Simplify the complexity of your cloud operations.

A well-defined cloud strategy is essential to guide your organization through a smooth cloud journey. It will help to optimize your cloud investments and reduce your costs and
risk exposure.

Realizing a positive return on your investments (ROI),
however, can take longer and be harder than you initially expected. Your IT efforts can be hampered by skills
shortages, time and effort miscalculations, and the growing complexity of cloud operations.

The good news? It’s possible to bring your budgets back
under control, migrate critical apps faster, and reap bigger financial rewards by leveraging expert strategic cloud and
app modernization services.

The Total Economic Impact™
Of Cloud
and Application Modernization Services
from Hitachi Vantara.

We commissioned Forrester Consulting to investigate the impact of cloud and app modernization services for a composite organization. Adopting a multistep approach that explored cost, benefit, flexibility, and risk factors it produced its findings in The Total Economic Impact™ study. It concluded huge savings and high ROI are to be made while unquantified benefits include improved compliance and governance, better application quality and greater management efficiency for application releases. Alongside enlightening insight the study also highlights the significant and considerable gains the interviewed organizations have already made.

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Maximize your cloud return.

Forrester found that companies who used Hitachi Vantara migration services saved months on their projects, minimized resource requirements, and were able to make
full use of advanced cloud capabilities such as automation. Based on data collected from organizations that used Hitachi Vantara, Forrester estimates:

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less time

on app modernization by
internal teams

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faster

cloud migrations

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saved

through better time and
resource efficiencies

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saved over 3 years

with more advanced app
modernization tools and
resources

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saved over 3 years

in ongoing support and
management services

Calculating the cost savings.

According to Forrester’s composite model, organizations taking advantage
of Hitachi Vantara’s expertise migrated faster, saved more, and realized the benefits of cloud
sooner:

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months saved

on the migration
process

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ROI achieved over 3 years

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NPV gained over
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cloud
migrations

Weighing the advantages
versus the cost of going it alone.

Not all benefits can be quantified. The challenges of managing the process of cloud migration without support can be huge.

While many organizations struggle to meet their cost and timescale targets from
cloud migration, those who partnered with Hitachi Vantara saw bigger benefits,
faster.

Delivering expertise
and know-how

We needed to scale and modernize the environment but lacked the required skillsets.

Public cloud delivery manager, pharmaceutical

Halving costs,
slicing time

The migration, which could have taken
almost a year, was completed in approximately four months. In total [it] could have taken twice the cost, and three to four times longer [without Hitachi Vantara].

Vice president of R&D, fintech

Accelerating
business agility

We needed a partner with experience that could accelerate time to market.

Vice president of R&D, fintech

Streamlining processes with automation

We would have needed 10 more people without automation, and it has certainly taken less
time to rearchitect [with Hitachi Vantara].

Infrastructure and cybersecurity architect, insurance firm

Simplifying compliance in the cloud

We needed to pursue a government-related security authorization, which is a fairly complex and arduous process.

Product owner, nonprofit

Delivering expertise and know-how

We needed to scale and modernize the environment but lacked the required skillsets.

Public cloud delivery manager, pharmaceutical

Halving costs,
slicing time

The migration, which could have taken almost a year, was completed in approximately four months. In total [it] could have taken twice the cost, and three to four times longer [without Hitachi Vantara].

Vice president of R&D, fintech

Accelerating
business agility

We needed a partner with experience that could accelerate time to market.

Vice president of R&D, fintech

Streamlining processes with automation

We would have needed 10 more people without automation, and it has certainly taken less time to rearchitect [with Hitachi Vantara].

Infrastructure and cybersecurity architect, insurance firm

Simplifying compliance in the cloud

We needed to pursue a government-related security authorization, which is a fairly complex and arduous process.

Product owner, nonprofit

Take the quiz to assess how your migration could benefit

Question 1 of 3

Is your cloud migration project
fully
on track?

Yes No

That’s fantastic.

But don’t forget that having an expert on site is always a great way to realize considerable time savings on cloud projects. Which means you reach your goals faster, with fewer resources and at a lower cost.

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You’re in the right place.

The Forrester study estimates cloud migrations originally planned for 12 months were completed in five months with Hitachi Vantara. That’s 58% faster with Hitachi Vantara! What’s more, Forrester estimates an average 10 months to ROI payback.

Overall, if your project is time sensitive, there can be a penalty for going it alone. So you may want to reconsider your next steps.

