CNF, a global supply chain management company, was experiencing rapid data growth that was challenging their storage infrastructure. They migrated their storage from a Hitachi Freedom Storage 7700E system to a new Hitachi Lightning 9900 Series storage array. The migration was completed seamlessly with Hitachi's expertise. The new storage array provides over 6 terabytes of storage capacity and high performance needed to support CNF's large Oracle database and growing e-commerce applications. The Lightning 9900 storage provides reliable, flexible storage to enable CNF's continued growth.
Why would you should trust Stack Harbor with your Data
The Most performance and security oriented Canadian cloud company.
Learn more about our all SSD instances comparable and outperforming AWS, Azure, soft layer, iWeb etc..
Experience Data Management Clarity with Veritas - VMworld 2019 PresentationVeritas Technologies LLC
Data Management Insights
Data visibility is achieved with Information Studio, which can ingest and visually render data from more than 30 sources including NetBackup, MS OneDrive, MS SharePoint, CIFs shares, etc., then take action on that data such as tiering or deleting.
The Veritas Information Classifier is included in every key technology across our information governance offerings and enables organizations to easily apply data management policies to help meet key regulatory requirements such as required by GDPR, Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, SEC, CCPA.
Users can quickly eliminate dark data and gain key insights like what data you have, who has access to it, whether it’s stale and can be tiered to lower cost storage, whether it’s PII data.
We apply this technology across the portfolio, including in enterprise archiving, where we’ve developed marketshare leadership. More details in this presentation.
Why would you should trust Stack Harbor with your Data
The Most performance and security oriented Canadian cloud company.
Learn more about our all SSD instances comparable and outperforming AWS, Azure, soft layer, iWeb etc..
Experience Data Management Clarity with Veritas - VMworld 2019 PresentationVeritas Technologies LLC
Data Management Insights
Data visibility is achieved with Information Studio, which can ingest and visually render data from more than 30 sources including NetBackup, MS OneDrive, MS SharePoint, CIFs shares, etc., then take action on that data such as tiering or deleting.
The Veritas Information Classifier is included in every key technology across our information governance offerings and enables organizations to easily apply data management policies to help meet key regulatory requirements such as required by GDPR, Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, SEC, CCPA.
Users can quickly eliminate dark data and gain key insights like what data you have, who has access to it, whether it’s stale and can be tiered to lower cost storage, whether it’s PII data.
We apply this technology across the portfolio, including in enterprise archiving, where we’ve developed marketshare leadership. More details in this presentation.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the March Edition:
•Veeam Availability Suite v10 unveiled
•P&O Maritime Logistics enables IoT with Aruba Solutions
•Avaya Spaces embraces a multiexperience approach
•Nutanix releases second Enterprise Cloud Index Report
•Huawei strengthens enterprise offerings
•Palo Alto Networks introduces Cortex XSOAR platform
•Mimecast announces new integration with IBM Security
•A10 Networks delivers virtual DDoS defense solution
•Fortinet introduces self-learning Artificial Intelligence appliance
•Veritas recognized by Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice
•Kaspersky extends its partner network
Over the last decade, cloud computing has transformed the market for IT services. But the journey to cloud adoption has not been without its share of twists and turns. This report looks at lessons that can be derived from companies' experiences implementing cloud computing technology.
Explains how backup-free storage reduces cost and complexity; provides benefits of Hitachi Content Platform; includes brief HDS backup use cases.
For more information on our Unstructured Data Management Solutions please check: http://www.hds.com/go/hitachi-abc-ebook-managing-data/
Fusion Cloud Data Centers: a new high tech frontierfestival ICT 2016
Il cloud computing rappresenta una vera rivoluzione nel mondo dell’IT come lo è stato a suo tempo l’evoluzione dal modello mainframe a quello client-server.
In questo contesto, le aziende si trovano oggi ad affrontare sfide come il Big Data, Sap Hana, il consolidamento di realtà spesso etereogenee e la necessità di far fronte cicli di rinnovamento tecnologico brevissimi.
Per una soluzione IT oggi più importante che una mera cost reduction, è la capacità di migliorare i processi di business velocizzando i tempi di implementazione e rendendo più semplice la gestione della soluzione stessa.
Nascono paradigmi come “Data Center on demand” o “Software Defined Data Center”: consolidare l’infrastruttura IT in un unico pool di risorse virtualizzate da assegnare dinamicamente (on demand) ai livelli applicativi.
