias Kreft, Head of IT, DZ BANK

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Accident Compensation Corporation

The project touched every single application. It was one of the most complex, multivendor projects we had gone through. We see this as an internal best practice for a successful project implementation.

– Don Montgomery, Technology Architect, Accident Compensation Corporation

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Banking and Finance
Finance and Insurance
Government
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VSP G-series and F-series

RAID-Level Support
RAID-6, RAID-5 and RAID-1
Media Types
FMD, SSD, SAS and NL-SAS: up to 3 media types per Hitachi Dynamic Tiering pool (up to 3 tiers of external storage supported as lowest tiers)
Number of Tiers Supported
1, 2 and 3 per Hitachi Dynamic Tiering pool
Active Flash
Yes
Wide Striping Performance Optimization
Automatic
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Blog, Neil Salamack
Cloud Connected Flash – A Modern Recipe for Data Tiering, Cloud Mobility, and Analytics

Per IDC's Copy Data Management Challenge, "65% of storage system capacity is used to store non-primary, inactive data"...

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