SANTA CLARA, USA: Storage service provider Hitachi Data Systems Corporation introduced a nondisruptive migration service capability that migrates from Hitachi enterprise storage to Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP).

"In today's business climate, organizations need to accelerate innovation and reduce operational expenses to increase their competitiveness," said Hu Yoshida, vice president and CTO, Hitachi Data Systems. "Only HDS provides the migration capabilities to eliminate downtime while dramatically reducing the risks and costs associated with adopting new technologies.

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Nondisruptive migration by Hitachi allows organizations to reduce risk, eliminate business disruption, and manage migration processes across multivendor storage systems, resulting in 90 percent less effort compared to industry averages, claims the storage vendor in a release.

"The key to achieving this capability is that virtualization, specifically our proven Hitachi controller-based storage virtualization, is at the core of our new service and gives us distinct advantages in efficiency and cost effectiveness. By leveraging our new nondisruptive migration service capabilities, organizations can more efficiently manage migration processes to meet business requirements through a comprehensive methodology that addresses the people, process and technology involved in the transition," Yoshida added.