Break through big data barriers and reshape "unified storage"

Managing Modules, Files, and Object Data on a Single Platform According to IDC's statistical data, the current global data volume is growing at a rate of about 50% annually. Both individuals and businesses rely on smart devices, including personal computers, tablets, and smart phones. It is expected that by 2015, users of these devices will download over 80 billion applications that can generate and derive data. Corporate IT departments face the challenge of data growth. They need to ensure the storage, protection, distribution, and compliance of data. In addition, many companies require IT departments to find new ways to innovate and create value for existing data resources.

However, more and more resources are only used to meet the annual data management and compliance requirements. It is very difficult to meet the goals and strategies for companies to use data and information to create value. Moreover, the IT budget of many companies may be flat or declining. For enterprises that want to achieve various higher value goals based on IT, IT departments not only need to ensure infrastructure utilization and management efficiency, but also need more information mining and management methods in order to help the business sector to be higher. Claim.

Convergence Improves Efficiency and Ease of Use Through many years of integration of servers and hypervisors, and integration of storage and SAN, many of the easy-to-implement goals have now been consolidated. The next wave of consolidation will bring a variety of data types that can be provided on demand to the common capacity pool.

Unified storage systems, also known as multi-protocol storage (MPS) systems, are a common method of solving data growth problems. Unified storage systems enable users to increase the utilization and power of their storage systems by storing module- and file-based data in a single system. More importantly, such systems also support object data. As data capacity has continued to grow explosively to Petabytes and Exabytes, the ability to intelligently store, copy, and search has strategic significance for efficient data storage.

Traditional unified management focuses on how to manage file and module data on a common, low-end storage platform. What the big customers really need is an enterprise-class unified storage platform that can meet the stringent service level requirements of their key business applications.

Ideal Unified Storage System Features Companies want a unified storage system with a host of key features. A key element in the selection of a unified storage system is its high performance scalability and cost-effectiveness. When used on different platforms, some unified storage systems may not provide the promised performance and may have unpredictable compatibility issues. A good unified storage system will not cause performance degradation, and as the unified storage system continues to expand and the number of drives increases, the unified storage system should provide near-linear performance improvement. The effect of this is that expansion does not affect performance.

Another key element in selecting a unified storage system is the ability to support object-based storage. The largest increase in data is unstructured data, which will be provided via Internet protocols in the form of files or objects. Unstructured data can grow to hundreds of petabytes and billions of objects, which inevitably requires a larger file system and an extensible module storage system, but this does not completely solve the problem.

How do files become objects?

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*Category: Family* Location: Tempe, Arizona, USA * Yes No Sharing Allowed: Yes Picture: What is an object store? The growth of unstructured data requires the fusion of files, modules, and object data stores. By eliminating the cost of data protection backups, the cost of ETL (extraction, transformation, and loading) of data analysis, and the management costs of file, module, and object storage silos to improve storage efficiency. This is why it is necessary to support object storage in response to major data challenges.

In addition, when enterprises can effectively manage IT infrastructure with limited human resources, a unified storage system that can provide a single software management platform will give it greater advantages.

Hitachi Data Systems Redefines Unified Storage Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) recently introduced Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) with the Hitachi Command Suite as a single management framework. The system revolutionized the way customers manage modules, files, and object data without having to compromise on performance, scalability, or cost-effectiveness.

HDS is the first company to introduce a true enterprise-class unified storage solution to the market that can help companies meet the most pressing challenges currently facing them.

“The IT departments of large and medium-sized companies are wrestling with massive amounts of data and the ever-growing variety of data management. They need storage solutions that can meet their development requirements, simplify operations, reduce overall costs, and quickly adapt to changing business needs. Hitachi Unified Storage provides enterprises with a single base platform for efficient management of module, file, and object data without compromising performance, scalability, or capacity utilization."

-- Richard Villars, IDC's vice president of information and cloud research

High performance, support for object data and a single management platform Unlike other solutions that can only scale capacity, HUS can scale with predictable performance, replicated data, module volume size, and file system size. The benefits of the HUS platform for customers are longer service life than competitive products and better investment efficiency.

HUS supports object data by intelligently adding metadata to each file with a unique object-based file system. In addition, HUS also supports the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) to use custom metadata to actually store object data and ensure its compliance.

HCP can share HUS capacity with file and module applications from the same storage pool. Compared to the isolated object storage implementation alone, the solution provides customers with greater space usage efficiency and cost effectiveness.

HUS’s target market is traditional midsize companies that have a variety of Microsoft office applications and file sharing servers and are accustomed to purchasing and using midrange enterprise storage solutions. HUS has a unique charm because it can integrate the storage of these servers onto a single platform, which facilitates management, improves capacity utilization, and saves on environmental costs (electricity/air conditioning/space).

HDS redefines unified storage by introducing HUS that can provide enterprises with a reliable, dynamic and open architecture that enables enterprises to more efficiently achieve their service level goals, save costs, and protect long-term investments. HUS demonstrates HDS' commitment to transforming data centers into an information cloud. The information cloud exists in a floating virtual environment and can seamlessly access modules, files, and objects. With the new features of the information cloud, companies can better cope with the rapid growth of unstructured data, ensure content security in shared storage environments, and reduce the complexity, inefficiency, and cost of traditional cloud computing and distributed IT environments.

Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) features and customer benefits include:

Effectively respond to "big data"

* Can expand system capacity to nearly 3PB without affecting performance

*Automatically correct performance issues for quick configuration through dynamic virtual controllers *Using Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning pooling and extending file and module storage to maximize flexibility without limiting capacity *Using 256TB filesystems and a single namespace Reduce administrative workload to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

* Use 99.999% data availability and advanced management tools to meet service level agreements (SLAs) * Manage storage from application management portals * Perform system maintenance without disrupting host I/Os Reduce downtime and business Risk* Dynamically manages replication and backups * Remotely replicates full capacity from all systems and locations * Apply crash-consistent snapshots for application-aware backup and recovery.