17 May 2008
ANS Group Plc Headquarters

Storage Solutions - Hitachi


Optimise storage infrastructure, align business and IT, simplify storage management and meet your application and budget requirements.

Are you faced with the challenge of supporting business applications, while managing complex storage infrastructures and tight budgets? We know your business runs on applications - strategic applications that are critical to your growth. Therefore we've taken a strategic approach to storage, based on how applications use data. Our Application Optimised Storage solutions enable you to match your application requirements to storage attributes and provide application-centric management capabilities built on advanced software, industry-leading Hitachi storage systems, and a portfolio of services

New Simple Modular Storage 100

Small and medium businesses need to store, manage and protect their digital data, while managing their cost structure with limited resources.

Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100 is a powerful storage system that allows you to install, manage and backup your data easily. The wizard-driven user interface allows you to be up and running quickly, and enterprise technology such as RAID-6 provides full redundancy of your data for enhanced data protection.

Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100, a plug-and-play storage solution designed for the small and medium business, is affordable, easy to manage and maintain, and does not require storage expertise.

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It's not just Storage ... It's Hitachi Storage

ANS Group recognise that small and medium-sized businesses face storage challenges much like larger enterprises, but with reduced budget, staff, and data center space. For these customers, HDS offers solutions built on modular, cost-effective storage systems.

4TB Useable Fast Disk, Installed and Supported for £18,500
2TB Useable SATA Disk, installed and Supported for £8,000


Reduce your total cost of ownership. Simplify management of storage assets and infrastructure in heterogeneous environments. And enjoy the benefits of working with a partner who will understand that applications drive your business:

  • Leverage information/data value via a virtualised, heterogeneous, multi-tier storage infrastructure supported by common management tools.
  • Use a single set of data services for all migration, replication, backup, and security needs throughout the lifecycle of data.
  • Handle any application (databases, messaging, file systems, ERP, and CRM) that provides index, store, search, and retrieve capabilities
  • Correlate the availability of business-critical applications with storage network provisioning, capacity, performance, availability, and monitoring.
  • Simplify storage management with our portfolio of education and consulting services that will maximize your IT investment.
Managing data to support your business

Demands from stewardship of data in large enterprises increase daily. Fast growing information assets-critical to business operations must be responsibly preserved and available to support a spectrum of business needs. Hitachi Data Systems offers a range of proven best-in-class enterprise storage solutions that meet a variety of your most critical business data management needs.

Business Issues

As an enterprise storage class leader, Hitachi Data Systems is focused on storage solutions to match your most demanding business and IT requirements.

Whether it's reducing costs and streamlining operations, driving improved business continuity, or protecting your information assets, and more-we offer class-leading solutions.

Business Continuity

Helps enterprise organisations maintain functionality and avoid costly down time

Tiered Storage

Simplify infrastructure and reduce costs throughout the entire enterprise storage network

Storage Consolidation

Provides cost effective approach to accommodate vastly increasing data storage

Storage Management

Supports improvement of the quality of flexible data services your business needs

Regulatory Compliance

Helps mitigate the risk of non conformance and simplifies the management process

Controlling IT Expenses

Helps control IT budgets under pressure while still delivering critical services

Managing Storage Growth

Aligns business applications with storage infrastructure while reducing costs and boosting service levels

Matching Storage to Application Needs

More closely aligns storage infrastructure with enterprise application needs


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