When conversations turn to digital transformation, it’s usually smart phone apps, dizzying feats of AI, and domestic robots that get all the attention. But the unsung heroes of IT know the truth: digital infrastructure is the foundation on which data-driven transformations are built.
Reliable, High Performing, and Agile
Increasingly we’re talking about two qualities digital infrastructure must possess if it is to be an effective backbone for digital transformation:
- It must be bullet-proof, always-on and highly reliable.
- It must adapt quickly and flexibly to the changing demands of digital business and new ways of working.
The big question for every IT leader is how best to build a digital infrastructure that is reliable, high performing, AND agile.
Challenges
In the event “The Road Ahead: Digital Infrastructure for the Data Driven,“ Hitachi Digital Infrastructure President Mark Ablett and Chief Product Officer Radhika Krishnan outlined the Hitachi Vantara vision for digital infrastructure.
First, the choice of deployment options is clearly going to be key. While 91% of CIOs have embraced the cloud, 70% are simultaneously investing in on-premises IT for reasons ranging from data gravity, to properly addressing data regulation, sovereignty, and governance requirements.
And even though the future of digital infrastructure is clearly hybrid, the path to achieving simple data and operations management in a hybrid world isn’t always clear. The goal is to embrace the benefits of cloud and cloud-like operations in digital infrastructure, without having to compromise on world-class performance, availability, and reliability.
Hitachi’s Vision and Roadmap
Our vision is to deliver digital infrastructure designed for hybrid cloud, which enables clients to seamlessly back up their data to the cloud, or effortlessly migrate data and applications between on-premises or cloud infrastructure. We’re also working to enable clients to seamlessly provision and manage infrastructure for born-in-the-cloud apps as easily as those running in their data centers.
Central to this strategy is our roadmap for combining cloud-ready infrastructure solutions with our software-defined storage offerings, and running a unified digital infrastructure wherever clients need it: on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge.