Hitachi Vantara And Physical AI
Hitachi Vantara, Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
We had the opportunity to interview Jason hardy, Hitachi Vantara's CTO for AI, and the conversation started by looking at VSP One and disaggregation and ended up talking about AI agent-infused robots. Physical AI. Read on to see how we got there.
Blocks and Files: Hitachi Vantara's VSP One storage line is a classic controllers-integrated-with-storage-shelves architecture, and this contrasts with the disaggregated compute and storage nodes exemplified by VAST Data's DASE (Disaggregated Shared Everything) architecture. This has been taken up by HPE with its Alletra MP 10000 line, Pure with its FlashBlade//EXA, and NetApp's AI-focussed ONTAP architecture revision. Is this storage array technology direction of interest to Hitachi Vantara?
Jason Hardy: We are definitely thinking about what those platforms, what VAST has created, even what Pure has done a bit of now.
What that actually means, and how using things like VSP One Block, and how that can benefit from it. What does NVMe over fabric look like for something like that? So utilising what we're really good at and then innovating forward from there.