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Multi-agent: the GenAI secret weapon for enterprise success Welcome to the first article in an upcoming series on Generative AI at Hitachi.  GenAI is one of the most rapidly developing fields of artificial intelligence and continues to advance at breakneck speed.  In this series of articles we will be looking into some of the more interesting concepts and use cases both within Hitachi and the wider world. In this first article, we will introduce the reader to multi-agent platforms, what they are and how we see them applied to the enterprise. The use of LLMs and some challenges imposed today   GenAI models are trained on massive datasets, advanced ...

Sneak Preview: Hitachi Vantara @ VMware Explore   In a recent survey conducted by a leading cloud management organization, 82% of enterprises cite unanticipated cloud cost escalations as their top cloud challenge. It’s probably the first time that cloud spending containment has a higher priority than cyber security.   Join us at the upcoming  VMware Explore  to learn how Hitachi Vantara can help find the right balance of on-premises, hyperscalers, near-cloud and edge computing to deliver on business objectives without breaking the bank. Hitachi provides market-proven solutions, designed to provide flexibility to customers to choose the ...

Can we really have it all? Is “the cloud” the only way?   So often in the technology industry we are captivated by the allure of the shiny and new.   Don’t get me wrong, I love the new stuff, but my feet are firmly planted in the reality of needing to deliver to the business on time, within budget and consistently – every day.   There are seemingly endless reasons to go all in with Cloud, but resisting the relentless pressure to “keep up with the trend” could pave the way to a golden future for the IT choices you make in supporting business needs and delivering for the business both today and for the foreseeable future.   ...

Gijima is one of South Africa's leading ICT companies, providing cloud infrastructure, IT and outsourcing services.   Its state-of-the-art Tier-3 data center hosts business-critical systems for many of the company's biggest clients. When Gijima acquired the data center they inherited most of the existing infrastructure and decided that upgrading to Hitachi storage solutions could dramatically improve performance and manageability. With the new solution in place, Gijima were able to achieve: Non-disruptive migration For most of the systems, the Gijima team was able to use the nondisruptive migration feature of Hitachi software to transfer the data to ...

As more and more administrators make the switch from a legacy application model to running those very same applications within lightweight containers backed by Kubernetes clusters, disaster recovery and data protection is top of mind to guarantee business continuity and uninterrupted service delivery to end users. Hitachi has been continuously making the deployment, configuration, and management of persistent storage on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) easier for administrators with products such as Hitachi Storage Plug-in for Containers and Hitachi Storage Plug-in for Prometheus. As of today Storage Plug-in for Containers provides automated creation ...

In a fast-paced and unpredictable market, organizations need rapid access to reliable data to make informed business decisions. To improve business visibility and efficiency, Travis Perkins plc has embarked on a major business improvement programme that will transform their finance processes. The company is a leading partner to the construction industry, and the UK’s largest distributor of materials to the building industry, with 1400 branches across the country. We talked to Helen Taylor-Walsh, Finance Transformation Technology Director and Jane Morrison, Director of Finance Transformation, to find out how they are revamping finance operations with the help ...

With more than 700 clients and activities spanning more than 140 countries, Nexway is a leading global vendor of e-commerce solutions. Nexway specializes in enabling software publishers and software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers to build and manage online stores where they can sell subscriptions and deliver software to consumers. By seamlessly handling all the complexities of online sales, invoicing, taxation, subscription management, and multicurrency global payments, Nexway empowers its clients to focus on developing and marketing their software products and services. Reporting to clients on sales performance has always been an important element of Nexway's ...

Part of the BBVA financial services group, Garanti BBVA is Turkey’s second-largest private bank. Operating in a highly regulated market, Garanti BBVA puts huge emphasis on the reliability and availability of its services. From an IT perspective, this means that outages are not an option. Over several years, the bank has built an IT architecture designed to maximize availability and provide extremely high levels of resilience against disaster, but it was not always easy to manage. Today, the bank uses Hitachi Ops Center Administrator to unify the management of all its Virtual Storage Platform systems, including the VSP 5500, VSP 5100 and VSP E590 systems, and ...

Hitachi Vantara has been selected as one of BMW Group’s key strategic partners in enterprise cloud storage and data management for the next six years. Part of the EverFlex from Hitachi portfolio of XaaS offerings, the latest EverFlex Storage as a Service solutions will automate and simplify management of BMW Group’s IT infrastructure to further maintain reliability of their mission-critical operations. New data management capabilities will help advance BMW Group’s hybrid cloud journey and its role as a leader in innovation and sustainability. To learn more: https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/news/in-the-press/2022/gl220426.html   #EverFlex ...

Headquartered in Austria, PÖTTINGER Landtechnik GmbH is a leading international manufacturer of grassland and arable farming machines as well as digital agricultural technology. PÖTTINGER is growing around the world and along with a high number of digital assets, there was increasing demand on their storage.  They wanted to future-proof their data services, as well as bolster data security and resiliency.   It was also essential that the solution was certified for SAP HANA. Modernizing their infrastructure with Hitachi e-series, global active device and Hitachi Ops Center Administrator and Analyzer, PÖTTINGER was able to increase storage efficiency, simplify ...

Welcome and thank you for joining the invitation-only pre-launch of the all-new Hitachi Vantara online community! Whether you’re a developer looking for code support, a customer or partner working to solve a business challenge, or a visitor who would like to learn more about Hitachi Vantara offerings — our Community will facilitate your data journey every step of the way.  What is the Hitachi Vantara community? It’s a place for you to ask questions, share information, and get answers from your peers – a space uniquely for Hitachi Vantara customers and partners who use our Products, Services, and Solutions. By participating in the Soft Launch of the Community ...