New HDS Customers

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation announced worldwide customer momentum across several industries with its virtualized tiered storage solutions.

Customers report efficiencies throughout their data centers by using HDS storage virtualization offerings. These customers include 2013 IDG Computerworld Honors Program Laureate award winners HBF Health Limited Australia ABN and Institute of Information Science (Slovenia), as well as Schweizerische Mobiliar Versicherungsgesellschaft AG (Switzerland), Infosys Limited (India), and Revenu Quebec (Canada).

Information growth combined with shrinking IT budgets requires organizations to make information both available and secure, but with fewer resources and without sacrificing performance or capacity efficiency. With Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Hitachi Command Suite management software, HDS customers benefit from performance, flexibility and simplified management to address complex data center environments all while reducing power consumption and TCO.

"Organizations are seeing performance and cost reduction advantages in storage virtualization technologies. They are also noticing the long-term benefits of more manageable and scalable solutions," said Bob Madaio, senior director, infrastructure platforms marketing, HDS. "We find increasingly that customers across all industries want to move their private cloud initiatives forward by virtualizing compute and storage resources. Their goal is to become as agile as possible and to innovate with their information. Unique, built-in and trusted storage virtualization capabilities in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform help customers reclaim storage capacity, automate storage tiering, and reduce disk drive costs by as much as 70%."

Renato Grendelmeier, head of storage, Schweizerische Mobiliar, Versicherungsgesellschaft, said: "The scalability and performance of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform fully lives up to our expectations and still helps to save energy costs. In addition to this, manageability has improved and new storage concepts have been released, resulting in TCO savings of 25%."

Dragan Malesic, manager of infrastructure, HBF, Western Australia private health insurer, said: "We needed a mechanism that allowed us to be more efficient when provisioning storage and to consolidate our existing storage assets. We now have a storage environment that is more than 50% virtualized, and with the vast scalability of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform we can quickly meet project requirements, no matter how big or small."

Jitendra Sangharajka, associate VP and head, enterprise platform management, information systems, Infosys, global business consulting and technology solutions, said: "HDS products combine best-in-class architecture, reliability, and excellent technical support. Its products have helped us attain 100% availability on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. Hitachi NAS Platform has helped us consolidate our file serving environment with zero data loss across the data center, and the integration with Hitachi Content Platform has allowed us to reduce the backup window."

Domen Setar, systems administrator, OpenVMS server and SAN environments, IZUM, Republic of Slovenia public, not-for-profit organization library information services provider, said: "Slovenia’s libraries and their users depend on IZUM for critical services and applications. HDS lets us give all of our users constant access to the database, 24 hours a day, without failures."

Alain Brochu, IT director, Revenu Quebec, Canada tax collections, said: "We wanted to have integrated control of our virtual storage environment, without increasing the number of employees managing our data and maintaining the architecture. HDS understood our needs very well and its solution has proved to be very high quality. HDS recommended consolidating the management of data rather than devices. While our storage capacity was increased by a factor of 12, the same 2-person team still manages it."