Tiered Storage

Solution Description

Tiered storage provides an architecture that allows storage administrators to provision capacity based on a business application’s sensitivity to price, demand for quality of services and requirement for advanced storage functionality. By matching the service level needs of the application to the characteristics of the storage infrastructure, administrators can make the most effective use of available resources, ensuring all allocations are optimally placed.

Tiered storage, when properly designed and implemented, can be managed as effectively as a single-tiered architecture, with tools that can move, migrate and respond to aging and migration needs of the data or application.

Value Proposition and Benefits

• Hosting application data on the most cost-effective storage platform
• Leveraging lower cost storage resources for lesser tiers
• Eliminating stranded capacity by consolidating storage in a single pool
• Boosting administrator productivity by simplifying the storage infrastructure
• Improving application access to advanced storage functionality
• Reducing hardware and software maintenance costs through consolidation, deferring future purchases and deploying a single
• set of storage management tools for heterogeneous resources

Solution Diagram

Solution Offers

• Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM
• Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager software
• Assessment and Planning
• Data Classification Service
• Storage Economics Strategy Service
• Implementation Service for the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform
• Implementation Service for Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager Software
• External Storage Implementation Service for Hitachi Universal Storage Platform