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UCP & GitOps to the Rescue: Streamlining Database Deployment on Hitachi UCP with OpenShift

By Shih Chieh Cheng posted 4 hours ago
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Introduction In today's hybrid cloud ecosystems, advanced automation is a must for scalable and diverse IT infrastructure. GitOps offers a framework that uses Git as a central single source of truth, ensuring consistency, version control, and efficient sharing across projects. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) leverages GitOps-based solutions for customer-focused IT automation and management, driving competitive business growth. Dive into this blog post as we explore a GitOps-driven framework for deploying modern databases on Hitachi UCP Kubernetes Solution with ...
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) Universal Volume Manager (UVM) Capabilities with Cisco Intersight Cloud Orchestrator (ICO)

By Arvin Jami posted 6 days ago
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) Universal Volume Manager (UVM) Capabilities with Cisco Intersight Cloud Orchestrator (ICO)   Target audience: Intersight users / IT infrastructure administrators Value proposition: Virtualizing legacy and third party storage systems through the Hitachi VSP system provides the ability to use Intersight management functionality for storage resources that are normally not supported by Cisco Intersight. Additionally, virtualized systems behind the Hitachi VSP gain access to all the features that are available internally via the Storage Virtualization Operating System RF (SVOS). This includes ...
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Azure AKS Multitenancy Primer

By Chandrasekar Ganapathy posted 14 days ago
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Innersourcing and its benefits

By Chandrasekar Ganapathy posted 20 days ago
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Innersourcing and its benefits   We all understand how much opensource has transformed software development practices.   By embracing practices like collaborations, transparency, innovation, accessibility, and imbibing philosophy like if many brains across the world work together quality products emerge at much faster pace.   Innersourcing is a software development approach that leverages the same opensource development principles within a controlled boundary like an organization or a business unit.   In other words, it is a methodology by which a company can enable community development of Code, Documentation, and any project collateral ...
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Testing MongoDB Data Replication and Failover Capability Use Cases on Hitachi Virtual Storage Software

By Subhash Chandra Rao Sindhe posted 28 days ago
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Testing MongoDB Data Replication and Failover Capability Use Cases on Hitachi Virtual Storage Software This Blog demonstrates a reference configuration of Red Hat as a base OS and outlines deploying the MongoDB environment on Hitachi Advanced Servers with Hitachi Virtual Storage Software (VSS). In the test cases, we show the failover capabilities of MongoDB using the VSS platform. What is MongoDB MongoDB is a distributed architecture and an open-source NoSQL database management program with the essential function of creating highly accessible and adaptable web-based technologies. MongoDB is widespread among database development companies because it ...
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Intersight Cloud Orchestrator (ICO) Series - Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) Volume Snapshot Cascade Capability with Cisco ICO

By Arvin Jami posted 04-27-2023
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Target audience:  Intersight users / IT infrastructure administrators Value proposition:  Intersight users are now able to create multiple snapshots based on the same quiescent point whenever demand arises in a self-service manner, without having to ask for assistance from a storage administrator. Introduction In daily operations there are frequent situations where a copy of the current production data is required for other purposes, such as analyzing a copy of the production database or sharing select sales data with various regions or branch offices. Creating snapshots enables administrators to freeze that data at a particular ...
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INTRODUCTION TO GITOPS: REVOLUTIONIZING INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT FOR EDGE, ON-PREM, AND CLOUD SYSTEMS

By Shih Chieh Cheng posted 04-19-2023
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Once upon a time, in the not-so-magical world of IT, professionals toiled day and night, grappling with clunky deployment processes, elusive configuration files, and the ever-present fear of breaking the system. It was a time of chaos and confusion, where developers and operations teams clashed like titans, and the sacred runbook held the key to survival. But fear not, for this is a story of triumph and redemption, as we explore why  GitOps principles emerged to bring order, collaboration, and a newfound sense of humor to the realm of IT. GitOps is a natural evolution of DevOps principles, and its growing popularity in the IT industry is no laughing matter. ...
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Epic Performance with Hitachi VSP 5600-2N and Hitachi Thin Image Advance (HTIA)

By Sumit Keshri posted 04-07-2023
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Epic Performance with Hitachi VSP 5600-2N and Hitachi Thin Image Advance (HTIA) Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5600 (VSP 5600) is a high-end, enterprise storage system designed to provide high performance, scalability, and reliability to support the most demanding workloads and applications. It offers advanced data management features, including data protection, replication, and analytics, and is suitable for use in large data centers and cloud environments. The VSP 5600 storage system is a part of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) family and is known for its flexibility and ease of use. Epic provides software that stores patient records ...
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What is new with UCP Boulder Release (version 6.x)

By Sreeram Vankadari posted 04-07-2023
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Boulder release got delivered in multiple phases from August 2022 to December 2022.   Below blog summarizes the list of features delivered as part of this release. G720 switches   UCP CI introduced new FC switch option, Brocade G720 Brocade G720 brings in several benefits like 64G FC ports and better bundling price options.   There are sales promotions on G720 as well that can benefit our customers.   Brownfield deployment option is available where customers can add G720 to existing G620 fabric.   Green field deployments (All G720 fabric) are supported as well.   This also helps to address 32G SFP shortage situation.   ...
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Social Proof- Cloud adoption

By Sasikumar Ananthan posted 04-07-2023
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Recently I started reading a book names “Influence by Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion” by Dr. Robert Cialdini. There were six principles discussed in detail, but the one which caught my attention, relating to cloud adoption, is “Social Proof” Dr. Cialdini talks about a term called peer-suasion . Am trying to provide a simple meaning of this along with persuasion. Persuasion - the act of persuading somebody to do something or to believe something. Peer-suasion – acting due to peer pressure. This brings up the below questions: Are organizations adopting cloud due to peer pressure?   Is this impacting their ...
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Hitachi 4C Cloud Security Model

