HDS Unified Compute Platform RS Series

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., announced Unified Compute Platform (UCP) RS series, a integrated, software-defined data center (SDDC) rack-scale platform, powered by VMware, Inc.‘s Cloud Foundation.

The UCP RS enables customers to embrace hybrid cloud for faster time to market and pay-as-you-go economics. It also gives customers the freedom to optimize their IT investments by leveraging private and public cloud as an agile extension to their business. It provides flexibility to customers to either deploy integrated SDDC stack or build their own using the company’s vSAN ready node and VMware software.

Alongside the launch of UCP RS, the company has enhanced its hyperconverged system Unified Compute Platform (UCP) HC. UCP HC all-flash and hybrid systems are now enabled with NVMe and sixth-generation Xeon Scalable processors to deliver performance and reduced operating costs, maximizing business value for customers. This enhancement allows for higher performance, lower latency and accelerated workloads through the use of modern data center technology.

John Gilmartin, VP and GM, integrated systems, VMware, said: “Hitachi’s strong track record of innovation led them to be recognized as VMware Global Innovation OEM Partner of the Year at VMware Partner Leadership Summit 2017. This new Hitachi UCP RS solution powered by VMware Cloud Foundation is no exception. The solution improves productivity, delivers faster time to business value and accelerates the customer’s ability to realize the true power of their data.“

“Open questions exist regarding the extent to which advances in SDI technology can support a common virtual data center foundation upon which improved end-to-end IT service interoperability, resilience, elasticity and agility across a hybrid cloud infrastructure can be effectively realized,” according to Market Trends: Software-Defined Infrastructure – Who Can Benefit? (Gartner, Inc., June 2017).

In addition, the report states that, “Given the current state of public cloud service deployment and the maturity state of SDI, one of two options is possible: The first is an application-independent, common virtual data center infrastructure that can run atop an existing private data center infrastructure, a public cloud service or a combination of the two. This variation is called infrastructure-upward.“

Understanding the new demands placed on IT by data center modernization initiatives, the company has collaborated with VMware to develop the integrated, turnkey UCP RS system to deliver reliable IT infrastructure for hybrid cloud deployments. It also helps to minimize the complexity and guesswork of deploying and managing IT by automating provisioning, managing and monitoring for SDDCs, giving customers a competitive advantage, and delivering faster time to market and HA of business applications.

“Sirius recognizes the importance of making data manageable and quickly accessible for even the most complex use cases,” said Ben Hoch, VP, infrastructure solutions, Sirius Computer Solutions, Inc. “Hitachi UCP RS helps clients simplify and accelerate their transformation initiatives, allowing them to quickly realize the true power of their data.“

“Our deep, collaborative partnership with VMware has led to the creation of powerful systems and innovative solutions that help our customers modernize their IT environments and put data at the center of their business,” said Bob Madaio, VP, integrated solution marketing, Hitachi. “With the launch of our UCP RS in addition to advancements in our hyper converged UCP HC, Hitachi is empowering our customers to transform their IT environments, accelerate hybrid cloud deployments and further their digital business initiatives.“

UCP Portfolio
The UCP family of converged, hyperconverged and rack-scale systems provides enterprise, departmental and cloud service provider environments with a simple path to IT modernization and digital transformation. UCP solutions enable IT organizations to accelerate time to production, automate operations and reduce administrative costs by providing prevalidated, pretested and factory-built converged and hyper converged infrastructure systems.

The UCP RS is available to customers and partners in all regions.

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Resources:
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