A Strategic Blueprint to Increase Return on Assets: A Global Financial Institution Case Study by Hitachi Data Systems
One of the world's leading global financial institutions (GFI), distressed by the economic downturn and challenged with increasing shareholder value, was looking for ways to optimize its data center strategy. In particular, the GFI was looking for a strategic partner offering long term support for a cross platform storage consolidation and reclamation strategy that involved nearly 2,000 servers and 76 EMC frames located in multiple regions around the world.
The GFI contracted with Hitachi Data Systems for a two-phase technology refresh as part of the Storage Reclamation Service. The client's storage challenges included underutilized storage capacity, allocated but unused storage a...