Hitachi Data Systems Unveils Converged Infra Solutions Portfolio

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., has unveiled a broad portfolio of converged infrastructure solutions that combines best-of-breed storage, server, networking and software management in fully integrated packages designed for mission-critical workloads. The new Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) family of solutions provides a comprehensive, pre-tested cloud-ready infrastructure that can be deployed quickly and managed easily. Eleven new Hitachi UCP offerings give customers superior flexibility and choices, based on two converged infrastructure models:

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro: pre-configured, tightly integrated turnkey solutions built with world-class Hitachi Data Systems servers and storage, and industry-standard networking. The initial offering in this family of solutions is UCP Pro for VMware vSphere, which features innovative Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director software that provides VMware vCenter Server integrated management and orchestration.

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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select: a series of pre-validated reference solutions that can be configured using a selection of industry-leading Hitachi storage, server and software management, for a wide range of top-tier applications. Hitachi UCP Select also offers converged solutions with Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) servers. Hitachi UCP Select is ideal for organisations that require a flexible converged infrastructure.

All Hitachi UCP converged infrastructure solutions are thoroughly new designs to solve the reliability, availability, scalability and performance challenges that IT organisations face when using many first-generation converged infrastructure stacks.

“Converged infrastructure solutions have been available in the market for some time, but when enterprise organisations and cloud service providers encounter the requirements of true mission-critical workloads, these first-generation converged offerings fall short of customer needs,” said Ravi Chalaka, Vice President, Solutions Marketing, Hitachi Data Systems. “Until today, organisations looking for a converged infrastructure solution had to choose from commodity systems that lack high reliability and availability, and have limited scalability and performance. Or they have had to choose integrated stacks with no truly unified infrastructure management.”

With the range of new UCP solutions, Hitachi Data Systems is specifically addressing the most pressing needs of CIOs when considering a converged infrastructure. These needs include accelerating business velocity, increasing staff productivity, improving IT economics for pre- and post-deployment, and meeting stringent service level agreements.