HDS launches converged infrastructure solutions

BANGALORE, INDIA: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd, unveiled a portfolio of converged infrastructure solutions that combines storage, server, networking and software management in an integrated packages designed for mission-critical workloads.

The new Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) family of solutions provides a pre-tested cloud-ready infrastructure that can be deployed quickly and managed easily, unlike custom approaches that require exhaustive testing and integration costs, claims the company in a release.

Eleven new Hitachi UCP offerings give customers choices based on two converged infrastructure models:

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro: The initial offering in this family of solutions is UCP Pro for VMware vSphere, which features Hitachi UCP Director software that provides VMware vCenter Server integrated management and orchestration.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select: A series of pre-validated reference solutions that can be configured using a selection of Hitachi storage, server and software management. Hitachi UCP Select also offers converged solutions with Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) servers. Hitachi UCP Select is ideal for organizations that require a flexible converged infrastructure.

"Converged infrastructure solutions have been available in the market for some time, but when enterprise organizations and cloud service providers encounter the requirements of true mission-critical workloads, these first-generation converged offerings fall short of customer needs," said Ravi Chalaka, vice president, Solutions Marketing, Hitachi Data Systems.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for VMware vSphere with Cisco UCS is the initial offering that combines Hitachi storage with Cisco UCS servers and networking as a Cisco Validated Design (CVD), and is pre-validated with VMware vSphere.

The portfolio of UCP Select reference solutions that are based on Hitachi storage and servers and Brocade Fibre Channel and Ethernet fabric switches support enabling software technologies such as hypervisors, databases, analytics and application environments including Citrix, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and VMware.