Hitachi Vantara expands Lumada portfolio
Hitachi Vantara, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, has extended Lumada’s capabilities beyond the Internet of things (IoT) to general enterprise and industrial needs.
New Lumada solutions help organisations leverage on analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and new digital business models to transform their operations. They enable intelligent data operations, or DataOps, a collaborative data management practice that employs policy-based, automated approaches to help enterprises improve efficiency and drive innovation by getting the right data to the right place at the right time.
Issam Hijazi, Director Solution Engineering, APAC, Digital Insights, Hitachi Vantara elaborated, "DataOps is removing barriers between different teams, like data scientists and data engineers."
Hijazi said that while data is often described as the 'new oil' Hitachi Vantara thinks of data as the 'new sun', providing new opportunities for innovation. He noted that Lumada is "made for business innovation, to accelerate the data journey and data discovery in general."
"We are trying to create an environment of democracy, so there's no need for so much technology knowledge. We enable self-service analytics, self-service data engineering," he explained.
Hijazi said Lumada allows users to perform data integration without relying on IT people. For example, Lumada makes data processing easier with drag-and-drop capabilities for Hadoop functions and and has automated ways to clean data that eliminate the need to code.
"You don't have to be a Hadoop guru or a big data guru," Hijazi said. "Data becomes more accessible to those who try to derive value."
“Organisations today are implementing digital strategies to improve their operations and customer interactions. As they do, they’re realising that traditional approaches to managing data aren’t working for them,” said Brad Surak, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Hitachi Vantara.
“They need more automated, policy-based approaches that enable an adaptable and governed data fabric supply chain across their enterprise. With this announcement Hitachi is expanding Lumada to address the modern requirements of collaborative data management for the AI era.”
“Firms that invest in big data fabric architecture will democratise data to support new business insights, customer analytics, personalisation, and real-time and predictive analytics,” wrote Noel Yuhanna, principal analyst, enterprise architecture, in the May 2019 Forrester report, Big Data Fabric 2.0 Drives Data Democratization*. “They will be able to respond more quickly to business needs and competitive threats.”
New and updated Lumada offerings include:
- Lumada Data Services, a set of software services that help customers manage increasingly complex data ecosystems with an intelligent data foundation.
- Lumada Data Lake, a data lake offering that is self-optimising, and which intelligently places data sets in an optimal location. It continuously curates the data to avoid data swamps and is readily accessible to analytics anywhere.
- Lumada Edge Intelligence, a new set of software and validated edge hardware devices that enable organisations to manage data and analytics at the network edge for digital use cases such as IoT, connected products, immersive customer experiences, remote and disconnected sites, and branch offices.
Lumada Data Services
Lumada Data Services can accelerate data-driven innovation by enabling customers to orchestrate the ingestion, storage, discovery, preparation and delivery of governed data based on business policies for analytics, governance and operational cost savings.
Interoperating with Hitachi’s proven technologies for object storage, data integration and analytics – underpinning Hitachi Content Platform (HCP), Pentaho and Lumada – customers can now cost-effectively govern and manage all their data assets, including structured and unstructured, across data centre, cloud and edge locations. Policy-based automation tools orchestrate enterprise data flows to deliver on cost savings, compliance and business growth demands.
Accessible via a common cloud console, Lumada Data Services work together through shared metadata supported by intelligent orchestration and policy engines. Data Services provides an agile data fabric and self-service data access for an enterprise DataOps practice.
To accelerate time to value, Hitachi is delivering Lumada Data Services through existing and new products addressing some of the most pressing data management requirements facing enterprises today:
Pentaho
Pentaho 9.0 features new data flow services for data pipeline sharing, management and monitoring. Pentaho can reduce data pipeline friction and provide advanced data discovery, access and integration from edge to cloud.
Lumada Data Optimizer
Lumada Data Optimizer builds on new data placement services, providing a policy-based solution that provides seamless access to tiered data. The tiering solution integrates tightly with Hadoop Distributed File Systems (HDFS) to improve Hadoop resource utilisation.
Lumada Data Lake
Lumada Data Lake, with a new data catalogue and data curation services, combined with modern object store technologies, is a modern hybrid cloud data lake solution for use cases ranging from customer 360o data aggregation and analytics to electronic communications governance and IoT data hubs.
