Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, has significantly expanded and enhanced its IT infrastructure portfolio to help customers modernise their data centres.
These enhancements include Hitachi’s first all-NVMe hyperconverged system which delivers dramatically improved performance and efficiency for Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC (UCP HC) customers. The company has also expanded its converged and hyperconverged solution portfolio to address any workload, at scale, in today’s multi-cloud environments.
These enhancements, announced during NEXT 2018, help enterprises deliver business outcomes by maximising the power of data no matter where it resides – from the data centre to the cloud and out to the edge.
“With these latest advancements across our leading converged and hyperconverged systems portfolio, we continue to provide customers with an unmatched choice of optimised systems and validated solutions to maximise ROI and unlock data-driven insights for better business outcomes,” says Bob Madaio, vice-president: infrastructure solutions marketing at Hitachi Vantara.
Enhanced converged and hyperconverged portfolio
The Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) family of converged, hyperconverged and rack-scale systems provides customers with simplified platforms of pre-tested and validated compute, network and storage that are fast to deploy, easy to manage and expand based on changing business requirements.
Enhancements to the UCP portfolio include:
* Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC (UCP HC) hyperconverged infrastructure appliance series is designed to address the needs of customers requiring higher input/output operations per second (IOPS) and ultra-low latency for applications, such as real-time analytics, stock trading, fraud detection and online transaction processing (OLTP). The all-NVMe hyperconverged system will offer customers dramatically improved performance and efficiencies with a higher ROI by delivering hundreds of thousands of IOPS at sub-millisecond response time.
* Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor (UCP Advisor) IT management and orchestration software includes new deployment manager functionality. The UCP Advisor deployment manager automates hundreds of manual tasks and can reduce deployment times from multiple days to as little as a few hours.
* Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI (UCP CI) systems include new support for the Hitachi Advanced Server series, catering for the most demanding scale-up workloads. These new options provide a flexible, low-risk path to modernising data centre infrastructure for a broad set of enterprise applications. New mix-and-match server options also increase server flexibility and density to address different environments, use cases and applications.
* Hitachi Unified Compute Platform RS (UCP RS) is a rack-scale system designed to simplify the deployment of an agile data infrastructure at scale.
Database optimization
Hitachi Solution for Databases, powered by UCP systems, expands customer choice for both optimising and scaling performance of the data infrastructure in critical Oracle environments.
Hitachi Solution for the SAP HANA Platform now gives customers greater choice and simplified management through newly certified SAP HANA appliances based on Hitachi UCP CI with Hitachi DS7000 series servers, and enhanced management integration via Hitachi storage and server adapters for the SAP HANA Cockpit.