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Hitach with VMware simplifies journey to Software-defined Data Center

By VARINDIA - 2016-08-26

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS) has announced early support of VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes, simplifying customers' cloud journey and extending the value of Hitachi's rich infrastructure solutions. The combination of vSphere Virtual Volumes policy-based automation and the trusted, high-performance infrastructure solutions from Hitachi Data Systems provides the continuous infrastructure foundation customers can build upon with confidence. The important new VMware framework will be implemented across a variety of Hitachi Data Systems offerings, including its Hitachi NAS Platform and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform family of storage systems. This adds to a long list of VMware API and application support Hitachi Data Systems currently offers. "vSphere Virtual Volumes is a major technological advancement in the storage ecosystem. The implementation of vSphere Virtual Volumes can solve several key issues for customers: overprovisioning of storage, inflexibility to perform granular data services, complex provisioning and manual operational changes. It will provide increased scalability and enhanced automation with policy-based storage management," said Ravi Chalaka, Vice-President - Marketing, Hitachi Data Systems. "vSphere Virtual Volumes is a key solution for the software-defined data center. As more workloads are becoming virtualized, Hitachi's solutions with vSphere Virtual Volumes will play a strong role in helping customers realize the benefits of simplifying IT infrastructure through efficient storage technologies in the software-defined data center," said Gaetan Castelein, Sr Director of Product Management, Storage and Availability, VMware. Combining vSphere Virtual Volumes benefits with proven Hitachi storage virtualization and converged management software yields a true software-defined storage management framework, bringing the software-defined data center to fruition. With the introduction of a policy-based management system, VM and application provisioning becomes more streamlined and subsequent adjustments become less time consuming.