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Taking the Right Approach working with large enterprises maintenance and upkeep of

A challenge was posed by the like E.ON IS means they the system has been reduced,
planned migration, however, understood our priorities and as now it can all be done
1-2-1
as it needed to be completed challenges well and had the through the Universal Storage
without any downtime for the technical know-how and Platform using one simple
business critical applications solutions to address them. interface. This means our IT
that were being migrated. “It They provided invaluable staff can focus their talents on
was so important that our onsite support throughout the more business critical projects
overhaul of the storage project.” and on driving innovation.”
environment did not have any
negative impact on the Reaping the Benefits By consolidating and
business,” Arrell says. “So we The storage team at E.ON IS virtualising its existing
spoke to consultants from UK could see improvements storage resources, E.ON IS UK
Hitachi Data Systems to clarify both for themselves and the has been able to reduce the
the options available to us. business immediately. costs involved in running its
P
ETER ARRELL They helped us evaluate our Throughout the migration IT environment while
storage requirements with the they received no reports of enhancing its performance.
goal of reducing our overall any degradation in performance
operational expenditure and or response time from any of “In the current economic
storage TCO while fitting our the users of the system, climate, making the most of
plans in with the overall showing that they had been the capacity we already have
business objectives.” successful in consolidating rather than investing in a lot
the environment without more hardware is the most
The resulting approach was impacting availability or sensible approach, and with
that E.ON IS UK leveraged service levels. Hitachi Data Systems help
Hitachi software products on we’ve managed to do just
a temporary basis, as a tool The enhanced performance of that. We’re getting more out
enabled service, to complete the consolidatedn platform of our storage environment
its storage restructuring. has resulted in improved now through more effective
response times for key tiering and administration,
Hitachi Tiered Storage business applications. with less operational cost,”
Manager software provided an says Arrell.
easy-to-use interface that At the same time, the greater
enabled the non-disruptive capacity available within the E.ON IS UK expects to make
movement of data volumes storage tiers means that E.ON use of Hitachi software on a
with complete transparency to IS UK is now in an even better tool enabled service basis in
the end user. Meanwhile, position to accommodate the the future as its storage
Hitachi Universal Volume further growth of its customer needs evolve. “We’ve found
Manager software was used base. that this model gives us
to enable the storage team to the best of both worlds,”
virtualise its tiered storage Another key benefit of the Arrell concludes. “We can
environment behind the new infrastructure is its benefit from the industry
Universal Storage Platform. simplified management. “The leading functionality that
efficiency of our storage Hitachi offers but only need
“We were really impressed by administrators and the to invest in it when we need
the dedication and expertise capacity of our estate has to, meaning we’re able to
of the consultants from been drastically improved operate our storage
Hitachi Data Systems who thanks to the virtualised, environment as economically
worked with us on the consolidated platform,” states as possible.”
migration,” comments Arrell. Arrell. “The time and skill set
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