Storage Capacity Reclamation Program Introduced
Added 2nd Feb 2010According to April Adams, Research Director, Gartner: "End users considering products may find guarantees useful if they are being asked to provide additional justification for storage purchases during tough economic times."
Hitachi Data Systems will aim to lower operational costs through storage management, efficient use of resources and space, reduced power and cooling costs and avoided purchase of unnecessary frames and drives. .
"While the economic forecast for 2010 is optimistic, we do not expect to see the drive to reduce costs to subside," said Asim Zaheer, vice president of Corporate and Product Marketing, Hitachi Data Systems. "We are more committed than ever to helping our customers consolidate costs, both operational and capital, while still improving data center performance."
Business Benefits of the Storage Capacity Reclamation Guarantee Program
Hitachi Data Systems is demonstrating its commitment to help customers reduce operational and capital costs with a money back guarantee in its Storage Capacity Reclamation Guarantee Program. To increase value to their business, organizations are establishing scalable storage infrastructure by leveraging current investments, increasing return on assets (ROA) and lowering operational costs. Hitachi Data Systems hardware, software and services for storage reclamation, dynamic provisioning and virtualization have a combined economic impact that drastically reduces the operating costs of a customer's storage environment. Virtualization improves operational efficiency by helping customers reclaim and optimize use of storage assets to better align to business requirements. The life of existing assets is extended through higher utilization to:
- Lower long term storage costs improve ROA and produce measurable savings
- Decrease waste through dynamic provisioning
- Give significant savings through storage tiering
- Reduce capital investments by reclaiming storage using the Zero Page Reclaim feature of Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software, which reclaims unused storage space from previously allocated storage
About the Storage Capacity Reclamation Guarantee Program
The 50 percent guarantee is for the raw storage capacity for migrating from third party RAID-1 source environments to dynamically provisioned RAID-5 target environments. For any third party RAID-5 environment, Hitachi Data Systems will guarantee a 20 percent storage capacity reduction.
If the guaranteed storage capacity reduction is not achieved, Hitachi Data Systems will rebate money to the customer for the difference between the storage reduction guaranteed and the storage used.
Hitachi Data Systems products and services included in the Storage Capacity Reclamation Guarantee Program include:
- Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V or VM
- Disk capacity equivalent to the guaranteed amount
- Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software
- Hitachi Storage Reclamation Service
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