• July 31, 2024 | Author: Susan Biagi

Customer Demand Drives Akquinet’s Development of Compliant Cloud Solution

Enterprises are struggling to ensure their stored data meets security and compliance requirements. Akquinet developed a hybrid cloud solution with Hitachi Vantara soltuions that  helps. 

Customer Demand Drives Akquinet’s Development of Compliant Cloud Solution

The rise of digitalization, increasing data complexity, and security mandates are straining your customers’ IT resources. Cloud storage solutions help handle and manage the load, but relying on the public cloud can pose a challenge when maintaining sensitive business applications and ensuring data sovereignty. This is especially true in the European Union, where the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulations on information privacy are in effect.

German IT service provider Akquinet has seen these challenges impact their customers. Akquinet develops customized IT solutions for its small and medium businesses and large enterprise customers. Akquinet solutions support business intelligence and data analytics, while reducing network complexity.

Akquinet serves customers in a range of fields, including the healthcare and banking industries, with strict data privacy protocols. The company’s clients needed compliant cloud solutions that could meet the industry and regulatory standards of cloud usage and also support national and international data protection laws.

Compliant Cloud Solution Supports Data Integrity

Already a Hitachi Cloud Service Provider partner, Akquinet reached out to Hitachi Vantara to develop a customer-driven hybrid, compliant cloud solution, Flexible Application Storage (FlexAS). Built on Hitachi Content Platform (HCP), FlexAS provides customers with a secure, local cloud platform that can host key business applications and can access public cloud resources when necessary.

Akquinet FlexAS combines the best of both worlds, leveraging public cloud access and private cloud control and compliance. The flexible storage provisioning solution supports a wide range of applications and uses metadata to convert data into object storage for high-value services, including big data analytics. It keeps sensitive data in Germany, maintaining data sovereignty, and allows metadata to enable expedient searches of personally identifiable information.

FlexAS integrates RESTful API and Amazon S3 protocols. It supports all major public cloud platforms, enabling Akquinet’s clients to migrate workloads easily.

Innovation Bolsters Relationships and Profits

The FlexAS platform has provided Akquinet a competitive advantage. The IT service provider has expanded its cloud offerings and extended its capabilities, boosting the bottom line. With FlexAS directly addressing its customer concerns around security, reliability, and compliance, Akquinet has strengthened customer relationships. In addition, the pay-as-you-go model provides transparency and allows clients to better manage and predict costs.

Akquinet’s trusted partnership with Hitachi Vantara benefits its customers. Together they designed the FlexAS platform to meet customer demands to simplify data sovereignty without sacrificing cloud capabilities. The strategic relationship between Akquinet and Hitachi Vantara will continue as they work together to identify market opportunities and develop solutions and services to meet them.

Read the complete Akquinet case study.


Image credit: Hitachi Vantara
 

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