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Hitachi Data Systems' Silver Lining

Data growth is one of the few sure things in life and a major IT cost even in a down economy. In fact, for many businesses, data growth is accelerating as more and more organizations use analytics to find new revenue opportunities or to tweak their business models and drive top and bottom line growth. Therefore, it is no surprise that ESG’s research finds that keeping pace with overall data growth is the number one storage challenge faced by IT managers today.

To intensify the issue, the IT market is evolving: the Internet Era of computing is here and commercial enterprises are going to get dragged in - whether they like it or not. Web 2.0, cloud computing, and SOA content and data will coexist with transactional and distributed content in commercial enterprises, and effective data management in this environment will require a new type of storage platform that can provide tiers of storage with distinct sets of price, performance, and functionality in data management to enable efficient storage consolidation with differentiated performance that can support both types of data.

Traditional storage technologies were not designed for use in the multi-petabyte scale Internet Era. With traditional storage architectures, new arrays need to be added as capacity requirements increase. As the number of arrays under management grows, the storage environment becomes increasingly complex, harder to manage, and more costly to operate. This brings negative consequences to the business including increased time to market, loss of productivity, decreased flexibility, and increased risk. Traditional storage technologies continue to excel in the areas they were designed to address - namely, transactional and distributed computing - but these solutions fall short at Internet scale.

Hitachi Data Systems’ Silver Lining (PDF, 180kb)