Now THREE Things in Life Are Guaranteed

There is a well-worn adage attributed to famous early American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin, who purportedly said, only two things in life are guaranteed: death and taxes. So it’s not without some sense of irony – Tuesday having been “Tax Day” in the U.S. (April 15, the day annual income taxes are due) – that we can proudly proclaim there are now officially THREE things in life that are guaranteed!

What’s the third one, you (and Mr. Franklin) might ask? It’s something you’d both appreciate.

Your data.

Hitachi Vantara: Turning up the Volume on Guaranteed Data

The Hitachi name has long been associated with the world’s most resilient data infrastructure. We’ve been pioneers in the modern enterprise storage space practically from the start. And our reputation for providing legendary cyber resilience and data availability has grown steadily since that time.

With our recent launch of Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One), we’re now recognized for providing comprehensive, trusted customer data guarantees across the entire data plane, including block, file and object storage for the hybrid enterprise. This includes our industry leading 100% Data Availability Guarantee, trusted by thousands of customers for over two decades. As well as our Modern Storage Assurance, for future-proofing your storage investments, and our 4:1 No Questions Asked Effective Capacity Guarantee.

Nobody else in the business comes close.

And today, we’re raising the industry guarantee bar even higher.

Introducing Three Entirely New Customer Data Guarantees

At Hitachi, we often say that good enough is never good enough. So we’re proud to announce the addition of three entirely new customer guarantees designed to further reduce cyber and regulatory risk, improve performance and efficiency, and reduce environmental impact. Together, they help address the challenges surrounding IT complexity, cyber threats and sustainability by aligning our portfolio of industry leading SLAs with evolving customer needs and expectations. Providing a clear, measurable, value driven path to creating data-driven value and success.

Our three new guarantees include:

1. Performance SLA Guarantee: Ensures your applications and data run and interoperate seamlessly with dependable performance. Effortlessly shift workloads or balance resources across hybrid cloud infrastructure without fuss or downtime. Our proactive approach to managing application data ensures business continuity and enables growth. With our new Performance SLA Guarantee and VSP One, you can say goodbye to sluggish systems and hello to reliable, predictable performance. In the age of AI, you can’t accept anything less.
   
   
2. Cyber Resilience Guarantee: For anyone who’s been burned by ransomware, here’s your lifeline. Our newly expanded solution provides rock-solid ransomware protection, detection and rapid recovery for organizations that seek to not only reduce risk but to build confidence with predictable business continuity. With our new Cyber Resilience Guarantee, IT and security leaders can mitigate downtime and data loss with guaranteed clean production data recovery from cyberattacks, in seconds, not hours, compared to standard recovery SLAs. And our multivector assurance guarantees your data is protected and available when and where you need it. The Guarantee includes:
   • Ransomware Protection – VSP One’s 100% data availability guarantee and native immutable snapshots ensures data is always-on, recoverable and protected.
   • Ransomware Detection – Offering next level resilience with Ransomware Detection powered by CyberSense, for AI-driven 99.99% accurate ransomware data corruption detection with clean snapshot ID.
   • Ransomware Recovery – Recover clean production data with VSP One or Ansible automation in as little as 30 seconds.*
3. Sustainability SLA Guarantee: At Hitachi, we’re taking guarantees and SLAs into a whole new arena. Our new Sustainability SLA Guarantee is designed to help you optimize energy efficiency, saving money while achieving your environmental objectives. Proactively track power use and carbon impact with ease. Leadership teams will appreciate the clear insights and observability into resource utilization, adaptive data reduction (ADR) and power consumption, all crucial for reducing energy costs and minimizing your datacenter's overall CO2 footprint.

Now THREE Things in Life Are Guaranteed. The Latest is Your Data.

Modern day philosophers might argue that these days, nothing in life is truly guaranteed. While that may be the case for some things, when it comes to your data, Hitachi Vantara respectfully disagrees. You see, ever since we entered the data infrastructure space, we’ve made it our business to keep your data safe, secure and available when, where and in whatever form you need it.

Our ongoing commitment to simplicity, security and sustainability makes us tremendously proud to introduce our three new guarantees – for performance, cyber resilience and sustainability – adding them on to what were already an industry leading lineup of customer data guarantees. All designed to give IT and security leaders the confidence and peace of mind they need by proactively reducing the risk of a broad range of evolving dynamics, freeing them to boldly pursue their innovation and business objectives.

That includes a range of solutions and services to take on an evolving threat landscape, address the extension of hybrid enterprise attack surfaces further than ever before, and easily navigate evolving regulatory paradigm shifts. With solutions that simplify data infrastructure consumption, including the integration of familiar tools to embrace automation, saving time and eliminating complexity.

At Hitachi Vantara, we’re working harder than ever to reduce your risk with innovative guarantees for your data. And we’re just getting started. Stay tuned in the coming months for more on that. Or connect with your Hitachi Vantara representative to find out more.

I think you’ll be impressed. In fact, I guarantee it.

Read more

• News Release: Hitachi Vantara Unveils New Virtual Storage Platform One Capabilities to Enable Stronger Cyber Resilience, Performance and Sustainability
• Webpage: Extend Trusted Guarantees to All Data with Hitachi Vantara Customer Guarantees
• Solution Profile: Cyber Resilience. Guaranteed
• eBook: Unbreakable Core: Extend Trusted SLAs and Guarantees Across the Entire Data Plane
• Blog: Growing Our Platform, to Help You Grow Your Business

^*Hitachi lab tests show Hitachi Thin Image Advanced Safe Snap snapshots are recoverable in under :30 per snapshot for Hitachi Vantara VSP One Block environments of 16TiB or less.