Next Steps on the Digital Transformation Journey

Infrastructure in a State of ChangeIT infrastructure is changing fast, as evidenced

by such phenomena as cloud computing,

software-defined data centers and pay as you go

or use, as well as converged and hyperconverged

computing. This is digital transformation in action:

an accelerating pace of change ultimately driven

by business needs.

Amongst those keenly felt needs is the creation of business value and efficiencies, with IT departments looking to prioritize their resources by reducing the number of full time employees (FTE) occupied with “keeping the lights on” and reallocating them to strategically significant initiatives. Enterprises are also aware of the need to accelerate the application development process in order to capitalize on what are often very narrow windows of business opportunity, reduce their IT management burden through simplification and automation, reduce infrastructure costs, scale at will, and ensure that service level agreements (SLAs) and availability targets are met.

While many enterprises understand that digital transformation can ease these pains, the challenge for everyone is working out how to harness the benefits of new infrastructure without disrupting existing systems or day-to-day operations, which may depend on existing systems.

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Working together, Hitachi

and VMware deliver the power

of an ecosystem that combines

the latest technology with a

wealth of experience and

world-class support...

Lee Caswell, VMware and Bob Madaio, HDS

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This is at the heart of the emergence of what Gartner terms “bimodal IT”: the practice of managing two separate, coherent modes of IT delivery, one focused on stability and the other on agility.1

75%… we predict that 75% of

IT organizations will be

bimodal in some

way by 2017.

Peter SondergaardSenior Vice President and Global Head of Research Gartner

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As a recent white paper2 points out:

To stay responsive to the business while addressing the expanding security, scalability and integration challenges introduced by shadow IT, enterprises need a modern IT architecture that can support both traditional and cloud-based applications.

In the view of the authors of this paper, choosing the right infrastructure partners is an essential next step in realizing the full potential of bimodal IT and successfully moving forward on the digital transformation journey. Those partners must offer diverse yet complementary solutions so that IT can implement a delivery and migration strategy that meets today’s urgent needs, and shapes the way to tomorrow’s important opportunities.

Bimodal IT is the practice of managing two separate but coherent styles of work – one focused on predictability and the other on exploration.

Mode 2 is exploratory, experimenting to solve new problems.

Mode 1 is predictable, improving and renovating in

more well-understood areas.

Mode 2

Mode 1

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and VMware recognize these far-reaching changes taking place within IT organizations and have recently intensified our alliance to create even better, easier and faster ways for IT to keep pace with change, accelerate time to business value, and move forward with digital transformation.

HDS has created Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP), optimized for VMware, which addresses any use case at any scale, and in any location. The alliance of HDS and VMware makes it possible to deploy into production fast by delivering an optimized, preconfigured and pretested solution in just five or fewer days.

Three solutions typify our new and closer integration, giving users purpose-built easy portability for migrating workloads into modern infrastructures:

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for VMware vSphere

Developed through enhanced integration with VMware solutions, through APIs and adaptors developed specifically for VMware, Unified Compute Platform for VMware vSphere supports the full range of enterprise workloads, running anywhere within the bimodal model.

It enables rapid time to value by providing highly standardized building blocks with advanced software that automates all common hardware operations “out of the box.” It also facilitates a more service-led approach through consultation with VMware experts who can meet the needs of individual customers with more complex needs.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC

The hyperconverged Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC (UCP HC) combines the strength of UCP for VMware vSphere as well as VMware’s vCenter and vSAN software. Together, they provide an all-in-one solution that’s very quick to deploy and scale – and leverages the full value of existing VMware investments as well as providing a roadmap for future deployments.

Deliver the Industry’s Fastest Time to Production

Hitachi Enterprise Cloud With VMware vRealize

The HDS and VMware alliance has also enabled us to produce an end-to-end solution to deliver a public cloud experience for private or hybrid cloud. Hitachi Enterprise Cloud with VMware vRealize (HEC with vRealize) is an application-centric, turnkey private or hybrid cloud that utilizes a pre-engineered, prebuilt service catalog and self-service portal to reduce operational costs and speed deployment. This solution integrates HDS or partner-delivered services around a dedicated converged platform and HDS management software integrated with VMware vRealize cloud management software. It streamlines how applications are run in traditional operations, and supports the flexible foundation for next-gen DevOps and container use. HEC with vRealize reduces time to value, lowers risk of operation, and is available on-or off-premises in a traditional acquisition model or a usage-and-outcome-based managed cloud solution.

1 Gartner IT Glossary, Bimodal IT 2 Bimodal IT Conquered: What to Look for in an Infrastructure Solutions Provider,

VMware and Hitachi Data Systems, January 2016

Unique Native IntegrationHDS is also the only vendor that has native integration with the entire VMware software stack, enabling customers to seamlessly integrate and transform to an IT consumption model while maximizing their VMware investment.

Innovations such as the tightly integrated, feature-rich VMware adapters within Hitachi management packs make it easy to automate and orchestrate tasks to simplify management and maximize value within VMware environments. Both UCP Director and UCP Advisor intelligent orchestration software monitor all the elements of the UCP for VMware vSphere solution under a single view that provides an overall health status of all solution elements.

Hitachi UCP for VMware vSphere is a converged solution and takes “converged” to a next level. … First and foremost, there is complete integration with vCenter server. And when I say integration, I mean that you don’t just get a plug-in with some extra screens, but you have additional menu options, which are also object/context sensitive.

Duncan Epping“Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Impressed Me”Yellow Bricks.com23.06.16

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Customer Successes“ At the end of the day, our Hitachi cloud platform gives us a place and a base to build Deluxe as a platform so that we can better serve our small business customers and financial institutions.”

Michael S. Mathews VP and CIO Deluxe Corporation

“ Hitachi UCP for VMware vSphere is a unique solution that provided us with an integrated platform from which we could offer flexible yet secure private cloud services for our customers. The solution’s

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The benefit of this unique native integration is far easier workload migrations, with no need for the organization to learn new systems, buy additional software, or undertake the arduous and time-consuming task of manually integrating systems. Quite simply, all the heavy lifting has been done.

Convergence and CloudVMware vRealize

Web Appsand Data

Public CloudIntegration Mobile

Workforce

Remote EdgeSolutions

LAN

SAN

UCP DirectorData Services Apps

Third Ecosystem

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP): Converged

Infrastructure

HCP

1. Pre-engineered service catalog2. Self-service portal3. Consumption-based pricing

Hitachi Enterprise Cloud with VMware vRealize delivers:

UCP = Hitachi Unified Compute Platform

UCP Director = Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director

HCP = Hitachi Content Platform

unrivalled reliability, flexibility and performance now support even our most demanding customers’ workloads, and reduce our time to value and operational costs while increasing our operational efficiency and resource utilization.”

Marina Redone Marketing and Alliance Manager Accadis

“ UCP Director provides a unified console to control and monitor our operations, which streamlines the process and provisions resources quickly and responses promptly.”

WL Fok Senior IT Manager and Co-Owner Hong Kong Broadband Network

HDS at a Glance

Digital transformation improves enterprises’ cost-efficiency, time to market, customer experience, and revenue through better data management. Hitachi Data Systems uses data to power the digital enterprise.