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The Lightning 9900 Series
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.
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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.
Business Benefit
Increased IT Accelerated
service levels Simplified IT deployment of
in availability operations new applications
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 for the
Lightning 9900
™
Series