BANGALORE, INDIA: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation today announced Hitachi Could Service for Private File Tiering,  a new business model that enables companies to tap storage resources in the cloud at their own pace.

The Hitachi Could Service for Private File Tiering is the first in Hitachi Cloud Services suite and will enable enterprise customers to move legacy or lower value file data  into a cloud storage environment and pay only for what they consume, when they consume it.

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Sunil Chavan, Director, Software Group and Cloud Solutions, Hitachi Data System  said that with this new offering our customers don't pay up front for storage used and coan use additional storage when needed. Best of all, they don't need any resources to manage their private cloud environment.

He added that the company in partnership with Digi-Data Corporation, is also offering a public online cloud storage solution that provides a complete services menu for telecommunications , service providers and systems integrators to deliver public cloud storage-as-a-service offering to consumers and SMBs. The services help organizations meet service level agreements , lower TCO and improve operational efficiency.

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