Keep Up With Data Center ModernizationHow to enhance your data center with the latest flash storage and modern data infrastructure

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With the right approach, new and growing data sources can help

you drive innovation, transform customer experience and create

new revenue streams. But all that data can also slow you down.

More data, more problems.

To keep up in a race to innovate, you need to do more with your data:

• Bring on more applications, faster.

• Provide more capacity for existing applications.

• Deliver more performance.

• Do more analysis of data to unlock insights.

• Store more data types—block, file and object—that are being

generated from more and more sources.

• Make that data accessible to more users who are running

more applications on more devices.

• And don’t forget to think about the need for more security,

more risk avoidance and more regulations to comply with.

The only way to meet these challenges is to modernize

your data center.

Unless your business is static, there’s no way that older architectures

will help you manage the ongoing, exponential growth of data.

A modern data center infrastructure will give you the capacity,

speed and intelligence needed to interpret data and innovate with it.

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This e-book will show you how to plan your next-generation

data center with the latest systems, protection

and operations.

You have more data than ever before: more volumes, more varieties, more sources.

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Have You Optimized Your

Digital Foundation?

To create a strong foundation for

your modern data center, you will

need to put three pillars of data

center modernization in place.

The three pillars represent the

breadth of systems, software and services needed to maximize the

efficiency and effectiveness of all IT

data center operations, both on and

off premises. Each pillar is crucial

to success, and optimization in one

area helps drive another.

Data Center Modernization

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Three Pillars of Data Center Modernization

Agile Data Infrastructure

The combination of systems needed to

consistently deliver data at high speed for the

best possible experience. These systems should

be resilient, support a broad diverse range of use

cases and enable the business to quickly make

use of data without being constrained.

Modern Data Protection

Software and processes that ensure continuous

availability of your data – independent of

external influences – in support of the customer

experience. Modern protection also supports

adherence to compliance requirements, new

regulations and data security.

Intelligent (AI) Operations

Integrated software that leverages AI and machine

learning to analyze, predict, prescribe and execute

changes to achieve data center SLAs. This software

ensures systems are continually optimized for

peak performance, stability and cost efficiency.

This frees data center staff to focus on strategic

initiatives to implement new technologies

and accelerate innovation.

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Get Ready to Modernize

You will need a long-term transition plan

to implement the three pillars. Without

a solid plan, you risk wasting investments

in solutions that don’t take you in the

best direction. It’s important to work

with a partner who has the expertise

to execute and navigate for the future.

Read on for the latest

modernization tips from

Hitachi Vantara’s experts.

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Your Challenge

Just storing and retrieving data, as older architectures

do, is no longer enough. As digital transformation

puts data at the center of your business, you’ll need

to deal with data in brand-new ways. To keep up,

modern data centers require new and faster systems

as well as newly designed processes. Agility is critical

– your infrastructure needs to support a host of new,

changing development platforms and applications

and must be more agile and flexible, using the

latest technologies to meet changing business

requirements.

How To Modernize Agility

Because a one-size-fits-all approach won’t meet your

unique requirements, look for a use-case optimized

data center that includes powerful AFAs or hybrid

arrays for transactional processing, converged

or hyperconverged solutions for cloud-delivered

services, and object storage for longer-term

retention of data for both compliance and data lakes.

Note that these architectures should never operate

in silos. You need the ability to easily move data to

the system where it optimally resides and set policies

in an integrated fashion.

Agile Infrastructure for a Modern Data Center

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Implement Next-Generation Agile

Infrastructure With Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi Vantara’s agile data infrastructure portfolio

includes a new Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP)

all-flash F series and hybrid-flash G series lineup.

From midrange to enterprise, these eight new

models are designed for modernized data centers

and include all the latest features and more:

Up to 3x IOPS improvement.

25% lower latency.

3.4x faster performance with data

reduction enabled.

Up to 2.5x greater capacity scalability,

8x more volumes and one million snapshots.

Modern workload support including plug-ins

for Dockers and Kubernetes containers.

Backed by a 7:1 total efficiency guarantee.

