Hitachi Data Systems White Paper Sample

Today’s business climate demands greater responsiveness of IT infrastructure in order to satisfy customer, regulatory and supplier mandates. In turn, administrators require more stringent performance, availability and recovery processes, and a way to manage the infrastructure effectively. But wide acceptance of server virtualization and other consolidation technologies, along with deployment of sophisticated business applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer resource planning (CRM), have accelerated the complexity of many IT environments.

This trend is not limited to large enterprises as even mid-market organizations struggle to compete in the marketplace and improve IT and budget efficiencies. As the typical data center grows in complexity, administrators are challenged to monitor more devices and applications with fewer resources and with tools that may not be adequate for the job at hand. Most IT administrators in mid-market data centers tend to be generalists rather than specialists in separate data center technologies and are seeking ways to ease the escalating burden of monitoring sophisticated systems and tools.

This “efficiency gap” between requirements and resources drives the need for smarter and simpler ways to gain visibility into the system availability and performance across the data center. Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer software offers a paradigm shift in the way administrators can view and manage performance and availability of heterogeneous servers, networks and storage with the Topological List View.