Hitachi made multiple announcements of significance at their recent NEXT customer show, but they also gave some high level guidance about what’s coming in 2018.
Hitachi Data Systems’ former channels head in Canada, who has moved over to Vantara, and a top Canadian partner share their views on what the restructuring and Internet of Things re-emphasis will mean for the channel.
The big improvements are to software and hardware capabilities on the core Hitachi Content Platform and to the Hitachi Data Ingestor Platform.
The new content intelligence solution joins the Hitachi Content Platform, an integrated cloud-file gateway and an enterprise file sync and sharing platform as core elements of a broad object storage portfolio.
HDS adds top of the line models in both its all-flash F series, and hybrid flash G series, as well as the new SVOS 7 operating system.
The HC V240, HDS’ first hyper-converged appliance, is based on the VMware stack, but the hyper-converged road map is likely to broaden out beyond that.
Hitachi Data Systems has greatly deepened its strategic relationship with SAP around HANA in the last several years, and its new announcements, which cover from the low end of the market to the high, broaden that portfolio.
The enhancements to the HDS unified storage platform aimed at the enterprise and mid-market also now allow cloud tiering from the appliance itself, and new support for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes assists performance in virtualized environments.
The Hitachi Hyper Scale-Out Platform, a new, next-generation technology, leverages technology acquired with Pentaho last year to provide an appliance that is aimed at Big Data, Data Lake and Internet of Things use cases now, and at broader use cases once an all-flash version is available later this year.
The new enhancements to the Hitachi Content Platform extends its value as an integrated content mobility solution.
The enhancements to Hitachi Unified Compute Platform which streamline and accelerate the process of building and managing cloud are the big news here for most HDS partners.
