Hitachi Vantara Collaborates with Supermicro to Deliver Superior Performance and Scale for .........
Hitachi Vantara, the data
storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd.
announced it is working towards a strategic partnership with Supermicro, a
total IT solution provider for AI, cloud, storage and 5G/edge. The
collaboration combines Supermicro’s GPU and AI compute capabilities with the
performance and scale of Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP
One), giving enterprises a powerful foundation for driving AI infrastructure,
mission-critical applications and data-intensive workloads. The parties are
finalizing terms of an agreement that would enable Supermicro to sell VSP One
to its customers, and Hitachi Vantara will be able to sell Supermicro servers, storage,
GPUs and hardware systems, broadening availability through established
channels.
Enterprises are under pressure
from explosive data growth and rising expectations for AI-driven insights. A
recent survey found that 85% of organizations are already leveraging data
lakehouses for AI model development, and 67% expect to run the majority of
their analytics on lakehouses within the next three years, up from 55% today.
Still, many face hurdles including fragmented systems, slow data movement and
rising costs that make scaling AI difficult. By bringing compute and data
together with enterprise-class support, Hitachi Vantara and Supermicro are
helping customers streamline their infrastructure and get more out of their AI
investments.
At the center of the collaboration
is VSP One, Hitachi Vantara’s unified data platform that brings block, file,
object and software-defined storage into a single architecture. Customers and
partners can see benefits across a range of data storage needs. For example,
VSP One Block with Supermicro servers combines an all-flash architecture that
delivers high throughput, low latency and high IOPS storage to power
mission-critical applications and AI training workloads. VSP One SDS extends
those capabilities with software-defined deployments across hybrid cloud
environments. VSP One Object features industry-first native support for Amazon
S3 Tables and advanced data intelligence services, enabling customers to move
unstructured data into structured tables. This allows enterprises to run
performance analytics directly on open-format data without complex data
movement, loading or extraction – making it easier to scale and adapt for
modern data lakehouse architectures.
“The convergence of Supermicro’s
leadership in AI compute with the scale and resiliency of Hitachi Vantara’s VSP
One platform marks an important step in building the foundation that will guide
the future of enterprise AI,” said Sheila Rohra, chief executive officer,
Hitachi Vantara. “As data volumes explode, bringing compute and data closer
together will enable scalable workload support without disruption. Coupled with
enterprise-class service and support, we are helping organizations gain better
control over their data so they can unlock new sources of value and lead in the
era of AI-driven business.”
VSP One also serves as the
foundation for Hitachi iQ, the company’s AI and data orchestration portfolio,
to optimize data workflows for advanced AI. By pairing VSP One’s unified data
services with Supermicro’s high-performance compute and GPU acceleration in
Hitachi iQ, businesses can address different data management requirements for
enhanced data processing, governance and protection. This not only ensures
compute and data remain tightly aligned, it improves visibility across workloads
for faster insights, giving enterprises a more complete approach to
infrastructure to support AI initiatives. As a result, Hitachi iQ represents a
complete infrastructure solution for AI and GenAI, analytics, and data lake
environments across a range of industry-specific use cases.
“Supermicro and Hitachi are
collaborating to help enterprises accelerate their adoption and use of AI,”
said Vik Malyala, president and managing director, EMEA and senior vice
president, Technology and AI, Supermicro. “Our AI-optimized, compute, and
storage servers leverage advanced GPUs, CPUs, and NVME’s. Combined with Hitachi
Vantara’s enterprise data management platform and Hitachi iQ portfolio options
will support compute-intensive workloads for dynamic vertical applications
yielding better performance and efficiency for customers.”
The companies anticipate making
these technologies available through global channels, including VSP One Block,
VSP One SDS and VSP One Object. VSP One can also be managed through the VSP 360
unified control plane, which integrates data management tools across a storage
environment to monitor key performance indicators, including storage capacity
utilization and overall system health. Channel partners will also benefit, with
Supermicro partners gaining an expanded lineup of enterprise block storage and
support, and Hitachi Vantara partners accessing timely GPU server delivery in
Hitachi iQ.
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