1. The Era of Business-Defined IT
According to IDC analysts, we are in the midst of “the third platform”
which is built on mobile devices and apps, cloud services, mobile
broadband networks, big data analytics and social media. By 2020, it is
expected to drive at least 80% of industry growth for information and
communications technologies (ICT)1
.
This is a connected, always-on world. Business leaders face
tremendous challenges in keeping up with the rate of new technology,
subsequent data growth, perpetually changing customer expectations
and keen competition. To survive and thrive in this inevitably frenetic
climate, IT and business need to forge a new partnership for the overall
success and survival of the enterprise. IT must become a powerful
accelerant to meet ever-changing business needs, promote revenue
generation and seize new business opportunities. A newly minted era
has emerged: the era of business-defined IT.
Continuous Cloud Infrastructure
In this new era of business-defined IT, line-of-business leaders are
looking to the data center to be future proof, reliable, adaptable and
responsive to change. Hitachi’s vision for a business-defined data center
starts with the concept of Continuous Cloud Infrastructure, which
identifies the industry requirements for cloud infrastructure to deliver a
business-defined data center that is always:
Available - No downtime, no disruption, no matter what
Automated - Reduce complexity and enable policy-based and
applications-aligned management
Agile - Deploy one platform for all workloads to accelerate time to value
Efficient - Provide always-efficient infrastructure that reduces capex
and opex
Continuous Cloud Infrastructure is agile, available, automated
and acutely efficient to provide a solid foundation for a
future-ready enterprise. With the right technology in place, an
enterprise can redefine its own future, achieving success with
business-defined IT.
Find out more about Hitachi’s Continuous Cloud Infrastructure at
www.hds.com/go/build.
Redefine Your IT Future with
Continuous Cloud Infrastructure
1. http://www.idc.com/research/Predictions13/index.jsp
A Continuous Cloud Infrastructure is built upon a powerful combination
of advanced and innovative Hitachi technologies
Hitachi Virtual
Storage Platform
G1000 for
unprecedented
performance, availability
and scale with zero
downtime
Hitachi Unified
Compute Platform
for new levels of
efficiency, agility and
resilience
Hitachi Command
Suite to simplify storage
management, align with
business policies and
facilitate self-service
customization
Hitachi Storage
Virtualization
Operating System
maximizes
cost-performance needs
with built-in active-active
storage and superb
functionalities
6
30
25% 50%
Billion terabytes
of data by end
of 2015*
Billion terabytes
of data by end
of 2015*
Billion
endpoints in the
Internet of things*
Billion
endpoints in the
Internet of things*
More cloud
spend in
2014*
More cloud
spend in
2014*
Cloud adopted
for agility*2
Cloud adopted
for agility*2
Cloud services
on average in
enterprises*3
Cloud services
on average in
enterprises*3
545
100%Your World
Is
Always ON
DefineYour
IT Future
Are You Ready?
Autom
ated
Ava
ilable
Get Ready with
Continuous Cloud Infrastructure
with Business-Defined IT
ACCELERATE your progress
AgileEfficien
t
Unified
Data
Protection
ZERO
Delay
Data Recovery
Integrated
Management
ONE
Portal for
Automation
ZERO
Storage
Downtime
Global
Virtualization
ONE
Platform for
All Workloads
Converged
Infrastructure
Now IT and business are closer than ever — creating new
opportunities with rapidly changing requirements.
Business + IT = Opportunity
* IDC Predictions 2014: Battles for Dominance and Survival - on the 3rd Platform
*2
Gartner Predicts 2014: Cloud Computing Affects All Aspects of IT
*3
Skyhigh 2013 Cloud Adoption & Risk Report
Business mobility, fluid data, and
new platforms empower IT to
increase people’s productivity.
IT helps business find the right
data at the right time for better
insight and faster decisions.
IT Economics reduces costs and
optimizes business value.