Hitachi Vantara Unveils Data Protection-as-a-Service and Expands Capabilities for Storage-as-a-Service

Hitachi Vantara Corporation, a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., introduced Data Protection-as-a-Service (DPaaS) and expanded capabilities for Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS).

These services directly deliver the intended business outcomes from storage and data protection that enterprises need. The as-a-service offerings are pre-engineered and delivered as fully managed services to provide rapid deployment, transparent consumption-based pricing and guaranteed service levels.

“Hitachi Vantara’s StaaS and DPaaS offerings are designed for customers to quickly realize the benefits of a cloudlike experience and free their people to work on more strategic projects,” said Ashish Nadkarni, VP, infrastructure systems, platforms and technologies group, IDC. “With additional capacity and data protection available on demand, StaaS and DPaaS from Hitachi let customers adapt and grow more quickly and stay competitive as well as reduce their overall costs by only paying for the actual storage or data protection that they need when they need it.“

As more enterprises incorporate cloud technology in their IT environments, interest has grown for cloud like approaches to the on-premise infrastructure. This helps enterprises achieve the scalability, security, flexible consumption and system management they need. Applying over 25 years of operational expertise in monitoring and managing information systems, the company provides a managed public cloud experience as an alternative to conventional data protection and to storage leasing and purchasing.

Benefits of company’s DPaaS include:

• Lower risk in deploying data protection in new environments

• Guarantee ^[1] of desired service-level outcomes from day one

• Greater control and confidence in price and protection

• Ability to protect data that resides on the firm as well as other vendors’ storage

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Enhancements to StaaS include:

• End-to-end support for all data types with object, block and file storage available

• Accelerated deployment time, and time to desired service level

• Budget savings from reducing unused capacity

• Assurance ^[2] of achieving desired service levels

These solutions provide flexible pay-as-you-go pricing and transparency via a rate card. Customers can use analytics to make informed operational decisions to improve efficiencies and reduce the financial waste of paying for unused capacity. The company’s ‘always on’ services team manages each customer’s infrastructure and service catalog. The service level catalog provides a range of choice for performance, data availability, retention, remote replication, and RTO/RPO. These solutions allow customers to keep security, compliance and data sovereignty under their control and ensure they are achieving the service levels needed for their businesses ^[3]. The firm will deliver these solutions directly as well as through its global systems integrators (GSI) and cloud service provider (CSP) partners as part of their value-added solutions.

“Today’s dynamic IT environments require nimble resource allocation strategies,” said Bobby Soni, chief, solutions and services officer, Hitachi Vantara. “Our new storage and data protection-as-a-service offerings deliver customers more choice and flexibility, providing the keys to higher scalability, enhanced security, and greater resilience.“

DPaaS and STaaS offerings are available from the company and its network of partners.

^[1] Committed service levels are outlined in each Hitachi Vantara customer contract. Consult your company’s representative for details.
^[2] Committed service levels are outlined in each firm’s customer contract. Consult your firm’s representative for details.
^[3] Committed service levels are outlined in each Hitachi Vantara customer contract. Consult your company’s representative for details.