Hitachi Vantara And Cisco Present Convergence Solutions For Cloud Hybrid

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JAKARTA - Hitachi Vantara, a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., together with Cisco launched the latest infrastructure solution for Red Hat OpenShift, the industry's leading hybrid cloud app platform powered by Kubernetes.

This solution is designed to help companies gain competitive advantage by increasing agility and resilience, while reducing energy consumption through artificial intelligence (AI)-based data orchestration.

This collaboration will integrate Cisco's computing and network systems with Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) storage technology as well as container management tools Red Hat OpenShift

By leveraging environmentally friendly AI-based data management and trusted data platforms, companies will also be able to increase confidence, reduce risks, and reduce their environmental footprint.

This convergence solution allows businesses to build and scale container-based applications more easily, providing higher performance and better operational consistency, said Dan McConnell, Senior Vice President, Product Management and Enterprise Infrastructure, Hitachi Vantara.

Some of the main benefits of Cisco and Hitachi's solution to the Red Hat OpenShift include:

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cisco Compute, Jeremy Foster, hopes that this solution can simplify the development of modern applications through the smooth application of container technology to Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converted Infrastructure.

Meanwhile, Ryan King, Senior Director of Hardware Partners Red Hat, stressed that this solution is expected to help businesses achieve cloud-native-based modernization with lower risk.