Hitachi Data Systems offers free storage virtualisation
ConvergenceAsia staff
23/04/2009

Services oriented storage solutions provider Hitachi Data Systems, has announced the “Switch it On” programme to help customers derive more efficiency out of their environments by improving the optimisation of their storage assets.

As part of the programme, Hitachi Data Systems is offering free storage virtualisation software which enables customers to consolidate all externally attached, third-party storage under common management and optimise with advanced capabilities such as transparent data movement, dynamic provisioning, intelligent tiering and disaster recovery.

Customers are increasingly aware that their data should be considered as digital assets, said Benjamin S. Woo, vice president, enterprise storage systems at IDC. “By consolidating and increasing utilisation through virtualisation technologies, customers can maximise the return on their digital assets as well as the return on the investment in the infrastructure that protects those assets."

Brian Householder, senior vice president of worldwide marketing and business development, Hitachi Data Systems said this initiative "reaffirms our commitment to help customers save money by enabling them to leverage existing assets they own and reclaim under utilised storage capacity.”

“By leveraging our market leading storage virtualisation technology, customers can dynamically thin provision not only internal storage, but external storage as well for non-disruptive data movement, copies, replication, business continuity and migration of thin volumes across externally virtualised storage,” he added.

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