Hitachi Data Systems has announced three new products targeted at companies undergoing digital transformation, namely the Hitachi Enterprise Cloud, Hitachi Management Automation Strategy, and Hitachi Management Automation Strategy.
The Hitachi Enterprise Cloud (HEC) is for organizations that choose private and hybrid cloud to automate data center operations and application delivery. Hitachi Management Automation Strategy helps organizations simplify the management of their infrastructure, while Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) 2000 and UCP HC are for organizations that want to transform and modernize their IT infrastructure with economical and open converged and hyperconverged systems.
The application-specific, ready-to-use HEC platform combines pre-engineered, pre-built service catalogs with a dedicated converged platform, software and HDS- and/or partner-delivered services, helping users reduce operational costs and accelerating private and hybrid cloud deployments.
Available now, the first instantiation of the HEC family, Hitachi Enterprise Cloud with VMware vRealize Suite leverages the VMware vRealize Air Cloud Management Platform (CMP). The solution is available on or off premises in a traditional acquisition model or a usage and outcome-based managed cloud solution.
The new Hitachi Management Automation Strategy supports the motivation to consume IT as a service (ITaaS), whether applications are traditional or in the next generation. The new strategy is a growing portfolio of automation-focused software that includes UCP Advisor, which delivers simplified, smart converged management for individual and multiple UCP 2000 systems.
In addition to the availability of the UCP Advisor software, there are significant new enhancements to Hitachi Unified Compute Platform’s (UCP) performance, scale and ecosystem support that create valuable new options for customers. Both UCP 2000 and UCP HC systems support faster Intel Broadwell processors and have optional support for Hitachi Data Ingestor, Hitachi Content Platform and WAN Optimizer to provide unique and customizable solutions.
UCP 2000 also sees 8X server scalability, now to 128 nodes, and a number of networking and security enhancements. Furthermore, HDS has extended the system to support OpenStack environments. UCP HC expands with a high capacity 2U/1-node hybrid and all-flash system with up to 26TB of usable flash capacity, extending the ability of the hyperconverged portfolio to deliver high performance and scale for analytics and transaction-oriented applications among other real-world functions.
Further extending choice and flexibility to customers, HDS also rolled out several new as-a-service managed cloud offerings, including Storage as a Service (STaaS), Compute as a Service solutions, a new as-a-service analytics solution for IT service management and operations, and new choices for remote operations services. The company also announced that its Backup as a Service, Archive as a Service, and Disaster Recovery as a Service now provide complete approaches to data protection.