Six Data Storage
and Management
Challenges
(and How To Solve Them)
e -bo o k
The Six Data Storage
Introduction Management
Challenges
1
Can your IT infrastructure team keep up with the demands of a distributed workforce and data
hungry applications? If you are overwhelmed by maintenance tasks and struggling to deliver
IT projects fast enough, because you’re continually challenged to be agile and “do more with less,” Bridge the skills gap
2
it’s time to rethink how you manage data storage.
Maximize Your Data Infrastructure Advantage
Do more with less
3
To get performance and agility that scales, there are six data storage management challenges
you will need to solve – and this e-book will show you how.
Get more value from
your data center
4 The need for
budget efficiencies
5 Unpredictable
business growth
Read on for the solutions 6 The need to protect
data (and your
company’s reputation)
Challenge 1
Bridge the Skills Gap
There are only so many hours in a workday. If you’re not careful, your team will spend more and I can’t bridge the skills gap
more of those hours maintaining enterprise storage systems, with less time for strategic projects nor deliver with this reduced
or supporting change. You either need to keep hiring, or help your team find new efficiencies. headcount.
Solution
Make automation work for you. Automation and analytic tools with integrated AI
artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) help manage ever-growing storage
with fewer personnel, resources and human interaction.
How To Implement It
Hitachi Ops Center uses AI-enabled IT analysis and automation to improve operational efficiency
and speed of new resource delivery.
The Hitachi Vantara Advantage
● Reduce manual administrative tasks by up to 70% to give your team a break.
● Automate storage provisioning workflows to simplify and error-proof your infrastructure resource
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machine-learning resources analysis.
● Gain IT operational insights to help optimize end-to-end resource performance and
improve utilization.
Challenge 2
I am constantly challenged
to deliver IT projects faster, Do More With Less
with reduced resources, so
You can’t afford to let increasing storage demands slow your business down.
struggle to meet my SLAs.
But you also can’t afford the time and cost of setting up new enterprise storage infrastructure.
Solution
World-class storage infrastructure (speed, capacity, low latency, high availability) is now accessible
for companies of all sizes and budgets. New storage virtualization capabilities even allow you to
get additional value from older infrastructure without having to completely rip and replace.
How To Implement It
The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) family delivers the
performance your growing mission-critical applications need, and
consolidate to more efficiently manage and increase the utilization of
your storage footprint.
The Hitachi Vantara Advantage
● Eliminate bottlenecks for data-hungry applications with NVMe.
● Maintain the pace of digital business with a 100% data availability
GUARANTEED and 24/7 responsive infrastructure.
● Ensure low latency service levels are met and rapidly troubleshoot
problems with telemetry metrics analysis across the full data path,
from virtual machine to shared storage resources.
● Suffer fewer headaches with predictable and repeatable
experiences for all your applications.
● Align infrastructure to your unique needs with the Hitachi Vantara
portfolio of hybrid-flash, all-flash and NVMe arrays.
Challenge 3
Get Your Value From Your Data Center
Once routine tasks are under control, you need to keep them under control. But can your infrastructure Don’t let your infrastructure
keep up with accelerating demands and still support new digital transformation initiatives? hold back your pivot
towards the “Next Normal”.
Solution
Future-proof your storage decisions with scalable, reliable infrastructure. Agility forms a foundation
for confident business innovation.
How To Implement It
Hitachi VSP portfolio of hybrid, all-flash and NVMe storage gives you economical access to the
latest technology to increase agility and drive innovation. In addition, Hitachi Ops Center provides
AI-enabled operations to improve IT operational efficiencies, optimize performance and ensure your
data is protected.
The Hitachi Vantara Advantage
● Get best in class performance with latency as low as 64µs and 21M IOPs for supercharged
application response times.
● Quickly and easily upgrade to Storage Class Memory (SCM) and NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) in
the future.
● Simplify storage management tasks with unified system administration.
● Advanced AIOps accelerate speed of execution and innovation by letting your staff concentrate on
areas that add value to the business.
● Affordable, simple, trusted and scalable enterprise-grade storage infrastructure.
Challenge 4
To keep up, I need to find
ways to get more out of Create Budget Efficiencies
my budget.
Your staff and infrastructure are stretched, but so is your budget. It’s time to get creative about
resource use to maximize ROI.
Solution
Adopt technologies that create budget efficiencies. For example, automation reduces operational
personnel cost, virtualization improves the ROI of existing infrastructure, and data compression
reduces infrastructure requirements.
How To Implement It
Hitachi’s VSP family allows you to dynamically scale up or down as needed by applying
technology solutions to improve performance efficiency.
The Hitachi Vantara Advantage
● Accelerate new resource delivery by up to 90% by using automated provisioning workflows.
● Reduce IT operating budget waste by up to 20% by paying as you consume.
● Reduce storage costs with AI-driven data reduction that is guaranteed by Hitachi.
