Hitachi High Availability Manager To Enhance Storage Investments

Furthering its commitment to enterprise-class storage innovation, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, and a provider of services-oriented storage solutions, has announced the Hitachi High Availability Manager, an open systems storage array clustering technology that delivers 100 percent accessibility of business-critical data assets and offers customers future-proofing of their storage investments over time.

Hitachi High Availability Manager for the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V

Built on the foundation of the Hitachi USP V Platform and its ability to manage virtualised devices, the Hitachi High Availability Manager is the first continuous availability solution for both internal storage and externally-attached heterogeneous storage—all under common and integrated management.

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Its architecture enables local and remote clustering for seamless, transparent movement of storage pools from one USP V storage platform to another system, with zero disruption to business operations. Coupled with advanced failover capabilities, customers gain a high standard of availability to protect data assets during both planned and unplanned outages, and eliminate the potential risk of data inaccessibility from the host to primary storage.

In conjunction with array-based replication technologies, Hitachi Universal Replicator and Hitachi TrueCopy software, the Hitachi High Availability Manager can be used to failover storage pools non-disruptively across storage systems, enabling instant data access recovery at the primary site or at a remote site, due to unexpected downtime.

Claus Mikkelsen, CTO of Storage Architectures, Hitachi Data Systems, said, “Application downtime, for any reason, is one of the highest priority concerns of customers that can cause billions of dollars in lost business opportunity. Clustering is a critical feature of an integrated virtualised storage strategy and Hitachi is delivering this type of innovation in the market today.”

Hitachi Data Systems has also announced enhanced support for IBM FlashCopy technology. When leveraged in conjunction with Hitachi Universal Replicator software, this new functionality provides customers improved business continuity and disaster recovery strategies in both two data centre point-to-point operation and three data centre multi-target configurations.