Hitachi Smart Data Center

Smart Data Center is the solution for creation of the intellectual center of processing of data /

Smart Data Center technology (for October, 2017):

• Accelerates deployment of IT resources and accomplishment of administration tasks.
• Optimizes processes of replacement and adding of new infrastructure technologies.
• On demand provides complete dynamic idea of operational and commercial aspects of functioning of DPC for decision making, risk management and business planning on the basis of data.
• Allows to increase operational efficiency and to reduce costs.
• Increases coordination of business and expands possibilities of steady providing the service levels.

The solution Smart Data Center also provides:

• Operability of services and adequate notices.
• Automation of standard transactions with infrastructure.
• Performance management.
• Resource management.
• Capacity management.
• Availability and data protection.
• Optimization of IT.
• Information for risk management and ensuring normative and legal compliance.
• Control of sensors of Internet of Things for DPC, including sensors of a power consumption and temperature.
• Security of physical and virtual IT infrastructures.

Smart Data Center is a complex service which saves the flexibility necessary for adaptation to specific requirements of data processing centers of the different organizations. For October, 2018, the purpose of this service is global optimization of a status of DPC, management of capacity/performance and functioning of cooling systems. Thanks to the automation equipment, functions of machine learning and artificial intelligence of Smart Data Center allows to create automatically optimized data processing centers which reduce operating costs of maintenance of infrastructure of IT, reduce risks and increase flexibility regarding response to changes in business.

2018: The module of optimization of cooling systems based on AI

The Hitachi Vantara company announced on October 9, 2018 the forthcoming upgrade of the solution Smart Data Center which will allow to use more intensively possibilities of the artificial intelligence (AI) and analytical real-time processing.

Initially the service of Smart Data Center was concentrated, first of all, on intellectual management of computing resources and resources of storage. Improvements which are offered by Hitachi Vantara are aimed at continuous optimization of physical infrastructure thanks to such functions as intellectual management of cooling on the basis of AI, intellectual optimization of SAN and the automated configuring of resources of heterogeneous storage.

Optimization of systems management of cooling based on AI

Partnership of Hitachi Vantara with Vigilent company, the system provider of dynamic management of cooling, allowed to develop the module of optimization of cooling for Smart Data Center. The Vigilent technology uses machine learning, IoT temperature sensors and regulation with a feedback for anticipatory monitoring and the analysis of a system status of cooling in a data processing center and also automatic correction of temperature condition and air flows in case of problems. Besides, it makes available to administrators of IT additional resources of operating control.

The following characteristics of service of Smart Data Center became result of partnership:

• Annual average economy up to 38%;
• Increase in capacity of DPC at the expense of the guaranteed operation of the cooling equipment with maximum capacity and, as a result, possibilities of increase in load of the existing physical infrastructure;
• Increase in temperature reliability of DPC due to elimination of the majority of points of the maximum heating and support of the dynamic cooling providing automatic response to any changes of environmental conditions in a data processing center;
• Expanded management tools of DPC, including opportunity to specify exact required air temperature in each of racks of a data processing center;
• Providing to administrators of IT of the better information obtained as a result of the analytical processing and allowing to reveal easily points of insufficient or excessive thermal reservation and also to define elements of the cooling equipment which need maintenance.

Shortcomings of operation of cooling systems can entail substantial risks for business. But, at the same time, in this sphere it is possible to achieve significant improvements in terms of functionality and efficiency — Dave Hudson, the chief executive of Vigilent said. — The module of optimization of cooling for Smart Data Center automatically maintains stability of temperature condition, reduces energy costs, reduces operating costs and allows to use IT infrastructure capacities fully. We are glad to cooperation with Hitachi Vantara company. Within this partnership we intend to improve possibilities of Smart Data Center and in the future, using our technology of dynamic management of cooling.

Intellectual optimization of SAN

The solution Smart Data Center of Hitachi Vantara allows to reduce housekeeping overheads of storage systems at the expense of continuous resource optimization of SAN performed in real time which provides effective use of resources of storage with minimum possible costs. This solution also allows to reveal formation of "hot" and "cold" zones in DWH of Hitachi that helps to provide effective use of resources of storage and placement of the stored data at appropriate levels proceeding from costs and the set requirements to performance of services.

Smart Data Center provides to heads of IT services valuable information for acceptance of the justified technical and finance decisions. It gathers from the means of anticipatory analytics and dynamic panels of monitoring providing visual representation [[[data warehouse|of storage]]. The predictive and directive analytical data received using machine learning technologies help customers to build algorithms for optimization. Besides, customers can estimate possible scenarios of work Smart Data Center before use of service in actual practice at the expense of a possibility of modeling using AI.

Intellectual configuring of resources

Now Smart Data Center also includes function of automatic configuring of resources of heterogeneous storages which allows to cover all process of configuring in a complex, beginning from planning and finishing with accomplishment. This function helps to perform automatic coordination of tasks of configuring of the IT resources using the analytical tools allowing to estimate the required capacity and performance and also the recommendations developed using machine intelligence and embedded in the ITSM applications.

According to Hitachi Vantara, customers have an opportunity to save time due to lack of need manually to execute a set of changes in infrastructure of a data processing center, reduction of idle times of DPC, increase in operational efficiency and better observance of regulatory requirements thanks to a possibility of documentation of changes. Besides, possibilities of intellectual configuring allow to release budgetary funds and the SAN resources and to use them in other strategic projects.

2017: Announcement of Smart Data Center

The Hitachi Vantara company submitted on October 3, 2017 the concept of an intellectual data processing center. The solution Smart Data Center of Hitachi Vantara integrates advanced technologies and the principles of management of infrastructures and also possibilities of predictive analytics and Internet of Things (IoT) for problem solving which business in process of management of complex IT environments faces.

Hitachi Vantara offers Smart Data Center as optimal approach to optimization of work of IT systems in all DPCs which are available for the customer. Besides, this solution will allow the enterprise to manage more competently risks, to reduce costs and to adapt quickly to market changes.

Approach which is used by Smart Data Center technology allows to make IT infrastructure of business of more maneuverable due to the centralization of control and process automation covering the different systems, data processing centers and cloud environments. The concept of this technology differs from traditional IT administration: it automates decision making processes and extraction from data of the company of valuable analytical information thanks to predictive and ordering to analytics and also means of work with IoT. These opportunities allow to centralize management of IT infrastructures at accomplishment of such simple tasks as configuring and selection of resources and also more difficult transactions — optimization and selfrecovery in all data processing centers, emphasized in the company.