Beyond Unbreakable? Mythbusters Puts Hitachi Vantara Components to the Test

Mythbusters is known for testing all kinds of inventions and pushing technology to its extreme limits, to find how--and when—it breaks. See what happens when the Mythbusters Unbreakable? crew puts Hitachi Vantara VSP to the test by initiating 26 component failures.

  • October 26, 2023 | Author: Melanie McMullen
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When it comes to data infrastructure, downtime equals money not-well-spent. As a solution partner, you need to ensure that the components you recommend and manage in your customer’s storage infrastructure are not only reliable, but mostly unbreakable.

But what happens when a single piece of the infrastructure fails? Or worse yet, multiple pieces? Kari Byron of MythBusters fame stepped up to put Hitachi Vantara to the test. She initiated 26 component failures in a Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) storage system. Watch this Unbreakable? video to see what happened.

Achieving True Reliability

To help you dig even deeper into the importance of infrastructure reliability, keep watching after Mythbusters reveals its testing results to hear the complete on-demand webinar. Led by Hitachi Vantara Chief Technology Evangelist Greg Knieriemen, the webinar features a community roundtable of experts who describe their real-world experiences architecting and maintaining a sturdy data infrastructure. They share insights and best practices for keeping systems up and running, regardless of component failure.

Watch the video now.

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