Hitachi Vantara and Cisco launched a suite of hybrid cloud services, Hitachi EverFlex with Cisco Powered Hybrid Cloud, that aims to automate deployments and provide predictive analytics.
The two companies have been long-term partners. The combination aims to bring Hitachi Vantara's storage, managed services and hybrid cloud management and integrate them with Cisco's networking and computing stack. Hitachi Vantara and Cisco said customers will see a consistent experience across on-premises and cloud deployments.
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Here are the moving parts of the Hitachi Vantara and Cisco combined offering:
- Hitachi Infrastructure Orchestration as a Service (HIOaaS) and Cisco Intersight will be integrated to offer an observability layer across hybrid cloud environments along with analytics and automation.
- A flexible managed services operating model for provisioning, implementation and transitions.
- An elastic consumption model across hybrid cloud and on-premises deployments via Hitachi EverFlex.
- Automation of routine tasks.
- A full set of security and compliance tools.
Here's a look at the stack and combination of Hitachi Vantara and Cisco and deployment options.
As noted at Hitachi Vantara's recent Exchange event in New York, enterprises are prepping data management infrastructure for generative AI and other emerging technologies.
Mark Katz, CTO of Financial Services at Hitachi Vantara, said the explosion of data, most of it unstructured, means that businesses have to be able to manage data, protect personal identifiable information with segmentation and track lineage. "It's not enough to simply store the data and retrieve it," said Katz. "You need a set of data management tools across enormously complex cloud and hybrid cloud environments."
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