Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for VMware vSphere Top 10
The Top 10 Reasons
Organizations Choose Hitachi
Unified Compute Platform
Solutions for VMware vSphere
Ten Reasons Why Information-Driven Companies Are Using Hitachi UCP to Maximize Their Investment in VMware vSphere
Faster Deployment for Rapid
Transition to Cloud
BACKGROUND
UCP for VMware vSphere is a turnkey solution that is preconfigured at the fac-tory and delivered to your site racked, cabled and configured. With all the software preloaded, it can be up and running in 5 days or less. Along with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director, the solution enables faster deployment of cloud infrastructures and efficient resource allocation.
INDUSTRY PROOF
“The virtualization, efficiency and automation HDS provides can allow businesses to shift resources from practical and maintenance operations that support the status quo to more strategic business goals that support private cloud environments in less than one week … a real point of dif-ferentiation. We expect enterprises and mid-market companies to get excited about these new capabilities and quickly start reaping the benefits.”
– Terri McClure, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Ultimate VMware Infrastructure Flexibility
BACKGROUND
Hitachi UCP satisfies the requirements of any VMware data center infrastructure, from high-end block- or file-based highly available configurations to midrange solutions based on cost-effective stor-age. Every solution component adheres to native vSphere integration best prac-tices, so in-house IT experts can quickly and easily configure and deploy a VMware infrastructure. Hitachi UCP also supports Cisco servers and different storage-class solutions, including enterprise-level Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000, enterprise-modular-level Hitachi Unified Storage VM and modular Hitachi Uni-fied Storage.
INDUSTRY PROOF
“Hitachi UCP for VMware vSphere is a unique solution that provided us with an integrated platform from which we could offer flexible yet secure private cloud services for our customers. The solution’s unrivaled reliability, flexibility and performance now support even our most demanding customers’ work-loads, and reduce our time to value and operational costs while increasing our operational efficiency and resource utilization.”
– Marina Tedone, Marketing and Alliance Manager, Accadis
Single System Reliability and Innovation
BACKGROUND
UCP for VMware vSphere leverages industry-leading storage virtualization technologies and provides multi-hyper-visor support. The solution delivers consistently high levels of predictability and reliability for business operations, including mission-critical applications like SAP and SAP HANA.
INDUSTRY PROOF
“Many of our customers run their entire business’ operations on SAP. We’re here to ensure that these operations get up and running quickly and con-tinue to run 24/7. Hitachi UCP assures superb reliability and rapid provisioning capabilities we’ve not seen before in a single solution.”
– Laurie du Boullay, Vice President of Operations, oXya
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Hitachi UCP for VMware vSphere simplifies
management, improves overall platform
performance and meets requirements for
stability and future hardware expansion.
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Unified Management and Reduced TCO
BACKGROUND
With Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director, organizations can manage their physical and virtual storage envi-ronments from a single pane of glass. Total cost of ownership is reduced by up to 30% through unified manage-ment, auto migration and storage provisioning. With unified management, organizations with can become more agile to react to market conditions and innovate more quickly.
INDUSTRY PROOF
“Unified Compute Platform Director provides us with a unified console to control and monitor our physical and virtual environments, which streamlines the process and provisions resources quickly and responses promptly.”
– WL Fok, Senior IT manager and Co-owner, Hong Kong Broadband Network
“UCP for VMware vSphere can reduce the initial investment (capex) required to procure, integrate, and implement an infrastructure solution for virtualized environments. UCP also reduces ongo-ing operational cost (opex) through simplified management process and automation of tasks that might other-wise require the involvement of multiple departments and many manual steps.”
– Leah Schoeb, Senior Partner, Evaluator Group
Mission-Critical Application Performance
BACKGROUND
With UCP for VMware vSphere, organi-zations can dramatically increase the pace of innovation. The solution delivers up to double the performance benefits across mission-critical application envi-ronments like SAP and SAP HANA.
INDUSTRY PROOF
“Mission-critical is our baseline for everything. We run the typical enterprise apps like Microsoft® SQL Server®, IBM® WebSphere®, Oracle and many of our federal customers have mission-critical apps like SAP and websites on our cloud. When a national crisis or natural disaster happens, these cloud-based sites must be up, no matter what. We have the confidence that our technology stack, the UCP model, will work every time, anytime.
