Hitachi BladeSymphony 
Hitachi believes an
IT system should automatically adapt to the requirements of radically
changing businesses environments. A product which crosses over the
framework boundaries of existing server, storage, network products,
eliminating burdens such as construction, implementation, and
maintenance which emerge with a complicated large scale systems,
offering the diversity and flexibility of an open system focusing on
the vital core needs of our customers businesses. This new concept is
Hitachi’s new integrated service platform BladeSymphony.
BladeSymphony
is a server, storage, and network integrated product inheriting its
core expertise from our line of highly reliable mainframe platforms
bound together by our management software solution. Hitachi’s platform
will adapt and accommodate to our customer’s ever changing businesses
environment focused on the core of their business and ROI.
Together
with the growing needs of your business, the BladeSymphony can expand
server, storage, and network hardware resources and support
configuration changes in a unified manner with our management
middleware solution. Since resources are modularized, initial
configurations for deployment and future expansion can be implemented
quickly and with minimal cost. Network configuration changes and
network expansion can be supported through our management software,
which is achieved due to the integration of the network platform.
Storage is shared entirely within the system and therefore expansion
and support of any new businesses can be easily accomplished with the
existing resources. A DB layer is also integrated for expansion
flexibility of mission critical data.
BladeSymphony can
also realize easy and customer friendly operation management on the
enterprise area. In respect of the performance improvement,
BladeSymphony supports up to 8-way Symmetric Multi Processor (SMP) on
the Itanium® Processor Family (IPF) Server Module. Transaction recovery
with a standby server and high-speed switchover for hot-standby secure
the reliability and availability of the system.
By such high
performance and high availability features, BladeSymphony can be
applied from small department office systems to large back-end systems.
BladeSymphony adds value to your business taking into
consideration and accommodating unforeseen and unexpected business
changes and growth.