Hitachi DPaaS (Data Protection-as-a-Service, Data protection as service)

2019: Announcement of Hitachi DPaaS

On April 24, 2019 the Hitachi Vantara company presented the solution Data Protection-as-a-Service (data protection as service) and also announced expansion of opportunities of the solution Storage-as-a-Service (storage system as service). Desirable business results thanks to means of storage and data protection, necessary for the large companies allow to receive these solutions at once. These products are projected in advance and are provided in the form of completely managed services. They provide fast deployment, transparent pricing on the basis of the actual consumption and the guaranteed service levels.

"The solutions Storage-as-a-Service and Data Protection-as-a-Service proposed by Hitachi Vantara are created in order that customers could use advantages of the cloud systems and release the specialists for work on more important strategic projects. Thanks to the additional capacity and data protection, available on demand, the solutions Hitachi Storage-as-a-Service and Data Protection-as-a-Service help customers to adapt and expand quicker the infrastructures, saving competitiveness. Use of the solution allows to reduce the total costs as the organizations pay only for the actual storage and protection of those data for which it is necessary, and only when it is necessary". Ashish Nadkarni, vice president of group of the infrastructure systems, platforms and technologies of IDC company

It is more and more large companies, according to Hitachi Vantara, include in the information environments cloud computing owing to what also interest in creation of cloud infrastructures grows. Such systems allow the enterprises to reach necessary scalability, security, flexibility of consumption of services and management efficiency. Hitachi Vantara offers completely managed services based on a public cloud as an alternative to traditional methods of acquisition and leasing of means of storage and data protection.

According to the statement of the developer, the solution "Data Protection as Service" of Hitachi Vantara provides:

• Reduction of risk of deployment of means of protecting of data for new environments;
• Guarantee of the required service level from the very first day;
• More strict control and confidence in justice of the prices and level of protection;
• An opportunity to protect the data placed in storage systems both Hitachi and other producers.

"Modern dynamic information environments require the thought-over and flexible strategy of placement of resources. The provided products for storage and data protection in the "solution as service" format provide to customers the expanded choice and high flexibility, opening possibilities for increase in scalability, security and fault tolerance of systems". Bobby Soni, director of solutions and services of Hitachi Vantara

These solutions provide the flexible prices and payment in process of use and also provide transparency of pricing thanks to tariff cards. The means of expanded analytics allowing to make the weighed decisions are available to customers and by that to increase efficiency of the organization and to reduce the financial losses connected with need to pay for not used capacity claim in Hitachi Vantara.