Rising costs, stronger data control, and an increased need for flexible, secure networks are driving the adoption of hybrid cloud environments. Not sure what that entails? Hitachi Vantara has launched the “Beyond Boundaries” webinar series to explore different types of cloud environments and how hybrid cloud solutions can support business needs.
In the second episode, “Beyond Boundaries: How to Build an Agile, Reliable, and Scalable VMware Cloud,” experts from Hitachi Vantara explain how a hybrid cloud foundation helps customers modernize their infrastructure, applications, and data, while protecting their existing investments.
One of the key drivers of the hybrid cloud environment is to support customers on their application evolution. Traditional, monolithic applications are difficult to manage and upgrade. These legacy containerized applications can strain resources. Updating the private cloud is important, as is having flexibility while building the hybrid cloud environment.
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Hitachi Vantara’s approach is unique. It supports both converged and hyperconverged environments, which are managed through Hitachi Vantara’s Unified Compute Platform (UCP), powered by VMware. UCP manages the containers of data and automates the provisioning and life cycle management of the software and hardware to optimize the network.
“We let all of this technology decide where we’re going to run the code, where it’s going to be most beneficial,” says Jeff Olds, global VMware solutions lead at Hitachi Vantara.
Here’s where a Hitachi Vantara hybrid cloud solution can have a huge impact on flexibility. The UCP Advisor allows customers to add or onboard components over time, so they don’t have to purchase all new infrastructure equipment. As the workload is migrated to the hybrid environment, some capacity becomes viable in the old storage system.
“It doesn’t matter what kind of storage array it is,” Olds says. “We can virtualize that capacity and mount it into this environment. What’s really cool here is that UCP Advisor provides the provisioning of that capacity. If you want more capacity, you don’t need to add another server, another hyperconverged server. You can remount that capacity as primary storage back into this environment. That’s a pretty powerful capability.”
Hitachi’s online seminar also shares two customer implementations. A large US-based financial services organization and an Australian government agency each worked with Hitachi to build an innovative VMware-based solution that extended an on-premises network into the public cloud, while improving network performance, availability, and scalability.