Storage consolidation

Storage consolidation

When storage consolidation is needed?
	You are running your business-critical application on server-internal or direct attached storage, and need to extend them continuously. Your storage systems maxed out and others are barely used, and the storage management cost must be reduced. The environmental cost factors should be considered also: electricity, cooling, floor space.
Your business will reach new levels of productivity by consolidating your storage as it reduces the needed manpower, helps reduce operating expenses, and increases your infrastructure flexibility in general.

Storage consolidation: simplifying storage infrastructure

The main reason of companies deploy storage consolidation is to simplify their existing storage infrastructures. Data growth over the past several years has forced organizations to scale the storage infrastructures to improve capacity, performance, and high-availability requirements. Most companies have handled those requirements by adding additional storage subsystems if it was needed. In traditional direct-attached storage environments, that reaction has resulted numerous storage subsystems, often from several manufacturers. Therefore companies experienced storage infrastructures are difficult to manage, ineffective at scaling, expensive. Additionally, it does not keep pace with the growing quality of service requirements, and this is the most important disadvantage continuing the adding storage practice, as qulity of service requirements for storages  include capacity, performance, and availability.

Storage Area Networks (SAN) Consolidation for Better Business

Hitachi's SAN solutions encompass storage systems, switches, servers, management software, multi-protocol support, services and other storage network components developed by Hitachi, their alliance partners, and third-party providers.

Hitachi's SANs reduce total cost of ownership by minimizing downtime, improving performance, and optimizing server and storage configurations. In order to start a Hitachi SAN project, the portfolio includes exceptional SAN Starter Solution. This package contains Plug and Play kits for Microsoft Simple SAN, for small and midsized businesses that provide a complete SAN implementation - from server to storage - whether we implement the first SAN or extend the existing system.

Hitachi's SAN Consolidation Benefits:

• Improved application Performance
• Improved application availability
• Improved backups and reduced backup windows
• Simplified storage and SAN management using Plug and Play kits for Microsoft