The implications of the current economic downturn are far reaching and multifaceted, affecting everything we do. The influence of economic pressures can certainly be felt in the IT industry, prompting IT professionals to make a top priority out of evaluating and analyzing contemporary storage challenges in a shifting economic landscape.

Hitachi Data Systems addresses these storage challenges by offering the Hitachi USP family of enterprise-class storage systems. One of the most compelling aspects of the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform is that it supports a capabilty called external storage virtualization, which helps extend intelligence, reliability, scalability, performance, a...