Hitachi Vantara has announced a new co-engineered solution with Cisco, designed for Red Hat OpenShift, the leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes. The Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure joint solution integrates Cisco’s compute and networking systems with Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) arrays, utilizing Red Hat OpenShift container management tools. This collaboration aims to enhance enterprise agility and resilience while optimizing energy consumption through AI-powered data orchestration.

As enterprises face the growing complexity of deploying and managing multiple applications across environments, the introduction of Red Hat OpenShift containers on the Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure is timely. Industry reports indicate significant growth in the application container market, driven by AI-led digital transformation efforts. These transformations enable organizations to automate traditional IT tasks, reducing deployment timelines and improving application performance and scalability. However, security concerns remain a challenge, with a Red Hat report revealing that 67% of organizations have delayed or slowed container-based application deployments due to security issues.

This integrated solution simplifies container adoption by offering a pre-validated enterprise infrastructure that accelerates application development, enhances operational consistency, and ensures resiliency for latency-sensitive workloads. By leveraging AI-driven, environmentally responsible data management and a trusted data platform, enterprises can improve confidence, mitigate risk, and reduce their environmental impact.

“Organizations today are under immense pressure to modernize their IT infrastructure while meeting sustainability goals. Our collaboration with Cisco and Red Hat reflects our commitment to delivering solutions that support both business innovation and environmental responsibility,” said Dan McConnell, senior vice president, product management and enterprise infrastructure, Hitachi Vantara. “This converged solution can empower businesses to build and scale containerized applications more seamlessly, delivering high performance and greater operational consistency.”

“Cisco’s collaboration with Hitachi Vantara and Red Hat marks a significant milestone for customers looking to modernize their data centers for a new era of agility, efficiency, and resilience,” said Jeremy Foster, senior vice president and general manager, Cisco Compute. “Together, we have created a powerful and scalable solution that streamlines modern application development through the seamless deployment of container technology on the Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure.”

The converged solution offers multiple benefits, including accelerated application deployment, operational consistency, unbreakable data resilience, and enhanced sustainability. Designed to provide a unified platform for deploying and managing containerized and virtualized applications across on-premises and cloud environments, VSP improves performance by enabling organizations to consolidate more workloads onto fewer systems. Notably, Hitachi storage has recently earned the ENERGY STAR certification and was recognized as the best storage solution for performance and energy efficiency, securing the top three ranked positions in this category. When combined with Red Hat OpenShift capabilities, customers gain a consistent application platform that simplifies the deployment and management of containerized workloads across hybrid cloud environments.

“In today’s fast-evolving IT landscape, businesses are under increasing pressure to modernize their infrastructure while managing complexity and risk,” said Ryan King, senior director, Hardware Partners, Red Hat. “Red Hat OpenShift offers a trusted, comprehensive application platform that empowers organizations to achieve cloud-native modernization in alignment with their business goals. By enabling Hitachi Vantara and Cisco infrastructure on Red Hat OpenShift, we can provide an enterprise-ready solution to help streamline container adoption and support more scalable operations.”