The eleven new solutions in the UCP family have been designed to provide a pre-tested Cloud-ready infrastructure that can be deployed quicker and easily managed.

HDS A/NZ chief technology officer, Adrian De Luca, said the move is in reaction to a space that has already been actively filled by a lot of the vendors.

"By listening to customers, we found that they do want choice and they don't want to be locked in to any particular layer of the converged stack," he said.

HDS made its original announcement in April 2010 with what was effectively version 1.0 of the Unified Compute Platform.

Back then, HDS was pushing a converged infrastructure of Hitachi servers, Brocade switchers and Hitachi storage together with Microsoft Windows 2008 framework.