High-End Hitachi Vantara Arrays and NVIDIA AI Support
Blocks & Files, Thursday, June 11th, 2026
Hitachi Vantara's AI strategist explains why high-end enterprise arrays don't integrate with NVIDIA's STX architecture.
Hitachi Vantara frames NVIDIA's STX (Vera BlueField-4) as a shift in AI infrastructure architecture rather than something high-end arrays must adopt.
The company argues traditional enterprise arrays excel at delivering trusted data services such as resiliency, availability, performance, durability, and centralized management, while AI runtime data like KV caches needs infrastructure positioned closer to GPUs.
It contends that different infrastructure functions belong in different layers: short-lived AI execution near compute, and durable enterprise data on trusted systems of record. Eventually, enterprises may expect those systems of record to serve as data sources for agentic AI and inference applications.