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Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform Case Study:

Case Study: Large Enterprise Industrial Manufacturing Company

Challenges

Cited that the top reasons for purchasing their Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform were to:
- Reduce costs
- Consolidate servers
- Improve data access performance
- Support business growth expectations

Environment

Main use is primary storage for files and objects.
Deployed in conjunction with the following applications:
- SMB/CIFS file access for Citrix clients
Uses the following protocols:
- NFS
- CIFS

Benefits

Purchased their Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform for the following reasons:
- Performance and scalability
- Integration with Hitachi SAN Storage Arrays
Saved $500K compared to traditional storage alternatives.
Saved $500K of capital expenditures (CAPEX) by scaling capacity and I/O throughput independently.
Reduced Operating Expenditures (OPEX) costs by 30%
Increased application performance by between 10% and 20%.

Testimonials

“Our HNAS platform provides a way to grow our NAS solution with our user base, without having to select a new platform every time business growth rates change. The clustered hardware ensures that we have peace of mind from a redundancy point of view, should failures occur.”

Source:

TechValidate Survey of a Large Enterprise Industrial Manufacturing Company

TVID: 3BD-E3C-39B

Case Study Details

Status:	Validated
Validated On:	Dec 17, 2009
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