Smart Data Center From Hitachi Vantara: Transform to an Agile, Learning Data Center Leverage Analytics To Protect and Optimize Your Business Infrastructure SOLUTION PROFILE Managing a data center and the business dependencies that go along with it has become a very complex task. Deploying the latest cloud computing services and meeting business expectations with a shrinking budget are tremendous challenges. Automating the data center is a step forward, but it s not enough to analyze a device or group of devices. To mitigate business risk, you must also improve operational agility and responsiveness to the business across the entire IT landscape. Tools to gain accurate, correlated insight with confident predictions are hard to find and difficult to build. IT organizations need to have visibility into potential current and future risks and receive associated pre-emptive recommendations to avoid those risks. Unfortunately, for most, it takes so much effort to operate IT and collect the data that there is little or no time to analyze it and remediate risk.
Transform Your IT Department Into a Strategic Business Enabler The operation of IT infrastructure, from the data center to edge computing, has relied on the automation of devices to streamline and simplify tasks. This traditional approach of automating devices or categories of devices is no longer enough. Cloud, mobile and security interdependencies have increased operational complexity. They make it challenging for the most advanced IT organizations to implement analytics and smart devices across an entire data center, let alone a multi-data-center environment. Smart Data Center From Hitachi Vantara Our Smart Data Center managed service combines internet of things (IoT) data with automated analytics to deliver event insights, reduce risk and maximize value from your IT investments. Smart Data Center, an IoT and Analytics-Based Solution, Helps Businesses To Maximize Value From IT Smart Data Center from Hitachi Vantara is a fully managed solution that aims to achieve predictable operational outcomes and predictable cost reductions. It utilizes advanced data center analytics and IoT device data to dramatically ease the global management of heterogeneous infrastructure environments: on-premises, off-premises, private, public and hybrid cloud. As an end-to-end service offering, the Smart Data Center solution helps analyze service health, capacity management, performance management and alerting, and it automates common infrastructure operations. Smart Data Center can also correlate performance metrics (business and system), alerts, log files and other non-it data to help pinpoint root causes of issues and their impact on business, in minutes, not hours. 2
Transform IT Into a Business Enabler With Smart Data Center Meet Your IT Service Levels With a Declining Budget Empower IT, facilities and finance teams with an aggregated global view and increased control of their IT assets. More accurately predict application resource demand and your global business costs for infrastructure and applications with role-based analytic dashboards. Better predict application demand, reduce capital and labor spend, and provide financial transparency. Avoid Business Problems Before They Happen Gain visibility into potential current and future risks and get associated pre-emptive recommendations to avoid those risks. Learn from what if predictive scenarios to better plan for future business requirements. Smart Data Center Transforms IT into a business enabler. Lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) through optimization of financial, operational and technical resources. Leverages business application usage patterns to predict peaks and help prevent issues before they happen. Provides fast, accurate, contextual, actionable insights on a proactive basis to support strategic business objectives. Maximize your IT investments and meet business expectations through higher service levels and increased user experience. Deploy Agile, Self-Healing Data Centers Provide near real-time and historical insights with descriptive, predictive, preemptive and prescriptive analytics. Dashboards simplify complex data and ease business decisions across global boundaries. Automation and Hitachi analytics enable the Smart Data Center to self-heal and take corrective action in a growing number of situations. Reduce your risk from outside forces and improve operational efficiency across businesses. 3
Smart Data Center Solution Capabilities Stay Informed With Monitoring, Alerting and Reporting Provides monitoring and alerts for the Smart Data Center end-to-end infrastructure: Speeds identification, isolation and diagnosis of issues and bottlenecks. Smart Data Center reports and analysis help organizations deliver enhanced service-level agreements (SLAs) and better business outcomes. Employ Fully Managed, As-a-Service Solution Achieves predictable operational outcomes and predictable cost reductions: Uses advanced data center analytics with recommendations and integrated orchestration of devices across multiple domains. Manage a heterogeneous infrastructure environment easier, better, faster: on-premises or off-premises. Understand Resource Use With Chargeback Reporting Provides views to enterprise-wide IT resource utilization and costs to deliver the information needed for organizations to perform chargeback. Ensure Quality Service With Remote Support Lowers costs and optimizes IT operations by providing IT service and operational management support remotely. Leverages Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices and Hitachi Vantara Global Services. Deliver higher quality of service for lower total cost: Work with IT experts with a track record you can trust. Enhance Management With IT Workflow Automation Provides intelligent service-level based system monitoring, alerting and reporting for capacity, performance and configuration. Enhance IT responsiveness and enable device management and automation across data centers. Gain better understanding of business demands and accurately forecast costs. Enhance budget management practices. $430 billion By 2020, analytically oriented organizations will achieve an extra $430 billion in productivity gains over those less analytically oriented. Source: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Big Data and Analytics 2016 Predictions, Nov. 2015, Doc #259835 4
A Track Record of Excellence and Innovation Hitachi Cloud Services has achieved a strong record of accelerating the transformation from legacy infrastructure to an agile, cloud-enabled environment for many leading enterprises. What s unique to Hitachi is the balanced strength provided in three key areas that are important to managed cloud services: Over 20 years of technical leadership. Operational excellence in delivering on SLA-based business outcomes. Commercial flexibility that aligns to each client s changing business environment. Hitachi has demonstrated extensive success in delivering IT as service with storage as service, compute as a service, backup as a service, and Hitachi Enterprise Cloud for private and hybrid cloud. Smart Data Center from Hitachi Vantara is the natural evolution of Hitachi s commitment to customer excellence. 5
Next Steps Smart Data Center from Hitachi Vantara brings together the latest technologies and approaches in infrastructure management, predictive analytics and IoT capabilities to address the challenges in managing today s complex IT environments. Gain actionable insights, lower management costs, speed business projects and support mission-critical applications with confidence and scale. It s time to reduce cost, manage risk and increase agility to respond to business change. Leverage analytics and IoT for your business with Smart Data Center. 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-256-B DG December 2017