Si evince come punto chiave la necessità di una tecnologia convergente, scalabile, performante in grado di proteggere gli investimenti delle aziende oggi sempre più mirati in un mercato in forte contrazione.
Fusion Cloud è la risposta di Huawei a questi quesiti: ponendosi come one stop shop, Huawei è uno dei pochissimi vendor in grado di fornire soluzioni integrate di computing, storage e networking.
Huawei è in grado di progettare, ingegnerizzare e produrre queste 3 componenti in casa propria, ottimizzando il prodotto come un’ unica soluzione end to end.
Huawei oggi fornisce soluzioni di cloud computing a giganti come ad esempio Alibaba (leader e-commerce ISP), Baidu (leader Internet Engine ISP) e Tencent (leader ISP); già leader nel mercato IT dell’EST, sta implementando le proprie soluzioni nel mercato occidentale posizionandosi come la vera novità in campo IT.
Power the Creation of Great Work Solution ProfileHitachi Vantara
This solution discusses how quality and speed are critical in solving storage and data management bottlenecks, delivering cost-effective solutions that are highly scalable for post-production tasks. Whether CGI animation, rendering, or transcoding, Hitachi Data Systems powers digital workflows, enabling extraordinary creative and business achievements with HUS and HNAS infrastructure offerings. For more information on Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 Series please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/network-attached-storage/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_hnasp
Many have heard us at NetApp talking recently about how the world is changing fundamentally and quickly: digital transformation is – or should be – the focus of any enterprise’s IT strategy. And squarely at the center of that focus is data. As data continues to become even more distributed, dynamic and diverse, everything from IT infrastructures to application architectures to provisioning strategies will have to change in response to new realities in the hybrid cloud world. It’s in that context that we conceived our top five CTO predictions for 2018.
How to Extend Availability to the Application Layer Across the Hybrid Cloud -...Veritas Technologies LLC
We are experiencing IT climate change. Inundated we are, daily, with a barrage of “Cloud-ready” solutions that promise to transform, supercharge or in some other way substantial improve your business. Truth is, we’ve all seen this movie before and there is no ending, only a story arch. Technologies come and go and our ability to maximize the return on these solutions is what we makes for a successful adoption. Ask yourself, with all of the promise of the public cloud, how much is hype vs. reality. More details in the presentation.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the March Edition:
•Oracle Expands Hybrid Cloud Portfolio with Roving Edge Infrastructure
•Huawei Unveils New Solutions to Stimulate Growth in the Digital Economy
•Fortinet Delivers Major Updates to FortiOS Operating System
•Cisco Completes Acquisition of IMImobile
•Palo Alto Networks Launches NextWave 3.0
•Cambium Networks Unveils Gigabit Outdoor Point to Point Solution
•Check Point Software Launches Unified Security Solution Harmony
•Citrix Tackles Employee Well-Being
•CrowdStrike Delivers Advanced Threat Protection for Cloud and Container Workloads
•Kaspersky: DDoS Attacks in Q4 2020 Dropped by a Third Compared to Q3
•Nutanix Extends Ransomware Protections to Help Secure Customers’ IT Environments
•New Veeam Backup & Replication v11 Now Available
•VMware Refreshes vRealize Cloud Management
•Veritas Introduces NetBackup 9
•Ivanti Wavelink Expands Velocity Platform
•CyberArk Delivers New Identity Security Offerings to Drive Customer Success
Achieve Higher Quality Decisions Faster for a Competitive Edge in the Oil and...Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi next-generation unified storage solutions meet the challenges of today’s data-intensive oil and gas exploration and production activities. For more information on Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 series please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/network-attached-storage/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_hnasp
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data Warehouse on Hitachi Converged PlatformHitachi Vantara
Accelerate breakthrough insights across your organization with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data Warehouse running on the mission-critical and ready-to-deploy Hitachi server-storage-networking platform, Hitachi Unified Compute Platform. Amplify infrastructure performance with Hitachi and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse xVelocity in-memory technologies. Learn how your organization can extract 100 million+ records in 2 or 3 seconds versus the 30 minutes required previously. With SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse and Hitachi software, your organization will be able to leverage a data platform that processes any data anywhere. View this webcast and learn:How to reduce deployment time with ready-to-deploy solutions that have been engineered and pre-configured by Hitachi and validated by the Microsoft Fast Track Data Warehouse program. How Hitachi and Microsoft have optimized performance for your data warehouse requirements. How your organization can realize immediate ROI from your data warehouse investment. For more information on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/hitachi-unified-compute-platform/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_ucp
A atual oferta na nuvem pode não ser muito clara para algumas empresas; É importante entender os benefícios da nuvem e não necessariamente a sua localização. Na Nutanix, temos uma visão clara da nossa oferta e para onde queremos ir.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the March Edition:
•Veeam Availability Suite v10 unveiled
•P&O Maritime Logistics enables IoT with Aruba Solutions
•Avaya Spaces embraces a multiexperience approach
•Nutanix releases second Enterprise Cloud Index Report
•Huawei strengthens enterprise offerings
•Palo Alto Networks introduces Cortex XSOAR platform
•Mimecast announces new integration with IBM Security
•A10 Networks delivers virtual DDoS defense solution
•Fortinet introduces self-learning Artificial Intelligence appliance
•Veritas recognized by Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice
•Kaspersky extends its partner network
Over the last decade, cloud computing has transformed the market for IT services. But the journey to cloud adoption has not been without its share of twists and turns. This report looks at lessons that can be derived from companies' experiences implementing cloud computing technology.
