In the past few weeks we’ve seen quite a bit of traffic on blogs, Twitter and the like, with ample feedback from storage experts, and quite frankly lots of unjustified and inaccurate statements and/or attacks from ‘other vendors’. I suppose there’s a good reason for this: HDS is leading the pack in the market and is shedding its conservative image to the chagrin of many competitors.
Take a look at the research article from the451 Group.
Note: access is for subscribers, but I think there’s a guest option as well. According to the research note, “HDS claims to have bucked enterprise storage trend as it adds new features”.
Of particular interest to me is the fact that at least 3 recent innovations that leverage our core replication technology to deliver unique operational efficiencies were mentioned: High Availability Manager (a fantastic capability for seamless data migration in open systems), the Hitachi Storage Cluster for Hyper V, and our Solution for VMware’s Site Recovery Manager 2 (SRM2).
If you didn’t catch this earlier, Hitachi really has some unique capabilities around data accessibility and data resilience, and what it all boils down to is not just the technology, but about how customers enable operational efficiency through technology:
- Our asynchronous replication solution, Hitachi Universal Replication (HUR) makes a uniquely efficient use of the WAN for wide area capacity optimization. HUR leverages disk-based journaling, write order fidelity, and is really a tool that allows customers to better manage RPO and RTO requirements
- HUR can leverage dynamic provisioning, replication “thin” volumes to “thick” volumes and vice versa
- Talking about combinations and permutations, we have supported externally attached (virtualized) volumes for a while. This enables customers to combine all these features in an integrated fashion
- Hitachi supports multiple data center configurations including pass through configurations that optimize the use of storage
- Hitachi also integrates seamlessly in virtualized server environments (Hyper V and VMware, for example)
- Hitachi provides a high data accessibility option with High Availability Manager
The net-net is that we’ve been doing this for a while now – and we’re keeping our focus on delivering the highest levels of operational efficiency to our customers, and replication technology is critical in achieving this objective. Other 3 letter vendors can’t match these capabilities (that’s a fact) to the ultimate detriment of their customers.
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