Digital transformation is crucial for companies of all sizes and industries to stay ahead of competitors or

just to stay competitive. The ever-changing marketplace and customer expectations have pushed business

owners to adopt new technologies and deliver new IT services more quickly than before.

Traditional IT infrastructure have become a significant business problem. They are difficult to manage, slow

to respond to business needs and have a high total cost of ownership (TCO). Companies demand agile,

simple and flexible infrastructure to excel in delivering customer values and innovation, and to improve how

they engage with their customers.

SOLUTION PROFILE

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IT Challenges Todayn Complex silo architectures: Traditional silo architecture is hard to implement, operate and manage.

n Ever-increasing IT operational cost: Traditional IT infrastructure requires multiple skills and the support of multiple vendors.

n Slow time to market: Traditional IT infrastructure needs to deploy and test individual components separately (that is, server virtualization, storage, network, backup, disaster recovery).

n The Rise of Hybrid Cloud Usage: Hybrid Cloud can bring great savings to an organization, however, it introduces a certain degree of complexity and increases IT operational cost.

n High burden for disaster recovery: Disaster recovery infrastructure, disaster recovery drill and operation practices to ensure the success of disaster recovery.

An All-in-One Hyperconverged Solution

Hitachi Data Systems Hong Kong offers a turnkey infrastructure consisting of computing virtualization, software-defined storage, multi-cloud portal, cloud backup and cloud disaster recovery. The solution is built for organizations of any scale to run their workload in an optimized, high-performance and cost-effective enterprise platform.

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Ready to Run in Minutes This all-in-one hyperconverged solution is a 2U rack-optimized, ready-to-run hyperconverged appliance. The appliance is factory prevalidated and pretested to reduce the complexity of design and planning. The entire process of powering up the appliance, virtual machine (VM) provisioning and getting backup done locally and to the cloud takes just minutes, giving organizations the ability to quickly respond to business requirements.

Multi-Cloud Portal With the rise of public cloud adoption, many enterprises are using cloud services in different forms and for different reasons. Some organizations want to leverage the public cloud’s elasticity characteristics to manage workload with unforeseeable demand, and some may want to leverage public cloud’s pay-as-you-go model for a short-lived workload. Public cloud introduces enormous benefits for the enterprise, but yet many companies are hesitant to move their whole IT infrastructure into the public cloud for

various reasons such as security, performance, data privacy, complex charging model, and many more. Multiple clouds and hybrid cloud strategy is becoming a natural option for enterprises to enjoy the best of both worlds and is best fit to deliver a bimodal IT Infrastructure for their organization.

The Multi-Cloud Portal enable enterprises to manage and automate both their public and private clouds from a single unified panel. It provides a holistic view and management of all clouds and provides the same user experience for deployment of VMs and applications to any cloud. The multi-cloud automation playbook allows IT admin to turn their cloud infrastructure into code to eliminate repetitive tasks and human errors as well as to improve deployment time. With the Multi-Cloud approval workflow and multi-tenant cloud resources management, the enterprise is able to gain back control of their IT while enjoying all the benefits that cloud brings to the business.

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Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery The solution comes packaged with local and off-site backup to ensure that critical data is well protected. Backup to the appliance is done locally as a short retention to enable quick restores. It is also replicated to the Hitachi Cloud Services Connection data center for long retention and disaster recovery purposes. Deduplication and compression are applied to the backup replication to minimize the bandwidth requirement. As a cloud-based solution, it does not require capital expenditure (capex) on backup hardware or need to set up a disaster recovery site.

In disaster situations, as backup data is constantly replicated from the local to the disaster site, organizations can rest assured that their data is ready if and when they need to run their business from cloud. Per the disaster recovery request, Cloud Services Connection recovers the VM on the cloud and hands it over to the IT administrator for DR purposes. This approach provides a risk-free disaster recovery service to the IT organization.

To facilitate familiarity and assurance of a successful disaster recovery procedure, the all-in-one hyperconverged solution includes a one-time cloud disaster recovery drill. During the practice run, the organization experiences, firsthand, the ease of failover during a disaster and how to resume business at the disaster recovery site with minimal disruption.

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Managed Service Digital transformation requires organizations as a whole to transform business through digital capabilities. Organizations are realizing the need to align IT with business and have begun to focus their IT resources to make this change happen. This trend has caused the demand for managed services to rise and companies are more willing to explore such services as a cost-saving measure. The all-in-one hyperconverged solutions can be complemented with remote managed infrastructure support and backup services, thus allowing IT to focus on more strategic projects and initiatives.