Explains how backup-free storage reduces cost and complexity; provides benefits of Hitachi Content Platform; includes brief HDS backup use cases.
For more information on our Unstructured Data Management Solutions please check: http://www.hds.com/go/hitachi-abc-ebook-managing-data/
Fusion Cloud Data Centers: a new high tech frontierfestival ICT 2016
Il cloud computing rappresenta una vera rivoluzione nel mondo dell’IT come lo è stato a suo tempo l’evoluzione dal modello mainframe a quello client-server.
In questo contesto, le aziende si trovano oggi ad affrontare sfide come il Big Data, Sap Hana, il consolidamento di realtà spesso etereogenee e la necessità di far fronte cicli di rinnovamento tecnologico brevissimi.
Per una soluzione IT oggi più importante che una mera cost reduction, è la capacità di migliorare i processi di business velocizzando i tempi di implementazione e rendendo più semplice la gestione della soluzione stessa.
Nascono paradigmi come “Data Center on demand” o “Software Defined Data Center”: consolidare l’infrastruttura IT in un unico pool di risorse virtualizzate da assegnare dinamicamente (on demand) ai livelli applicativi.
Si evince come punto chiave la necessità di una tecnologia convergente, scalabile, performante in grado di proteggere gli investimenti delle aziende oggi sempre più mirati in un mercato in forte contrazione.
Fusion Cloud è la risposta di Huawei a questi quesiti: ponendosi come one stop shop, Huawei è uno dei pochissimi vendor in grado di fornire soluzioni integrate di computing, storage e networking.
Huawei è in grado di progettare, ingegnerizzare e produrre queste 3 componenti in casa propria, ottimizzando il prodotto come un’ unica soluzione end to end.
Huawei oggi fornisce soluzioni di cloud computing a giganti come ad esempio Alibaba (leader e-commerce ISP), Baidu (leader Internet Engine ISP) e Tencent (leader ISP); già leader nel mercato IT dell’EST, sta implementando le proprie soluzioni nel mercato occidentale posizionandosi come la vera novità in campo IT.
Power the Creation of Great Work Solution ProfileHitachi Vantara
This solution discusses how quality and speed are critical in solving storage and data management bottlenecks, delivering cost-effective solutions that are highly scalable for post-production tasks. Whether CGI animation, rendering, or transcoding, Hitachi Data Systems powers digital workflows, enabling extraordinary creative and business achievements with HUS and HNAS infrastructure offerings. For more information on Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 Series please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/network-attached-storage/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_hnasp
Many have heard us at NetApp talking recently about how the world is changing fundamentally and quickly: digital transformation is – or should be – the focus of any enterprise’s IT strategy. And squarely at the center of that focus is data. As data continues to become even more distributed, dynamic and diverse, everything from IT infrastructures to application architectures to provisioning strategies will have to change in response to new realities in the hybrid cloud world. It’s in that context that we conceived our top five CTO predictions for 2018.
