Consulting

Providing consulting services for clinical trial projects is one of the main functions of CTC North, the aim of which is to give trial participants access to innovative treatments within the framework of quality assured trials.

This means the virtualisation of internal and external heterogeneous storage into one pool has finally been achieved. Customers can obtain the consolidation benefits of external storage virtualisation with the efficiencies and power and cooling advantages of thin provisioning in one integrated solution.

Everyone from mid-sized growing companies to the largest global organisations can now benefit from the industry’s highest performing and most scalable storage solution. It is backed by a set of storage and data services that includes thin provisioning with Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software, application-centric storage management and logical partitioning, as well as simplified, unified data replication across heterogeneous storage systems.

An integral component of the Hitachi Services Oriented Storage Solutions architecture, the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V provides the foundation for matching application requirements to different classes of storage.

The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V packages and delivers critical services such as:

• Virtualisation of storage from Hitachi and other vendors into one pool
• Thin provisioning through Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning for non-disruptive volume expansion
• Security services, business continuity services and content management services
• I/O load balancing to improve application performance
• Non-disruptive dynamic data migration from Hitachi and other storage systems

Hitachi Services Oriented Storage Solutions enable IT organisations to present business clients with a menu of storage attributes (such as performance, availability, cost and security) and charge for those services based on the client’s selection. They can lower costs, extend lifetime value and simplify management activities.

The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V enables you to deploy applications within a new framework, fully leverage and add value to current investments and more closely align IT with business objectives.