Global Financial Services Institution Eliminates Downtime with

USE CASE
Global Financial Services Institution Eliminates Downtime
With Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000
Challenges
■■ Continuous
availability and continuity
of services to customers.
■■ Real-time
performance.
■■ Information
compliance and security.
Solution
■■ Hitachi
Virtual Storage Platform G1000.
■■ Hitachi
Storage Virtualization Operating System.
■■ Hitachi
TrueCopy synchronous remote
replication software.
■■ Hitachi
Thin Image.
Benefits
■■ 100%
uptime.
■■ Increased
customer satisfaction and
competitive advantage.
■■ Increased
productivity.
■■ Simplified
compliance.
The Industry’s Only Active-Active Platform Increases
Productivity and Simplifies Compliance
Introduction
Continuous availability and real-time performance have long been the goal for
banks and other financial institutions. Customers, partners and employees all
expect and depend on 24/7 uptime. However, despite heavy ongoing investments, the top 15 U.S. banks experienced twice as much downtime in 2013
as they did in 20121.
A leading financial institution addressed its availability challenges with Hitachi
Virtual Storage Platform G1000 (VSP G1000), the latest version of the industryleading Hitachi VSP family. VSP G1000 provides a completely redundant,
trusted and highly available storage infrastructure that has enabled the financial
institution to achieve the promise of an always-on environment. The solution
has also reduced overhead costs and simplified compliance efforts.
Challenges: Slow, Interrupted Services
Financial services institutions depend on real-time, uninterrupted access to information: It is the lifeblood of their businesses. Slow trades, ATM network delays,
transaction interruptions and downtime of any sort inhibits productivity, upsets
customers, creates compliance issues and ultimately harms the bottom line.
A global financial services institution had long struggled to eliminate downtime
and improve business continuity, but overhead costs continued to rise as the
company added more siloed solutions. The company eventually recognized
that continuing with this approach would only lead to even greater scalability,
performance and manageability challenges in the months and years to come.
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USE CASE
Instead, the company chose to upgrade to
a more flexible, scalable and reliable storage
solution: Hitachi VSP G1000.
Solution: Hitachi VSP G1000
VSP G1000 is a highDiscover
performance disk storage
VSP
system that builds on and
G1000
enhances the virtualization,
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performance, dynamic
provisioning and replication
capabilities of the previous-generation VSP.
For the financial company, VSP G1000
established a solid, proven hardware foundation that has been tested to provide
extreme availability. With scalability of up
to 16 virtual storage directors and 2TB of
single-image global cache, VSP G1000
outperforms other enterprise-class systems.
VSP G1000 also gives the company room
to grow while adding fewer devices and
simplifying disaster recovery efforts.
VSP G1000 is the industry’s only activeactive platform, and will soon offer multisite,
active-active computing. This capability will
enable the company to have 2 data centers
operating synchronously, for the ultimate
level of data protection.
On top of VSP G1000, the company implemented Hitachi TrueCopy synchronous
remote replication software. TrueCopy
synchronous remote replication provides
a host-independent, continuous, nondisruptive remote data replication solution for
data protection, disaster recovery and data
migration. Hitachi Thin Image snapshot
further enables the company to quickly
and easily copy data with its asynchronous
operation and ability to generate up to 1,024
point-in-time snapshot copies.
All the software runs on Hitachi Storage
Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
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software. SVOS provides and manages
user-defined nondisruptive data migration
workflows between storage tiers and between
virtualized physical systems among and
across data centers for true workload mobility.
Benefits: No Downtime,
Simplified Compliance
The benefits of an always-on infrastructure are trickling down into all areas of the
financial company’s business. Perhaps
most importantly, over the long term the
improved service and lack of downtime
is building customer satisfaction and a
competitive advantage.
More immediately, the highly available infrastructure is increasing employee productivity
and simplifying compliance efforts. Analysts,
traders and others now have full access to
the real-time data they need at all times,
with no downtime or slowdowns to impede
their performance. Proving compliance is
also easier and faster because the business
is running reliably 24/7.
Looking ahead, the company will be able to
upgrade to multisite, active-active computing, which will provide 1 image consisting
of 2 physical infrastructure sites. Even when
natural disasters or other unexpected issues
cause downtime at one data center, the
company will be able to continue providing
the uninterrupted service upon which the
business depends.
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Highlights of Hitachi Virtual
Storage Platform G1000
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100% availability guarantee.
Active-active platform for all data
types.
Petabyte-scale performance of
more than 3 million transactions per
second.
Scalability up to 16 virtual storage
directors and 2TB of single-image
global cache.
■■
Global clustering.
■■
Nondisruptive upgrades.
■■
Nondisruptive data movement, copy
and migration.
Conclusion
provides 100% availability, high performance,
continuous data replication and nondisruptive
data migration.
With Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000,
the global financial services company has
upgraded to the highest-performing, most
robust hardware platform on the market
today. When combined with associated
software running on Hitachi Storage
Virtualization Operating System, the solution
Building a foundation based on VSP G1000
also provides the company with a clear
path forward. Active-active computing is a
built-in, native solution, and all Hitachi technologies will be easily upgradable to ensure
even greater assurance of data availability
and security in the years ahead.
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