How to Extend Availability to the Application Layer Across the Hybrid Cloud -...Veritas Technologies LLC
We are experiencing IT climate change. Inundated we are, daily, with a barrage of “Cloud-ready” solutions that promise to transform, supercharge or in some other way substantial improve your business. Truth is, we’ve all seen this movie before and there is no ending, only a story arch. Technologies come and go and our ability to maximize the return on these solutions is what we makes for a successful adoption. Ask yourself, with all of the promise of the public cloud, how much is hype vs. reality. More details in the presentation.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the March Edition:
•Oracle Expands Hybrid Cloud Portfolio with Roving Edge Infrastructure
•Huawei Unveils New Solutions to Stimulate Growth in the Digital Economy
•Fortinet Delivers Major Updates to FortiOS Operating System
•Cisco Completes Acquisition of IMImobile
•Palo Alto Networks Launches NextWave 3.0
•Cambium Networks Unveils Gigabit Outdoor Point to Point Solution
•Check Point Software Launches Unified Security Solution Harmony
•Citrix Tackles Employee Well-Being
•CrowdStrike Delivers Advanced Threat Protection for Cloud and Container Workloads
•Kaspersky: DDoS Attacks in Q4 2020 Dropped by a Third Compared to Q3
•Nutanix Extends Ransomware Protections to Help Secure Customers’ IT Environments
•New Veeam Backup & Replication v11 Now Available
•VMware Refreshes vRealize Cloud Management
•Veritas Introduces NetBackup 9
•Ivanti Wavelink Expands Velocity Platform
•CyberArk Delivers New Identity Security Offerings to Drive Customer Success
Achieve Higher Quality Decisions Faster for a Competitive Edge in the Oil and...Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi next-generation unified storage solutions meet the challenges of today’s data-intensive oil and gas exploration and production activities. For more information on Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 series please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/network-attached-storage/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_hnasp
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data Warehouse on Hitachi Converged PlatformHitachi Vantara
Accelerate breakthrough insights across your organization with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data Warehouse running on the mission-critical and ready-to-deploy Hitachi server-storage-networking platform, Hitachi Unified Compute Platform. Amplify infrastructure performance with Hitachi and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse xVelocity in-memory technologies. Learn how your organization can extract 100 million+ records in 2 or 3 seconds versus the 30 minutes required previously. With SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse and Hitachi software, your organization will be able to leverage a data platform that processes any data anywhere. View this webcast and learn:How to reduce deployment time with ready-to-deploy solutions that have been engineered and pre-configured by Hitachi and validated by the Microsoft Fast Track Data Warehouse program. How Hitachi and Microsoft have optimized performance for your data warehouse requirements. How your organization can realize immediate ROI from your data warehouse investment. For more information on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/hitachi-unified-compute-platform/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_ucp
A atual oferta na nuvem pode não ser muito clara para algumas empresas; É importante entender os benefícios da nuvem e não necessariamente a sua localização. Na Nutanix, temos uma visão clara da nossa oferta e para onde queremos ir.
Showcasing exemplary stories of success where channel partners have gone to great lengths to implement innovative solutions. Acclaiming those partners who have risen to the challenges of the digital era and transformed their business to a solutions offering. Inspiring channel businesses to become value-added providers and trusted allies to their customers. Stories that made a Difference.
Key stories of the edition are as below:
1. FUELING GROWTH - CDW Middle East & Africa
2. NEW FRONTIERS- EmaxIT International
3. LAYING THE FOUNDATION - Innovative Incorporation
Trading
4. CRITICAL CONNECTIONS- Visiontech Systems International
5. THE BIG PICTURE - BMB Group
6. THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE - Maxbyte Technologies
7. BANKING ON THE FUTURE - ConSol Enterprising IT
8. TOP GRADE - Cloud Box Technologies
9. EAGLE EYE - Fox Data Dubai
10.SECURE GATEWAYS - Virus Rescuers
Learn more about Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere by visiting http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/hitachi-content-platform-anywhere.html
and more information on the Hitachi Content Platform is at http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/content-platform
As you can imagine, Red Hat Cloud Suite is a complete and all encompassing solution that offers a lot to an enterprise, but you might be left asking yourself, "How can I experience the Red Hat Cloud Suite as an application developer?"
This session will orientate your interests on application development with the Red Hat Cloud Suite stack, getting you started on the path to containerized application development and Cloud happiness.