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Cost Savings and Sustainability
BACKGROUND
UCP for VMware vSphere can reduce the initial investment (capex) required to procure, integrate, and implement an infrastructure solution for virtualized environments. UCP also reduces ongo-ing operational cost (opex) through a simplified management process and automation, as well as delivering savings on power, space and cooling.
INDUSTRY PROOF
“With UCP for VMware vSphere with Cisco UCS, we saw instant improve-ments in the storage arena, with significant cost savings from our ability to do thin provisioning with Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, and about 50% to 60% less footprint, cooling and power consumption.”
– Rich Carter, Systems Architect, Seattle Children’s Hospital
We are pleased to work with HDS to enable customers to
realize the value of the software-defined enterprise. Hitachi
UCP for VMware vSphere provides customers with a reliable
and efficient converged infrastructure solution.
Protect Current IT Investment:
Prepare for Future Growth
BACKGROUND
UCP for VMware vSphere allows you to integrate and protect your current storage investment. You can also grow the level of automation, at your pace and scale. It accelerates the applica-tions you use the most, and helps you realize both business efficiency and business value. Along with Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000, UCP solves the reliability, availability, scalability and performance challenges that today’s IT departments face and creates a foundation for future growth.
INDUSTRY PROOF
“The combination of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director and vCenter Operations Management Pack for Uni-fied Compute Platform Director allow converged infrastructure IT staff to operate much more efficiently. They now use just one integrated manage-ment tool where historically as many as 7 would have been needed.”
– Jitendra Sangharajka, Associate Vice President of Information Systems, Infosys Ltd.
Create the Software-Defined Data Center
BACKGROUND
According to Gartner, IT now spends 70% of its budget just to keep the data center up and running.1 The solution to this inefficiency is the software-defined data center (SDDC). An integrated, automated and virtualized data center is simple to control. With enterprise- grade storage, compute, network and software from Hitachi Data Systems and leading virtualization capabilities from VMware, UCP is the foundation for the Business-Defined IT.
INDUSTRY PROOF
“When UCP for VMware vSphere became available, it was almost a no-brainer to move forward with it. UCP is a single converged infrastructure solution that’s automated, powerful and scalable, with Hitachi’s reputation for service and quality behind it. UCP was just what we needed.”
– Ed Wiegner, Director of Sales, oXya
Automated Disaster Recovery
BACKGROUND
With Unified Compute Platform Director, administrators can manage multiple UCP servers from a single pane of glass to quickly accommodate disaster recov-ery planning. Unified Compute Platform Director automates disaster recovery and fast replication to move secondary copies to off-site recovery locations.
INDUSTRY PROOF
“Utilizing Hitachi storage technology, we have consolidated our previously disparate storage resources into a single pool of powerful and scalable enterprise storage capacity. Hitachi UCP helped us to deploy robust and powerful disaster recovery solutions for our customers, enabling better RPOs and RTOs (recovery point and time objectives).”
– Antonio Cardone, Corporate IT Service Manager, Acantho Telecommunications
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1 Gartner Blog, “Maximize IT returns by amplifying performance rather than administering a budget.” Mark McDonald, January 9, 2012:
http://blogs.gartner.com/mark_mcdonald/2012/01/09/maximize-it-returns-by-amplifying-performance-rather-than-administering-a-budget/
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BACKGROUND
Hitachi Data Systems and VMware have been strategic partners since 2002. Today, Hitachi is an Elite Partner in VMware’s Technology Alliance Partner program, a participant in VMware Ready Partner programs for Storage Infrastruc-ture Services and an embedded OEM partner. Together, Hitachi and VMware are committed to providing innovative, business-enabling, end-to-end virtualiza-tion soluvirtualiza-tions for the data center.
INDUSTRY PROOF
“As more applications are virtualized and the scale of deployments grows, the availability, scalability and performance of storage becomes increasingly critical in virtualized server environments. Hitachi Data Systems technologies are a fully integrated foundation for growing virtual environments like VMware vSphere. Together, HDS and VMware give custom-ers the availability and scalability they need to cost-effectively operate their data centers or cloud infrastructures and continue to realize maximum value from their VMware environments as deployments scale.”
– Hu Yoshida, Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems
