Mexico. A converged solution is the answer to the challenge faced by organizations due to the wide variety of data and applications that increase the complexity of their IT infrastructure. Today, IT departments can be responsible for managing hundreds of terabytes of information, managing dozens of sophisticated applications, and hundreds or thousands of physical or virtual servers.
This is achieved through the integration of different systems, which the manufacturer has been responsible for pre-designing, verifying and pre-configuring, in order to deliver a solution with a known and easy to manage behavior. This allows users to maintain control of their data center infrastructure, optimal service time, reduce costs and have a more efficient operation.
Organizations around the world are discovering how hitachi Unified Compute Unified Platform (UCP) improves performance, reliability, and agility.
Here are the 10 reasons why companies choose Hitachi UCP to take control and optimize the management of their IT infrastructure.
1. Fast deployment for fast transmission to the Cloud
UCP is a turnkey solution, pre-configured from the factory. Pre-installed software can be up and running in five days or less. Together with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director, the solution enables faster deployment of cloud infrastructures and efficient allocation of resources.
2. Flexibility for VMware Infrastructure
Hitachi UCP meets the requirements of any high-end block- or file-based highly data center infrastructure, configurations available for mid-range solutions with cost-effective storage. Each component of the solution adheres to vSphere by integrating best practices, so IT experts can quickly configure and deploy a VMware infrastructure. Hitachi UCP also supports Cisco Servers and different world-class solutions including enterprise-level with Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000, enterprise-modular-level with Hitachi Unified Storage VM and modular with Hitachi Unified Storage.
3. Reliable and innovative system
UCP for VMware vSphere leverages industry-leading storage virtualization and offers multi-hypervisor support. The solution consistently provides high levels of predictability and reliability for business operations, even for mission-critical applications such as SAP and SAP HANA.
4. Unified management and reduction of TCO
With Unified Compute Platform Director, organizations can manage their physical and virtual storage environments from a single screen. Total cost of ownership is reduced by up to 30% through unified management, automatic migration, and storage provisioning. With unified management, organizations can be more agile to react to market conditions and innovate faster.
5. Mission-critical applications
The solution delivers up to twice the performance benefits across mission-critical application environments such as SAP and SAP HANA. So with UCP for VMware vSphere, enterprises have the opportunity to dramatically increase the pace of their innovation.
6. Cost savings and sustainability
To acquire, integrate and deploy an infrastructure solution in virtualized environments. UCP also reduces operating costs (OPEX) through a simplified management process and automation, as well as delivering savings in energy, space and cooling.
7. Protect your current IT investment and prepare for future growth
UCP allows you to integrate and protect the company's investment in current storage. It can also grow the level of automation, at its pace and scale. It accelerates the applications you use most, and helps achieve efficiency and business value. Together with hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000, UCP solves the reliability, availability, scalability and performance that challenges today's IT departments, and a foundation for future growth.
8. Create the Software-Defined Data Center
According to Gartner, 70% of the IT budget is used to keep the data center running. The solution is a software-defined data center (SDDC). An integrated, automated, and virtualized data center is easy to control. With enterprise storage, compute, networking and software from Hitachi Data Systems and leader in VMware's virtualization capabilities, UCP is the foundation for the software-defined IT business.
9. Automated Disaster Recovery
With Unified Compute Platform Director, administrators can manage multiple UCP servers from a single pane of glass to quickly perform disaster recovery planning. Unified Compute Platform Director automates disaster recovery and rapid replication to move secondary copies to offsite recovery sites.
10. Global Partners committed to customer success
Hitachi Data Systems and VMware have been strategic partners since 2002. Today, Hitachi is an Elite Partner in VMware's Technology Alliance Partner program, a participant in the VMware Ready Partner programs.
for storage infrastructure, and an embedded OEM partner. Together, Hitachi and VMware are committed to providing innovative end-to-end virtualization solutions for the data center.
Text written by Alejo López Crozet, Managing Director of Hitachi Data Systems Mexico and Central America.