Lumada Data Lake is a self-optimising data lake, offering multicloud storage, data operations and end-user management. Unlike single cloud-based data lakes that are expensive at scale and create vendor cloud lock-in, Lumada Data Lake is cost-efficiently offers a logical, self-curating petabyte-scale data lake from edge to multicloud. Based on the latest object store technology and with AWS S3 compliance, Lumada Data Lake is accessible to analytic engines hosted anywhere.
Lumada Edge Intelligence
Lumada Edge Intelligence is a set of containerised software services that help organisations deal with the challenges of integrating, managing and governing data from sensors, assets and systems into business operations. Lumada Edge Intelligence is certified to run on a variety of qualified Hitachi and partner hardware connecting to operational assets, equipment and systems, enabling DataOps and real-time insights at the edge.
“Our GSI, ISV and hyperscale partners are faced with the challenge of helping customers navigate their toughest data challenges – from storage to management and analysis,” said Laura McCluer, VP, global technology alliances at Hitachi Vantara. GSI stands for global system integrator, while ISV refers to indepdent software vendor.
“Lumada Data Services and Lumada Edge Intelligence help our partners build sophisticated DataOps capabilities spanning increasingly intricate data ecosystems that make full use of this high-value resource.”
“We’ve been leveraging several technologies from Hitachi Vantara to make sense of our complicated data landscape,” said Colin Chatelier, manager of Storage & Compute, Rabobank, which has a strong presence in Asia-Pacific.
“With Lumada Data Services, we’re excited to pool this information into a single platform that allows us to deliver the right data to the right place at the right time, maximising the return on investment for our data-driven business.”
In 2017, Hitachi unveiled Lumada commercially worldwide to address the opportunities for innovation made possible by IoT data and technologies. Since then, momentum for Lumada has accelerated, with Hitachi driving nearly US$10 billion in revenue from Lumada-based** offerings and having been twice named a visionary by Gartner for industrial IoT platforms***.
Details:
Lumada Data Optimizer for Hadoop will be available worldwide in November 2019.
Lumada Edge Intelligence will be available worldwide in January 2020.
Pentaho 9.0 will be available in February 2020.
Lumada Data Lake will be available in March 2020.
*Forrester: Big Data Fabric 2.0 Drives Data Democratization
**Hitachi Integrated Report 2018 (PDF)
***Hitachi Again Named a “Visionary” in Gartner Magic Quadrant for IIoT Platforms
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| Hijazi explains why the Lumada portfolio helps software projects succeed. |
New Lumada solutions help organisations leverage on analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and new digital business models to transform their operations. They enable intelligent data operations, or DataOps, a collaborative data management practice that employs policy-based, automated approaches to help enterprises improve efficiency and drive innovation by getting the right data to the right place at the right time.
Issam Hijazi, Director Solution Engineering, APAC, Digital Insights, Hitachi Vantara elaborated, "DataOps is removing barriers between different teams, like data scientists and data engineers."
Hijazi said that while data is often described as the 'new oil' Hitachi Vantara thinks of data as the 'new sun', providing new opportunities for innovation. He noted that Lumada is "made for business innovation, to accelerate the data journey and data discovery in general."
"We are trying to create an environment of democracy, so there's no need for so much technology knowledge. We enable self-service analytics, self-service data engineering," he explained.
Hijazi said Lumada allows users to perform data integration without relying on IT people. For example, Lumada makes data processing easier with drag-and-drop capabilities for Hadoop functions and and has automated ways to clean data that eliminate the need to code.
"You don't have to be a Hadoop guru or a big data guru," Hijazi said. "Data becomes more accessible to those who try to derive value."
“Organisations today are implementing digital strategies to improve their operations and customer interactions. As they do, they’re realising that traditional approaches to managing data aren’t working for them,” said Brad Surak, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Hitachi Vantara.
“They need more automated, policy-based approaches that enable an adaptable and governed data fabric supply chain across their enterprise. With this announcement Hitachi is expanding Lumada to address the modern requirements of collaborative data management for the AI era.”
“Firms that invest in big data fabric architecture will democratise data to support new business insights, customer analytics, personalisation, and real-time and predictive analytics,” wrote Noel Yuhanna, principal analyst, enterprise architecture, in the May 2019 Forrester report, Big Data Fabric 2.0 Drives Data Democratization*. “They will be able to respond more quickly to business needs and competitive threats.”
New and updated Lumada offerings include:
- Lumada Data Services, a set of software services that help customers manage increasingly complex data ecosystems with an intelligent data foundation.
