Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., seeks to make the world a safer and healthier place to live in through technologies which address critical business and societal challenges, such as rising healthcare costs and public safety concerns.
During a meeting with the Philippines’ technology journalists and bloggers, Colin Tan, Managing Director, Emerging Market & Philippines, HDS, unveiled the next phase of the company’s Social Innovation business strategy which taps the power of cloud-based M2M analytics and mobile devices.
The company also announced new hardware and software designed to unlock the value of a software-defined infrastructure.
Social Innovation
The expanded HDS Social Innovation initiative and solutions portfolio now includes the Hitachi Live Insight for IT Operations, Hitachi Clinical Repository for connected health, and Hitachi Live Insight Center of Excellence.
The Hitachi Live Insight for IT Operations is a cloud-based M2M analytics solution designed to help companies achieve optimal performance and availability from their IT infrastructure, and gain operational intelligence at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO).
The Hitachi Clinical Repository (HCR) for Connected Health is a newly enhanced release of HCR, expanded to support connected health with secure mobile access.
Hitachi Live Insight Center of Excellence is designed to help organizations confidently and swiftly test, customize and deploy advanced data analytics solutions, applications, platforms, and integrated solutions to support new business initiatives.
The new solutions augment existing solutions including Hitachi Visualization for Public Safety (a solution built on the Avrio and Pantascene acquisitions to help law enforcement by integrating data from cameras, sensors, emergency dispatch and social media) and Hitachi Live Insight for Telecom (providing real-time insight for network analysis).
Simplify IT to unlock value of a software-defined infrastructure
To effectively unlock the value of a software-defined infrastructure, technology must simplify operations through automation, drive insight through better access to information, and improve agility through abstraction that turns fixed assets into flexible resources.
Hitachi Data Systems is delivering on those goals by extending its Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) to an expanded Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) family.
The company has also expanded the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) family to cover core to edge or small to large converged and hyper-converged infrastructure models.
The company also introduced the Hitachi Hyper Scale-Out Platform (HSP) for fast-growing data analytics workloads and brouht to market new software to automate the provisioning and protection of application environments.
Storage Virtualization to the Masses
The newest additions to the Hitachi VSP family – the G200, G400, G600 and the upcoming G800 – can be deployed with Hitachi SVOS, allowing the entire VSP family to offer native heterogeneous storage virtualization and multi-site active-active storage – as well as fully compatible data migration, replication and management.
Meanwhile, the latest additions to the UCP family include the hyper-converged Hitachi UCP 1000 for VMware EVO:RAIL, and the converged Hitachi UCP 2000, both use new rack servers and target small to medium or remote or branch office environments.
The Hitachi UCP 6000 converged model integrates the recently launched Hitachi CB 2500 blade servers. The UCP family, with the Hitachi UCP Director infrastructure automation software, allows customers to drive operational efficiencies through rapid deployment and provisioning of infrastructure for managing an agile data center, prepared to change workloads to match business needs.
Active Data Lake for Big Data Analytics
The hyper-converged architecture of the new Hitachi Hyper Scale-Out Platform (HSP) provides cost-effective compute performance and on-demand capacity.
Capable of ingesting massive amounts of mixed data types across a distributed, clustered architecture, the simple, automated management of HSP allows elastic data growth by using Hitachi file system technology with open source management and virtualization software.
HSP is a scale-out platform for Hadoop environments, allowing users to analyze data in place and eliminate the need to move large data sets to perform analytics functions for big data.
Automated, Application-Led Storage Provisioning and Data Protection
Hitachi Data Systems is also introducing and enhancing a wide range of software tools that will help users build the ITaaS infrastructure they desire, while delivering greater self-service capabilities to internal users.
These new application-aware solutions offer greater automation of, and protection for, critical customer workloads, reducing costs and complexity while increasing efficiency in software-defined environments.
Hitachi Automation Director, a new application that works with the Hitachi Command Suite management infrastructure, provides configurable best-practice-based service templates for simple, application-specific provisioning of storage resources to databases, applications and VDI environments.
Built-in support for role-based access control means that, once established, these templates can be used by business users in a move to self-service provisioning.
As a lightweight complement to Hitachi Command Suite, Hitachi Infrastructure Director is a new storage configuration and management application that uses the new VSP systems’ APIs to provide simple, intuitive management, guided by a built-in recommendation engine, for environments in which simplicity is more important than the need for manual control of every detail.
Hitachi Infrastructure Director gives users the power to direct simplified management operations to rapidly deploy new storage systems and services for the new models in the VSP family.
With the ability to automate data protection and provide granular control of storage-based copies, Hitachi Data Instance Director simplifies data protection through automation and orchestration of Hitachi storage-based snapshot, clone and replication technologies, in addition to live backup, continuous data protection, and archive capabilities under a single platform.
“HDS connects what works with what’s next. We are already helping our customers to transform their businesses in areas like software-defined infrastructure, cloud and leveraging data analytics to make better decisions and increase competitive advantage,” said Saravanan Krishnan, Business Director, Infrastructure Solutions, APAC, Hitachi Data Systems.
“Each of our platforms unlock the value of software-defined infrastructure by helping customers achieve greater levels of information access through virtualized, hyper-converged and scale-out architectures that are built to accelerate the journey to IT-as-a-service through an application-led, software-defined approach to IT.”
Saravanan Krishnan, Business Director, Infrastructure Solutions, APAC, Hitachi Data Systems
