BMW Group Selects Hitachi Vantara EverFlex Data Services Solutions

Hitachi Vantara LLC, subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., has been selected as one of BMW Group‘s partners in enterprise cloud storage and data management for the next 6 years.

Part of the EverFlex from the company’s portfolio of XaaS offerings, the latest EverFlex Storage as-a-Service solutions will automate and simplify management of BMW IT infrastructure to further maintain reliability of their mission-critical operations. New data management capabilities will help advance BMW’s hybrid cloud journey and its role as a leader in innovation and sustainability.

The global push toward more sustainable manufacturing and autonomous, electric mobility is requiring automakers to adapt and scale their production and its underlying IT infrastructure to operate in an intensive data-driven environment. Anticipating and meeting new market demands will require optimizing everything from manufacturing to driver experiences with data-driven insights and decision making enabled by the cloud. The consumption-based model of the EverFlex portfolio of as-a-service infrastructure solutions meets companies where they are on their hybrid cloud journeys. EverFlex enables companies like BMW to flex up or down their data management and digital infrastructure as needed to accelerate their innovation and provide high-reliability production. This flexibility will help BMW as it drives toward a mobility of the future that is nimble, climate-neutral, more efficient and convenient.

EverFlex Storage-as-a-Service solutions will automate and simplify management of BMW’s IT infrastructure.

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“For almost a decade, Hitachi has consistently delivered outstanding service quality to support BMW Group’s mission-critical operations. We are proud that BMW Group has once again placed its trust in us as its technology and services partner for the next six years,” said Daniel Dalle Carbonare, SVP, global platinum accounts, Hitachi Vantara. “With the most powerful and flexible storage and services on the market, no matter how the data volumes develop: BMW Group is prepared!“

More performance, less CO²
The company has been supporting BMW since 2012 with its storage-as-a-service solution and the new deployment will provide a smaller footprint and a reduction in power consumption. These changes will reduce CO² emissions and help BMW save on energy costs.

As the end user accelerates its hybrid cloud journey, it will use the Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) 5600 enterprise storage arrays. VSP 5600 portfolio is why the company was recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage in 2021.

The VSP 5600 portfolio with the firm’s 100% data availability guarantee is engineered to handle demanding analytics or mission-critical workloads with low latency.

The company will support BMW in 10 countries including Germany, U.S., China, Japan and UK.

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