Case Study: Large Enterprise Professional Services Company Simplifies Storage Management

 

Challenges

  • Solved the following operational challenges with their Hitachi Storage Command Suite:
    • Reduce storage infrastructure costs
    • Improve the efficiency of a business process
    • Deliver faster storage performance
    • Improve storage capacity utilization
    • Improve data protection of critical corporate data
    • Improved overall system uptime
    • Improve management efficiencies of existing infrastructure resources

Environment

  • Use the following products in their Hitachi Storage Command Suite:
    • Hitachi Device Manager
    • Hitachi Resource Manager
    • Hitachi Storage Navigator
    • Hitachi Basic Operating System V
    • Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager
    • Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning
    • Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Advanced
  • Virtualized 76% of their total physical host servers.

Benefits

  • Reduced the time required to administer their storage environment by 20% with their Hitachi Storage Command Suite.
  • Saved $50,000 of Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) and Operational Expenditures (OPEX) costs
  • Increased storage utilization from 50% to 75%, resulting in 50% improvement.
  • Reduced storage provisioning time by 25%.
  • Managed 140 TBs of storage with one person.
  • Compressed their time to troubleshoot a storage problem by 30%.
  • Extremely satisfied with the ease of use of their Hitachi Storage Command Suite
Source: TechValidate Survey of a Large Enterprise Professional Services Company TVID: 92F-294-29D
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Source Info: TechValidate Survey of a Large Enterprise Professional Services Company