All Research Sponsored By:Hitachi Vantara

Economic Impact of Virtualization at Overstock.com
CASE STUDY: To adeptly meet new business conditions and reduce total cost of ownership, Overstock.com recently implemented a virtualized, multitiered storage solution. Read this case study to learn about the dramatic cost reductions and operational efficiencies Overstock.com has realized.
Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010


Agile Storage Infrastructure for Mainframe Environments
WHITE PAPER: The new Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform delivers the best performance and capacity combined with lowest power consumption and lower cooling requirements, consuming up to 40% less power than its predecessor. Learn more.
Posted: 01 Dec 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2010


Strategies for Greater Sustainability in the Data Center
WHITE PAPER: What does sustainability mean for business and particularly for IT? Sustainable IT refers to efforts that increase the useful life and reduce environmental impacts of IT systems, and concurrently offer cost benefits to the business. Read on to learn how your business could benefit from going green.
Posted: 01 Dec 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2010


A Practical Guide to Understanding and Deploying Cloud for the Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: While the promise of cloud is heady, there is confusion about the different types of cloud, what they actually offer, and which will meet stringent business requirements. Knowing when and how best to deploy cloud is critical. This paper focuses on separating the hype of cloud from the “how to”.
Posted: 01 Dec 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2010


E-Guide: Transform the Data Center
EGUIDE: For IT organizations in large businesses seeking a greater return on their enterprise storage investments, a transformed data center is a virtual one with a large virtual pool of resources. The net result is superior data center efficiency, manageability and cost savings. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 | Published: 11 Nov 2010


HDS, clouds and the enterprise storage renaissance
WHITE PAPER: Vendors are being asked to deliver a new class of enterprise storage that will satisfy increasingly demanding requirements for not just new and improved technology, but for transformational technology that can deliver new levels of performance, efficiency and scale. Read this market insight by The451 group.
Posted: 04 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2010


Resource Center: Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform - 3D Scaling Storage Platform for all Data Types
RESOURCE CENTER: The following resource center features a variety of business and technical resources which provide detailed information on transforming the data center with storage virtualization, as well as access to the Hitachi Data Storage Community, and much more!
Posted: 09 Sep 2010 | Published: 27 Sep 2010


Cloud Computing: An Agile Approach to IT
WEBCAST: Too many vendors (and, as a result, IT pros) consider cloud a technology in and of itself. This webcast explains the benefits of realising that the cloud is a way of providing IT services as a consolidated pool of server and storage resources that can be provisioned to support a wide range of applications and data types.
Posted: 02 Feb 2010 | Premiered: Feb 2, 2010


Cloud Computing: An Agile Approach to IT
VIDEO: In this video, learn how to securely virtualize IT assets into consolidated, easy to manage server and storage resources that can be provisioned as needed to support a wide range of applications and data types from a single, integrated infrastructure that is secure, reliable, scalable, cost-effective and agile in the face of changing demands.
Posted: 02 Feb 2010 | Premiered: 02 Feb 2010


Storage Economics with David Merrill
VIDEO: In this video, David Merrill, Chief Economist of Hitachi Data Systems describes the principles of storage economics, the 33 point calculation used to show you how make your storage infrastructure more efficient and increase your ROI.
Posted: 02 Feb 2010 | Premiered: 02 Feb 2010


Hitachi Content Platform
ANALYST BRIEF: The Hitachi Content Platform is an intelligent content-based storage solution and provides a single storage platform that supports multiple tiers of storage for a wide range of unstructured content. It enables organizations to securely segregate data and provide different features and levels of service for different datasets.
Posted: 01 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010


The Business Value of Intelligent Tiered Storage
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn the economic benefits of Hitachi’s Intelligent Tiered Storage capability for unified block and file data environments; and how organizations can decrease TCO and gain faster ROI business value using Hitachi storage solutions.
Posted: 01 Feb 2010 | Published: 16 Sep 2009


Why SAS Matters - Cost Effective Performance with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Technology from Hitachi
WHITE PAPER: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is replacing Fibre Channel drives in high performance applications such as online transaction processing, real time analytics & streaming media. The key reasons for this transition are that SAS drives have the same or better reliability and data availability characteristics of Fibre Channel drives but are less expensive.
Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009


Top Five Business Reasons to use Hitachi Enterprise Storage in Virtualized Environments
WHITE PAPER: Following are the top five business reasons organizations are choosing the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and Universal Storage Platform VM for their virtualization environments, to drive efficiencies across their data centers.
Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010


University of Utah Health Sciences Center: Storage Economics Case Study
CASE STUDY: See how a leading university improved storage service levels and saved money with storage virtualization.
Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 01 Nov 2004


Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage and VMware: Efficiency and Performance Maximized
PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Because data centers everywhere are being challenged to meet increasing business and IT demands with shrinking budgets, they are turning to server virtualization technologies, such as VMware, to optimize operational efficiencies throughout the data center.
Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010


eBook: 6 Essential Strategies For Economizing Your Storage
WHITE PAPER: There are six technologies and strategies for economizing your storage in this ebook. Together they can transform your data center into an economically superior storage environment.
Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009


Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer Software
SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer delivers all-in-one monitoring for the data center. A single interface provides a view to the availability and performance of servers and network and storage devices on a network. It eases troubleshooting without agents.
Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 12 Nov 2009


Hitachi NAS Platform 3080 and 3090: Storage Consolidation and Intelligent Tiering for Microsoft® SharePoint® Server Environments
WHITE PAPER: Microsoft SharePoint Server is a powerful platform for collaboration and content management built upon the firm foundation of Microsoft SQL Server® technology. It provides simplified storage provisioning and management for SharePoint with performance and scalability that supports enterprise-wide content consolidation.
Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Aug 2009


Hitachi NAS Platform 3080 and 3090: Storage Consolidation and Intelligent Tiering for Microsoft® SQL Server® Environments
IT BRIEFING: The midrange Hitachi NAS Platform 3080 and 3090 provide simplified storage provisioning and management for SQL Server with performance and scalability to meet the needs of enterprise class database management.
Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009


Oracle 10gR2 Databases on Hitachi NAS Platform, Powered by BlueArc
WHITE PAPER: The Hitachi NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc, delivers a high-performance, intelligent and scalable multiprotocol solution. This document describes best practices for using Oracle databases on Linux with NAS connectivity provided by the Hitachi NAS Platform through the NFS protocol.
Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009


The Business Value of Intelligent Tiered Storage
WHITE PAPER: Tiered storage is one of those things that is a means to an end—and not an end in itself. The reason is a matter of economics. Read this paper and find out why.
Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009


Hitachi NAS Platform 3080 and 3090: Storage Consolidation and Intelligent Tiering for VMware Environments
WHITE PAPER: The rapid adoption of server virtualization technology by organizations of all sizes has been driven by cost, flexibility and time to market. The cost savings in server consolidation are the primary motivators, but the ability to quickly deploy new applications to suit changes in the business has led many to use VMware products.
Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009


Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer Software
TRIAL SOFTWARE: Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer delivers all-in-one monitoring for the data center. A single interface provides a view to the availability and performance of servers and network and storage devices on a network. It eases troubleshooting without agents.
Posted: 19 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 01 Aug 2009


Four Principles for Reducing Storage TCO
WHITE PAPER: This white paper shares proven strategies for storage infrastructure cost reduction. You will uncover four keys to minimizing storage costs and maximizing return on assets based on the tried and tested Storage Economics framework.
Posted: 16 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009