Storage virtualization solutions

Virtualization in general is the separation of a device's functions from its physical elements.
	But what is it really? The data quantity is growing, as the companies create so much information, and IT has no choice but to buy additional storage units. They often buy them from a few storage vendors, 'just to keep them all competitive'. It results heterogenous storage infrastructures. While it is relatively easy to manage drives from same vendor, the task can get more difficult if you have several vendors, or even several models from the same vendor. Tiered storages can work well awhile, but managing every units can become a real problem soon. The main benefit of storage virtualization is that it allows you to more easily manage heterogeneous storage elements.
Then, the other advantage is that changes on storage configuration can be executed without downtime, making data migrations more easier also.

Storage Virtualization from Hitachi

Every data center has a hidden resource. It is planned in them in order 'to hold in store'. This spare means you always have a (part of) storage that you bought but you never use. Applying storage virtualization this spare is not needed anymore, you can use every resource you buy.

Hitachi Universal Storage Platform^TM family, as a unique virtualization solution can offer a simple way to control and optimize all of your heterogeneous storage capacity. The result is the basis for a sustainable storage architecture. One that protects, grows, and lasts.

So, Why Virtualize

Virtualization answers the growing problems of unsustainable storage architectures: 

• Cost and Efficiency – Do more with less. Virtualization helps you replan, utilize and optimize your storage drives.
• Data and Technology Management – Your company has more and more data to handle and manage, and you maybe have  a multi-vendor storage infrastructure. Handle it in more simplier way, from one, centrally managed resource.
• Improve Customer Service – You have to meet SLAs, align IT with business strategy, and support users and customers. Virtualizing enables you to deliver storage in right-sized, optimized storages, and you can support an optimized usage of them.
• Competitiveness – Business is always looking for ways to be better, faster, cheaper. Hitachi Storage Virtualization increases business agility via a more efficient storage infrastucture and gives possibility to answer the business changes immediatelly.

Hitachi offers all elements of an efficient storage infrastructure: hardware, software, services. Virtualizing with Hitachi provides you reliable solution, and lets you to transform your old, unsustainable storage architecture into a sustainable one.