Hitachi Vantara Seeks Growth Through Multiphase Strategy to Unify Data Storage and Management Infrastructure for Hybrid Cloud Environments

This IDC Market Perspective discusses Hitachi Vantara's pursuit of a multiphase strategic plan to grow the company's enterprise storage business and reposition its data infrastructure portfolio to better address the demands of AI and analytics workloads in hybrid cloud environments. Hitachi combined its U.S.- and Japan-based engineering teams and appointed a new technology leadership team to focus on developing a software-driven, hardware-agnostic Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) One portfolio to unify data storage infrastructure under a common control plane across on-premises and public cloud datacenters. The initial VSP One components became available in the second quarter of 2024, and the product road map extends well beyond 2024. Plans include reengineering file and object storage under a common data store, expanding SDS to public clouds beyond AWS, and adding AI-enabled capabilities to improve automation, data management, and security."Hitachi Vantara has made progress on the ambitious strategy that it launched late last year to unify its storage infrastructure under a common control plane to address data-intensive workloads that span on-premises and cloud environments," said Carol Sliwa, research director, Storage and Converged Systems at IDC. "The company needs to continue to execute at an accelerated pace if it hopes to challenge the leaders in the increasingly competitive enterprise storage market."