• Portal: A centralized location (the underlying database is embedded and includes licenses etc. for Oracle 11g).

• Data Collectors: For Hitachi Storage Viewer for Backup, the Data Collector interfaces with the underlying Backup Vendor Products (for example, NetBackup, TSM, NetWorker, HP Data Protector, or Backup Exec) using the standard published interfaces to that backup product. Likewise, for Hitachi Storage Viewer for Capacity , the Data Collector uses storage array mechanisms specific to each vendor’s storage system (for example, HDS, IBM, EMC Symmetrix, EMC CLARiiON, and NetApp). In addition, Host Resources data is acquired, as described in Managed Host Security. The data is parsed and packaged into Java objects; serialized into an HTTP or HTTPS data stream, compressed and sent over network via port 80 (HTTP) or port 443 (HTTPS) and inserted into the underlying Portal database.