Hitachi Introduces Storage Migration Solution

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Bangalore- Hitachi Data Systems introduced a non disruptive migration service capability that migrates from Hitachi enterprise storage to Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) and is the industry’s first storage migration solution that eliminates host and application downtime. Non disruptive migration by Hitachi allows organizations to significantly reduce risk, eliminate business disruption, and more efficiently manage migration processes across multivendor storage systems, resulting in 90 percent less effort compared to industry averages.

The company’s migration methodologies, nondisruptive migration uniquely enable host-transparent storage migration that allows IT organizations to mitigate the outage window due to data migrations and reduce risk and expenditures.  

“In today’s business climate, organizations need to accelerate innovation and reduce operational expenses to increase their competitiveness,” said Hu Yoshida, vice president and CTO, Hitachi Data Systems. “Only HDS provides the migration capabilities to eliminate downtime while dramatically reducing the risks and costs associated with adopting new technologies. The key to achieving this capability is that virtualization, specifically our proven Hitachi controller-based storage virtualization, is at the core of our new service and gives us distinct advantages in efficiency and cost effectiveness. By leveraging our new nondisruptive migration service capabilities, organizations can more efficiently manage migration processes to meet business requirements through a comprehensive methodology that addresses the people, process and technology involved in the transition.”

By offering best-in-class performance, capacity and open, multivendor storage virtualization for large businesses and enterprises, VSP helps organizations build massive scalability with virtualized server environments and pave the way for cloud deployments. The core technology of nondisruptive migration is a new feature of VSP, built on the foundation of near-instantaneous failover and recovery capabilities of Hitachi clustering.

For organizations seeking a greater return on their enterprise IT assets, Hitachi Global Services migration consultants leverage nondisruptive migration to conduct technology refreshes to Hitachi VSP in a matter of days. It jumps ahead of other migration approaches:1) Enables host transparent migration with no performance impact, ensuring minimum downtime and maximum business continuity 2) Eliminates host path management dependencies through its support of native multipath I/O and third party multipathing products that support standard industry failover 3) Supports host clustering configurations by synchronizing persistent group reserves on source volumes and keeping the host cluster operational 4) Reduces staging effort with automated configuration transfer, greatly lowering data migration risk and effort 5) Supports parallel migration of up to eight source systems to one Hitachi VSP

Migration Services from Hitachi Data Systems offer organizations the most cost-effective, risk-mitigating approaches to data migration, ensuring minimum downtime, maximum business continuity.