Hitachi Vantara-Microsoft Partnership Gives Enterprises Cloud Flexibility

UCP for Azure Stack HCI combines Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform capabilities with Hitachi Vantara’s expertise in scalable on-premises infrastructure.

By Larry Walsh

The latest collaboration between Hitachi Vantara and Microsoft represents an important evolution in Hitachi's strategy to become a more comprehensive hybrid cloud provider. This new offering, Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) for Azure Stack HCI, allows enterprises to run workloads seamlessly across on-premises data centers, public clouds, and edge locations while providing unified visibility and management.

For global systems integrators such as Atos and DXC that service large enterprise accounts, this integrated system enables them to offer customers greater flexibility in deploying and managing hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Hitachi UCP for Azure Stack HCI combines the capabilities of...