Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., has officially announced a new co-engineered solution in partnership with Cisco, a solution which is designed for Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes.
According to certain reports, the result effectively combines Cisco’s compute and networking systems with Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) arrays through Red Hat OpenShift container management tools. The idea here is to help enterprises gain a competitive edge with increased agility and resilience, while simultaneously reducing energy consumption through AI-powered data orchestration.
To understand the significance of such a development, we must take into account the results of a new report, where application container market was projected to witness substantial growth. This growth will, by and large, stem from the rapid rise in AI-led digital transformation efforts that are driving enterprises to adopt container technology scale.
This change, once realized, would tread up a long distance to empower organizations who will replace traditional IT tasks with automation software, effectively reducing deployment timelines for applications and improving their performance and scalability. Having said so, Red Hat report also revealed that 67% of organizations have delayed or slowed container-based application deployments due to security concerns.
In response, the Hitachi-Cisco solution will try and simplify container adoption by providing a pre-validated enterprise infrastructure to accelerate application development, improve operational consistency, and enhance resiliency for latency-critical workloads. Furthermore, it will leverage AI-powered, environmentally responsible data management and a trusted data platform to let enterprises increase confidence, reduce risk, and lower their environmental footprint.
“In today’s fast-evolving IT landscape, businesses are under increasing pressure to modernize their infrastructure while managing complexity and risk,” said Ryan King, senior director of Hardware Partners at Red Hat. “Red Hat OpenShift offers a trusted, comprehensive application platform that empowers organizations to achieve cloud-native modernization in alignment with their business goals. By enabling Hitachi Vantara and Cisco infrastructure on Red Hat OpenShift, we can provide an enterprise-ready solution to help streamline container adoption and support more scalable operations.”
Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper level, we begin from its promise to provide accelerated application deployment. In essence, the technology will use, like we briefly touched upon, a pre-validated and certified infrastructure to cut down on time required for production. This way the technology can assist businesses in deploying applications faster and more efficiently.
Next up, users can come expecting optimal operational consistency. With a unified platform in place for cloud operations, you can basically access a more seamless experience across on-premises and cloud environments so to reduce risk, as well as enable smoother workload mobility and rebalancing.
Joining that would be the solution’s unbreakable data resilience. This translates to how the solution’s ropes in the capabilities of Hitachi Vantara VSP arrays for delivering continuous uptime with real-time monitoring and geo-redundancy to protect critical data and maintain accessibility.
Finally, our last piece of highlight is provided by the said collaboration’s focus on enhanced sustainability. We get to so say because, recognized as a top storage solution by ENERGY STAR®, Hitachi Vantara VSP arrays optimize power usage, helping enterprises meet their sustainability objectives.
Among other things, it must be acknowledged that, thanks to its underlying technology, the new solution can consolidate more workloads onto fewer systems to streamline operations.
As for availability, the entire setup is available for purchase through Hitachi EverFlex.
“Our collaboration with Cisco and Red Hat reflects our commitment to delivering solutions that support both business innovation and environmental responsibility,” said Dan McConnell, senior vice president, product management and enterprise infrastructure at Hitachi Vantara. “This converged solution can empower businesses to build and scale containerized applications more seamlessly, delivering high performance and greater operational consistency.”
