Hitachi soln to secure VMware vSphere 4

BANGALORE, INDIA: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. and a provider of services oriented storage solutions, today announced new data protection and disaster recovery solutions for VMware vSphere 4.

These business critical solutions combine technologies from key Hitachi partners Brocade, Cisco, CommVault and Symantec with Hitachi modular and enterprise storage platforms and software, giving organizations a quick, cost effective way of optimizing the operational efficiency and resiliency of their IT environments, said a press release.

“Operational resilience is increasingly important to organizations today, as the risk and cost of downtime is simply too great for most organizations to ignore," said Brian Byun, vice president of global alliances, VMware.

“By combining the VMware vSphere 4 platform and the VMware vCenter, management  product family with Hitachi's innovative modular and enterprise storage platforms, customers can extend comprehensive and compelling business continuity benefits to more workloads across a broader customer base for maximum protection and cost savings,” he added.

Recognizing that organizations have different business and IT requirements, Hitachi offers a comprehensive portfolio of data protection solutions, including options for backup/restore and remote replication, for both physical and virtual environments, said the release.

The data protection solutions announced today are designed for VMware environments and center around the Hitachi Data Protection Suite powered by CommVault and Symantec NetBackup.

The disaster recovery solutions combine Hitachi storage, replication software and services with VMware datacenter solutions, as well as data networking gear from Brocade or Cisco, to enable highly resilient VMware environments.

“Today' s announcement marks another important proof point in the evolving Hitachi Data Systems solutions portfolio,” said John Mansfield, senior vice president of Global Solutions Strategy and Development, Hitachi Data Systems.

He further said that during a time when business continuity and disaster recovery is a critical part of everyday operations, Hitachi virtualization technologies can extend the economic and optimization benefits customers can achieve, both short and long term.