Hyperconverged Systems for Digital Transformation

Chris GuggerDirector – Infrastructure Solutions Marketing

Agenda

Hyperconverged Decision – Key Customer Considerations

Introductions

Hyperconverged Market – An Industry Analyst Perspective

New UCP Family

Q & A

Session Panel

CHRIS GUGGERDirector, Infrastructure Solutions MarketingHitachi Vantara

STANLEY STEVENSSenior Analyst, Data Center Practice Technology Business Review, Inc.

MATT BOUGESEnterprise IT ArchitectConagra Brands

Hyperconverged Market - An Industry Analyst Perspective

Stanley Stevens - TBRI

Company Market Business Structure

§ Established: 1996 § Employees: ~100§ Analysts track ~250

companies contributing over $3 trillion in technology revenue per year

§ Client reference > 16 Fortune500

§ 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

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TBRShortFacts

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

IoTDigitalSecurityattackpoints

Isolation-drivensecurity

Network

Data Monetization Drives Transformation Shifts

Infrastructure Must Evolve!

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Top concerns with traditional infrastructure:

0% 10% 20% 30% 40%PercentofRespondents(n=200)

REASONSFORINVESTINGINHYPERCONVERGEDPLATFORMS

SOURCE: TBRHYPERCONVERGEDPLATFORMSCUSTOMERRESEARCH,June2016

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

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:TBRHYPERCONVERGEDPLATFORMSCUSTOMERRESEARCH,DECEMBER2016

WORKLOADSPROMPTINGTHEPURCHASEOFHYPERCONVERGEDPLATFORMS

Separating FUD From Reality

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Timetodeployment

Easeofinstallation

Compatibilitywithexistinginfrastructure

Capacity

Applicationperformance

Percentofrespondents(n=179)SOURCE: TBRHYPERCONVERGEDPLATFORMSCUSTOMERRESEARCH,June2016

KEY ATTRIBUTES VALIDATED DURING ON-SITE EVALUATION

Not All Vendors Are Created Equal

Hyperconverged Decision – Key Customer Considerations

Matt Bouges, Conagra

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

§ 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

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

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

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!

§ 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

New UCP Family

Chris Gugger, Hitachi Vantara

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

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

Q & A

Thank You