Hitachi Vantara Bulks Up Converged Infrastructure Portfolio

The young Hitachi subsidiary brings GPUs and NVMe to its UCP lineup and introduces new application solutions for SAP HANA and Oracle databases. Hitachi Vantara is bringing GPUs and NVM-Express to its lineup of converged and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions as part of a larger effort to offer a broad range of systems that can address almost any workload in modern data centers or cloud environments. As part of that effort, the company—the technology subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd.—also is unveiling an array of integrated application solutions in its Unified Compute Platform (UCP) that address such workloads as SAP HANA in-memory platform, Oracle databases, VMware technologies and big data analytics frameworks. The UCP also includes rack-scale systems to give organizations a choice of modular and integrated offerings. The UCP systems are designed to enable “customers to respond quicker to business needs with a simplified, standard platform that is fast to deploy and easy to manage, with less risk,” Bob Madaio, vice president of infrastructure solutions marketing at Hitachi Vantara, said in a statement. The enhancements to the UCP portfolio are the latest in a series of announcements Hitachi Vantara has made over the past several months since the company was created in September 2017. Hitachi combined its Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Pentaho—Hitachi’s data integration and data analytics business—and Hitachi Insight Group internet of things (IoT) unit to create Vantara, with the goal of addressing the technology needs of industrial and commercial customers. Those customers are adapting their infrastructures as they embrace multicloud environments, the IoT and other modern trends.