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 |
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Source Info: TechValidate Survey of a Global 500 Financial Services Company




