Leading IT analysts predict hyperconverged solutions to be the largest segment in integrated systems, growing in excess of 40% CAGR, while other segments are likely to plateau or marginally decline. In this blog, I am bringing forth, how global customers are simplifying their IT operations and making positive impact on business strategy by embracing modern hyperconverged solution with Hitachi. You may also like to read a couple of stories on enterprise customers deploying hyper-converged infrastructure, powered by VMware vSAN, here.
Let’s look at a few customer HCI stories that can be easily replicated in environments facing similar challenges
Asian Health Care Provider:
This Asian hospital is part of a larger conglomerate with diversified business interests. The hospital delivers comprehensive health services to their community. It constantly strives to improve patient care by adapting data-driven approach, which enables doctors and other health care providers to leverage data insights to make informed decisions.
In its endeavor to provide better care for cancer patients, the hospital uses Big Data analytics tools to predict the prognosis of cancer patients (such as death probability at 6 months and 1 year) and studies the probability of going to the intensive care unit due to illness. Thousands of researchers and doctors working at Hospital are building and analyzing data that can be used for further research. To meet the demand for the various projects, the hospital needed a new system that could manage large quantities of data without adding complexity.
Building IT infrastructure for current and future needs was key driving factor for teams. Rapidly rising real estate and power costs led to the hospital deciding to virtualize and optimize their environment with hyperconverged infrastructure, which provides scale-out flexibility to add capacity non-disruptively as and when needed. Customer’s familiarity with Hitachi’s reliable external storage platform helped earn the trust in hyperconverged Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC (UCP HC) systems.