Date : 24-Sep-2020
Location: Kuala Lumpur
Organization:
Hitachi Vantara,helps customers develop new revenue streams, unlock competitive advantages, lower costs, enhance customer experiences, and deliver social and environmental value.
Key Takeaways:
New enhancements and capabilities to its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) portfolio with updates to Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) HC series and RS series.
Offering:
The updates include:
- Faster provisioning with new Hitachi UCP Advisor.
- Certified support for SAP HANA workloads.
- New Intel Cascade Lake Xenon Refresh processors that increase performance, and enhanced lifecycle management capabilities that deliver non-disruptive upgrades.
- Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform RS are available now from Hitachi Vantara and its global network of business partners.
Spokepersons:
- Bobby Soni, president, Digital Infrastructure, Hitachi Vantara,said,the updates are meant to service the increasing demands of remote workforce due to COVID-19 pandemic;by focusing on of supporting larger mobile and remote workforces with federated collaboration, an elevated focus on infrastructure resiliency and cybersecurity, and accelerated digital transformation initiatives
- Vo Nguyen, IT manager, Seven System Vietnam JSC,said,UCP HC’s all-in-one, single-vendor solution, with VMware vSAN integration.
- Enrico Signoretti, analyst, Gigaom Research,said,the updates serve as important options for many data centers.
- Lee Caswell, vice president of marketing, Cloud Platform Business Unit, VMware,said, VMWare running on HCI supports business-critical apps such as SAP HANA.
- Dan McConnell, senior vice president, product management, Enterprise Infrastructure, Hitachi Vantara,said,eliminate silos,host everything under the same environment.
Best Practices:
How to deal with increasing ICT demand as a result of COVID-19 ?
- Supporting larger mobile and remote workforces with federated collaboration.
- Elevate focus on infrastructure resiliency and cybersecurity.
- Accelerate digital transformation initiatives.
- Unify cloud infrastructure management with seamless interoperability across customers’ environments of traditional storage, HCI-powered hybrid clouds and public clouds.
Case Studies:
Dis-Chem is a leading pharmacy group in South Africa; the challenge was to create an enterprise ready, dynamic IT environment;the solution was to implement HCI.
Outcomes:
- High availability and performance of business-critical database.
- Virtual server setup reduced from 48 to 2 minutes.
- Protection against data loss.
- Quick response to spikes in demand.
Editor's comments:
- The key is to deploy hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) which caters a total solution for scaling computer resources(CPU, RAM and storage),federated collaboration,high security and resiliency.
- Think of the HCI as the preferred choice of hardware for your enterprise apps' servers.
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| Eliminate silos,host everything under the same environment |
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