Building Your Enterprise Solution Solution Brief Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Modernize Quickly with a Converged System Supported by an as a Service Economic Model. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) is the foundation for your evolution to the cloud, allowing you to build a valid, cloud-optimized infrastructure to host any enterprise application. ViON provides the UCP converged system through its as a Service economic model, which speeds your private cloud implementation. This flexible model allows organizations to acquire and provision Hitachi UCP and software on a consumption basis, giving you the freedom to do more. The Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director software is natively integrated with Microsoft® System Center or VMware vCenter to centralize and automate the management of your server, storage, and networking components. The Director allows you to manage unified business resource pools across one or multiple data centers from a single user interface, so you can monitor and allocate virtual resources rapidly and efficiently. ViON provides the UCP converged system in an as a Service model in conjunction with professional and managed services to help transform your IT quickly and efficiently to suit your business and operational needs. Benefits of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Business Productivity: Accelerate deployment of a private cloud infrastructure with automation, advanced data protection, and centralized managment—while reducing expenses through an OpEx economic model. Agility: Create building blocks for a cloud environment with battle-tested add-ons that are ready to plug and play, giving you the flexibility to scale quickly as needed. Risk Mitigation: UCP reliably delivers high levels of resiliency, performance, and efficiency to an organization’s IT infrastructure environment, significantly reducing and even eliminating planned and unplanned downtime. IT Productivity: UCP can help reduce staff time devoted to managing IT infrastructure, accelerate provisioning times, and support the rapid launch of new applications. Versatility: Add additional applications (such as SAP HANA, Exchange, Share- point, SQL, Lync Server, or Oracle databases) on top of UCP to enhance the base converged solution and create a private cloud on or off premises. IT Cost Reduction: UCP is a proven converged infrastructure designed to reduce complexity, ease integration of applications, and reduce provisioning costs; coupled with an as a Service economic model, it ensures your private cloud implementation is CloudFast.