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(This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/mother99/jacksonholdingcompany.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114The goal of any technology or engineering team is to build products that make life easier for their end-users. That\u2019s especially true in the world of IT. Against the backdrop of rising cloud costs, p\u2026 Read more on Cisco Blogs<\/a><\/p>\n \u200b[[{“value”:”<\/p>\n The goal of any technology or engineering team is to build products that make life easier for their end-users. That\u2019s especially true in the world of IT. Against the backdrop of rising cloud costs, performance demands, and new security and sovereignty requirements, hybrid cloud offers more options \u2013 and more complexity \u2013 than ever. Whether it\u2019s a \u201cbuild your own\u201d approach or full-scale managed services, organizations want the ability to choose the path that will create the simplest, best experience for their employees and customers, and the most value for their business.<\/p>\n With that in mind, it is no surprise that Cisco\u2019s converged infrastructure solutions offered through our world-class ecosystem partners are popular with customers. Simply put, converged infrastructure exists to simplify and accelerate application delivery. These solutions are designed, validated, and optimized for a wide variety of application workloads and use cases so that IT teams can reduce their complexity and risk.<\/p>\n The converged infrastructure offering from Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions is built on decades of industry expertise and technology innovation together. And now, Cisco is thrilled to support Hitachi Vantara\u2019s announcement<\/a> of the next and logical evolution of this solution: A new suite of managed as-a-service offerings with a flexible consumption option for hybrid cloud use cases. This is also an important deliverable from the strategic partnership agreement that the two companies signed<\/a> June 2023, specifically to help customers simplify their hybrid cloud management.<\/p>\n This new offering, Hitachi EverFlex with Cisco Powered Hybrid Cloud embodies the benefits of both simplicity and choice. It means that Hitachi Vantara, with solutions powered by compute, networking, and software from Cisco and storage technologies from Hitachi, assumes the responsibility for maintaining a range of IT infrastructure functions, backed by contractually agreed-to service levels, metrics, and consumption-based pricing.<\/p>\n Organizations are finding that consumption-based IT infrastructure delivered as-a-Service (aaS) can help overcome challenges often present in hybrid cloud deployments, such as operational complexity, rising costs, increasing security risk, and demands for faster time to value.<\/p>\n According to the Cisco Global Hybrid Cloud Trends Report<\/a>, hundreds of IT organizations globally cited three top concerns:<\/p>\n 37% said security concerns<\/strong> are a significant challenge to deploying to multiple clouds. Together, Hitachi and Cisco address these challenges by accelerating the transition to hybrid cloud and providing organizations with the flexibility to meet their specific business requirements.<\/p>\n Hitachi Vantara Hybrid Cloud Managed Services<\/a> offers a variety of capabilities including:<\/p>\n Monitoring and alerting, capacity management, provisioning, and IT change management. The goal is for Hitachi Vantara to empower a cloud-like experience for IT organizations on-premises and in the cloud. Customers benefit from improved data availability, hybrid cloud observability, better operational and infrastructure efficiency, including the enablement of hybrid cloud automation.<\/p>\n And because we know that one-size-fits-all is rarely the best option, customers have flexibility to choose from more self-service offerings all the way to fully managed service, pay-as-you-go options all backed by professional services, support, and training.<\/p>\n Managed services also help our channel partners diversify and differentiate their businesses, within key areas of demand including hybrid cloud. With this managed service offering, Cisco and Hitachi channel partners can access proven, reliable solutions powered by two trusted brands that meet dynamic business requirements through consumption-based, cloud-like experience services.<\/p>\n \u201cOur joint efforts with Hitachi Vantara around hybrid cloud managed services support a holistic approach to achieving customers\u2019 business outcomes,\u201d said Alexandra Zagury, vice president of partner managed and as-as-service sales, Cisco. \u201cOur combined portfolio, including Hitachi Infrastructure Orchestration as-a-Service (HIOaaS), deliver the reliability, flexibility and insights that allow the customer to be more agile in today\u2019s dynamic business environment. And the Partner-to-Partner model taps into one of the biggest growth drivers in the industry right now by providing customers with more choice and partners with the opportunity to build offers around their competencies.\u201d<\/p>\n Being ready and adaptive to whatever the future brings is a powerful tool. This is at the heart of what makes Cisco UCS X-Series<\/a> powered by Cisco Intersight<\/a>, an award-winning solution and our most popular computing system. Future readiness means that the technology investments that our customers make today will help them better meet the evolving demands of tomorrow\u2014driven by AI and the increasing importance of data.<\/p>\n One way for customers to ensure future readiness is to work with partners that can be there for them every step of the way. That\u2019s at the essence of the new hybrid cloud managed service offering from Hitachi Vantara \u2013 it\u2019s choice and simplicity delivered as a service customized for the specific needs of our customers.<\/p>\n Hitachi Press Release<\/a> “}]]\u00a0\u00a0Announcement of a new hybrid cloud managed service offering powered with Cisco UCS and Hitachi storage technologies.\u00a0\u00a0Read More<\/a>\u00a0Cisco Blogs\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n The goal of any technology or engineering team is to build products that make life easier for their end-users. That\u2019s especially true in the world of IT. Against the backdrop of rising cloud costs, p\u2026 Read more on Cisco Blogs<\/a><\/p>\n \u200b[[{“value”:”<\/p>\n The goal of any technology or engineering team is to build products that make life easier for their end-users. That\u2019s especially true in the world of IT. Against the backdrop of rising cloud costs, performance demands, and new security and sovereignty requirements, hybrid cloud offers more options \u2013 and more complexity \u2013 than ever. Whether it\u2019s a \u201cbuild your own\u201d approach or full-scale managed services, organizations want the ability to choose the path that will create the simplest, best experience for their employees and customers, and the most value for their business.<\/p>\n With that in mind, it is no surprise that Cisco\u2019s converged infrastructure solutions offered through our world-class ecosystem partners are popular with customers. Simply put, converged infrastructure exists to simplify and accelerate application delivery. These solutions are designed, validated, and optimized for a wide variety of application workloads and use cases so that IT teams can reduce their complexity and risk.<\/p>\n The converged infrastructure offering from Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions is built on decades of industry expertise and technology innovation together. And now, Cisco is thrilled to support Hitachi Vantara\u2019s announcement<\/a> of the next and logical evolution of this solution: A new suite of managed as-a-service offerings with a flexible consumption option for hybrid cloud use cases. This is also an important deliverable from the strategic partnership agreement that the two companies signed<\/a> June 2023, specifically to help customers simplify their hybrid cloud management.<\/p>\n This new offering, Hitachi EverFlex with Cisco Powered Hybrid Cloud embodies the benefits of both simplicity and choice. It means that Hitachi Vantara, with solutions powered by compute, networking, and software from Cisco and storage technologies from Hitachi, assumes the responsibility for maintaining a range of IT infrastructure functions, backed by contractually agreed-to service levels, metrics, and consumption-based pricing.<\/p>\n Organizations are finding that consumption-based IT infrastructure delivered as-a-Service (aaS) can help overcome challenges often present in hybrid cloud deployments, such as operational complexity, rising costs, increasing security risk, and demands for faster time to value.<\/p>\n According to the Cisco Global Hybrid Cloud Trends Report<\/a>, hundreds of IT organizations globally cited three top concerns:<\/p>\n 37% said security concerns<\/strong> are a significant challenge to deploying to multiple clouds. Together, Hitachi and Cisco address these challenges by accelerating the transition to hybrid cloud and providing organizations with the flexibility to meet their specific business requirements.<\/p>\n Hitachi Vantara Hybrid Cloud Managed Services<\/a> offers a variety of capabilities including:<\/p>\n Monitoring and alerting, capacity management, provisioning, and IT change management. The goal is for Hitachi Vantara to empower a cloud-like experience for IT organizations on-premises and in the cloud. Customers benefit from improved data availability, hybrid cloud observability, better operational and infrastructure efficiency, including the enablement of hybrid cloud automation.<\/p>\n And because we know that one-size-fits-all is rarely the best option, customers have flexibility to choose from more self-service offerings all the way to fully managed service, pay-as-you-go options all backed by professional services, support, and training.<\/p>\n Managed services also help our channel partners diversify and differentiate their businesses, within key areas of demand including hybrid cloud. With this managed service offering, Cisco and Hitachi channel partners can access proven, reliable solutions powered by two trusted brands that meet dynamic business requirements through consumption-based, cloud-like experience services.<\/p>\n \u201cOur joint efforts with Hitachi Vantara around hybrid cloud managed services support a holistic approach to achieving customers\u2019 business outcomes,\u201d said Alexandra Zagury, vice president of partner managed and as-as-service sales, Cisco. \u201cOur combined portfolio, including Hitachi Infrastructure Orchestration as-a-Service (HIOaaS), deliver the reliability, flexibility and insights that allow the customer to be more agile in today\u2019s dynamic business environment. And the Partner-to-Partner model taps into one of the biggest growth drivers in the industry right now by providing customers with more choice and partners with the opportunity to build offers around their competencies.\u201d<\/p>\n Being ready and adaptive to whatever the future brings is a powerful tool. This is at the heart of what makes Cisco UCS X-Series<\/a> powered by Cisco Intersight<\/a>, an award-winning solution and our most popular computing system. Future readiness means that the technology investments that our customers make today will help them better meet the evolving demands of tomorrow\u2014driven by AI and the increasing importance of data.<\/p>\n One way for customers to ensure future readiness is to work with partners that can be there for them every step of the way. That\u2019s at the essence of the new hybrid cloud managed service offering from Hitachi Vantara \u2013 it\u2019s choice and simplicity delivered as a service customized for the specific needs of our customers.<\/p>\n Hitachi Press Release<\/a>Why managed services for hybrid cloud?<\/h2>\n
\n35% reported operational complexity<\/strong> as a key challenge when using multiple clouds.
\n33% said the cost containment<\/strong> was an issue, especially as companies adopted more public cloud resources.<\/p>\n
\nContinuous improvements and innovation by applying automation, AI\/ML technologies, and leveraging leading practices.
\nUse of predictive analytics of operational data to drive innovation and streamline delivery.<\/p>\nFuture ready with Cisco and Hitachi Vantara<\/h2>\n
Learn more about this joint effort with Hitachi<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n
Learn more<\/h2>\n
\nHitachi Landing Page<\/a>
\nHitachi White Paper<\/a><\/p>\nWhy managed services for hybrid cloud?<\/h2>\n
\n35% reported operational complexity<\/strong> as a key challenge when using multiple clouds.
\n33% said the cost containment<\/strong> was an issue, especially as companies adopted more public cloud resources.<\/p>\n
\nContinuous improvements and innovation by applying automation, AI\/ML technologies, and leveraging leading practices.
\nUse of predictive analytics of operational data to drive innovation and streamline delivery.<\/p>\nFuture ready with Cisco and Hitachi Vantara<\/h2>\n
Learn more about this joint effort with Hitachi<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n
Learn more<\/h2>\n
\nHitachi Landing Page<\/a>
\nHitachi White Paper<\/a><\/p>\n