Hitachi announces storage command suite

BANGALORE, INDIA: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation introduced its unified portfolio of storage management software solutions.

The next-generation Hitachi Storage Command Suite is architected to combine advanced data management and protection capabilities in a simple, centralized interface, which provides the foundation for customers to achieve significant improvements in operational efficiency and business resilience throughout the enterprise.

Sean Moser, senior director—Global Software Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems said, “The combination of the Hitachi USP V and Hitachi Storage Command Suite provides a comprehensive services-oriented approach to storage management. The differentiated value customers can achieve by being able to assimilate all of their heterogeneous storage assets into a unified pool, as opposed to disparate islands of storage, is tremendous.”

The Hitachi Storage Command Suite consists of integrated software tools which help customers manage their storage infrastructure and protect their block, file, and content data assets.

This is particularly critical as storage environments are quickly growing more complex and robust enterprise applications are introduced frequently across multiple business units with corresponding, stringent service-level agreements (SLAs).

As a result of the rapid growth of data stored across multiple distributed and multi-vendor storage infrastructures, organizations are challenged with growing risk and costs associated with application availability, performance and data recoverability.

The Storage Command Suite provides application-centric capacity and performance management spanning the entire storage infrastructure, as well as fine-tuned delivery of storage system performance, availability, recoverability and functionality, in a way that seamlessly aligns to the vital business requirements of customers.

John Webster, Principal IT Advisor, Illuminata said, “Administrators are in a bind when they are being managed by the management applications, as can be the case when they are complex and rely on repetitive, manual process. With the Hitachi Storage Command Suite, much has been done to reduce the proliferation of application host-based monitoring and reporting agents, and to replace archaic command line interfaces with a powerful, integrated management software platform.”