Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Primary Use Case
I work for one of the largest commercial banks in Pakistan. We deploy Hitachi Virtual Storage in our primary data center and our remote disaster recovery site.
It is used for all banking applications like credit and debit card transactions, reconciliation, general ledger, etc.
The bank has thousands of users accessing more than 2,000 branches across the country. Everyone who accesses our core banking applications and online banking indirectly uses the Hitachi storage platform in our data center.
We are a partner with Hitachi, offering our customers a range of storage solutions, from midrange to enterprise, including products like VSP e590 and VSP e790. Additionally, we have recommended the VSP 5600 and VSP 5200 series to certain customers. All of these VSPs are deployed on-premises.
Our customers utilize the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform in their production environments, and several major banks in Pakistan employ this storage solution for their banking production software.
View full review »VSP systems run on our core OS as our storage recovery solutions, including SVOS (Storage Virtual Operating System).
We primarily use it for data stability and various hospital operations, including RMAs, patient responses, faxes, emails, and scheduling tasks.
We use primarily mid-range storage solutions like the VSP G350 or VSP G590.
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reviewer1241928
Head of Information Technology at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
We use Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform's 5500 series.
View full review »The product is used in our company since we have implemented a proxy server for our organization from Hitachi. With Hitachi, my company has dealt with the planning, implementation, and migration of the products. The migration was done specifically from our company's site. Hitachi provided the planning and implementation plans, and the full implementation process was carried out with the help of Hitachi's partner.
We primarily use the solution for storage for our customers.
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Carlos Villegas Martinez
Consultant at Telcel
It's for our internal network SAN for about 100 virtual machines. It's about the IOPS. We were looking for a model that would have enough IOPS for these types of virtual machines. IOPS and latency are very important for us because we are running an application, on these virtual machines, that deals with building and milliseconds are very important.
View full review »Our primary use case is a hybrid private cloud that includes generic server virtualization based on VMware ESXi. The second use case is workstation virtualization — virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). The third is database systems with IBM Power and IBM IX logical partitions.
View full review »For the banking sector, here in Pakistan, we deploy it as primary storage.
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Krishnamohan-Velpuri
Sr Consultant at T-Systems ICT India Pvt. Ltd
I use Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform for different applications in my company to ensure their good performance. I also use the tool for replication.
View full review »We're only using the F Series in our lab for hosting lab infrastructure for all our colleagues. We needed fast storage.
View full review »I am not an end user. I present the solution to customers. I study a customer's infrastructure and suggest a product based on the customer's needs, such as latency or IOPS performance. I usually work with VSP F700 and F900 models.
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reviewer1747287
IT-chef at a logistics company with 51-200 employees
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is used for our storage area network.
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Arun Mohanty
Associate Vice President at Yotta Infrastructure Solutions LLP
In addition to being a data center, we are a cloud service provider, so our E990 is connected to our cloud systems. In the cloud itself, we provide storage as a service to the customer from the Hitachi E990 boxes.
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reviewer1931157
Solution Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Here at Philips, we are using Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series for image history purposes, in particular, restoring high-resolution images for our customers.
View full review »I use this solution in the data center of the office of Mexico's Secretary of Education. I work with different hosts. In this case, it had to be HP-UX, Linux, and Windows. I work with the entire family of Hitachi hardware, but for this case, I work with the CBS500 and CB2500 Blade. I use all kinds of software, like Command Director and Device Manager.
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Celso Kuwajima
Engineer at Innovo
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series are used for mission-critical storage for large companies.
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Hugo Beltran
IT Infrastructure Manager at DISH
I am using the latest update to the solution?
The solution is very good when it comes to performance with the data center.
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reviewer931557
Storage Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
This product was used to store all of our production block requirements. We are now migrating to an all-flash storage system.
View full review »We use Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series for core products. We get new machines and move the data to new machines. In our organization, we have over 5,000 users.
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reviewer931557
Storage Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We used the G Series as our primary shared storage, SAN storage. It hosted all of the critical applications and databases.
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reviewer940044
Senior Manager -Datacenter Planning and Operations at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
One of the tasks that I have been working on is the consolidation of storage.
This product is one that we have used to consolidate our legacy systems, all formerly residing on older storage. We have it configured for 150 terabytes in size, which is sufficient for all of our legacy applications.
It is also responsible for replication from our production site to DR site.
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reviewer1685604
Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series for hard disk replication.
