Hitachi Data Systems introduces new agile cloud solutions

Bengaluru: Hitachi Data Systems announced the new portfolio of agile cloud technologies to accelerate and simplify the adoption of enterprise cloud computing environments. Specifically, the portfolio delivers the industry’s most integrated set of computing resources to create a single pool of virtualized block, file and content storage, to support the diverse uses that are evolving in cloud computing today, and enables organizations to adopt cloud services at their own pace. As part of the cloud offerings, Hitachi Data Systems also unveiled the new Hitachi Content Platform that provides essential security, reliability and multi-tenancy for cloud infrastructures.

“Cloud computing enables a real and achievable alternative to traditional long term approaches to computing capacity consumption and investment. However, current cloud methodologies are not in tune with the heterogeneous realities many organizations face today, creating the same poorly utilized data silos that organizations tried to avoid through cloud computing efforts,” said Miklos Sandorfi, Chief Strategist—File and Content Services, Hitachi Data Systems. “Our unique approach delivers a dynamic cloud environment that virtualizes all existing storage resources into a single, agile service oriented infrastructure that reduces storage costs, mitigates risk and is easily managed in the face of changing demands,” he added.

“Hitachi Data System's leadership in portfolio integration, scalability, virtualization and proven reliability makes it an ideal provider of agile cloud infrastructure to meet the diverse needs of public, private and hybrid clouds. The infrastructure offers integrated, yet open, storage technologies that consolidate and dynamically automate IT resources to ensure security, elasticity and reliability in a scalable and cost-effective manner,” said Rick Villars, VP—Storage Systems and IT Strategies, IDC Corporation.

“With Hitachi Data Systems, we were able to consolidate and better manage our IT (or storage) environment. The addition of a Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM to our long-standing investment in modular storage improved our storage utilization and made the environment easier to manage by eliminating storage silos for our different applications. By virtualizing our existing storage with Hitachi Data Systems, we were able to get more out of our existing storage investments and create a more agile infrastructure to better adapt to our changing needs,” Basil Kanno, CIO, PowerNet Global, and Hitachi Data Systems customer.