Hitachi Named a Challenger in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Infrastructure Platform Consumption Services (IPCS)

Hitachi EverFlex with Cisco powered Hybrid Cloud (EverFlex HC2)

Unlock the Power of Hybrid Cloud

AI-ready compute, storage, and networking with management in a flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing model to drive flexibility and agility while lowering your total cost of ownership.


EverFlex HC2 is an SLA-backed converged IaaS solution co-engineered by Hitachi and Cisco delivering hybrid cloud agility with on-premises control, flexible consumption pricing, and modular AI-ready architectures. It ensures best of brand reliability and security while accelerating time to value, reducing risk, improving TCO and boosting profitability across dynamic enterprise environments.

Cost savings calculator

Take the EverFlex TCO Assessment challenge to understand how you can improve your infrastructure and IT operating costs.

Up to 50%

savings in infrastructure and operations with Hitachi EverFlex

Gain SLA reliability and observability in a consumption-based model

Save 30-50% with just in time delivery, pay-per-use pricing, automation, and more.

A fresh approach to Hybrid Cloud

Pay for resources used, avoid CapEx, and enable accurate budgeting and flexible scale.

A fresh approach to Hybrid Cloud

Access 360 view across hybrid cloud, configuration, and optimal usage.

A fresh approach to Hybrid Cloud

Hitachi EverFlex & Cisco as-a-Service Catalog

Leverage a rich catalog of infrastructure services and software to modernize your hybrid cloud estate

EverFlex Control

Gain continuous insights, intelligence, and automation across the enterprise by applying advanced hyper automation toolchains that create service-based infrastructure and autonomous operations.

Cisco Network as a Service

Take advantage of an SLA-backed, cloud-like service for essential compute, storage, and networking resources on demand and on a pay-as-you-go basis, eliminating CapEx expenditures.

EverFlex Storage as a Service

Improve agility with a subscription-based storage solution that allows organizations to access and use storage resources on demand without the need to invest in a physical storage infrastructure.

EverFlex Compute as a Service

Utilize world class compute technology with access to a managed Kubernetes containers, virtual machines, and bare metal on demand—without investing in physical infrastructure.

EverFlex Data Protection as a Service

Elevate industry-leading data protection and disaster recovery capabilities via a subscription-based service.

EverFlex Managed Operations Services

Access comprehensive management of all your infrastructure, no matter the vendor, with day-to-day running, maintenance, and support of IT services and hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Hitachi Vantara Professional Services

Deliver turn-key technical solutions—including strategy and planning, design, implementation, migrations, operations, and training across the entire infrastructure—with HItachi Professional Services.

Reduce TCO

30-50%

Drive cost efficiency and reduce total cost of ownership to align strategic investments.

Average cost reduction of

$5.8M

Organizations saved millions in enterprise costs.

Typical increase in profits of

$14.8M

Companies significantly improved their service levels, driving profits.

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“CBTS Delivers Agile Services and Boosts Competitive Advantage with EverFlex.”
Bill Ehrman Senior Manager, Data Storage, CBTS
“Hitachi Vantara provides reliable, large-scale storage-on-demand services with all-flash deployment.”
Manager Data Storage, BMW Group

Drive savings and efficiency.

The TCO Optimization Assessment delivers a tiered approach to improve customer hybrid cloud deployments with a focus on service delivery and cost optimization.

Frequently Asked Questions

Hybrid application environments leverage multiple tools from many vendors to manage service delivery, operations and maintenance, analytics and financial ops. Hitachi provides a single pane of glass approach that gives a 360° view across datacenter and private and public cloud.

Hyperautomation is a systematic approach to orchestrating multiple technologies, driving end-to-end process automation for complex workflows across multivendor systems and their interactions. Hyperautomation utilizes advanced technologies like AI, intelligent business process management (iBPM), and robotic process automation (RPA), connected to a fully integrated environment.

IaaS is valuable for delivering technology faster, to more places, more reliably and more efficiently. IaaS platforms help offload the operational overhead of the technology services needed to expand existing revenue streams and capture opportunities as they occur.

A term for storage infrastructure that uses a combination of on-premises storage resources with a public cloud storage provider. A cloud-like management environment is employed around compute containers that allows a single, seamless data plane across an entire environment, from edge to multicloud. 


Resources & Insights

Containers-as-a-Service from Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi Vantara Training Solutions - On-Demand Learning Library

Unified Management of Hypervisors and Containers

Hitachi EverFlex Control VM Migration and Management Demo

Hitachi EverFlex Control- Hybrid Cloud FinOps

Harmonizing Compute and Storage in the New World of Infrastructure as a Service

Hitachi Vantara Recognized in the 2024 Gartner® Market
Guide for Platform-Native Consumption Services

Hitachi | Cisco Hybrid Cloud: Delivering Exceptional Business Value

Hitachi EverFlex One of the Highest Rated Vendors on Gartner Peer Insights

Hitachi EverFlex Control Overview

Hitachi EverFlex IaaS Portfolio

EverFlex Control Observability

Harnessing the power of Infrastructure Orchestration

EverFlex Virtual Machine to Container Migration and Management Solutions

Delivering Meaningful Business Outcomes with Hitachi EverFlex with Cisco Powered Hybrid Cloud

Hitachi EverFlex with Cisco Powered Hybrid Cloud

EverFlex TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) & Sustainability Assessment

Hitachi Vantara STaaS: Cost-Effective Cloud-Managed Storage