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Hitachi
Data Systems Survey Helps to Shape Winning Storage A whopping 88% of the CIOs interviewed confirmed this fact that formed a part of the results of a survey conducted by Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions. Technology heads taking part in the survey from across Asia Pacific unanimously agreed that IT is embedded closely in all business operations, which make leveraging IT efficiently a critical task. The survey results also revealed several key findings that raise valuable insights on the synergy between the business and the technology environment. Improving operational effectiveness (86%) and reducing cost of infrastructure (74%) are the most popular factors that determine IT spend. Improving competitive position and value-added service from vendors trailed at 64% and 52% respectively as deciding factors for an organisation’s IT spend. On the topic of storage solutions spend amidst the turmoil in the money markets, 57% of the CIOs stated that they would not reduce their storage investments. Managing costs (69%) and allocation of storage resources (52%) are the most critical tasks to be achieved in the uncertain economic climate, while a centralised approach to business is the single-most important factor that defines business success according technology decision-makers. Building a convincing business argument to justify storage investments (52%) and doing more with current assets (50%) were two most sought after needs from a technology vendor, going into 2009. “In these uncertain economic times, the reality is IT budgets will continue to get scrutinised, even though data continues to grow rapidly and expectations on service levels continue to increase on IT. Companies require a value-added storage solution that can improve their operational efficiency while reducing total infrastructure costs. Hitachi Data Systems is committed to partnering with customers to help them “do more with less” and win in the downturn,” said Johnson Khoo, Managing Director, Hitachi Data Systems Malaysia. Hitachi Data Systems’ services oriented storage solutions are built on a market-proven storage platform, which when combined with Hitachi’s controller-based storage virtualisation technology, can be easily deployed to externally attached, multi-vendor storage devices. Customers gain many measurable benefits including storage consolidation, improved utilisation of assets, reduced TCO, and a lower environmental footprint, across the enterprise. Supported by best-in-breed storage solutions and by leveraging technologies such as virtualisation, dynamic tiered storage, dynamic provisioning, de-duplication and active archive, Hitachi Data Systems is focused on enabling organisations to better align their infrastructures to their business objectives. The services oriented approach to storage helps customers to drive significant return on their investments and storage assets, achieve genuine operational expense savings, and gain control and governance over their unstructured data environments. The survey was conducted when senior IT representatives of top enterprises across Asia Pacific attended the Hitachi Data Systems Asia Pacific CIO Summit at Cebu, the Philippines, in early November 2008. The Summit served as an opportunity for senior IT management from across the region to meet and share insights with each other. |
