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Hitachi Data Systems & Bright Cloud Case Study
Case Study of the Hitachi Data Systems implementation in to Bright Cloud. BrightCloud provides flexible managed solutions including hosted applications, on-demand computing, virtualisation, online backup, business continuity and network optimisation. The services are managed by the customer or by the company’s expert in-house team. As businesses have had to reduce IT budgets, BrightCloud has taken the lead as a quality Managed Service Provider (MSP), able to reduce costs and improve IT reliability for its clients. BrightCloud was acquired by Open Reality in 2009 and is using subsequent investment to open new UK data centres. The acquisition has enabled Open Reality to offer virtual services to its own client base through BrightCloud.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Hitachi Data Systems |
| Technology: | Data Centres |
| Technology: | Virtualisation |
Victoria and Albert Museum
As the world’s largest art and design museum, the Victoria and Albert takes its responsibility to share its collection with the public very seriously. It developed a Digital Asset Management system to build a digital image archive of all collection pieces and needed a robust, scalable and easy-tomanage storage platform to support it. The Hitachi Data Systems solution it deployed will enable scalability for up to seven years and fits perfectly with its business continuity and disaster recovery strategy.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Hitachi Data Systems |
| Technology: | Storage |
Rothschild
As one of the world’s most prestigious financial organisations, Rothschild understands the need to ensure that its customer service is second to none. To enable employees to communicate quickly and effectively with each other and clients, the bank upgraded the storage platform that underpinned its Microsoft® Exchange environment. It implemented a tiered storage solution featuring hardware, software and services from Hitachi Data Systems. The increased capacity and performance have minimised wait time for employees receiving e-mail and creating documents, especially when they are using mobile devices to access the server.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Hitachi Data Systems |
| Technology: | Storage |
Norwich Union
As part of one of the world’s largest insurance groups, Norwich Union holds vast amounts of unstructured client data. Its various business groups have tough IT requirements, presenting the team managing the infrastructure with the complex challenge of administering and allocating resources efficiently. In order to optimise IT budget and guarantee a reliable and flexible storage estate, Norwich Union migrated its platform to a complete solution from Hitachi Data Systems. It has seen immediate reductions in time and costs spent managing its growing data assets.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Hitachi Data Systems |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Media |
Kennedys
Accelerated business growth at insurance law firm Kennedys has resulted in new offices and an influx of lawyers and other staff worldwide. Consolidation of its London offices to a new headquarters in London provided the ideal opportunity to upgrade its core IT infrastructure to meet the firm’s changing IT demands and future requirements. As part of a data centre overhaul, Kennedys deployed a Hitachi Data Systems storage solution to support both its escalating data requirements and business continuity. The new disaster recovery plan alone has saved it £200,000 per year.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Hitachi Data Systems |
| Technology: | Storage |
E.ON IS
E.ON IS UK, founded in January 2006, is a subsidiary of E.ON IS GmbH. With a team of over 400 employees, E.ON IS UK is the IT shared service provider for E.ON UK. Keen to optimise the energy efficiency of its data centre and create a virtualised, easyto-manage storage environment, it worked with Hitachi Data Systems to devise a migration strategy. By incorporating additional capacity and using Hitachi software to migrate data, it has simplified its storage management and improved its business performance.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Hitachi Data Systems |
| Technology: | Storage |
BT Retail - a BT Business Group
As it evolved from the world’s oldest communications company to one of the leading providers of communications solutions across the globe, BT Group plc (formerly British Telecommunications plc) has always been at the forefront of innovative communication services. When BT Retail, one of its group businesses, introduced a new portfolio of consumer Internet products and services, it selected Hitachi Data Systems to help manage its storage demands.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Hitachi Data Systems |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Retail |
Bishop Burton College
Campus expansion and the ever-increasing generation of electronic data led Bishop Burton College, an education institute in the North of England, to invest, re-design, and centralize management of its data storage network. With the Plug-and-play SAN Kit for Hitachi TagmaStore® Modular Storage, Hitachi Data Systems provided a scalable and robust solution, supporting future growth and making it possible for Bishop Burton College to reduce IT costs and efficiently allocate storage resources.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Hitachi Data Systems |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Education |
Atos Origin Meets Challenging Utility-Managed Service Requirements for Leading Health Care Organisation
As a leading international IT services company, Atos Origin takes seriously its responsibility to deliver continuously improved offerings for both new and existing clients in order to stay at the head of the market. As part of supplying consulting, systems integration, and managed operations to a major UK health care provider over an initial seven year period, Atos Origin sought Hitachi Data Systems’ support in implementing an innovative IT storage architecture to meet its customer’s changing demands and industry challenges.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Hitachi Data Systems |
| Technology: | Storage |
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