Hitachi Enterprise Cloud Family of Solutions Accelerate Enterprise Cloud Initiatives and Lower Costs SOLUTION PROFILE Companies are looking to lower the cost of IT management. They seek to achieve faster time to value, and get guaranteed business outcomes and service levels for their mission-critical applications and workloads, no matter how they develop. It may be within a traditional IT infrastructure, a DevOps architecture, a microservices architecture, or in some combination. The Hitachi Enterprise Cloud portfolio of on-premises enterprise cloud managed services, which are pre-engineered and fully managed, meets these requirements and minimizes risk. Hitachi Enterprise Cloud integrates implementation, deployment services, and cloud-optimized software and infrastructure to deliver rapid business value. The first solution of its kind, it also offers the ability to add container capabilities to support both traditional virtualized environments and born on the web applications.
Spend Less Time Building and More Time Using Your Cloud IT operations are under pressure to do more with less and do it more quickly than ever before. Traditional compute and storage resource provisioning is often more of an obstacle than an enabler of business. Developers, as well as operations and application managers often bypass this obstacle and provision these resources outside the control of the traditional IT organization. This trend challenges cost management, security and IT capacity planning, and creates even more issues in the DevOps world. Hitachi Enterprise Cloud supports traditional as well as DevOps and microservices development environments. Hitachi Enterprise Cloud Has the Right Solutions to Accelerate Time to Value and Minimize Risk Hitachi Enterprise Cloud accelerates cloud deployment, lowers the cost of management and delivers bestin-class cloud capabilities. You spend less time building and more time using the cloud, and the result is faster time to business value and savings. By providing end-to-end pre-engineered solutions, Hitachi Enterprise Cloud lowers the cost of management with standard, prebuilt, compute and storage templates that deliver unprecedented operational simplicity. Moreover, it delivers best-in-class private and hybrid cloud capabilities by combining advanced cloud technologies, industry-leading components and professional services from Hitachi. 2
Hitachi Enterprise Cloud: Complete Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Hitachi Enterprise Cloud With Managed Cloud Services Companies can take advantage of Hitachi Enterprise Cloud outcome-based, fully managed services. Architected to meet specific business requirements, this offering uses consumptionbased pricing with commitments to cost savings and service delivery. With these services, administrators can reduce cost and risk, and meet their SLAs. Support for Your Critical Nonvirtualized Applications Hitachi Enterprise Cloud consolidates your nonvirtualized applications and workloads to avoid delaying the start of your cloud project. Consolidation of nonvirtualized applications and workloads reduces risks and accelerates your cloud implementation. Fully Managed Private Cloud Service Consumption-Based Pricing Enterprise-Class Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Transparent, Predictable Pricing A fully managed and secure private cloud with all the advantages of public cloud experience. Enterprise-class service-level agreements (SLAs) to guarantee availability of your services and business outcomes. Pay-as-you-go pricing, low entry cost and elastic consumption for your changing requirements. Transparent pricing for predictable operational planning. Comprehensive Managed Services Approach Phases of Hitachi Enterprise Cloud with Managed Cloud Services start with Design and Architect, Measurable Gains Assessment, and Measure and Qualify for predicted total cost of ownership (TCO) savings. Implement and Deploy then sets up the service catalog and profile applications and adds the services portal for your self-service infrastructure as a service (IaaS). These comprehensive services reduce costs, minimize risk and speed time to value. Easily Move Virtualized Applications to Container Hitachi Enterprise Cloud with VMware vrealize enables organizations to move traditional VMware virtualized applications and accounts to container without requiring them to be refactored. Achieve container benefits without refactoring. End-to-End Cloud Services Ensure Success Hitachi Vantara Global Services provides the advanced services that convert cloud potential into a true cloud platform guaranteed to meet your specific needs. These services include: Hitachi Cloud Strategy Workshop, Hitachi Enterprise Cloud with VMware vrealize Design Workshop, Hitachi Enterprise Cloud with VMware vrealize Deployment Service and Hitachi Enterprise Cloud Application Transition Service. Hitachi Cloud Services ensure that your business goals and outcomes are achieved. Lower IT Management Costs With Self-Service Hitachi Enterprise Cloud solutions deliver end-user simplicity and ease of use, enabling a quick shift to self-service, and freeing up IT management. Reduce costs and risk, and better allocate IT resources with easy-to-use end-user self-service. 3