VMware: Innovate and Thrive in the Mobile-Cloud EraVMware
Journey to IT as a Service
Deliver new products and services faster. Get closer to customers. Make increasingly mobile workers more productive. The pressure on your business to innovate has never been greater. But is your existing IT infrastructure capable of advancing your business goals?
As we enter the mobile-cloud era, your IT model must be able to accommodate more users, more applications, and more data. According to IDC, delivering the third platform for IT growth and innovation1—beyond mainframes and client-server—requires investment in cloud computing, social, mobile, and big-data technologies. It also means making fundamental changes to your IT operations to enable self-service access to information and applications—anytime, anywhere, on any device.
CIOs and CTOs are now increasingly in step with CEOs’ top priorities. Some long-held assumptions remain true as well. Every CTO still has to deliver excellence in the fundamentals: the secure and reliable delivery of information technology is one example. IBM Aspera High Speed Data Center and Cloud Sync solutions help CTOs and their organizations innovate and accelerate their data migration and sync activities.
Best Compute Solutions, Backup Services, and Data Storage CenterSamidhaTakle1
Stop worrying about your data. SAID Technologies got you covered with the best Compute Solutions, Backup and Data Storage Center services.
For more details, visit : https://saidtechnologies.com/compute-storage-and-backup/
1. CNF Takes High Road to Expansion
Hitachi Freedom Storage™
Lightning 9900™
Series Leads the Way
CNF Takes High Road to Expansion
Hitachi Freedom Storage™
Lightning 9900™
Series Leads the Way
“We couldn’t have asked for a smoother,
more seamless migration.”
COMPANY CNF Incorporated
INDUSTRY Global Supply Chain Management Services, Transportation
INFRASTRUCTURE Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 Series, Lightning
9960, Hitachi CruiseControl™
, Microsoft®
Windows NT®
, UNIX®
2. Vida Parandvash, Senior Manager of the Distributed Systems Group
at CNF, chose Hitachi Data Systems to supply the shipping and logistics
company with a flexible, fail-proof storage infrastructure.
CNF Makes the Right Moves to Cope with Growth
High-octane applications bring new
enterprise demands
CNF’s IT infrastructure consists of a hybrid
environment of open systems and mainframes
available to company operations worldwide.
Their increased involvement in supply chain
management necessitates the use of more
complex and computation-intensive applica-
tions. With these applications come increased
demands for maximum performance and
control—and zero tolerance for downtime.
“Our Oracle Financials®
accounts receivable
database, at over 600GB, is one of the largest
in the world, so we have to address large
reliability and performance issues,” explains
Parandvash. “And our Internet, e-commerce,
and supply chain management business initia-
tives continue to increase infrastructure
demands.”
A Reliable Storage Infrastructure is Critical to Retailer’s Rapid Growth
As a recognized leader in the trucking and air
freight industries, CNF Inc. collectively trans-
ports 25 billion pounds of freight yearly. As
a six-billion-dollar management company of
global supply chain services, they also assume
total supervision of their clients’ complex
transportation and logistics networks. Now
that CNF’s business encompasses their cus-
tomers’ supply chain processes as well as their
own, the company has found that the move-
ment of information has become as important
as the movement of goods and materials. In
both cases, efficiency is paramount.
Given the rapid expansion of their business,
CNF can’t afford to downshift to integrate
new systems or applications. They are con-
stantly evaluating IT requirements and
investing in technology to optimize effective-
ness and maintain their competitive edge.
Vida Parandvash, Senior Manager of CNF’s
Distributed Systems Group, knows the value
of non-stop operations better than most. With
almost 20 years experience on the infrastruc-
ture side, Parandvash manages CNF’s open
systems, Internet, firewall, and e-mail, as
well as their UNIX®
and Windows NT®
environ-
ments. And when the company needed a
flexible, fail-proof storage system to accom-
modate growth and enhance performance,
she called on Hitachi Data Systems.
3. CNF needed a storage system that could
accommodate and rapidly deploy large appli-
cations, provide scalability, and handle
capacity growth without disruption. Based
on her positive experience with the perform-
ance and installation of their Hitachi Freedom
Storage™
7700E, she decided to put Hitachi
Data Systems to the test once more.
“With all of our applications, increasing
storage capacity is a never-ending issue,”
says Parandvash. “It’s always a race for more.
We thought the capacity of the 7700E would
be enough two years ago, but at the rate
we have been growing, it turned out to be
insufficient.”
