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Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform Case Study:

Case Study: Global 500 Financial Services Company

Challenges

Cited that the top reasons for purchasing their Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform were to:
- Reduce costs
- Consolidate servers
- Consolidate storage
- Improve data access performance
- Simplify data management
- Decrease backup window

Environment

Main use is primary storage for files and objects.
Deployed in conjunction with the following applications:
- Microsoft SQL Server database
- Microsoft Exchange
- Microsoft Sharepoint
- Oracle Applications

Benefits

Purchased their Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform for the following reasons:
- Performance and scalability
- Intelligent Storage Tiering (HSM/ILM)
- Cluster Namespace (I.e., Single Namespace)
- Integration with Hitachi SAN Storage Arrays
- Integration with Hitachi Software (E.g., HUR, MetroCluster, HiCommand, etc.)
- Integration with Hitachi Data Discovery Suite and Hitachi Content Archive Platform
Increased application performance by between 30% and 50%.

Source:

TechValidate Survey of a Global 500 Financial Services Company

TVID: F3A-489-76E

Case Study Details

Status:	Validated
Validated On:	Dec 17, 2009
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