Hitachi 9960 manual Software Solutions Are the, Best in the World, The Lightning 9900 Series

The Lightning 9900 Series	9
Software Solutions Are the

Best in the World

Customers and analysts regard the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900™ Series as the most advanced products in the enterprise storage system market. The Software Solutions Guide discusses the advantages of this suite of leading-edge software products that enhances the Lightning 9900™ Series product lines. This report is available from Hitachi Data Systems in PDF form http://www.hds.com/products/software/solutions_guide .html. Particular emphasis is devoted to the business benefits of this robust suite of software features in the context of three generally accepted categories of benefits that are enabled by enterprise class intelligent storage system software. These three business objectives can be classified as follows:

1.Increased IT service levels in availability and performance for global and non-stop data access.

2.Simplified IT operations for centralized storage and data management.

3.Accelerated IT deployment of new applications and new systems for business agility.

	Business Benefit
Hitachi Freedom Storage	Increased IT		Accelerated
	service levels	Simplified IT	deployment of
Software Solutions for the
	in availability	operations	new applications
Lightning 9900™ Series	and performance		and new systems
Synchronous Remote Copy - OpenSystems	✔
Synchronous Remote Copy - S390®	✔
Asynchronous Remote Copy - OpenSystems	✔
Asynchronous Remote Copy - S/390®	✔
IBM® GDPS™ Compatible Remote Copy	✔
Software Asynchronous Remote Copy	✔
Non-disruptive PiT (Point-in-Time) Copy™ - S/390®	✔
(Hitachi NanoCopy™)
Non-disruptive data replication - Open ShadowImage™	✔		✔
Non-disruptive data replication -S/390®ShadowImage™	✔		✔
Data Migration Service to the Lightning	✔	✔	✔
9900-S/390™
Automatic Path Failover - (Dynamic Link Manager™)	✔	✔
Host Failover and Parallel Database Clustering	✔
Open backup to mainframe tape using standard	✔	✔
backup software
HARBOR® Backup and HYPERtape	✔	✔
Restore of single files only - S/390®	✔	✔
VERITAS® support, volume and file management utilities	✔	✔
Systems Management - Resource Manager 9000™	✔	✔	✔
S/390® to Open file conversion - RapidXchange™	✔	✔	✔
Open to Open file conversion - RapidXchange™	✔	✔	✔
Open and S/390 channel file transfer - RapidXchange™		✔	✔
LUN Security/Hitachi SANtinel™	✔	✔	✔
Automatic performance tuning- Hitachi CruiseControl™	✔	✔

Hitachi Freedom Storage™ software solutions are the most advanced available.

Table 4 – Summary of Hitachi Freedom Storage™ software products and the business objectives they serve.

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