Storage as a Service From Hitachi Vantara Cost-Effectively Manage Your Storage Needs SOLUTION PROFILE Companies are increasingly looking for ways to lower the cost of IT management. Capital expenditure (capex) refresh cycles demand significant investment every three to five years. And, once committed, the capex investment demands a fixed monthly cost, regardless of business use or change. Manual provisioning processes rely on people and therefore are error prone and time consuming. It is difficult to predict storage needs for the future, and five-year buying cycles force you to buy extra capacity up front, which you may never need. With Storage as a Service from Hitachi Vantara (STaaS), part of Hitachi Cloud Services, there s a better way. With STaaS, you pay as you go, control your spending, and add capacity when needed. You get an always on service with service level agreements (SLAs), fully managed by Hitachi, on-premises or in a third-party data center.
Finally, Here s a Better Way To Manage Your Storage IT is challenged to do more with less and to predict the future to secure just enough resources. How to cost-effectively procure, manage and provision your storage environment to enable business agility is an expanding issue. You need to reduce risk and automate commodity workflows via self-service compatible with your SLAs. And you need an understanding of and the ability to manage capacity trends and spikes before they impact your business with proactive storage analytics. By providing automated, innovative, fully managed services, Storage as a Service from Hitachi Vantara allows organizations to avoid error-prone and time-consuming manual provisioning processes. Storage as a Service Provides an Optimal Option for Reducing Costs and Risks Organizations looking for storage agility while saving money and reducing their risks are looking to Hitachi Vantara s Storage as a Service. Hitachi Vantara s STaaS lets you pay for the outcome, not the ownership, with predictable, transparent pricing and guaranteed outcomes, transferring the risk from you to Hitachi. You can now deliver self-service capabilities and automate processes to further reduce risks, and increase agility and service levels to the business. At the same time, you can give your internal customers the confidence that your STaaS systems provided by Hitachi can cope with changes in demand. Within the pay-per-use model, STaaS supports the ability to flex up or down as needed, a transparent rate card for predictable costs, performance guarantees and capacity management. Storage as a Service brings a public-cloud consumption model to your data center storage. 2
Storage as a Service From Hitachi Vantara: The Complete Solution Tailored To Meet Your Specific Needs Storage as a Service comes in four managed service options with two levels of service either for your existing storage, or as a fully managed service that includes storage from Hitachi. These each have two levels of service: essentials and premium. Pick the service option that works best for your organization, based upon your unique requirements and how much, if anything, you want to manage. You can select the best-managed service option for your organization. Storage as a Service: Premium The premier STaaS option contains all the features of the essentials option. In addition, it delivers endto-end storage management with host provisioning, full end-to-end change and request management, incident resolution from host to storage, and advanced storage analytics. Building on the essentials option, this premier service takes the risk out of storage management. Fully managed service delivers predictable, reduced operational and management costs. Only pay for the storage you use, when you use it. SLAs are offered for availability and performance, which means you pay for the outcome, not the ownership. Deliver self-service capabilities and automate processes to increase agility and service levels to your business. Storage as a Service: Essentials With STaaS essentials, the storage is owned and managed by Hitachi, and includes SLAs, monitoring, reporting and architectural governance. However, the ownership of the storage provisioning and change management activities stays within your own organization. Lower cost, lower touch solution provides a managed service working in concert with you. On-Demand, Pay-as-you-Go Commercial Model This true pay-per-use model offers a predictable cost structure and built-in price protection. Pay only for the amount, type and availability of the storage you need, and eliminate the need for expensive capex storage refresh every three to five years. Only pay for the amount and availability of storage you need, when you need it. Comprehensive Service Catalog The services in the Hitachi Services Catalog are clearly defined, with both latency and performance attributes. You can choose from five storage service classes, which are differentiated by performance (speed) and data availability: 99.995% or 100%. Select the right level of services based on your requirements to reduce costs and risk. Advanced Reporting and Analytics With a wide variety of reporting and analytics, STaaS includes SLA performance, billing, usage, and chargeback reports. Robust reporting via easyto-use dashboards provides you with meaningful and actionable performance insights that help you identify new opportunities and cost savings. Use data insights to increase agility, identify opportunities, reduce time to market and costs. 3
Storage as a Service: Storage Solutions for Your Business Needs With Storage as a Service, Hitachi Vantara provides storage, storage management and analytics. STaaS features elastic consumption and SLAs for joint commitment, to drive and measure success, dynamic scale and elasticity. You can save money, shift your risks to Hitachi, and increase your agility and ability to react to new business opportunities. You can feel confident about partnering with Hitachi Vantara. We have a proven track record and have successfully delivered similar solutions to global financial institutions and enterprises across virtually all industries. Each organization has realized the benefits of a more flexible approach along with significant cost savings. By 2020 in APEJ*, consumption-based procurement in data centers will have eclipsed traditional procurement through improved as-a-service models, thus accounting for as much as 50% of enterprises IT spending. Source: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Datacenter 2018 Predictions, IDC * Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan With increased control, improved reporting and analytics, reduced operational and management costs our Storage as a Service offerings provide the tailored business solution to meet your needs today and tomorrow. 4
Next Steps If you are interested in finding out whether moving from a capex to an opex (operating expenditure) storage environment might work for your organization, then now is the time to act. Find out more about Storage as a Service from Hitachi Vantara. We can help you modernize your data center and power your digital transformation today and tomorrow. On-demand commercial model saves you money with predictable pricing for the storage you actually use. On-demand storage in the security of your data center. Flexible and open architecture enabling integration, so you can introduce industryleading solutions when required. Deployment in as little as 60 days to improve your time to value. Integration with upper layer solution offering such as Hitachi Enterprise Cloud Container and Hitachi Enterprise Cloud with VMware vrealize. It s time for a better way to cost-effectively manage your storage environment with Storage as a Service, delivered by Hitachi Vantara. Click here for more information. Hitachi Vantara at a Glance Your data is the key to new revenue, better customer experiences and lower costs. With technology and expertise, Hitachi Vantara drives data to meaningful outcomes. Hitachi Vantara Corporate Headquarters 2845 Lafayette Street Santa Clara, CA 95050-2639 USA www.hitachivantara.com community.hitachivantara.com Regional Contact Information Americas: +1 866 374 5822 or info@hitachivantara.com Europe, Middle East and Africa: +44 (0) 1753 618000 or info.emea@hitachivantara.com Asia Pacific: +852 3189 7900 or APACMarketing@HitachiVantara.com HITACHI is a trademark or registered trademark of Hitachi, Ltd. All other trademarks, service marks, and company names are properties of their respective owners. SP-267-A DG May 2018