TechValidate Research on Hitachi Enterprise Storage

In terms of storage media costs, with virtualized storage architecture how much have you saved through increased capacity utilization?

In terms of percentage of what your costs would be without it, how much have you saved through virtualization-based storage consolidation and tiering?

What vendors' storage have you attached?

Note: this is a multiple-choice question – response percentages may not add up to 100.

Why did you choose to use Hitachi Storage Virtualization?

Note: this is a multiple-choice question – response percentages may not add up to 100.

How many tiers of storage do you use in your storage architecture?

Why did you decide to use Hitachi Dynamic Tiering virtual volumes?

Note: this is a multiple-choice question – response percentages may not add up to 100.

What were the reasons for purchasing your Virtual Storage Platform over competing products?

Note: this is a multiple-choice question – response percentages may not add up to 100.

How would you rate Hitachi support for virtualization of external storage?

By what percentage did your storage cost per unit go down by taking advantage of externally virtualized storage?

On a scale of 1 to 5, how important was each of the following in your decision to incorporate virtualized external storage in your IT architecture?

5 =Extremely important     4 = Very important     3 = Important     2 = Not important     1 = Not a factor