information and performance levels. The Hi-Track "call home" predictive maintenance system is based on intelligent software that monitors a Lightning 9900 V Series system and notifies the Hitachi Data Systems support center for preventative maintenance. Dynamic Link Manager software solution increases information availability by ensuring complete
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utilization of all paths between a server and a Lightning 9900 V Series system. HXRC allows users to create and share server-based remote copies between Lightning 9900 V Series systems and an IBM Enterprise Storage Server™ system. Hitachi Data Systems has demonstrated proven TrueCopy software support for GDPS, an IBM service offering for systems failover, workload balancing, and data mirroring. In addition, Hitachi Data Systems offers a number of services to help users plan, integrate, and deploy a GDPS environment based on Lightning 9900 V Series systems. The SplitSecond Solutions package provides a communications layer to seamlessly integrate a customer application with ShadowImage software and TrueCopy software to ensure that essential information can survive a rolling disaster with full integrity. But what good is the world’s best software without first-rate consulting services to go with it? Data Protection Services are offered by the Global Solutions Services team to analyze and implement all software solutions in the Business Continuity Suite.
Backup and Recovery Suite
Backup/Restore is the largest cost element in storage ownership and the most important to high-availability computing. In today’s global IT environment, it is no longer enough to have a backup copy of one’s data.
The Backup and Recovery Suite consists of eight powerful software packages that allow businesses to perform copy, backup and restore in the shortest possible time and with minimum disruption to information availability. Hitachi Multiplatform Backup/Restore software delivers high-performance volume-level backup of open systems data to a S/390 host thereby leveraging mainframe based storage management procedures. The Hitachi e-Copy software feature enables nondisruptive backups to be made directly from disk to tape in a SAN environment without incurring server and I/O overhead during actual data movement. Hitachi Data Systems has teamed up with industry leaders to deliver first-rate solutions that simplify the copy, backup and recovery processes. Through these strategic alliances, users can seamlessly and cost-effectively deploy, implement, and optimize backup tasks. CommVault™ Galaxy™, Tantia Technologies® HARBOR® Backup, and VERITAS NetBackup™ provide choices to help safeguard information using a solution that best fits user requirements.
Performance Enhancement Suite
For today’s enterprise, instant access to mission-critical information is a must. The Performance Enhancement Suite optimizes performance for business critical online applications with eight powerful software packages. Hitachi CruiseControl software automatically monitors, analyzes, and balances the Lightning 9900 V Series system while offering tuning recommendations for approval in either automatic or assisted mode. This automated software tool replaces traditional, time-consuming, and sometimes error-prone, manual load-balancing processes with streamlined procedures for improved performance efficiency and overall response time. To further maximize system performance, Hitachi Priority Access software allows users to define host access priority into a Lightning 9900 V Series system, capitalizing on this series’ port virtualization technology. Combining Priority Access software with Host Storage Domains allows host pooling at the logical unit level, optimizing connectivity and reducing networking infrastructure. For Lightning 9900 V
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