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Opsservicemgr67
Senior Manager Operational Services at Orange
We use the private cloud version.
View full review »We use the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series as a storage solution in our organization.
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Dragoslav Milosevic
System Engineer at S&T Crna Gora d.o.o.
Our primary use case in our company is as a reseller of the product. We don't have any Hitachi equipment solutions ourselves for production. We sell storage equipment to clients.
Popular usage for our clients is for email storage in telecall centers and for high-performance data storage and utilization.
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Russell Peat
Solutions Consultant at Revera Limited
We use this solution primarily within our large IaaS platform for All-Purpose Storage, Tiered Storage, Storage Replication, and non-disruptive Data Mobility between storage tiers. It is an ideal device for secure multi-tenanting and those hosting many clients.
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Armando Carlos Monroy
Storage and Backups Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are a data center located in Mexico. We use a wide array of storage solutions from different companies. Our largest storage installation is on Hitachi.
We use this solution to share storage between our cloud environments. We have a VMware Cloud in each of our data centers with two locations in Mexico City. We have a replica between these two sites. We also have another Cloud Suite for OpenStack.
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StorageV1ba6
Storage & Virtualization Team Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
This machine was being used in the DMZ area of the company. It was isolated. The external users were something around 4.5 million customers. I don't know if every one of them uses the machine, but this machine is the gateway to the website and host application.
To install and do maintenance on this machine at this scale was a one person job. It was a storage admin for this use case. If I look only at that solution, it's not a full-time job.
We increased the capacity of the solution one year after we initially bought it. Before I left my last job, one of the decisions I made was to change the solution to another platform in this environment. It was also out of warranty. They're still using this appliance, but they need to migrate out of it to another solution.
It may be a newer version of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series or a new solution from another vendor. It depends on the product features and total cost.
It's the public sector, so everything is running on a bid process. The suppliers bid to give a better offer to win the opportunity. Hitachi came up with a better deal and pricing.
The company is opening up opportunities for vendors. The vendors that supply the solution at the lowest prices win the bidding. It's a public sector or government contract. There was special pricing in this case since it's the government sector.
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Giorgi Luarsabishvili
Sales Engineer at Orient Logic
We use the platform for virtualization purposes.
View full review »Our primary use case of this solution is for bug detection.
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Mahdi Bahmani
Solution Architect, IT Consultant at Merdasco - Rayan Merdas Data Prosseccing
We are a solution provider and I work with a lot of different SAN products, depending on the needs of the customers. we have implemented this solution, as well as the G series, for some of our clients.
I have a project right now that involves revising and fine-tuning a storage network. This network contains two Hitatch VSP G Series units. There is not a major difference between the F Series and the G Series. Both of them are enterprise-scale and efficient for many data centers. It is used as primary storage in industries such as banking, automotive, health care, and insurance. Large companies, or companies that have an IBM mainframe.
If the solution requires a very high IO/s (Input/Output per second) with sub-millisecond response time then they should select the F Series because it has better performance.
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MehdiRezayi
Storage Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Our primary use case of this solution is to monitor the use of products from other vendors. Its firmware is very compatible.
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ChiefSystemEngineer9
Chief System Engineer at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
My primary use case of this solution is for storage. I have a gateway to H-Net, which is where all my file systems are, and I have all my virtual environments on this solution.
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Mahdi Bahmani
Solution Architect, IT Consultant at Merdasco - Rayan Merdas Data Prosseccing
The primary use case of this solution is for storage in some industries such as banking, automotive, healthcare, and insurance companies. It is for large companies or companies with a large mainframe such as an IBM mainframe. Our primary use case was for core banking.
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Reza Behravesh
Senior Customer Service Engineer at DP IRAN
We primarily use the solution for data storage and processing.
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reviewer1480734
Senior technical and storage expert at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Our primary use case for the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is for storing data from the Oracle database. Additionally, it is for banking and other transactions.
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reviewer893490
Technical Consultant at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
We are a distributor and we sell storage solutions, including the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. We do not work with this solution in the company.
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reviewer1447320
CISO at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The primary use is as a SAN device for my ERP solution, as well as for my Windows Servers.
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Kobus Almon
Chief Technology Officer at perfekt
It is unstructured storage. We are using the latest version of this solution.
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reviewer1458846
Team Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use this product for everything. It's a maximum workload. We use the rackmount for virtual workloads, databases, applications, centralized workflows, Hadoop, and Big Data.
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March 2024
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