Case Study: Admont Monastery achieves 40% lower storage utilization and 99.999% data availability with Hitachi Vantara unified storage and data protection

Work Across Industries Requires a Move From the Library to Today’s Data Storage and Management

Admont Monastery, a 940‑year‑old Benedictine institution active in agriculture, forestry, tourism, real estate and social services, faced rapidly growing, dispersed and legacy data—much of it migrated from its historic library—requiring a single, reliable supplier to modernize storage, backup and file services. Hitachi Vantara was chosen to provide a unified, single‑vendor solution including Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS), Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS), Hitachi Compute Blade servers and the Hitachi Data Protection Suite.

Hitachi Vantara implemented HUS 110, HNAS, Compute Blade hardware and Hitachi Data Protection Suite to deliver 100 TB of shared storage plus a 5 TB application server, redundant CIFS access, snapshots and consolidated backup (including notebooks and external servers). The deployment delivered higher availability (targeting 99.999%), space‑saving snapshots and deduplication that reduced utilization by about 40%, simplified management and provided faster, scalable backups and day‑to‑day operations.

Admont Monastery

Hannes Brottrager

Head of IT