ARROW ECS Newsletter

Stay Ahead of the Competition with Tiered Storage
Hitachi's tiered storage solution simplifies infrastructure and reduces costs The InfoPro, an independent research network, recently interviewed Fortune 1000 storage professionals across a variety of vertical industries. According to The InfoPro, "Our interview results revealed that Fortune 1000 storage professionals continue to struggle with managing storage growth and cost. Part of the problem is the daunting task of managing storage from multiple vendors and aligning applications with the right storage and then being able to manage data growth, protection, and long-term data retention." The Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform and Network Storage Controller provide intelligent tiered storage by simplifying infrastructure and reducing costs throughout the enterprise storage network. Advanced virtualization capabilities ensure that these storage systems easily support tiered storage management for mission-critical applications, virtual tape libraries, and archiving. Read More...

Why Should You Care about Storage Virtualization?
Storage virtualization reduces IT and production resources needed to perform common tasks. The following areas are where storage virtualization aids performance: Data migration across systems. Advanced virtualization technology reduces business and IT environment risks and improves operational efficiencies. Migration takes less time, less staff, produces less errors and little to no impact on production systems. Strategic alignment of business applications with the storage infrastructure to interactively match application quality of service requirements. Remote replication from any-to-any system, including low-cost disk. Integration of low-cost disk storage into high performance environments. Consolidation of several diverse storage environments into a single storage area network (SAN). Optimization of current resources and processes, and greater utilization of existing storage assets. Read More...

Features Stories

Training
	Webinar: Creating Real-time Performance Alerts for Hitachi Tuning Manager Software - July 25, 2007 Read More...

	Hitachi Content Archive Platform Roadshow July 25: Boston July 26: Toronto Aug 1: Minneapolis Read More...

Marketing
	Meet Rapid Growth Needs with New Brocade 5000 Switch-Free Offer! For a limited time, buy a Brocade 5000 FC switch and get an 8-port POD license-Free! Read More...


	"Summer Migration"- TrueNorth^TM Partners will receive a substantial discount for their qualifying Universal Storage Platform and Network Storage Controller customers who upgrade existing Hitachi Volume Migration licenses to Tiered Storage Manager. Read More...


	The Hitachi Content Archiver Starter Offer - TrueNorth^TM Channel Partners May Include a FREE Ten Terabyte Hitachi Content Archive Platform Solution in Deals of One Million Dollars or More Read More...

Why sell HDS?
	Recently we reached out to one of our Hitachi partners and asked him why Relational Technology Solutions sells Hitachi. Here's what Dale Howerton had to say: Our partnership with Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) provides us with a workable supply model, one that enables Relational to better manage the associated risk of equity investment in storage products. By combining our supply capabilities with our leasing expertise, we are able to meet the needs of our customers and prospects. Overall, pursuing HDS deals lets us deliver incremental value and assist in further embedding Relational within organizations who appreciate our insight and support.

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