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HDS Storage Solutions - Business Continuity

Safeguarding your data is the first step in a plan to keep your company operating nonstop. But it's not as simple as it once seemed. You have to make an informed decision based on business requirements, including risk exposure, regulatory compliance, and best practices. The range of options can be overwhelming, from local disk-to-disk backup to replicating your data out-of-region to comply with ever-tightening regulations, providing an answer for rolling disasters, and establishing a practical recovery methodology that maximizes your recovery point and recovery time objectives.

Your situation is unique, and so is the solution. Where do you start?

Hitachi WMS & AMS Storage Range

Hitachi TagmaStore

Hitachi TagmaStore Workgroup Modular Storage

For small- and medium-sized businesses, the all-SATA model WMS100 offers a highly scalable, reliable, and cost-effective platform for Microsoft Exchange Server and other business applications, consolidation, first SAN deployment, NAS access, backup, or data archiving.

Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage

For small- and medium-sized businesses, model AMS range provides a scalable, cost-effective, high-end modular storage system for Microsoft Exchange Server and other business applications, tiered and standalone storage, consolidation, first SAN deployment, backup, or data archiving.

Hitachi ShadowImage In-System Replication

ShadowImage software rapidly creates a copy of mission-critical information within Hitachi storage systems. ShadowImage software keeps data RAID-protected and fully recoverable—without affecting service or performance levels. Replicated data volumes can then be split from the host applications and used for system backups, application testing, and data mining applications while business continues to run at full capacity.

Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot Software

The high-speed, non-disruptive technology of Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot software rapidly creates as many as 14 point-in-time copies of any data volume within Hitachi storage systems, without having an impact on host-service or performance levels. Because snapshots store only the changed data blocks in the Copy-on-Write than the source volume. The Copy-on-Write Snapshot copies are fully read/write compatible with other hosts and can be used for rapid

Short Distance Replication

Short-distance replication is most often accomplished through synchronous copy methods. Synchronous replication ensures data integrity by considering a transaction done only when completion is confirmed at the local and remote locations. Thus, the two sites are mirror images. Should an outage occur at the primary site, operations at the secondary site can start very quickly.

If short-distance replication meets your needs, the answer is Hitachi TrueCopy synchronous remote replication software, which:

  • Achieves rapid restart and recovery with no data loss
  • Improves productivity through use of real production data for data mining and application testing
  • Combines with other Hitachi software to further improve business continuity

Long Distance Replication

The need to protect key business applications from disaster has not abated as recent events such as power blackouts and the threat of terrorism will testify. Certain regulatory bodies are increasing the pressure for businesses to implement true out-of-region disaster recovery. That's when Hitachi Data Systems can help through an advanced set of Business Continuity solutions based on asynchronous replication. With asynchronous data replication software from Hitachi, it's possible to provide complete data integrity for both your primary and remote systems at any distance, without performance impact to your production systems, and without data loss at any distance

If long-distance replication is what your organization needs, choose Hitachi TrueCopy asynchronous remote replication software

  • Copy data beyond wide-area disaster range with full data integrity and "no data loss"
  • Allow for advanced multi-data-center replication strategies
  • Does not impact application performance
  • Improve productivity through use of real production data for data mining and application testing

HiCommand Storage Management

Within the HiCommand Suite, heterogeneous management modules monitor, visually render, and administer your data infrastructure as a whole, including storage from multiple vendors as well as the switches, host bus adapters, servers, and file systems that serve business applications. Additionally, Hitachi-enhanced HiCommand Suite modules add focused management, advanced data protection, performance analysis, and migration capabilities

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