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Question 2 of 3

Has your migration to date
succeeded in increasing
flexibility and accelerating your
market response times?

Yes No

That’s great.

Without a doubt, cloud migration is key to improving agility and accelerating response times. But when you modernize your applications with an expert like Hitachi Vantara you can enjoy even greater benefits of speed and flexibility.

“Without Hitachi Vantara, it would have taken 40 hours to reengineer, refactor, and re-architect an application. With Hitachi Vantara, it took five hours to make the same changes to an application.” Forrester, The Total Economic ImpactTM of Cloud and Application Modernization Services from Hitachi Vantara study.

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Renewed agility. Faster Processes.

Moving your applications to the cloud may well reduce costs and improve governance and compliance. But did you know that automation and the simplicity of cloud analytics means you also benefit from renewed agility. What’s more, with automation you avoid manual errors and speed up processes.

“Release management used to take six to eight weeks. We can now deliver new capabilities into the cloud within two weeks.” Vice president, fintech.

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Question 3 of 3

Do you have all the resource you
need to complete your cloud
migration?

Yes No

Good news.

But even when your team is working at top capacity the deep expertise of a partner like Hitachi Vantara will add immense value and get you there faster.

“I spend 20% of my time working on the platform interfacing with Hitachi. If I didn’t have Hitachi it would be 100%.” Client Insights Director, Nonprofit

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Don’t worry, you’re not alone.

Many organizations lack the skills and know-how to lead an effective cloud transformation. You need a partner with proven expertise in cloud and app migration to deliver the outcomes you want.

“We needed to scale and modernize the environment but lacked the required skill sets.” Public cloud delivery manager, pharmaceuticals.

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The Cloud and App Modernization Services Journey

Perhaps your organization is ready to move to cloud, but you don’t feel you have the necessary talent, tools or expertise to make the move successfully. Or perhaps you need guidance to really boost your ROI and ensure your business gets the most out of your new multi-cloud environment.

Wherever you are right now on your journey, this report can offer some insight into the benefits of finding the right cloud modernization partner.

FORRESTER

The Total Economic Impact™ of Cloud
and Application Modernization Services from
Hitachi Vantara.

As this Forrester study reveals, businesses working with Hitachi Vantara to migrate their infrastructure and applications achieved faster, more successful migrations, with fewer resources and at a lower cost.

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Unbounded outcomes ahead

Insight series: Taming the complexity of cloud operations

Discover better outcomes from cloud, with our series of in-depth conversations between Hitachi Vantara cloud operations experts and guest Forrester analysts.

Episode 1

Cloud: What’s In and
What’s Out?

Discover modern ways to manage and optimize your cloud environments, and ensure you have a robust operations strategy in place.

Join Lee Sustar from Forrester and Premkumar Balasubramanian, Head of Technology and Solutions at Hitachi Vantara, in conversation with Samta Bansal, Global Consulting Portfolio Marketing Leader, Hitachi Vantara.

(English language)

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Episode 2

Optimizing the Cloud Economics and Scale

Managing cloud costs is complex, and it is easy to overspend.

In this expert webinar, Tracey Woo from Forrester and Krishnaprasath Hari, VP of Digital Modernization at Hitachi Vantara discuss how a cloud cost management approach based on FinOps principles can help businesses like yours strike a balance between cost, agility and quality to achieve the right outcomes. Moderated by Samta Bansal, Global Consulting Portfolio Marketing Leader, Hitachi Vantara.

(English language)

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Episode 3

Design your workloads
for reliability and cost

Want to make RunOps easier for your hybrid cloud environments?

In this expert webinar, Lee Sustar from Forrester talks with Krishnaprasath Hari, VP of Digital Modernization at Hitachi Vantara, about the growing challenges of multi cloud environments. Moderated by Samta Bansal, Global Consulting Portfolio Marketing Leader, Hitachi Vantara.

(English language)

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Episode 4

Redefining CloudOps

Implementing CloudOps means breaking down the walls between DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering.

Get expert insight into how to plan, build, run and manage hybrid and distributed cloud environments with Brent Ellis from Forrester and Premkumar Balasubramanian, Head of Technology at Hitachi Vantara. Moderated by Samta Bansal, Global Consulting Portfolio Marketing Leader, Hitachi Vantara.

(English language)

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Continue your journey
to modernization.

Whichever way you choose to do it, cloud and application modernization is the way to go. Now you’ve started the adventure towards a high performing digital core, you’re closer than ever to continuous innovation.

Discover why having the right partner means everything.

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