Network Attached Storage

Solution Description

As today’s information centric businesses expand operations and implement data intensive applications, IT managers seek new ways to quickly deploy storage and storage infrastructures without disrupting business operations. In this environment, networked storage plays a key role, delivering numerous benefits — from shared pooling and better utilization of storage resources to improved performance, better security and higher availability. With SAN, NAS and iSCSI options, it is now possible to have them all in one solution.

A major potential benefit of open networked storage solutions based on Hitachi NAS platforms is that the resulting and server-free backup dramatically reduces the amount of planned downtime needed for data center operations.

Hitachi provides an open architecture that offers you freedom of choice in deploying data access, protection and sharing capabilities across the enterprise. Using multiple technologies, protocols and solutions, such as SAN, NAS and IP, Hitachi Data Systems enables you to design, build, leverage and augment storage infrastructures — providing access to any data from any computer, anytime and anywhere.

Hitachi Data Systems presents SAN, NAS and iSCSI solutions as core Open Networked Storage offerings. They complement all Hitachi storage systems by allowing more flexibility than ever in heterogeneous environments. Whereas SAN architectures address high bandwidth needs, NAS addresses the need for rapid file access, which is especially critical for e-business applications. Supported by Brocade and Cisco switches, iSCSI allows midsize companies to gain the benefits of networked storage.

Value Proposition and Benefits

Lower Total Cost of Ownership

• Lowers hardware costs
• Lowers software costs
• Lowers labor and service costs

Reduce Management Complexity

• Reduces the number of devices
• Centralizes administration and policies
• Enhances security and control

Improve Productivity

• Streamlines provisioning
• Automate repetitive tasks
• Integrate analytics and reporting

Increase Revenue

• Reduces processing cycle times and speed time to market
• Increases the number of simultaneous users or projects
• Seamlessly scales workloads and capacity
• Rapidly responds to changing demands

Create Competitive Advantage

• Increases product quality
• Increases information sharing and collaboration
• Improves reporting and analysis
• Enhances user experience

Solution Diagram

Solution Offers

NAS Cluster

• Hitachi Essential NAS Platform®
• Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform, powered by
  BlueArc®

NAS Node

• Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform

NAS and SAN Convergence

• Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform