Hitachi Vantara has announced a new co-engineered solution with Cisco designed for Red Hat OpenShift, the Kubernetes-powered Hybrid Cloud platform.
The Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure joint solution combines Cisco’s compute and networking systems with Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) arrays using Red Hat OpenShift container management tools. The integrated infrastructure solution helps enterprises gain a competitive edge by increasing agility and resilience while reducing energy consumption with AI-powered data orchestration.
The introduction of Red Hat OpenShift containers on Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure comes at a critical time for enterprises facing the challenges of deploying and managing multiple applications across environments. According to a recent report, the application container market is expected to witness substantial growth, due to the rapid rise in AI-led digital transformation endeavors that are driving enterprises to adopt container technology. This shift is essential for organisations that seek to replace traditional IT tasks with automation software, effectively reducing deployment timelines for applications while also improving their performance and scalability. However, a Red Hat report revealed 67% of organisations have delayed or slowed container-based application deployments due to security concerns.
This integrated solution helps simplify container adoption by providing a pre-validated enterprise infrastructure to accelerate application development, improve operational consistency and enhance resiliency for latency-critical workloads. By leveraging AI-powered, environmentally responsible data management and a trusted data platform, enterprises can increase confidence, reduce risk and lower their environmental footprint.
“Organizations today are under immense pressure to modernise their IT infrastructure while meeting sustainability goals. Our collaboration with Cisco and Red Hat reflects our commitment to delivering solutions that support both business innovation and environmental responsibility,” said Dan McConnell, senior vice president, product management and enterprise infrastructure, Hitachi Vantara. “This converged solution can empower businesses to build and scale containerised applications more seamlessly, delivering high performance and greater operational consistency.”
“Cisco’s collaboration with Hitachi Vantara and Red Hat marks a significant milestone for customers looking to modernise their data centers for a new era of agility, efficiency and resilience,” said Jeremy Foster, senior vice president and general manager, Cisco Compute. “Together, we have created a powerful and scalable solution that streamlines modern application development through the seamless deployment of container technology on the Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure.”
Ryan King, senior director, Hardware Partners, Red Hat, said, “Red Hat OpenShift offers a trusted, comprehensive application platform that empowers organisations to achieve cloud-native modernisation in alignment with their business goals. By enabling Hitachi Vantara and Cisco infrastructure on Red Hat OpenShift, we can provide an enterprise-ready solution to help streamline container adoption and support more scalable operations.”