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Multi-Cloud Portal

n Multi-Cloud Playbook Automation: Deploy apps and workloads configuration with a simple point and click operation. Playbook automation allows IT administrators to deliver apps and workloads configuration with a pre-defined playbook and customer playbook to any selected cloud.

n Enterprise Backup Integration: Backup and Restore the private cloud workload in a few simple steps. With an Enterprise backup solution (Hitachi Data Protection Suite), IT admin can enjoy a seamless integration with the multi-cloud portal to streamline the complicated data protection process.

n Enterprise Backup Integration: Backup and Restore the private cloud workload with simple point and click. With Enterprise backup (Hitachi Data Protection Suite), IT admin can enjoy the seamless integration with the multi-cloud portal to streamlining the complex data protection process.

n Approval Chain: Role-based and multiple level approval workflows to reduce over-provisioning and control spending within the targeted budget.

Key Features

n Multitenant and Multi-Cloud Accounts Management: Allow enterprise to manage private and public cloud resources into multitenant and accounts model.

Computing Virtualizationn Computing environment : A Microsoft® Hyper-V®

virtual machine acts and works like a physical computer, including common parts such as memory, processor, storage and networking. These parts have features and options that you can configure to work together to meet different needs. Storage and networking are usually considered categories of their own, because of the many ways they can be configured.

n Optimization : Each supported guest operating system has a bundled set of software, which consists of services and drivers, called integration services. These services improve integration between host server and the virtual machine.

n Portability : Features such as live migration, storage migration and import or export make it easier to move or distribute a virtual machine.

n Remote connectivity : Hyper-V includes Virtual Machine Connection, a remote connection tool for use with both Microsoft Windows® and Linux. Unlike Remote Desktop, this tool gives you console access, so you can see what’s happening in the guest operating system, even when the operating system isn’t booted up yet.

n Security : Secure boot and shielded virtual machines help protect against malware and other unauthorized access to a virtual machine and its data.

Software-Defined Storage

n Simplicity : Go from industry-standard servers running Microsoft Windows Server® 2016 to your first cluster using the Windows Server Storage Spaces Direct feature in under 15 minutes. For Microsoft System Center users, deployment is just one checkbox away.

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n Unrivaled performance : Whether all-flash or hybrid, Storage Spaces Direct easily exceeds 150,000 mixed 4k random IOPS per server with consistent delivery and low latency thanks to its hypervisor-embedded architecture, its built-in read/write cache, and support for cutting-edge NVMe drives mounted directly on the PCIe bus.

n Fault tolerance : Built-in resiliency handles drive, server or component failures with continuous availability. Larger deployments can also be configured for chassis and rack fault tolerance. When hardware fails, just swap it out; the software heals itself, with no complicated management steps.

n Resource efficiency : Erasure coding delivers up to 2.4 times greater storage efficiency, with unique innovations like Local Reconstruction Codes and real-time tiering to extend these gains to hard disk drives and mixed hot and cold workloads, all while minimizing CPU consumption to give resources back to where they’re needed most : the VMs.

n Manageability : Storage quality of service controls are used to keep overly busy VMs in check with minimum and maximum per-VM IOPS limits. The Health Service in Windows Server 2016 provides continuous built-in monitoring and alerting, and new APIs make it easy to collect rich, cluster-wide performance and capacity metrics.

n Scalability : Scale up to 16 servers and over 400 drives, for multiple petabytes of storage per cluster. To scale out, simply add drives or add more servers; Storage Spaces Direct will automatically bring new drives on board and begin using them. Storage efficiency and performance improve predictably at scale.

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Backup and Disaster Recovery

Reliable Data Protection Infrastructuren Reference cloud backup architecture.n Hybrid backup solution with short-term retention

copies kept locally in customer site and longer-term retention copies kept offsite in the Hitachi cloud.

Modernized Tapeless Backup Approachn Backup copies always online and available for

restore at any time.n Reduced data restoration time leading to a better

recovery time objective (RTO).

n Reduced operation cost and data loss exposure; no physical tapes to manage.

Bottomless Backup Capacityn Data backup locally to on-premises storage and

also replicated to bottomless cloud storage.n Consumption model with unlimited scalability

for data protection.

Optimized Backup Performance for the Enterprise

n Enhanced backup network throughput performance with advanced technologies such as backup deduplication, changed block tracking, forever incremental and synthetic full backup capabilities.

Disaster Recovery to Cloudn Cloud backup copies of VM images can be restored

to the cloud at any time at your business continuity planning (BCP) site for disaster recovery purposes.

Optional Remote Managed Infrastructure

Support Servicen 24/7 call center service:

n A central point of contact for incident reporting. n Record and status update of all incidents.

n 24/7 monitoring services:

n Hardware monitoring.n VMware vSphere infrastructure monitoring. n Backup and DR infrastructure monitoring.

n Storage and virtual servers provisioning.n Patch management and preventive maintenance

for vSphere infrastructure.n Remote support service for hypervisor-level

backup and DR infrastructure.n Monthly service report on system availability,

incident summary.n Quarterly performance and capacity review.n Incident management, change management,

problem management related to private cloud infrastructure.

Optional Backup Operation Servicesn Monitor backup job. n Perform data restore.n Provide daily backup report.n Perform ad hoc backup and restore.

Who says you can’t have data protection and

performance at affordable prices? To find out more,

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