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While some CIOs have adopted a “cloud first” approach, others have chosen a “cloud smart” option. As opposed to a “lift and shift” of the entire IT landscape to hyperscalers, they have adopted a smarter way to deploy applications and data, one based on the data security, financials and operational considerations. This tends to depend on a hybrid cloud approach, where IT teams analyze their applications and decide which apps run best on-premises, and which ones are best for the cloud.
Hitachi Vantara’s technology partner, VMware, has made significant progress toward supporting organizations in the transition to hybrid cloud. Tools such as VMware Tanzu help organizations use VMware’s familiar tools to manage apps that are cloud-native, running in the cloud using VMware Cloud Foundation or running on-premises over vSphere.
This lets organizations move to a hybrid cloud model quickly by minimizing disruption and skills gaps, while addressing operational efficiency. One big reason: VMware designed all of its tools and application services to work together and leverage the flexibility of software-defined infrastructure. This lets organizations leverage the ease of use and familiarity of VMware platforms and tools, while offering more options for existing and future infrastructure.
VMware’s software-defined layer makes it easier for organizations to deploy VMware tools on whatever infrastructure they choose. This includes the traditional vSphere-managed applications in the data center, cloud-resident VMware applications deployed via VMware Cloud Foundation, and cloud-native services and workloads. A software-defined infrastructure lets VMware Tanzu run them all, and vSphere makes them run better. But only if an on-premises infrastructure is designed end-to-end to support this better world.
Jeff Olds, global solution lead for unified compute and cloud solutions at Hitachi Vantara, said that to support this new hybrid cloud IT model, Hitachi Vantara has worked to maximize its integration of its unified compute platform with VMware tools and platforms. The AIOps software for infrastructure included with Hitachi’s entire portfolio – Hitachi Ops Center – fully integrates with VMware’s portfolio.
Olds said this tight coupling makes it possible to execute all of Hitachi’s AI-based analytics and automation directly within VMware environments. With Hitachi Vantara, a storage environment based on Hitachi’s Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) or VSP1 devices share a common operating system, creating a single data fabric that extends across the organization’s entire infrastructure.
The result: when developers want to deploy a new service, Ops Center can automatically connect the service to the right storage to meet performance, protection, and SLA requirements.
“We can share capacity into the server and easily migrate workloads in an integrated way with VMware,” says Olds. “Another benefit we offer is we can repurpose hyperconverged or converged infrastructure and have it sit in public or private clouds, whatever the customer wants.”
Learn more about the Hitachi Vantara UCP and VMware Tanzu reference architecture.
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