Infosys and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is expanding their partnership to deliver next-generation infrastructure and data center transformation solutions to enterprises.
Infosys will also establish a center of excellence to co-create ‘pay-per-use’ solutions with HDS.
The new solutions will help improve operational efficiencies and facilitate smooth transition of their IT infrastructure to new cloud-based environments.
“Hitachi Data Systems and Infosys have a long history of collaboration. We are pleased to take our relationship to the next level by delivering the latest Hitachi Data Systems ‘Continuous Cloud Infrastructure’ solutions to help our mutual customers, around the world, deploy the most available, automated and agile environment for next-generation data centers and cloud solutions,” said Brian Householder, Chief Operating Officer, Hitachi Data Systems.
Enterprises can then convert a significant share of their capital expenditure, related to infrastructure and data center management, into operational expenditure.
The new data center transformation solutions, developed by Infosys and HDS, are tailored to meet refresh cycles of enterprise data centers.
The two partners will also create reference architectures and solution frameworks to accelerate private cloud deployments.
Infosys Cloud Ecosystem Hub is a first-of-its-kind solution that helps enterprises build and manage a unified hybrid cloud environment.
This will integrate with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) deployed to dramatically reduce time-to-market and simplify complex migrations.
“In order to execute in this business-defined world, IT teams are looking to new infrastructure strategies to deploy more continuous, adaptable and scalable infrastructure. Businesses need solutions that don’t require constant disruptive changes to the technology that supports them. This is what we are delivering today in strategic partnership with Infosys,” added Householder.
The combination will enable enterprises to move to a 100% virtualised environment with management, orchestration and hypervisor integration.
Infosys will facilitate industrialisation of big data programs by deploying its BigData Hub on Hitachi UCP creating reference architectures for the Hadoop ecosystem.
Infosys BigData Hub enables real-time operationalisation of decisions across enterprise systems and is part of the services offered by Infosys Cloud Ecosystem Hub.
Infosys and HDS will create several private cloud offerings to be delivered ‘as-a-service’ related to ERP, CRM, Exchange and Collaboration, with flexible pricing models.
“Growing our partnership with Hitachi Data Systems will enable us to bring together our complementary capabilities around cloud and big data to help our customers enhance their IT infrastructure with new technology solutions,” said U B Pravin, Chief Operating Officer and Member of the Board, Infosys.
This will help enterprises reduce capital expenditure on their cloud infrastructure and optimise their private and public cloud investments.
Infosys and HDS are collaborating to deploy SAP HANA on a HDS SAP HANA Appliance in both scale-up and scale-out solutions.
This will help enterprises to optimally scale with certified reference architecture, speed, flexibility, and rapid implementation leading to lower Total Cost of Ownership and better Return on Investment.
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