HDS introduces new converged systems

Source: HDS. Ong.

Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, has launched the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform 2000 (UCP 2000) converged system and the UCP HC V240, which is the first member of the new Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC (UCP HC) line of hyperconverged solutions. The Hitachi UCP family of converged and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions span from the core of the data centre to the edge of the network.

Converged infrastructures provide the fastest way to deploy infrastructure that supports virtualised environments. The entry level Hitachi UCP 2000 simplifies and expedites deployment of private and hybrid clouds through the delivery of a pretested, prebuilt converged infrastructure platform. With support for all-flash configurations, the UCP 2000 provides flexibility and scale with modular building blocks of compute, storage and networking that scale independently to run different application workloads. Designed and tested to support multiple virtualisation environments, including VMware, Microsoft and OpenStack, UCP 2000 is ideal for general-purpose applications, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), databases, plus test and development environments.

The Hitachi UCP HC V240 is an automated, policy-driven, hyperconverged infrastructure appliance. The system features virtual machine (VM) centric pools of capacity that are flexibly consumed based on VM-level policies that can be changed on demand. UCP HC V240 systems are jointly certified as VMware Virtual SAN Ready Node platforms and are powered by VMware’s Hyper-Converged Software stack.

“We are seeing increasing demand to provide integrated systems that are reliable, trusted, and certified cost-optimal, from core to edge across the enterprise,” said Joe Ong, Managing Director, Singapore & Vietnam, Hitachi Data Systems. “UCP HC V240 and UCP 2000 systems provide architectural options that can scale compute and storage resources while still offering simplified management for virtualisation specialists.”

“The combination of Hitachi’s hardware platforms and VMware Hyper-Converged Software offers radically simple, cost-effective path to digital transformation and helps customers meet ever-changing business needs,” said Fadi Azhari, Director of product marketing, VMware.

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