DOD data center consolidation driving virtual storage market

Grazed from DefenseSystems. AuthorL George Leopold.

As data centers are consolidated as a way to save money and improve network access, vendors that provide much of the plumbing for cloud computing and big data projects are emphasizing that plain vanilla storage technologies are growing in importance. As requirements grow exponentially, “where it gets a little cloudy is managing the storage” and accessing all that data on virtual and other networks in the cloud, said Mike Tanner, president and CEO of Hitachi Data Systems Federal Corp. in Reston, Va…

The new Hitachi unit spun off as subsidiary in April 2013 is promoting an array of storage virtualization and cloud approaches to speed initiatives like data center consolidation. Tanner said in an interview that storage virtualization approaches are one way to “take all that [stored data] and put it in one pool.”…

Hitachi claims its approach, the Virtual Storage Platform, communicates with servers and other devices to speed the migration of legacy data over to larger storage platforms in a matter of “weeks”. Tanner said the fourth generation of the Hitachi system along with other software management tools boost performance and improve utilization of storage capacity by as much as 50 percent. Lately, the federal vendor has been promoting a new approach called “Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere” that is intended to provide secure access to cloud storage from any device…

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