Companies have found that the hybrid cloud offers a cost-efficient, agile and scalable way to do business. That’s why hybrid cloud adoption has skyrocketed. Research by MarketsandMarkets estimated the global hybrid cloud market at nearly $100 billion by 2023, representing a strong 17% compound growth rate.
Despite this clear trend, companies can’t effectively deploy the hybrid cloud unless they reimagine and rearchitect the underlying IT infrastructure used to build and manage hybrid cloud environments and the workloads that run on the cloud.
Today, a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has emerged as the hardware-software platform of choice, combining pre-integrated and pretested compute, storage, networking and hypervisor in an appliance format for easy deployment and seamless scaling. HCI promises reduced complexity, since all computing, storage, networking, and the hypervisor are combined into one package that’s designed to work out of the box.
A HCI Platform for Your Customers
Hitachi Vantara and Cisco have combined two decades of innovation to deliver Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure (CI), a platform that makes their customers more effective and profitable. Customers predisposed to Cisco and VMware innovations are assured that their investments are protected when they opt for Adaptive Solutions for CI. And Hitachi’s VSP storage arrays are trusted by 80% of Fortune 100 customers and more than 56,000 global customers have deployed Cisco UCS servers
Adaptive Solutions for CI combines the following: Hitachi’s flagship VSP storage arrays, including the newly-released VSP E990 and the VSP 5000 series, Cisco UCS blade servers, and Cisco Nexus and MDS switches. This tested, validated and documented architecture has been designed to ensure highest levels of availability and system reliability, ensuring a better end-customer experience. With intelligent analytics, customers have better visibility into what data they have and can access it in a fast and secure manner.
The system performs day-to-day management through VMware vSphere, vCenter plug-ins, and element managers for optimized configuration and management of the entire CI stack. AI-enabled intelligent orchestration simplifies deployment and operations via Hitachi Ops Center Automator, ensuring a 70% reduction in storage management tasks. And IT staff can reap a 75% increase in efficiencies by moving to a UCS environment, according to Enterprise Strategy Group.
ESG’s report further says that Cisco UCS customers experienced a 22% lower expected TCO. Customers leveraging Hitachi’s VSP 5000 series reap a 4:1 effective data capacity and are further backed by “eight nines” availability, which ensures that access to data is always on. By future-proofing their IT platforms with innovative technologies, growth-oriented startups and large businesses offer better customer experiences and drive new revenue streams, improving their overall profitability.
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