Through use cases and common issues faced by IT organizations, this white paper offers answers to the question: 'What can storage virtualization do for my organization?' Readers will learn the various business issues that can be effectively resolved with storage virtualization technology and will understand how much or how little disruption such a technology could cause when implemented in their environments.
Solving the Top Six
Enterprise Storage Issues Learn How to Meet the Challenges of Rapid Data Growth with Storage Virtualization White Paper
December 2007
Executive Summary Nowhere is the exponential growth of data felt more acutely than in the world of enterprise storage. In fact, the growth of storage budgets now threatens to eclipse the growth of an organization's overall IT budget. Instead of continuing to add more storage systems and significantly more management complexity, a more cost-effective, sustainable approach is required. That new approach is storage virtualization.
This white paper offers answers to the question: "What can storage virtualization do for my organization?" Through various use cases and common issues faced by IT organizations, readers will learn the various business issues that can be effectively resolved with storage virtualization technology. Are you experiencing exponential data growth, ongoing capital expenditures and escalating management complexity in your current storage infrastructure? Storage virtualization technology from Hitachi Data Systems provides ready answers.
Readers will learn how much or how little disruption such a technology could cause when implemented in their environments. They will also learn a variety of questions to ask vendors about their virtualization approaches.
Learn how storage virtualization will allow organizations to:
. Reduce operational costs and storage related capital expenditures
. Improve overall efficiency and storage management
. Offer more choice in vendor hardware
. Extend the life of existing storage assets
. Provide better service delivery to internal customers and line-of-business applications
. Incorporate more eco-friendly data center storage practices
Readers will also learn why no company is better positioned than Hitachi Data Systems to help them achieve answers through virtualization.
Building on the company's long history of innovation, Hitachi Data Systems continues to lead the market in its storage virtualization knowledge and customers - with over 7,300 virtual storage controllers shipped worldwide.
Contents Behind Virtualization: Real Help for Real World IT Issues ........................................................................ 1 Help in Solving Six Common Storage Issues .......................................................................................... 2 Issue Number 1: Exponential Data Growth and Disruptive Storage Upgrades ...............................................................2 Issue Number 2: Low Utilization of Existing Assets..........................................................................................................3 Issue Number 3: Growing Management Complexity with Flat or Decreasing Budgets for IT Staff Head Count.............4 Issue Number 4: Increasing Hard Costs and Environmental Costs to Acquire, Run and Manage Storage....................5 Issue Number 5: Ensuring Rapid, High-quality Storage Service Delivery to Application and Business Owners .............6 Issue Number 6: Achieving Cost-effective Business Continuity and Data Protection .....................................................6 Evaluating Your Options for Virtualization .............................................................................................. 7 15 Questions to Ask Your Vendor ....................................................................................................................................8 The Hitachi Data Systems Approach to Virtualization ........................................................................... 13 Fulfilling a Promise of Simplicity ......................................................................................................................................14 Benefits of This Approach...............................................................................................................................................14 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................ 16
Solving the Top Six
Enterprise Storage Issues Learn How to Meet the Challenges of Rapid Data Growth with Storage Virtualization White Paper
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