Hitachi Freedom Storage™ And Hitachi Freedom Data Networks - Acer HDS AMS200 Reference Manual

1.1.6 Hitachi Freedom Storage™ and Hitachi Freedom Data Networks™
Hitachi Data Systems' end-to-end Storage Solutions give you the freedom to locate storage
wherever it makes the greatest business sense to do so and protect your investment in
currently installed components. Made possible by the advent and proliferation of high-speed
technologies, storage area networks break the traditional server/storage bond and enable
total connectivity. As a result, you can consolidate large storage pools shareable across the
enterprise, centralize management, and dramatically improve storage utilization while
reducing costs.
Hitachi Data Systems' Storage Solutions enable you to increase data availability, counter
spiraling information management costs, and take advantage of the speed and flexibility of
Storage technology. In addition to supporting the Storage Networking Industry Association's
open-systems standards, HDS Storage Solutions reduce total cost of ownership by minimizing
support costs and downtime, and optimizing server and storage configurations.
The benefits of Hitachi Data Systems' Storage Solutions include:
Server/storage system scalability.
Improved information access.
Enhanced application/backup performance.
Increased resource manageability and reliability.
Higher availability.
Hitachi Freedom Data Networks™ (FDN) responds to the challenge of open architecture and
multiple platforms. FDN is the locus of Hitachi's long-term vision for offering businesses
complete freedom of choice in establishing data-centric enterprise networks, encompassing
storage, switches, servers, management software, protocols, services, and networks
developed by Hitachi, our alliance partners, and third party providers.
FDN facilitates:
Consolidation of server and storage resources.
Data sharing across the enterprise.
Centralized resource and data management.
Superior data security.
Increased availability and scalability.
Business continuity and disaster recovery.
For further information on Freedom Storage and Freedom Data Networks, please contact
your Hitachi Data Systems account team, or visit Hitachi Data Systems online at
www.hds.com.
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