Hitachi protects fixed content
Hitachi protects fixed content
Hitachi Data Systems has unveiled a new storage device that will make it easier to archive, retrieve and protect emails, digital content for broadcasters and medical systems stored in reliable back up systems.
The Serial ATA Intermix Option for Hitachi Thunder 9500 V Series is the first fibre and SATA "in a box" high speed fibre channel. It is designed to make life easier for users who want data from different applications to be routed to the most appropriate storage devices based on availability, performance, capacity and at a low cost.
This new solution, which offers up to 107 TB in a single storage system, is intended to cope with the increasing number of fixed content applications, where the data integrity and availability is high but access requirements are much less frequent than with operational data.
Compliance legislation has also brought the reliability threshold for archive applications up to the same level as operational data. Hitachi Data System's Open LDEV Guard data retention utility provides a disk-based WORM function that allows customers in both open system and mainframe environments to lock down archived data on HDS storage systems, making it non-erasable and non-rewritable for certain periods.
John McArthur, group vice president of storage research at the IDC said. "Today's IT managers are sophisticated. Rather than pursuing a single-solution storage architecture, they want a variety of solutions with price points and performance attributes appropriate to the various applications and jobs. However, they also want to manage these solutions using common management tools.
"Hitachi Data Systems has met these requirements with its Application Optimised Storage initiative. And with the SATA Intermix Option, the company has correctly identified that in support of data retention for compliance initiatives, while the performance requirements may be lower, the data integrity bar must be on par with storage for online transaction databases."
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