Hitachi Vantara unveils storage platform for AI era

Hitachi Vantara has unveiled an all-flash Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) block storage solution designed to address enterprise demand for storage to suit AI and mission-critical workloads.

According to Hitachi Vantara, the Virtual Storage Platform One Block High End solution aims to provide users with the performance, scalability, cybersecurity and data resilience required to power the next era of AI. The platform includes built-in support for the US Government’s Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-3 computer security standard (FIPS), with eight nines of availability, in a bid to achieve near-zero data loss and rapid recovery.

In support of this goal, the platform supports immutable snapshots, automated recovery and anomaly detection powered by CyberSense. It also supports consolidation of open systems and mainframe workloads for enhanced data resiliency.

The all-flash NVMe architecture can support 50 million input/output operations per second, and hardware compression acceleration supports up to 346 TB per rack unit. According to the company, it is built on a future-proof data architecture that supports a 4:1 data reduction guarantee. But to support sustainability, the solution automatically switches CPUs into eco mode during low activity periods.

Hitachi Vantara Chief Product Officer Octavian Tanase said the platform has been designed to reflect the need for data infrastructure to evolve to avoid holding back innovation.

“VSP One Block High End goes beyond performance upgrade; it’s a strategic enabler for enterprises to rethink how they capture, manage, protect and scale data in the AI era,” he said.

IDC Group CP and GM for Worldwide Infrastructure Research Ashish Nadkarni added that infrastructure will need to evolve to support the high-performance, data-intensive environments required to support AI and real-time analytics.

“Hitachi Vantara’s VSP One High End is a strategic response to this shift,” he said. “Its unified architecture and guaranteed performance are designed to help organisations modernise their digital core while maintaining operational continuity, a critical capability in today’s fast-moving landscape.”

The platform will be available globally early next year.

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