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Organizations Are Looking To Embrace Hybrid IT for Improved Business Agility and Lower TCO In this digital age, leaders are separated from laggards by the ability to identify market opportunities and the speed with which they respond to them. IT plays a vital role in digital transformation by delivering rich infrastructure and analytics to uncover new business opportunities. By enabling rapid deployment of new initiatives with faster access to IT services, IT lowers total cost of ownership (TCO). Integrated Turnkey SDDC Infrastructure: Hybrid Cloud Simplified 1 2 3 4 5 Modern, reliable IT infrastructure foundation to drive enterprise innovation. Integrated software-defined data center (SDDC) delivery for faster time to market. IT as a service to optimize cloud strategy and garner savings. Software-defined automation for simplicity and higher productivity. Improved return on investment (ROI) with lower capital expenditure (capex) and operating expenditure (opex).
1 Modernize the Data Center, Drive Innovations SDDC solutions abstract software from the underlying hardware, thus providing flexibility to run your applications in a more agile and location-agnostic manner. Unified SDDC solutions provide flexibility to organizations, allowing them to deploy applications in their private cloud or to leverage public cloud, based on business needs. Organizations get consistent operational experience to manage their workloads, whether they choose on-premises private cloud or external cloud. Virtual Machines Cloud Modern enterprises need a unified platform that can meet the needs of both application developers and IT teams. This type of common platform allows software developers to write, build, test and run lightweight containerized applications more quickly. At the same time, it enables the infrastructure teams to maintain security and compliance with the IT policies, using familiar proven management tools. Bimodal, DevOps-ready IT infrastructure provides the reliable foundation for digital enterprises to innovate quickly, while enhancing IT security. Compute Network Storage SDDC Cloud Infrastructure External Storage
2 Turnkey Delivery of Integrated SDDC for Faster Time to Market A traditional three-tier IT architecture required significant integration to make it work, which was resource and time consuming. Digital startups with native business agility are pushing other companies to be nimble to stay relevant in the marketplace, or be left behind. Organizations need a pre-integrated, pretested complete infrastructure stack, ready to go live in hours, not weeks. Unified SDDC means delivering an end-to-end stack, including servers, racks, top-of-rack switches, leaf switches, cables, power units and software, all pre-integrated and pre-imaged, to accelerate the go-live process. Businesses expect faster delivery of IT services to meet requirements of production, test/dev and other applications. 3 Optimized Cloud Strategy for Flexibility and Cost Savings Embrace your hybrid cloud, with confidence, with an integrated SDDC platform. A robust, scalable SDDC solution provides you with the flexibility to run your applications from any cloud, private or public, as per workload requirements. You can move your workload seamlessly across private and public clouds to realize full benefits of true hybrid cloud. It also means that you will be able to manage and monitor your apps from same toolset and processes, regardless of where the app is running, saving money, time and training. Embedded NSX helps bolster cyber defense against security breaches by enforcing IT security policies at granular, virtual machine (VM) level. Increased IT security comes without adding hardware costs in deploying physical firewalls, per workload or per server. This microsegmentation isolates networks for secure multitenancy.
4 Simplicity With Software-Defined Automation An integrated SDDC solution takes automation to a level above and beyond traditional IT infrastructure management. Unified management software enables you to accelerate the process of discovering and bringing hardware and software on board, as well as configuration and provisioning of hardware. The process of manually integrating, testing and bringing these elements on board is a thing of past. Management software automates IT tasks to improve your IT productivity. Life-cycle management of IT components is automated to free IT team members to focus on other productive tasks. IT service provisioning no longer entails uncertainty in terms of resource mismatch or overprovisioning. Resource pool creation and consumption is an automated process to match compute, memory and storage with the stated VM requirements. 5 Improve ROI With Lower Capex and Opex The solution improves productivity, delivers faster time to business value and accelerates the customer s ability to realize the true power of their data. John Gilmartin Vice President and General Manager, Integrated Systems, VMware Automation enabled with a policy-controlled management framework allows you to operate SDDC infrastructure with policies, eliminating resource overprovisioning and improving efficiency. Resource elasticity allows you to scale up or scale down workload domains as per business requirements. A rack-scale hyperconverged solution provides flexibility to start with as few as four nodes and scale up to 256 nodes, across multiple racks, to run your entire IT operation. This approach better aligns your technology investments with business growth for greater efficiency and economics.
Rack-Scale Hyperconverged Solution Delivers Reliable Private Cloud Foundation The Hitachi Unified Compute Platform RS (UCP RS) delivers turnkey integrated SDDC solutions for enterprises and cloud providers. UCP RS simplifies their hybrid cloud journey, while reducing TCO and improving security. It accelerates the time to market with a natively integrated software-defined stack that comes prepackaged with management software to automate day 0-2 operations with policies. UCP RC offers the flexibility to leverage external Hitachi Virtual Storage Platforms for overflow storage requirements. Take the Next Step Discover how you can transform your data center with Hitachi UCP RS. SEE THE HITACHI SOLUTION Modernize your data center with rack-scale IT. READ THE DATASHEET Hitachi Vantara 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. BP-005-A DG November 2017