By Chandrasekar Ganapathy posted 04-06-2023
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Application of Multilayered Defense-in-Depth Approach to Security using Hitachi’s custom 4C Cloud Security Model. One of the most frequently underestimated areas in the implementation of a cloud platform or applications is the emphasis on security.  The purpose of this white paper is to bring more focus to the importance of cloud security and our approach as prescribed through Hitachi Vantara’s customized 4C Security Model. Before we get into specifics of our own view of the 4Cs model, let’s look at what provides a good approach to architecting cloud security. No matter what level of security one administers in their ecosystem, it has to be understood that ...
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Solving Complex Data Problems with Data Mesh Using Data Fabric

By Subramanian V posted 03-31-2023
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We all know the extent of the increase in generation and consumption of data. There is also an increased need to ingest huge volumes of data from varied sources in varied formats, comply to governance norms, and perform fast and accurate analytics on data present on different platforms, leading to a deluge of big data projects in the last five years.   Most new big data projects, be it in cloud or on-prem, start with creating a team, most likely a centralized group including designers, architects, developers, testers and infrastructure and project managers for implementations such as a data lake, data warehouse or a combination of both for reporting ...
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Building an enterprise business glossary

By Rishu Shrivastava posted 03-23-2023
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Introduction Organizations are working with a lot of data to boost insights and drive critical business decisions. However, they often struggle to create a common data vocabulary. This results in the inconsistency of business definitions across the organization's data. A common data vocabulary is the key component of a successful data governance program. Data catalog tools like Lumada Data Catalog use features like Business Glossary to enable companies to develop a common data vocabulary. There are many benefits of building a business glossary and why an organization should invest in building a business glossary. However, building a business glossary ...
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Hitachi Content Software for File

By Surajit Dutta posted 03-17-2023
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Today’s applications require various storage performance levels like IOPS, bandwidth, and latency, all vital storage performance metrics. As we all know, data is raining down on enterprise systems like a storm, flooding the capacity and challenging the IT infrastructure to distribute the data to the application. While optimized resource utilization ensures faster access to more and more data, ideally at a lower cost, unutilized resources mean incurring costs to IT infrastructure. While all-flash arrays (AFAs) are optimized for performance, they must also provide the cloud’s scale as well as the simplicity and shareability of network-attached storage (NAS). ...
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UCP is now an Anthos Ready Platform validated by Google Cloud

By Shih Chieh Cheng posted 03-17-2023
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As you may have seen, our team shared some updates on our hybrid cloud journey . As part of our mission to leverage the best of cloud ecosystems, we have been exploring Google Cloud Platform's Anthos, which is Google's cloud-centric container platform for running modern apps anywhere consistently at scale.  Now, Hitachi Vantara’s United Compute Platform (UCP) offers on-prem deployment options of  Anthos on premises (a component of Google Distributed Cloud Virtual, aka GDC Virtual) , which can provide greater performance potential for modernized applications while maintaining support for orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Service Mesh in hybrid multi-cloud ...
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Gijima Powers Sustainability, Performance and Cost Savings with Hitachi Virtual Storage Platforms

By Cara Chaffey posted 03-10-2023
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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 ...
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Importance of Cloud Cost Management

By Sasikumar Ananthan posted 03-09-2023
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While there was a rush (and there is still some) to move to the cloud in the past 4- 5 years, we are seeing a dramatic focus on cost efficiency off late. Initially, every organization thought that moving to cloud is going to save them a lot of money (please note, we are not getting into the other benefits of elasticity and performance) The growth of the clous service providers in the past year was  AWS – 20%, Azure – 31%, GCP – 36%!! There were many drivers for the migration to cloud but the pandemic and the ESG drive helped hasten the process. Many organizations used this to score some points on reducing their carbon footprint (this again, is a ...
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Configuring Cassandra with Hitachi Virtual Storage Software (VSS) Block

By Karan Patani posted 02-16-2023
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Introduction In today’s world, when data is increasing at an enormous pace, companies are looking for applications and databases that can handle all types of data under one roof, including text, pictures, videos, and even sound. It isn’t easy to manage all of these under different applications owned by other companies. In addition, if the data is available locally instead of remotely, it helps with a quick turnaround for their applications. To get past this, we can use Apache Cassandra, an open-source, distributed storage system (database) used for managing vast amounts of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data globally. It uses a dynamo-style ...
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Dual SVP Failover Testing with OpenShift (HSPC)

By Vikash Taank posted 02-13-2023
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Table of Contents (Quick Links) Executive Summary Test Environment Configuration Test Design and Implementation Test Procedures Environment Prerequisite Test Items Test Results Summary Executive Summary Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) 5000 series storage systems provide high availability and represents the industry’s highest performing and most scalable storage solution. VSP 5000 series offers high performance, high availability, and reliability for enterprise-class data centers and features the industry's most comprehensive suite of local and remote data protection capabilities. In a high-availability ...
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Enhancements in Server Group Management in Administrator 10.9.0

By Prasenjit Chatterjee posted 12-27-2022
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In Ops Center Administrator v10.9.0, a new enhancement for the Server Group Management feature has been added. This enhancement allows you to use the path of an existing cluster server node to map a newly added server node to the server group. Alternatively, ports can be introduced to a server group cluster when adding a new server node. In addition, the same enhanced server group workflow removes paths and volumes when removing a server node from the server group. Simplified depiction: Adding a path for a new server This blog consists of the following sections: Enhancement advantages. Adding a server in the Server Group and attaching volumes. ...
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