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Simplify Hybrid CloudInnovate With Cloud Agility and Economics
In this digital age, leaders are separated from laggards by the ability to identify market opportunities
and the speed with which they respond to them.
IT plays a vital role in digital transformation by delivering rich infrastructure and analytics to uncover
new business opportunities. By enabling rapid deployment of new initiatives with faster access to IT
services, IT lowers total cost of ownership (TCO).
Organizations Are Looking To Embrace Hybrid IT for Improved Business Agility and Lower TCO Modern, reliable IT
infrastructure foundation todrive enterprise innovation.
Integrated software-defined data center (SDDC) delivery for faster time to market.
Improved return on investment (ROI) with lower capital expenditure (capex) and operating expenditure (opex).
IT as a service to optimizecloud strategy and garner savings.
Software-defined automationfor simplicity and higherproductivity.
Integrated Turnkey SDDC Infrastructure: Hybrid Cloud Simplified
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SDDC solutions abstract software from the underlying hardware, thus providing flexibility to
run your applications in a more agile and location-agnostic manner. Unified SDDC solutions
provide flexibility to organizations, allowing them to deploy applications in their private cloud
or to leverage public cloud, based on business needs.
Organizations get consistent operational experience to manage their workloads, whether
they choose on-premises private cloud or external cloud.
Modern enterprises need a unified platform that can meet the needs of both application
developers and IT teams. This type of common platform allows software developers to
write, build, test and run lightweight containerized applications more quickly. At the same
time, it enables the infrastructure teams to maintain security and compliance with the IT
policies, using familiar proven management tools. Bimodal, DevOps-ready IT infrastructure
provides the reliable foundation for digital enterprises to innovate quickly, while enhancing
IT security.
Modernize the Data Center, Drive Innovations 1
SDDC Cloud Infrastructure
Virtual Machines
Compute Network Storage
External Storage
Cloud
Turnkey Delivery of Integrated SDDC for Faster Time to Market
A traditional three-tier IT architecture required significant integration to make it work, which was resource
and time consuming. Digital startups with native business agility are pushing other companies to be
nimble to stay relevant in the marketplace, or be left behind. Organizations need a pre-integrated, pre-
tested complete infrastructure stack, ready to go live in hours, not weeks.
Unified SDDC means delivering an end-to-end stack, including servers, racks, top-of-rack switches, leaf
switches, cables, power units and software, all pre-integrated and pre-imaged, to accelerate the go-live
process. Businesses expect faster delivery of IT services to meet requirements of production, test/dev
and other applications.
Optimized Cloud Strategy for Flexibility and Cost Savings
Embrace your hybrid cloud, with confidence, with an integrated SDDC platform. A robust, scalable
SDDC solution provides you with the flexibility to run your applications from any cloud, private or public,
as per workload requirements. You can move your workload seamlessly across private and public
clouds to realize full benefits of true hybrid cloud.
It also means that you will be able to manage and monitor your apps from same toolset and processes,
regardless of where the app is running, saving money, time and training.
Embedded NSX helps bolster cyber defense against security breaches by enforcing IT security policies
at granular, virtual machine (VM) level. Increased IT security comes without adding hardware costs in
deploying physical firewalls, per workload or per server. This microsegmentation isolates networks for
secure multitenancy.
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Simplicity With Software-Defined Automation
An integrated SDDC solution takes automation to a level above and beyond traditional IT infrastructure
management. Unified management software enables you to accelerate the process of discovering and
bringing hardware and software on board, as well as configuration and provisioning of hardware. The
process of manually integrating, testing and bringing these elements on board is a thing of past.
Management software automates IT tasks to improve your IT productivity. Life-cycle management of IT
components is automated to free IT team members to focus on other productive tasks.
IT service provisioning no longer entails uncertainty in terms of resource mismatch or overprovisioning.
Resource pool creation and consumption is an automated process to match compute, memory and
storage with the stated VM requirements.
Improve ROI With Lower Capex and Opex
Automation enabled with a policy-controlled management framework allows you to operate SDDC
infrastructure with policies, eliminating resource overprovisioning and improving efficiency.
Resource elasticity allows you to scale up or scale down workload domains as per business
requirements. A rack-scale hyperconverged solution provides flexibility to start with as few as four
nodes and scale up to 256 nodes, across multiple racks, to run your entire IT operation. This approach
better aligns your technology investments with business growth for greater efficiency and economics.
The solution improves productivity, delivers faster time to business value and accelerates the customer’s ability to realize the true power of their data.
John GilmartinVice President and General Manager, Integrated Systems, VMware
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Rack-Scale Hyperconverged Solution Delivers Reliable Private Cloud FoundationThe Hitachi Unified Compute Platform RS (UCP RS) delivers turnkey integrated SDDC solutions for enterprises and cloud providers. UCP RS
simplifies their hybrid cloud journey, while reducing TCO and improving security.
It accelerates the time to market with a natively integrated software-defined stack that comes prepackaged with management software to
automate day 0-2 operations with policies. UCP RC offers the flexibility to leverage external Hitachi Virtual Storage Platforms for overflow
storage requirements.
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