Three Data Center

Solution Description

The world has changed significantly in the past few years. Devastating terrorist acts and threats, the seemingly increased frequency of widespread power grid disruptions, and the emergence of regulatory requirements for infrastructure protection are all placing stringent, yet necessary, data protection requirements on many organizations. Regardless of the industry, as more and more businesses operate in a 24/7 environment — especially large enterprises where global operations are the norm — they need an increasingly competitive edge to maintain profitability and stay in business.

In the complex and challenging global environment, well-planned business continuity or proven disaster recovery practices for nonstop data availability have become critical to organizations if they are to survive any type of outage.

In the complex and challenging global environment, well-planned business continuity or proven disaster recovery practices for nonstop data availability have become critical to organizations if they are to survive any type of outage.

The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform family provides unique heterogeneous disaster recovery options in today’s market. The ability to provide for both local and distance heterogeneous replication is a source of operational resilience and efficiency for organizations that implement it. The advanced capabilities afforded by Hitachi Universal Replicator software help organizations meet the most demanding data protection requirements, especially where out-of-region replication is required.

Value Proposition and Benefits

• Builds on the data integrity heritage of Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous/Asynchronous software and leverages TrueCopy Synchronous for cascading three data center configuration
• Provides “no data loss” recovery at any distance
  • Intelligently combines synchronous and asynchronous replication with little impact on application performance
  • Can mitigate the need for destructive resync processes
• Improves disaster recovery capabilities by allowing for advanced three data center configurations
  • Cascading
  • Multitarget
  • No complex scripting required
• Simplifies management of the Business Continuity infrastructure
  • Single management platform
  • Common business continuity software
• “Single pane of glass” heterogeneous replication

Solution Diagram

Solution Offers

• Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V
• Hitachi Resource ManagerTM Utility Package
• Hitachi Universal Replicator SoftwareHitachi ShadowImage Heterogeneous
• Replication Software (optional)
• Risk Management Workshop
• Assessment Services
• Software Implementation Services