Second Generation of Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation announced the availability of the second generation of Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter for VMware vCenter’ Site Recovery Manager. This announcement adds support for the midrange Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage family, providing customers continuous, real time local and remote replication and automatic failover capabilities to ensure resilient data protection, high availability and disaster recovery for VMware environments.

As more businesses implement VMware virtualization, they need to ensure that the data generated in this virtual environment is properly protected. At the same time, businesses are discovering that traditional approaches to disaster recovery and business continuity are not as cost-effective in virtual environments. To address these pressing customer challenges to ensure greater uptime at lower operational costs, the Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter facilitates the linkage between Hitachi market leading system-based replication technologies, including Hitachi Universal Replicator, Hitachi TrueCopy Synchronous, Hitachi TrueCopy Extended Distance and Hitachi ShadowImage in-system replication software, and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager. Coupled together, these software solutions provide operational resilience, robust data protection, recovery management and replication capabilities optimized for VMware Infrastructure.

"Hitachi Data Systems’ customers are reaping significant business benefits by leveraging our integration with VMware’s disaster recovery solution," said Asim Zaheer, vice president of product and competitive marketing, Hitachi Data Systems. "Customers immediately benefit from a strong relationship with VMware and our joint disaster recovery solution to improve both the utilization and business continuity of critical business applications, reduce business risks and improve the resilience of both servers and storage assets."

"VMware welcomes the investment that Hitachi Data Systems is making to address joint VMware and Hitachi customers’ needs," said Parag Patel, vice president, alliances, VMware. "The combination of VMware vStorage technologies and interfaces with Hitachi’s Storage Replication Adapter enables our customers to lower infrastructure costs without compromising on disaster recovery in a time when they need to stretch their budgets as far as possible."

"As a long-time Hitachi Data Systems and VMware partner, Datalink is excited to integrate innovations from both companies to deliver outstanding resiliency across data centers," said Kent Christensen, practice manager, Datalink. "Our clients have realized outstanding reductions in down time and operational savings by leveraging this joint solution around VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager and Hitachi enterprise and modular storage platforms."

The Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter links Hitachi replication software and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager to provide tremendous operational resilience, robust data protection, and recovery management and replication capabilities that complement VMware Infrastructure.

The second generation of Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter is immediately available to Hitachi Data Systems and VMware customers.