Hitachi Accelerates Customers’ Hybrid Cloud Initiatives With Enhanced Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Offerings
Hitachi Accelerates Customers’ Hybrid Cloud Initiatives
With Enhanced Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Offerings
New Hitachi
UCP RS Offering Integrates VMware Cloud Foundation
To Simplify
Hybrid Cloud Journey
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), a wholly owned
subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501) and VMware Global Innovation OEM Partner
of the Year, today announcedHitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP)RS series,a fully integrated, software-defined data center
(SDDC) rack-scale platform, powered by VMware Cloud Foundation™. Hitachi UCP RS enables customers to embrace hybrid cloud for
faster time to market and pay-as-you-go economics.It also gives customers the
freedom to optimize their IT investments by leveraging private and public cloud
as an agile extensionto their business.UCP RS provides
flexibility to customers to either deploy integrated SDDC stack or build their
own using Hitachi’s vSAN ready node and VMware software.
Alongside the launch of Hitachi UCP RS, the company
has enhanced its hyperconverged system Unified Compute Platform (UCP) HC. Hitachi UCP HC all-flash and hybrid systems are now enabled with
non-volatile memory (NVMe) and new sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable
Processors to deliver faster performance and reduced operating costs,
maximizing business value for customers. This enhancement allows for higher
performance, lower latency and accelerated workloads through the use of modern
data center technology.
John
Gilmartin, vice president and general manager, Integrated Systems, VMware said,
“Hitachi’s strong track record of innovation led them to be recognized as
VMware Global Innovation OEM Partner of the Year at VMware Partner Leadership
Summit 2017. This new Hitachi UCP RS solution powered by VMware Cloud
Foundation is no exception. The solution improves productivity, delivers faster
time to business value and accelerates the customer’s ability to realize the
true power of their data.”
“Open
questions exist regarding the extent to which advances in SDI technology can
support a common virtual data center foundation upon which improved end-to-end
IT service interoperability, resilience, elasticity and agility across a hybrid
cloud infrastructure can be effectively realized,” according to Market Trends:
Software-Defined Infrastructure — Who Can Benefit? (Gartner, June 2017). In addition,
the report states that, “Given the
current state of public cloud service deployment and the maturity state of SDI,
one of two options is possible: The first is an application-independent, common
virtual data center infrastructure that can run atop an existing private data
center infrastructure, a public cloud service or a combination of the two. This
variation is called infrastructure-upward.”
Understanding
the new demands placed on IT by data center modernization initiatives, Hitachi
has collaborated with VMware to develop the fully integrated, turnkey Hitachi
UCP RS system to deliver reliable IT infrastructure for hybrid cloud
deployments. Hitachi UCP RS also helps to minimize the complexity and guesswork
of deploying and managing IT by uniquely automating provisioning, managing and
monitoring for SDDCs, giving customers a competitive advantage, and delivering
faster time to market and high availability of business applications.
“Our deep,
collaborative partnership with VMware has led to the creation of powerful
systems and innovative solutions that help our customers modernize their IT
environments and put data at the center of their business,”said Bob Madaio, vice
presidentof Integrated Solution Marketing at Hitachi. “With the launch ofour
UCP RS in addition to advancements in our hyperconverged UCP HC, Hitachi is
empowering our customers to transform their IT environments, accelerate hybrid
cloud deployments and further their digital business initatives.”
Hitachi
UCP Portfolio
The UCP family of converged, hyperconverged and rack-scale
systems provides enterprise, departmental and cloud service provider
environments with a simple path to IT modernization and digital transformation.
UCP solutions enable IT organizations to accelerate time to production,
automate operations and reduce administrative costs by providing prevalidated,
pretested and factory-built converged and hyperconverged infrastructure
systems.
Product
Availability
Hitachi UCP RS is generally available to customers
and partners now in all regions. For more information, visit www.hds.com/en-us/products-solutions/converged-infrastructure/unified-compute-platform-rs.html.
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About Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Hitachi, Ltd., offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions that
enable digital transformation through enhanced data management, governance,
mobility and analytics. We help global organizations open new revenue streams,
increase efficiencies, improve customer experience and
ensure rapid time to market in the digital age. Only Hitachi Data Systems
powers the digital enterprise by integrating the best information technology
and operational technology from across the Hitachi family of companies. We
combine this experience with Hitachi expertise in the internet of things to
deliver the exceptional insights business and society need to transform and
thrive. Visit us at HDS.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, delivers
innovations that answer society’s challenges. The company’s consolidated
revenues for fiscal 2016 (ended March 31, 2017) totaled 9,162.2 billion yen
($81.8 billion). The Hitachi Group is a global leader in the Social Innovation
Business, and it has approximately 304,000 employees worldwide. Through
collaborative creation, Hitachi is providing solutions to customers in a broad
range of sectors, including Power / Energy, Industry / Distribution / Water,
Urban Development, and Finance / Government & Public / Healthcare. For more
information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.
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