Provides Complete End-to-End Container Solution Hitachi Enterprise Cloud Container Platform provides a comprehensive end-to-end preengineered container solution, which accelerates the transition to a complete DevOps and microservices architecture environment. The complete Container Platform solution speeds container adoption, lowers cost and minimizes risk. Transparent Costs Pay-as-you-go pricing and the easy-to-use rate card provide transparent, predictable costs. Reduce your management costs and operational risk with predictable, transparent pricing. Reduce costs and risks while better allocating IT resources with easy-to-use enduser self-service. Prebuilt Service Catalogs Speed Deployment Hitachi Enterprise Cloud is a comprehensive solution with a pre-engineered, prebuilt service catalog and rate cards to speed your cloud deployment. Pre-engineering reduces risk and cost, and accelerates your time to value. Prebuilt Templates Reduce Costs and Improve Efficiency The Hitachi Enterprise Cloud pre-engineered, prebuilt compute and storage templates deliver unprecedented operational simplicity, freeing up IT resources for higher-value activities. These compute and storage templates reduce operational risk and management costs. Lower Management Costs Through Automation and Simplified Experience Hitachi Enterprise Cloud Container Platform automates and simplifies the cloud experience for DevOps, microservices architectures and data analytics. The automated and pre-engineered container solution reduces management costs and deployment risks. Hitachi Enterprise Cloud Accelerates Cloud Deployment A repeatable approach to design, deployment and application transitioning services speeds the cloud deployment time to within 90 days. Achieve faster time to value, reduce risk and lower costs. 95% Source: of enterprise organizations that have tried to build private cloud on their own have encountered obstacles, delays and disruptions. Services that create a cloud platform through repeatable services put an end to the science experiment. http://blogs.gartner.com/thomas_bittman 4
Hitachi Enterprise Cloud: The Complete Solution for Your Business Needs Hitachi Enterprise Cloud with Managed Cloud Services includes the advanced professional services, as well as the hardware and software that provide a standardized, repeatable and predictable way to create a cloud platform to match each organization s environment. Each cloud platform is capable of providing the flexibility of private cloud or multivendor, multicloud and multi-environment support. Hitachi Enterprise Cloud [with] managed services and flexible acquisition models will play a critical role in driving organizations rapid shift to cloud-based application development. Rick Villars Vice President, Datacenter & Cloud, IDC Regardless of how your cloud platform is designed, Hitachi Enterprise Cloud reduces your costs through improved IT service delivery capabilities. It increases your control over cloud resources and management of resources for applications and the deployment processes. By automating IT service delivery to support your diverse set of business requirements, your organization will achieve far greater agility in delivering the infrastructure and application services it needs, without compromising on service levels. 5
Next Steps What is your development environment? All traditional, all DevOps and microservices or some combination? If you are looking to improve your infrastructure management with cloud, Hitachi Enterprise Cloud can help you modernize your data center and power your digital transformation for today and tomorrow. Complete public cloud experience with private cloud security and control. Pay-as-you-go consumption model, transparent pricing and simple rate cards for improved operational control and reduced costs. Predesigned and engineered solutions for cloud deployment within 90 days. Comprehensive enterprise cloud support for your traditional virtualized enterprise. End-to-end container solution for your Dev/Ops and microservices architecture environments. It s time to stop building and start using cloud with Hitachi Enterprise Cloud. 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 info.marketing.apac@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-255-A DG September 2017