This document discusses hyperconverged systems and their role in digital transformation. It provides an overview of a presentation on this topic including: - An industry analyst's perspective on how legacy IT transformation and digital transformation are reliant on scalability, security, and administrative simplicity. Technologies enabling this include hyperconverged infrastructure and centralized management. - A customer's experience deploying a Hitachi hyperconverged solution at Conagra Brands to replace their aging VDI infrastructure and enable outsourcing, citing benefits of rapid deployment, capacity, and application performance. - A new generation of Hitachi's Unified Compute Platform that provides flexible, simple and agile hyperconverged solutions for server workloads, virtual private

1. Hyperconverged Systems for Digital
Transformation
Chris Gugger
Director – Infrastructure Solutions Marketing

2. Agenda
Hyperconverged Decision – Key Customer Considerations
Introductions
Hyperconverged Market – An Industry Analyst Perspective
New UCP Family
Q & A

3. Session Panel
CHRIS GUGGER
Director, Infrastructure
Solutions Marketing
Hitachi Vantara
STANLEY STEVENS
Senior Analyst, Data
Center Practice
Technology Business Review, Inc.
MATT BOUGES
Enterprise IT Architect
Conagra Brands

4. Hyperconverged Market - An Industry
Analyst Perspective
Stanley Stevens - TBRI

5. Company Market Business Structure
§ Established: 1996
§ Employees: ~100
§ Analysts track ~250
companies contributing over
$3 trillion in technology
revenue per year
§ Client reference > 16 Fortune
500
§ Decision makers: 1,500
§ Influencers: 1,500
§ End user surveys:
>15,000/year
§ Financial results ground analysis
of industry trends, vendor
performance, profit pools and best
practices
§ 360° market view
- Vendor analysis
- Customer analysis
- Market analysis
§ QuantCenter Information platform
(360° landscape view)
§ Data models
§ Research practices: data center,
telecom, devices, IoT, cloud,
software, services, digital
marketing and digital
transformation
§ Tailored services
- Strategy and growth services
- Performance and
measurement services
- Voice-of-the-customer and
opportunity services
- GTM and commercial
services
5
TBR Short Facts

6. Legacy IT transformation hinges on:
§ Scalability to accommodate future workloads
§ Security across workloads, hardware and software
§ Administrative simplicity
Digital transformation hinges on:
§ Physical infrastructure location is irrelevant
§ Application and data protection supersedes
perimeter security methods engineered for
an on-premises world
Technologies enabling
transformation:
§ Hyperconverged
§ Centralized management
and orchestration
Encryption
Policies
Provisioning
Usage/billing
I/O
StorageCPU
AI
IoTDigital
Security
attack points
Isolation-driven
security
Network
Data Monetization Drives Transformation Shifts

7. Infrastructure Must Evolve!
7
Top concerns with traditional
infrastructure:
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
Percent of Respondents (n = 200)
REASONS FOR INVESTING IN
HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORMS
SOURCE: TBR HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORMS CUSTOMER RESEARCH, June
2016
Rigid architectures
= static scaling
Complex & labor
intensive = consumes
resources
Rising cost =
limited workload
innovation
Current storage architecture is outdated or underperforming
Cost versus traditional hardware infrastructure
Hardware infrastructure was due for an upgrade
Reduce operating processes
Improve efficiency of internal processes
TCO versus traditional infrastructure
Effective management of operations/processes

8. Critical Apps Are Migrating to Hyperconverged
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Productivity and/or collaboration
Development and/or testing
Customer resource management (CRM)
Cloud hosting
Data warehousing
Business processing (ERP)
Database
Data back up and recovery
Development and operations
Business intelligence and/or analytics (e.g., data mining, predictive)
Percent of respondents (n = 200)
SOURCE: TBR HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORMS CUSTOMER RESEARCH, DECEMBER 2016
WORKLOADS PROMPTING THE PURCHASE OF HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORMS

9. Separating FUD From Reality
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Time to deployment
Ease of installation
Compatibility with existing infrastructure
Capacity
Application performance
Percent of respondents (n = 179)
SOURCE: TBR HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORMS CUSTOMER RESEARCH, June 2016
KEY ATTRIBUTES VALIDATED DURING ON-SITE EVALUATION

10. Not All Vendors Are Created Equal

11. Hyperconverged Decision – Key Customer
Considerations
Matt Bouges, Conagra

12. Conagra Brands Company Profile
§ Headquarters in Chicago, IL
§ 40 locations, including offices in
Chicago, IL, and Omaha, NE
§ More than 13,000 employees
§ Over $8 billion in annual
revenue
§ 50+ brands

13. § Aging infrastructure
§ Converged architecture using
Cisco UCS, NetApp and HDS
– 1,500 desktops
§ Expensive and complex
§ Difficult to grow
§ New requirements due to IT
and business outsourcing –
mission critical
VDI Infrastructure Problem

14. Converged or Hypercovnerged?
§ Initially only looked at
converged
§ Did not believe HCI was ready
for mission-critical workloads
§ Concerned about new skill sets
for a new architecture

15. Why HCI, What Changed?
§ Rapid HCI maturity – all flash,
VSAN 6, etc.
§ Moving to a solo data center
with 1,000 sq. feet – size
matters!
§ Developed comfort with the
technology through POCs
§ Great fit for VDI workloads

16. HCI Solutions Considered
§ Nutanix – not already in our DC
§ Dell/EMC VxRail – complex and
constraining
§ Cisco Hyperflex – maturity level
and size
§ Hitachi UCP HC – the right fit!

17. § Hitachi UCP HC 240F – 2 per
data center (4 nodes ea.)
§ 512 GB RAM, 28 cores per
node, 30 TB all flash per site
§ VMware Horizon Enterprise 7,
cloud pod architecture
§ HDI and HCP for UEM profiles
§ 12u total for 1500-2000
desktops
The Solution

18. New UCP Family
Chris Gugger, Hitachi Vantara

19. Introducing the Next Generation
Hitachi Unified
Compute
Platform HC
Automated: Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor 2.0
Hitachi Unified
Compute
Platform CI
Hitachi Unified
Compute
Platform RS
Flexible Simple Agile
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform

20. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC (UCP HC)
Server Workloads
§ All virtualized workloads
running on VMware, including
mission-critical and tier-1 apps
§ Application uptime ensured
through HA, DRS, vSAN
§ Easily add up to 64 nodes for
increased capacity
Virtual Private Cloud
§ Service Provider VPC building
block for MSP and hosting
§ Consistently and easily
deployed on-prem and
off-prem (Colo)
§ Quick and easy scale-out
appliances to increase capacity
EUC/VDI
§ Up to 800 virtual desktops
§ Handle peak performance
requirements (boot, login,
read/write storms)
§ Quick and easy deployment and
configuration
§ On-prem or Cloud-hosted
Regional Offices
§ Consistent footprint and
deployment operations
§ IT-in-a-box
§ Simplified user experience ideal
for non-VMware experts
§ Centralized management for
remote deployment
and configuration

21. Q & A

22. Thank You