Hitachi Vantara primes partnership-driven AI push
Blocks & Files, Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
Hitachi has worked to re-evaluate the fit of its Hitachi Vantara subsidiary to respond faster to the market's adoption of AI and AI's accelerating development, according to its Chief Technology Officer.
In late 2023 Hitachi Vantara was reorganized with a services unit spun-off, a new direction set, and Sheila Rohra taking control as CEO.
It built a unified storage product data plane, a unified product control plane and an integrated data-to-agent AI capability. VSP One, the unified data plane, was launched in April last year and all-QLC flash and object storage products added late in the 2024. The unified control plane VSP 360 was announced a week ago. The soup-to-nuts AI capability is branded Hitachi iQ, not VSP One iQ nor Hitachi Vantara iQ, as it will be applied across the Hitachi group's product portfolio.