Parandvash decided to migrate from CNF’s
three-plus terabyte 7700E to the industry-
leading, bottleneck-free Hitachi Freedom
Storage Lightning 9900™
Series. The Lightning
9960 was the right fit for the open systems
environment CNF wanted to emulate. With its
switched-fabric Hi-Star™
architecture, large
up-front cache, Hitachi CruiseControl™
man-
agement software, and on-line data migration
feature, the Lightning 9960 capably handles
very large, active databases. And with over
six terabytes supporting Oracle Financials and
e-commerce applications, the Lightning 9960
provided the necessary storage space required
to handle CNF’s applications’ requirements.
“The Lightning 9960 delivered against all our
established criteria and performance objec-
tives, and proved to be a great solution for us,”
explains Parandvash. While she was confident
in her choice to migrate to the Lightning 9960,
she also needed to ensure that the migration
process itself would go smoothly.
We make upgrades a cinch
CNF’s involvement in supply chain manage-
ment doesn’t stop at the point of delivery.
Neither do their data processing needs. They
also gather and move information about
sourcing materials, managing returns, and
product distribution in order to help customers
address supply, demand, and fulfillment with
precision. The fact that CNF’s customers expect
this information online 24/7 means CNF can’t
afford downtime at any time.
“We needed to go from the 7700E to the
Lightning 9960 in a very short timeframe
in order to deploy our applications,” says
Parandvash of the transition. “Hitachi’s expert-
ise and attentiveness to our needs helped
make the migration process seamless, and our
success was the result of the excellent team-
work between us.”
Parandvash and her team were also pleased
with the Lightning 9960 in the open systems
environment. ”Lightning is a fitting name
for the box, given its performance so far,”
she adds.
Our availability guarantee leads
the industry
The Lightning 9900 Series is not just the
world’s leading storage. It’s the only enterprise
storage with a 100 percent availability guaran-
tee. That’s another reason why CNF builds its
business on Hitachi Freedom Storage solutions.
“The functional excellence of the Lightning
9960 has us taking so much for granted now,”
says Parandvash. “With its rapid recovery
feature, we’re not worried about incurring
downtime. And from a support perspective,
the Lightning 9960 allows us to concentrate on
managing our information growth. Before we
installed the Lightning, a majority of our time
was spent on firefighting day-to-day issues,”
she adds. “Now we can focus on improving our
systems environment.”
Hitachi Data Systems helps CNF grow
by keeping IT simple
Parandvash regards CNF’s Lightning 9960 as
one of several IT building blocks that will help
the company prepare for further consolida-
tion. They plan to merge storage presently
spread across Sun™
, AIX®
, MVS™
, and HP®
envi-
ronments to enhance their ability to share and
exploit information for present and future
applications, and to lay the groundwork for
implementing a storage area network.
“We’d like to take our infrastructure to the
next level and connect our 70-plus UNIX and
60-plus Windows NT servers to the same stor-
age solution,” says Parandvash. Ideally, we’d
like to centrally manage the network, thereby
reducing cost and complexity. With the
Lightning 9960 and future planned enhance-
ments, I think it’s more than viable.”
Her efforts are already paying off. With a more
intelligent IT infrastructure and more efficient
information management, more of CNF’s cus-
tomers are turning to them for streamlined
operations and greater economies of scale.
In turn, CNF can look to Hitachi Data Systems
for storage solutions that continue to benefit
their enterprise over the long haul. As CNF
keeps on trucking, they can count on the same
relentless service and commitment they’ve
come to expect from the world’s fastest grow-
ing, most reliable storage company.
Storage—No Limits
In today’s knowledge-based economy, information is central to the successful enterprise. Hitachi Data Systems
will help you build an intelligent information infrastructure to provide your enterprise with the availability,
scalability, and performance you need to transform data into knowledge. This bulletproof architecture com-
bines our industry-leading enterprise storage and software with Hitachi-developed solutions and strategic
alliances. We embrace industry standards and protocols, while capitalizing on advances in storage area net-
works and storage resource management. With our intelligent information infrastructure, our ability to deliver
the “Storage—No Limits” vision is fully realized. Where will it take you? You will acquire a powerful, truly
open alternative that allows you to enhance your business agility, improve capital utilization, achieve opera-
tional excellence, and minimize risk.
“Lightning is a fitting name for the box,
given its performance so far.”