Cloud in server room

Cloud is a solution - not a foreboding

Cloud computing is forecasted as the next universal solution in IT infrastructure. It promises new perspectives of efficiency, flexibility and cost savings - especially in the outsourced hosting (IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service). It is true, that clould computing is at the early stages, and lot of people mention it as a 'dream'. Additionally, there is widespread confusion about what it means exactly, and how it can ensure business advantages. Using Hitachi Data Storages in cloud, the cloud computing has real value right now.

Storage architecture in cloud

As the IT get more and more responsiveness in execution of business process and in business success generally, the IT will need more and more flexible solution. But data quantity will grow continuously, and the expection against IT will be cost-saving.

Cloud can fulfil these requirements.

Clouds, Economics and Energy

Examining IT infrasructure as a key of the cost-efficiency is a relatively new approach. There are some facts substantiating this approach:

• The energy cost is rising and it will not change in the world anymore as we can see now. At the same time, the data quantity is growing also, so data centers energy usage get higher and higher - and costs of it also.
• Environmental protection is a new trend in IT, and most of the companies are concerned with green IT, so need to buy additional hardware is almost unacceptable for them.
• Increasingly, IT infrastucture experts must meet not only SLAs but 'performance per watt" goals as well. Virtualization and grid computing provide a kind of results fulfilling these expectation, but the advantages of them can be summarized in cloud computing.

Why choose Hitachi cloud solution?

If you are considering cloud within your organization, Hitachi can offer a full portfolio to execute it: cloud technologies, solutions, services and experts. Hitachi - as offers solutions for every business size - can fulfil your requirement of clouds in every cases: private, hybrid and public cloud environments. As the solution is worked-out by Hitachi's expert it is easy to adopt in your infrastructure: you just need to create a single pool of virtualized block, file and content storage to  support the diverse uses evolving in cloud computing in the immediate future.

The Hitachi solutions are integrated but modular, so creating a cloud environment does not mean that your previous IT investment is in vain.

You can use Hitachi's solution to complement your existing IT infrastructure. By supporting the varied protocols and platforms, you can prevent cloud form becoming just another silo. Cloud will mean real value for your business.

Effects of cloud to the outsourcing

The business case for IT outsourcing has two components, and cloud computing strengthens both of them.

1. The first is the cost.

Buying the hardware that meets the requirements of a growing company and data quantity is a capital expense that companies want to avoid. Outsourcing solutions offer a pay-as-you-grow model and it makes possible to utilize only the capacity the companies need. And, the cost of providing these resources is lower than buying them.

2. The second is the strategy.

The infrastructure 'outsourcing' (IaaS model) enables IT organizations to focus on strategic issues. It results that IT organizations becomes a strategically planned, well-organized and well-operated element of organization, and the most important thing, it can be match with the business strategies of the organization.