Hitachi Vantara will soon be announcing a Hybrid solution with HP servers with 10GB backend connections to Hitachi drives. Since they can’t sell the storage they will try a tag team approach with HP. Doesn’t sound like there will be anything left for this company to sell except for some rice cookers.
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They probably have no marketing strategy to sell the product.
What was the reason to sc-apped? found a new partner?
Is that confirmed?
Save the popcorn. The HP servers with Hitachi in the backend has just been sc-apped. We’re going nowhere real fast.
Hitachi has been on the decline in the last few years since the tried to pivot to the cloud with no success. They spent millions of dollars buying small cloud centric companies that generate no income with no solutions to their customers. Their service and support has gotten worse as well.
- "Doesn’t sound like there will be anything left for this company to sell except for some rice cookers."... Let's not forget the Hitachi Magic Wand Original - the product that likely keeps Hitachi afloat. ;^)
Seriously, If there's a move to HP servers it's probably as a replacement for the G10 nodes in HCP applications. The 10Gb connections would provide access to HV's S10 and/or S30 storage nodes.
The number of Hitachi servers HV sells is miniscule so it may not make sense to continue to have them manufactured for us and just move to a company (HP) that builds tremendous numbers of servers and knows how to do so. HV likely would select HP rather than Dell due to the Dell/EMC relationship and those two are the only two "Big Dogs" left in the server space. At least in the U.S.
This is interesting.. "HP servers with 10GB backend connections to Hitachi drives." getting the pop corn ready..