Choosing the right storage solution for your customers has become increasingly important, as organizations face challenges as they try to scale their data and modernize applications across complex, distributed, multi-cloud environments. The need for a comprehensive, efficient, and secure data platform solution has never been more pressing.
Enter Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) One Block—a hybrid cloud-ready storage solution for mid-sized businesses that aims to simplify data management. while enabling enterprises to meet their reliability and sustainability targets.
A New Era in Data Storage
If you’re not yet familiar with VSP One Block, let’s take a closer look at the platform, its sustainability and security features, and three possible use cases, as outlined in Hitachi Vantara’s Buyer’s Guide to VSP One Block.
Key features:
- An all-NVMe storage platform, it supports up to 1.8 petabytes of effective capacity in 2U, which saves rack space and cuts power and cooling costs.
- Clear Sight observability and VSP One’s embedded management tools streamline setup, enhance system monitoring with AI-driven health checks, and reduce manual management tasks.
- The 4:1 No Questions Asked Effective Capacity Warranty lowers the TCO by ensuring that stored data meets capacity efficiency expectations, with no questions asked.
- Adaptive Data Reduction (ADR) and Dynamic Carbon Reduction technologies help meet sustainability goals by lowering energy consumption.
- Thin Image Advanced technology protects data from ransomware by ensuring always-available copies of critical data.
Features are important, but understanding how—and where—to put them into play with your customer base is vital. The Hitachi Vantara Buyer’s Guide specifies three use cases:
Use Case 1: Optimizing Mission-Critical Applications
For businesses running mission-critical applications, high performance and availability are essential. VSP One Block provides the storage infrastructure necessary to boost application performance, ensuring quick and reliable access to data. This is especially critical for industries such as healthcare, finance, and e-commerce where downtime or sluggish systems can result in costly disruptions.
VSP One Block delivers application resiliency, so organizations can move business-critical workloads to the cloud without worrying about data loss or unavailability. The platform enhances responsiveness, helping meet service level agreements (SLAs) and improving the overall user experience. Advanced automation also reduces the need for manual oversight.
Use Case 2: Enabling a Hybrid Cloud Platform
In a cloud-first world, flexibility is key. VSP One Block allows organizations to use the best of both on-premises and cloud environments by enabling a hybrid cloud data platform. With its single data plane and cloud operating model, VSP One delivers agility and speed. This flexibility makes it easy to integrate workloads across multiple cloud environments, while maintaining control over data infrastructure.
Hitachi Storage Virtualization OS (SVOS), integrated into VSP One Block, provides 100% data availability, ensuring businesses experience minimal downtime. Cyber resiliency is built into the platform with features such as immutable storage volumes and redundant system components, helping safeguard data against outages or security threats.
Use Case 3: Virtualizing for Application Consolidation
As organizations grow, so do their data storage needs. VSP One Block helps organizations consolidate and centralize data management across applications and workloads, reducing costs. By virtualizing storage, IT teams can more easily migrate data from older systems to newer, more efficient platforms without disrupting business operations.
VSP One Block provides ongoing investment protection by allowing businesses to continue using older storage arrays alongside modern data management features. This futureproofs an organization’s data storage resources and reduces the need to constantly replace legacy systems, driving down capital expenses.
To learn more about the capabilities, download the complete Buyer’s Guide to VSP One Block.
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