The refreshed VSP model lineup can be combined

with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP)

converged and hyperconverged solutions and

Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) cloud object platform

or Hitachi Network Attached Storage (HNAS) to

create the agility you need within your data center.

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Your Challenge

You need to make copies of your critical data sets

for a number of reasons: a copy for backup and fast,

local recovery; a copy in one or two other locations

for business continuity and disaster recovery; copies

for the test and development teams; copies for

finances and legal; and so on. But all these copies

require automation for security and control or

else they can become costly and a serious liability.

Automating copy operations gets complicated

because it often requires a mix of tools, complex

scripting and manual processes.

How To Modernize Data Protection

Take automation to the next level by creating

service-level-based policy profiles. For example,

think of gold, silver and bronze services which

are selected based on your needs for a particular

application. These profiles can determine the

frequency of protection, the tier of storage to use,

user access rights, retention, etc.

Data Protection for a Modern Data Center

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Implement Next-Generation Data Protection

With Hitachi Vantara

Everything we’ve talked about can be easily

tied into Hitachi’s approach to data center

modernization. For example, as Hitachi Automation Director (HAD) provisions the

resources needed to spin up a new application

workload, it can automatically provision the

correct tier of data protection services at the

same time. The communication between HAD

Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID) is via a robust RESTful API.

In the near future, Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor will be able

to monitor HDID and recommend opportunities

to improve copy management processes.

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Your Challenge

Today’s data center operations are under constant change with

new systems, technologies and applications being added, moved

and fine-tuned. Most IT operations management (ITOM) tools have

a domain-specific view into the infrastructure that can be further

restricted by vendor-specific approaches. But, if you’re looking at

a siloed view of your data center, it can be difficult to ensure your

applications are running at peak performance across all the various

infrastructures and devices that are needed to support them.

How To Modernize Intelligent Operations

Artificial intelligence (AI) for IT operations creates a new holistic

view into IT infrastructure for improved data center monitoring,

service management and automation. AI operations start with

gathering various, large data sets of telemetry data from across

disparate systems (applications, servers, network, storage,

etc.) to be analyzed. Using machine learning (ML) algorithms,

this data is mined to gain new AI insights across these various

infrastructure systems.

In addition to monitoring, AI operations can impact other

IT operation processes, such as decreasing the time and

effort required to identify and avoid availability or performance

problems. With machine learning, AI operations can identify

interconnected resource trends and dependencies in order

to quickly analyze problems compared to manual, siloed

approaches that are typically based on trial and error.

Intelligent Operations for a Modern Data Center

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Implement Next-Generation Intelligent Operations

With Hitachi Vantara

For intelligent operations, Hitachi Vantara has integrated and

enhanced its AI operations software portfolio to ensure the highest

return on your data center investments and to accelerate strategic

outcomes. The new integration of Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor (HIAA), Hitachi Automation Director (HAD) and Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID) simplifies data

center management and sets the foundation for autonomous

operations across your data center.

HIAA improvements:

Predictive analytics to better forecast future resource needs.

AI-driven heuristic engine to recommend fixes and repairs

up to 4x faster.

HIAA integration with HAD to automate implementation

of HIAA recommendations.

HAD improvements:

Automated configuration of Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID).

Automated configuration of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

(VSP) QoS.

Integration with IT service management (ITSM) tools,

including ServiceNow, for improved tracking.

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Create Agility With Hitachi Vantara’s New Flash Lineup Hitachi Vantara recently announced a major expansion

of our agile data infrastructure portfolio with a new Hitachi Virtual

Storage Platform (VSP) all-flash F series and hybrid flash G series lineup. From midrange to enterprise, the eight new models

that we introduced are designed for modernized data centers.

Their benefits include:

More IOPS/$: Get up to 3X the IOPS performance as

compared to the prior-generation models and at better

pricing for the same configurations. In addition, latencies have

been reduced by 25% for faster response times that are well

below one millisecond, even when systems are pushed to

their full performance capabilities.

Peace of mind for all: Hitachi offers most comprehensive

100% Data Availability Guarantee in the industry. All of

the VSP models carry this guarantee.

Greater value: Each of the new models comes with the

Foundation software package included in the price.

