Atos Selected Hitachi Vantara Software and Storage Products

Hitachi Vantara LLC, the digital infrastructure and solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., announced that Atos Information Technology Hong Kong Limited (Atos HK) selected Hitachi Vantara to help break down data silos and modernize its enterprise infrastructure.

The solution will include the recently announced Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) 5000 Series, Hitachi Ops Center and Lumada Data Services, among others, to bring much needed speed, flexibility and simplicity to Atos’ data infrastructure.

Hitachi Vantara’s solution serves traditional, hyperconverged and object storage use cases and supports an agile operating model that eliminates data silos and enables Atos HK to simplify the management of its new environment and reduce data center complexity. Hitachi Ops Center enables its customer to monitor utilization and performance. It automates storage provisioning to ensure that clients can access additional capacity whenever required. Meanwhile, Lumada DataOps Suite allows the collection and integration of information from event and performance logs from its storage and network hardware into a data lake before running analytics to monitor current infrastructure performance.

In digital transformation for clients across all industries, including healthcare, energy, utilities, telecommunications, media, retail, transportation, public sector, defense, manufacturing, financial services and insurance, Atos HK operates as part of Atos Group’s AsiaPac business, delivering enterprise content management, application hosting, infrastructure services and data management services across three data centers to its clients in Hong Kong and Macau.

Its infrastructure has a diverse mix of storage devices and architectures ranging from standard block-based SAN resources and NAS devices to object storage and hyperconverged infrastructure models. Over time, this approach led to the build-up of multiple data silos. Meanwhile, assigning capacity for client environments and managing this huge sprawl of devices proved increasingly complex and time consuming for the company’s storage and network administration teams. Additionally, with growing competition from public cloud providers, Atos HK sought a more modern, flexible approach that would better serve its clients’ current and future requirements. Hitachi Vantara’s solution enables Atos HK to run better with efficiency gained through increased automation and optimization.

After a selection process, Atos – a Hitachi Vantara client for more than a decade – selected Hitachi Vantara solutions for their flexibility, automation and storage management and analytics capabilities.

The solution will include the following: 

• Hitachi VSP 5500 arrays provide performance, NVMe flash storage as the foundation for an enterprise infrastructure;
• Hitachi Ops Center monitors utilization and performance and automates storage provisioning so clients can access additional capacity whenever required while unlocking valuable time savings for storage administrators by eliminating the need to allocate and assign client resources manually;
• Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) provides archive-as-a-service to securely store, share, protect, preserve and analyze data;
• Hitachi Content Intelligence (HCI) provides search and discovery that helps clients explore their critical business data;
• Lumada Data Integration, delivered by Pentaho, collects and integrates data from event and performance logs within the storage and network infrastructure into a data lake for faster processing;
• Hitachi Vantara Professional Services to ensure none disruptive migration and changeover from the old to new infrastructure.

Atos has reported receiving benefits including: 

• Reduced datacenter footprint by 75%; power consumption by 69%
• Reduced TCO by 20%
• Single storage platform for block, file and object
• Non-disruptive data migration and 100% uptime

“As a global leader in digital transformation for clients across multiple industries, it was essential to simplify our data infrastructure and remove unnecessary silos to better support our clients’ business priorities. Atos HK turned to Hitachi Vantara for its reliable storage management and analytics capabilities,” said Herbie Leung, Atos CEO AsiaPac. “Thanks to Hitachi Vantara’s solution, we have experienced increased benefits in speed, flexibility and simplicity, which are key to driving innovation for our clients.”

 “We are thrilled to continue our long-standing relationship with Atos HK who is on the forefront of accelerating innovation and digital transformation,” said Andrew Sampson, VP and GM Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, Hitachi Vantara, “With Hitachi Vantara’s solution, Atos HK has a modern data infrastructure powering data management and adapt to future business requirements.“