Christophe's Corner

Back from what seems a long absence from blogging, I thought I’d take some time to share a few interesting facts about our customers, how they use their USP-V and USP-VM systems, and how they truly leverage the unique capabilities of these platforms.

We worked with TechValidate to poll our customers and I will be sharing some of these results with you on this blog from time to time.  HDS actually just issued a press release about the great return our customers reap from their storage assets and HDS’ unique capabilities.

No big secret, but  customers purchased their USPs to improve performance. Actually 86% of the organizations we surveyed increased their performance by 10 to 25% or more compared to other enterprise storage systems in their prior environment. In a majority of cases (over 50%) performance was the reason for purchasing the platform (source: TechValidate).

According to the survey, customers who purchased USPs found reduced operational costs between 10 and 25% of their storage administration costs  compared to prior environments.  With 2010 IT budgets not getting any looser, being able to do this for customers is huge.

Focusing on our File and Content Services portfolio, the survey also identified that 35% of IT organizations increased their application performance between 20 to 30% after deploying their Hitachi High-performance NAS platform; 52% of IT organizations increased the application performance between 10 and 20 percent after deployment (source: TechValidate).

Stay tuned for more facts on great benefits we bring to the table in future blogs, and how our customers derive significant business advantages from our technology.