- Lumada Data Lake, a data lake offering that is self-optimising, and which intelligently places data sets in an optimal location. It continuously curates the data to avoid data swamps and is readily accessible to analytics anywhere.
- Lumada Edge Intelligence, a new set of software and validated edge hardware devices that enable organisations to manage data and analytics at the network edge for digital use cases such as IoT, connected products, immersive customer experiences, remote and disconnected sites, and branch offices.
Lumada Data Services
Lumada Data Services can accelerate data-driven innovation by enabling customers to orchestrate the ingestion, storage, discovery, preparation and delivery of governed data based on business policies for analytics, governance and operational cost savings.
Interoperating with Hitachi’s proven technologies for object storage, data integration and analytics – underpinning Hitachi Content Platform (HCP), Pentaho and Lumada – customers can now cost-effectively govern and manage all their data assets, including structured and unstructured, across data centre, cloud and edge locations. Policy-based automation tools orchestrate enterprise data flows to deliver on cost savings, compliance and business growth demands.
Accessible via a common cloud console, Lumada Data Services work together through shared metadata supported by intelligent orchestration and policy engines. Data Services provides an agile data fabric and self-service data access for an enterprise DataOps practice.
To accelerate time to value, Hitachi is delivering Lumada Data Services through existing and new products addressing some of the most pressing data management requirements facing enterprises today:
Pentaho
Pentaho 9.0 features new data flow services for data pipeline sharing, management and monitoring. Pentaho can reduce data pipeline friction and provide advanced data discovery, access and integration from edge to cloud.
Lumada Data Optimizer
Lumada Data Optimizer builds on new data placement services, providing a policy-based solution that provides seamless access to tiered data. The tiering solution integrates tightly with Hadoop Distributed File Systems (HDFS) to improve Hadoop resource utilisation.
Lumada Data Lake
Lumada Data Lake, with a new data catalogue and data curation services, combined with modern object store technologies, is a modern hybrid cloud data lake solution for use cases ranging from customer 360o data aggregation and analytics to electronic communications governance and IoT data hubs.
Lumada Data Lake is a self-optimising data lake, offering multicloud storage, data operations and end-user management. Unlike single cloud-based data lakes that are expensive at scale and create vendor cloud lock-in, Lumada Data Lake is cost-efficiently offers a logical, self-curating petabyte-scale data lake from edge to multicloud. Based on the latest object store technology and with AWS S3 compliance, Lumada Data Lake is accessible to analytic engines hosted anywhere.
Lumada Edge Intelligence
Lumada Edge Intelligence is a set of containerised software services that help organisations deal with the challenges of integrating, managing and governing data from sensors, assets and systems into business operations. Lumada Edge Intelligence is certified to run on a variety of qualified Hitachi and partner hardware connecting to operational assets, equipment and systems, enabling DataOps and real-time insights at the edge.
“Our GSI, ISV and hyperscale partners are faced with the challenge of helping customers navigate their toughest data challenges – from storage to management and analysis,” said Laura McCluer, VP, global technology alliances at Hitachi Vantara. GSI stands for global system integrator, while ISV refers to indepdent software vendor.
“Lumada Data Services and Lumada Edge Intelligence help our partners build sophisticated DataOps capabilities spanning increasingly intricate data ecosystems that make full use of this high-value resource.”
“We’ve been leveraging several technologies from Hitachi Vantara to make sense of our complicated data landscape,” said Colin Chatelier, manager of Storage & Compute, Rabobank, which has a strong presence in Asia-Pacific.
“With Lumada Data Services, we’re excited to pool this information into a single platform that allows us to deliver the right data to the right place at the right time, maximising the return on investment for our data-driven business.”
In 2017, Hitachi unveiled Lumada commercially worldwide to address the opportunities for innovation made possible by IoT data and technologies. Since then, momentum for Lumada has accelerated, with Hitachi driving nearly US$10 billion in revenue from Lumada-based** offerings and having been twice named a visionary by Gartner for industrial IoT platforms***.
Details:
Lumada Data Optimizer for Hadoop will be available worldwide in November 2019.
Lumada Edge Intelligence will be available worldwide in January 2020.
Pentaho 9.0 will be available in February 2020.
Lumada Data Lake will be available in March 2020.
*Forrester: Big Data Fabric 2.0 Drives Data Democratization
**Hitachi Integrated Report 2018 (PDF)
***Hitachi Again Named a “Visionary” in Gartner Magic Quadrant for IIoT Platforms
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