ANALYST REPORT: The new Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) updates HDS' flagship platform. The "3D scaling" enables users to independently scale performance, scale capacity and scale wide, integrating legacy assets and allowing the VSP to ultimately scale to multiple data centers. Read on for IDC’s analysis of the Hitachi VSP.

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

DATA SHEET: The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is the only 3D scaling storage platform designed for all data types. With the unique management capabilities of Hitachi Command Suite software, it transforms the data center. Access the data sheet now to learn more.

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

ANALYST REPORT: In this paper IDC examines Hitachi's new Virtual Storage Platform and Command Suite management software and explains how they speed the benefits of virtualization and dramatically improve the management of the infrastructure while modernizing the storage architecture.

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

DATA SHEET: Hitachi Data Systems Global Services can help transform your data center and experience the maximum value of your Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. Read on to learn about the ability to increase value and service levels to business, as well as reduce costs and risks with Hitachi Data Systems Global Services.

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper will explore some of the more common pitfalls that hamper successful data center transformations and the keys to overcome them.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

ANALYST BRIEF: The following report contains answers to 5 crucial data center questions posed by Hitachi Data Systems to Benjamin S. Woo, program vice president of IDC's Worldwide Storage Systems research, on behalf of Hitachi Data Systems' customers.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Following the integration between Lloyds TSB and HBOS in 2009, the newly formed Lloyds Banking Group emerged as the UK’s largest retail bank. Read this white paper to learn how they used virtualisation to ensure its Wholesale Markets and Treasury and Trading (WMTT) department could operate at an enterprise level.

Posted: 09 Dec 2010 | Published: 09 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: 76 of the Fortune 100 trust their data to Hitachi Data Systems, shouldn’t you? The following e-guide showcases how easy it can be to implement virtualization, tiered storage and software to deliver significant economic benefits to the organization.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: Have you ever wished that you could consolidate the management of file, content and block data onto one storage platform for incredible cost efficiency, simplified management and a real solution to your long-term data challenges? View this E-Guide to understand how to reduce your costs and simplify management of file, object and block data.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Provisioning storage from a virtual pool not only reduces administration costs by cutting the time to provision new storage, but also improves application availability by reducing the downtime needed for storage provisioning. Enter a few details about your storage environment to calculate your potential savings now.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: To solve the dilemma of meeting both data growth and budgetary ultimatums, IT must be agile. This paper examines the four rubrics of data center transformation: virtualization, automation, cloud-readiness and sustainability.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: The latest technologies innovations provide a big, evolutionary stride in economically superior storage designed to swiftly address mounting data challenges and changing business demands. With 3D scaling and dynamic tiering, IT leaders can dynamically scale up, scale out and scale deep for increased performance and scalability.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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