Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) vs. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

Hitachi SVOS is well suited for all environment in todays world. Storage plays a pivot role in all services provided in the current digital age. The Hitachi SVOS along with their blade proides magnificient perfromance boost which is not comparable to any vendors. Companies which has a huge database should consider this an option to evaluate. In addition orgnization who has a highly virtualized enviroment could also look at this product during their evaluation stage. This product is less benfit due to its cost in an environment where they have more number of physical servers as there are other solution which can be leveraged at a lower costs as they would not be utilizing the full feature set provided by the appliance

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Saves hours of staff time copying data from one Disk Array/Block Storage to newer system without impacting the servers that are using the SAN. We have virtualized storage like VMware/HyperVee virtualizes servers. Takes the complications out of being a SAN administrator.

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• Intergreation of legancy storage solutions
• Single pane for future storage configurations
• Amazing replication capability for disaster recovery purposes

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• Provision drives over fiber and/or iSCSI connections
• Perform volume replications between 2 storages efficiently
• The ability to virtualize other storage and make it easy to provision

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• Ease of use can be increased so that SMB segment could leverage without the need of having a storage administrator
• Firmware upgrade for the legancy storage device from HSVOS pane

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• Costly but worth every dime in staff hours saved
• Each generation has its limits on Fibre Channel speed it supports and one must upgrade the nodes to get to higher speeds
• User Interface is now light speed ahead of where it started.

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The equipment is easy to configure, implement and manage, it does not require investing a lot of time to manage them since they are very reliable and secure.The equipment is easy to configure, implement and manage, and does not require a lot of time to manage it as it is very reliable and secure.Its components are not easily damaged and any alert that occurs can be quickly corrected without interrupting services.

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There is definitely no comparison to any of the products when comparing to Hitachi SVOS. I beleieve this is the only unique product which can leverage older storage systems. Dell Avamar can be a great product if you are considering DR replication alone. The DR replication ratio is quite high in Dell avamar. However given that the current bandwidth available outweights this benefit

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IBM Spectrum Protect Virtualize beats ALL competition hands down, and one does not need to deal with the complications that are put into some of the Disk Array/ block Storage systems. Excellent Storage management and can see performance of your SAN that goes thru it easily.

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• It is quite an expensive solution compared to other vendors so we cant expect a ROI within 3 years time as always.
• 3 years has been a standard ROI review, however storage solution like Hitachi SVOS are meant to lasts for a longer period like 6 years in my consideration.
• However, this solution provides a great benefit to make use of legacy appliances.

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• Positively, it has generated good initial sales for us and with proper management, the growth of application operations generates more services to manage.
• Positively, the growth of the operation has also helped the team to update its capabilities in order to grow.
• The only possible disadvantage is that since the equipment is very reliable and durable, technological change is not easy to make. Clients prefer to grow the equipment while they can rather than make a complete change, but even so, the time comes when all this produces more services.

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