Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Success with Software-Defined Storage

Every second counts in modern IT. The rise of hybrid environments – with fragmented data, complicated recovery and increasingly high costs – isn’t making things faster or easier.

While managing complexity across different infrastructures, ensuring consistent application performance, and maintaining strict compliance standards have all become table stakes, many IT and security leaders still struggle with limited visibility, making risk management difficult.

Software-defined storage (SDS) has become an indispensable solution for cutting through the complexity, thanks to its ability to seamlessly scale across on-prem and cloud environments, ensuring your data is available, protected and optimized 24/7.

Integrating hyperscalers with your on-premises infrastructure can significantly increase complexity, as each cloud provider brings unique proprietary technologies, pricing structures and management requirements. Organizations must address these integration challenges to ensure seamless, efficient operations across both on-prem and multicloud environments.

Look for Seamless Integration Across Hyperscaler Environments

To streamline your hybrid cloud journey, we recently announced new capabilities for our own Virtual Storage Platform One Software-Defined Storage (VSP One SDS) solution, which is now available on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, in addition to AWS. This expands the flexibility of the solution for customers to choose the right cloud for every workload, regardless of location, on-premises or in the cloud.

VSP One SDS addresses this challenge by introducing a service-driven approach to storage virtualization that separates the control plane from the data plane. This gives you the agility to scale and adapt to demanding workloads – and deploy storage across a hyperscaler or on-prem system – from a single interface. And all without rearchitecting your infrastructure or applications.

Primary benefits include:

• Cost Efficiency: VSP One SDS brings enterprise features to the public cloud, including thin provisioning and compression, which can reduce cloud storage costs by up to 40%. It allows for efficient data compression and secure, encrypted data protection.
• Consistent Experience: As part of the broader VSP One data platform, VSP One SDS ensures a consistent experience across hyperscalers and on-prem environments.

Enhancing Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

Resilient data protection is more critical today than ever. And data replication is a key component of any data protection and business continuity strategy.

The Hitachi VSP One Block portfolio enables true block data freedom by seamlessly connecting data across on-premises and cloud environments, offering unified management, high performance and cyber resilience for comprehensive data protection and flexibility.

VSP One SDS Block now supports two-way asynchronous replication, which significantly enhances disaster recovery strategies. This allows primary and secondary sites to operate as both a source and a target, providing greater flexibility in disaster recovery implementations.

This feature enables faster recovery from unplanned outages and helps organizations maintain business continuity with greater confidence. Asynchronous bidirectional replication ensures business continuity without sacrificing performance, making it perfect for geographically distributed environments and hybrid cloud deployments.

VSP One SDS also offers automated failover and failback capabilities, simplifying the disaster recovery process and minimizing manual intervention for rapid recovery. It also provides robust governance tools and precise control over data location for compliance using VSP 360. With VSP 360’s detailed governance capabilities, VSP One SDS ensures strict data location control to address data sovereignty requirements, simplifying compliance in complex hybrid environments.

Hitachi Vantara ensures data security and uptime through features like data-at-rest encryption (DARE) across the hybrid cloud and the proprietary Hitachi Polyphase Erasure Coding (HPEC) for robust data access and protection. 

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 Driving Operational Efficiency and Agility

VSP One SDS creates a single data plane running across all environments, with centralized management through Hitachi VSP 360. This simplifies storage administration, reducing operational complexity and enabling IT teams to manage diverse storage environments from a single interface.

Built-in AIOps automation enhances analytics, security and operational efficiency, freeing IT teams to focus on innovation instead of routine tasks. In addition, VSP One SDS supports cloud bursting, giving teams the agility to scale AI training environments on demand in public clouds – accelerating innovation while optimizing costs.

VSP One SDS also enables you to scale from terabytes to petabytes using commodity or self-certified x86 hardware – often the same systems already in your data center. This helps you get more value from existing assets, reduce deployment costs and accelerate time to value.

The solution also supports critical use cases such as application development and testing, cloud migration and distributed applications, enabling organizations to optimize their data infrastructure and maximize application performance.

Unlock Your Data's Full Potential

With its expanded multicloud support for GCP and Azure, coupled with powerful two-way asynchronous replication, Hitachi Vantara VSP One SDS delivers unmatched flexibility, resilience and efficiency for hybrid cloud environments. It simplifies management, enhances data protection and ensures consistent application performance, all while being cost-effective and scalable.

VSP One SDS also offers advanced asynchronous replication and automated failover, strengthening ransomware recovery strategies, enabling rapid restoration of critical data with minimal manual intervention.

VSP One SDS is available through major hyperscalers, including:

• AWS Marketplace
• Google Cloud Marketplace
• Azure Marketplace

Ready to unlock the full power of your data, including AI workloads, and accelerate digital transformation? Learn more about the power of VSP One SDS, request a demo, or start a free 90-day trial today.

Read More:

• Buyers Guide: Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform One SDS
• Datasheet: Accelerate the Speed of Business With Software-Defined Storage
• Blog: Unlocking Business Outcomes with Software-Defined Storage Solutions
• Blog: VSP One SDS Enhances Data Protection with Async Replication and Multi-AZ Support
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