Foundation is rich with features including: our newest

operating system, Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating

System (SVOS) RF; a universal volume manager license for

virtualizing external storage; ShadowImage, Thin Image and

Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID) for data protection;

dynamic tiering for data mobility; and Hitachi Infrastructure

Analytics Advisor (HIAA) for powerful analytics.

Summary: Keep Up With New Enhancements to Hitachi Vantara Data Center Modernization Offerings

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Improved consolidation: Massive capacity which can scale

up to 17.4PB of raw flash capacity.

Predictable ongoing costs: All of the new F- and G-series

models will have flat service pricing for up to seven years as

part of our Flash Assurance Program. The price of a support

contract won’t increase after the warranty period expires.

Selectable data reduction services: We offer the unique

feature of allowing data reduction services to be selectable

at the LUN, or volume, level, which allows you to optimize your

systems between max performance and max data reduction.

Guaranteed capacity efficiency: Reduce the amount

of flash capacity you need by up to 85% (up to 7:1) or we’ll

give you additional capacity for free.

AI operations: All new systems come packaged with Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor (HIAA), which has been

significantly upgraded to provide prescriptive resolutions

to data center problems based on machine learning for

faster time to resolution with optimized outcomes. It can

even predict future data center resource requirements

based on sophisticated trending analysis.

The newly refreshed VSP model lineup can be combined with

our UCP converged and hyperconverged solutions and our

Hitachi Content Platform or Hitachi NAS to create the agility

you need within your data center.

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Along with the upgraded line of VSP all flash and hybrid flash

arrays, Hitachi Vantara released an update to Hitachi Storage

Virtualization Operating System RF (SVOS RF).

Four Reasons Why SVOS RF Is Different From Competitive

Flash Operating Systems

Enterprise: Class uptime and zero RPO/RTO. Three data

center redundancy when teamed with the global-

active device. Supported by an industry-leading 100%

100% Availability Guarantee.

Flash-aware IO stack delivers end-to-end quality of service.

Industry-leading quality of service is enabled by preserving

the share of channel and NAND chip resources for application

workloads, should any contention occur. The benefit is that

SVOS RF QoS intelligence dynamically allocates more IOPS

to your applications during peak times by shifting those cycles

from other operations (i.e., replication). Application availability

and performance come first with SVOS RF.

SVOS RF virtualizes third-party arrays. Global 100 companies

use SVOS RF’s third-party virtualization capability and place

Dell/EMC, NetApp, and a host of third-party arrays behind

the Hitachi VSP F series. This simplifies management

and provides world-class data availability to the virtualized

storage pool. Why do they do it? Because Hitachi leads

in application availability and we spread the love by allowing

our customers to recoup their investment in competitive

arrays by virtualizing them behind the Hitachi Virtual

Storage Platform (VSP) series. Think of it as a virtual take

on “follow the leader.” This unique capability is made possible

by SVOS RF and customers use it to migrate data to and from

heterogeneous arrays.

Mainframe class 24/7 application availability. Mainframes are

still “king” in the most mission-critical financial environments.

SVOS RF allows the VSP series to deliver all-flash storage to

mainframes in the data center with the availability required

for mainframe storage. Hitachi Vantara is a leader in

mainframe flash storage and we are proud to service this

high-end, uncompromising segment.

Originally created for the Hitachi Vantara Community

by Neil Salamack. View full post >

Improve Flash Availability With SVOS RF

Learn more about SVOS RF >

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We’ve partnered with many companies to implement challenging

transformation projects that require data center modernization.

CPFL A Brazilian electrical company,

uses our technology to support their

implementation of smart grids to better

match the generation and delivery

of electricity with its demand.

Meat & Livestock of Australia

Turned their stock into an internet

of things that generate data,

stored and analyzed on VSP.

We’d love to partner with you and help you provide a better experience for your customers, create new

data-driven services that lead to additional revenue

streams, and optimize your operations for cost reduction.

DID YOU KNOW?

Nine out of 10 of the world’s largest banks

and telecommunications companies trust

our technology and professional expertise

to modernize their virtual data centers

in today’s multicloud world.

Be Different, Be Better

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