● 4:1 sight-unseen effective capacity guarantee to extract the highest value per GB and IOP.
● Extract the highest value per GB for performance with Data Efficiency (ADR).
● Lower TCO on existing assets by up to 20% and extend the life of older systems with using
third-party storage virtualization.
Challenge 5
My technology needs can be
Unpredictable Business Growth unpredictable, and I need an
affordable way to match our
Data demands on your business aren’t completely predictable, but your business relies on
business growth, whatever
consistent service. Your infrastructure needs a way to flex with demand without breaking the bank.
it happens to be.
Solution
Shift the way you consume IT solutions and services. Align technology spending with usage and
business outcomes to reduce the risk of over- or under-investing in the IT solutions that run your
enterprise.
How To Implement It
Pay for what you need when you need it with EverFlex flexible consumption options for your complete solution whether that be storage and
remote monitoring, a fully managed service, or storage as a Service.
The Hitachi Vantara Advantage
● Scale storage capacity up or down with demand using EverFlex Consumption for utility or ‘as a Service’ offerings from
Hitachi Vantara and our partners.
● Utility offerings allow you to tailor secure and compliant managed services to match your business requirements – one size does not fit all!
● Guarantee IT service availability with SLAs backed by Hitachi Vantara.
● Access pay per use consumption choices with predictable, transparent pricing and guaranteed savings through EverFlex Consumption.
Challenge 6
I need to protect our data
Protect Data and our company reputation.
Not all news is good news. You don’t want your business to be on the front page due to long-term
outage or a data breach.
Solution
Predictable performance, encryption of stored data and guaranteed availability helps protect
your uptime, data and reputation.
How To Implement It
The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform family safeguards continuous operations for key applications and
provides nonstop, uninterrupted data access and zero RTO and RPO goals.
The Hitachi Vantara Advantage
● Reduce risks with new infrastructure resource deployment with automated provisioning tasks.
● Eliminate risk of theft and data leaks with FIPS 140-2 encryption and industry-leading data erasure.
● Prevent illegal access and destruction of data with hardened system access
● Simplify ongoing security compliance with KMIP agility
● In 2020, we celebrated 20 years of our pioneering 100% data availability guarantee across the entire Hitachi VSP portfolio.
Introducing the Hitachi Midsize Enterprise Portfolio
The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) all-flash portfolio grows with your needs with a family of storage solutions powered
by a common storage operating system, user experience and AI-enabled management suite.
PROVEN
Trusted capabilities that won’t break the bank
● Legendary 100% data-availability guarantee.
● Time-tested performance, availability and scalability.
● Guaranteed to reduce storage costs.
POWERFUL
AI Ops that work harder so you can work smarter
● Accelerate storage resource delivery by up to 90%
● Troubleshoot and get to root-cause analysis 4x faster.
● Reduce manual tasks by up to 70%
PREDICTABLE
Pricing that’s predictable for usage that’s flexible
● Predictable pricing with cloud-like consumption.
● Reduce IT operating budget waste by up to 20%
● Align purchase to business use to reduce waste, disruption and overspending.
The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP)
Midsized Enterprise Portfolio
VSP E series
● Enterprise grade storage optimized for small and
midsized organizations - providing best-in-class
NVMe-powered performance, delivering up to
6.8M IOPS and 64 microsecond latency.
VSP F series and
G series
● All-flash or hybrid-flash storage solutions with
bundled software that deliver both performance
and value - with up to 2.4M IOPS and 34.6
petabytes of raw flash capacity.
VSP 5000 series
● For the most demanding enterprise storage applications,
the VSP 5000 series provides the foundation for a modern,
enterprise-class infrastructure. As the world’s fastest
NVMe flash array, the VSP 5000 series provides 21M
IOPS and 70μs best-in-class latency, an all-new, scale-
out architectural design that is optimized for NVMe, and
delivers best-in-class performance and resiliency.
SVOS RF
Common across all systems above
● All VSP systems ship with Hitachi Storage Virtualization
Operation System (SVOS) RF, which provides a common
software platform that delivers 24/7 application availability.
and delivers best-in-class performance and resiliency.
Hitachi Ops Center
Ops Center Ops Center Common across all systems above
Administrator Analyzer
● Hitachi Ops Center management software combines key administrative and operational
capabilities into an infrastructure management suite that:
o Can evolve as your business grows.
Ops Center Ops Center o Scales from simple, intuitive management for a single array to unified
Automator Protector
management services across data configuration, mobility and
protection for larger environments.
o Provides global insights across data centers to improve service level delivery,
resource planning, and quicker root cause analysis and automation across
the full data path.
o Automates IT resource provisioning to speed delivery…and reduce tasks
o And streamlines enterprise copy data management to make sure
your data is protected.
Let Hitachi Vantara and our partners help you accelerate transformation with the storage
portfolio made for what’s next. No matter what type of data, application or business,
you can trust Hitachi Vantara comprehensive storage solutions.
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