Configuring storage from an iPad might be novel, but it isn’t where the true value and impact of storage management mobility lies. Our iPad app is all about putting more specific insight right at the finger tips of administrators so they have immediate insight wherever they are.

1. HITACHI COMMAND
SUITE FOR IPAD APP
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2. SHIFT IN HOW STORAGE IS MANAGED,
AND FROM WHERE
IDC: Mobility drives the shift
−IDC Web Conference, January 2012
Worldwide Storage Top 10 Predictions
Worldwide Consumer and Commercial Share of
Device Shipments by Device Type, 2011

3. HITACHI COMMAND SUITE FOR IPAD APP
Hitachi Command Suite for iPad App provides a global
management dashboard to monitor storage service levels for
business applications across your Hitachi storage environment
Key capabilities
 Data center visibility to monitor the operation
and status of all your storage systems
 Business application compliance to required
service levels of capacity and performance
 Chargeback to consumers or business units for
service levels delivered
 Capacity planning to efficiently utilize existing
storage resources and properly plan for future
growth

4. HITACHI COMMAND SUITE FOR IPAD APP:
KEY USER INITIATIVES
Storage
Environment
Dashboard
Application
Virtual
Service Level
Infrastructure
Objective
Insights
Monitoring
Application
Current Storage Service Level
Capacity Views Violation
Investigation

5. STORAGE ENVIRONMENT DASHBOARD
Global
dashboard of
system health
and application
service levels

6. APPLICATION SERVICE LEVEL
OBJECTIVE MONITORING
Observe storage Monitor application
service level storage service
compliance of level objectives
business over the past 24
applications hours

7. APPLICATION SERVICE LEVEL VIOLATION
INVESTIGATION
View application
storage
performance
snapshots for
possible causes of
a service level
violation

8. CURRENT STORAGE CAPACITY VIEWS
View current
storage capacity
allocation and
utilization rates

9. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE INSIGHTS
Virtual machine
capacity insights
(used, free%, etc)
within VMware
datastores

10. HITACHI COMMAND SUITE FOR IPAD APP
Delivers new levels of mobile access for data center management
visibility with application service level compliance and storage
system health monitoring from virtually anywhere
 Universal monitoring of current operating status for mission-critical
applications and the supporting storage infrastructure
 Simplify system monitoring for lower operational costs
 Ensure application-specific service level objectives are being monitored
and met around the clock
 Consolidate monitoring for all Hitachi storage environments
 Decrease time and effort for effective performance monitoring and
troubleshooting

11. THANK YOU