Hitachi Vantara expands VSP One portfolio in Singapore

Hitachi Vantara aims to support large enterprises scaling AI across business-critical systems.

Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) Block High End and VSP One Object solutions is now locally available in Singapore.

The data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi launched the expanded portfolio in Singapore this week, which aims to support enterprises scaling artificial intelligence (AI) across business-critical systems and unstructured data environments.

The portfolio supports use cases such as high-performance databases, real-time analytics and large-scale AI pipelines, while incorporating cyber resilience and unified management capabilities.

VSP One Block High End is targeted at large-scale enterprise environments with high demands for performance, scalability, and availability. It is typically deployed alongside critical systems including financial platforms, customer-facing applications, and operational analytics.

The availability of VSP One Object in Singapore completes the unified data platform vision of providing a smart, secure, and scalable foundation for the data deluges that fuel AI.

By featuring native support for Amazon S3 Tables and Apache Iceberg integration, VSP One Object allows organizations to unify structured and unstructured data into a modern data lakehouse, enabling SQL queries directly on object storage to accelerate AI training.

To protect this data, the solution incorporates an embedded PII (personally identifiable information) service and storage immutability, helping organizations mitigate the governance risks and security complexities of massive-scale data environments.

The VSP One portfolio supports both open systems and mainframe environments.

Partners’ role in tackling data overload

Matthew Hardman, Hitachi Vantara’s APAC chief technology officer explained how channel partners can customize the VSP One portfolio to meet a wide range of business needs and unify very different data architectures.

“If partners go down that journey of [customers’] very distinct silos of technology that have their own sets of tools, their own ways to work, and their own interfaces, it becomes fairly arduous to be able to go ahead and actually do all that work,” said Vantara.

“What we've been focusing on for VSP one, with VSP 360 is to provide that consistency of services. If you need to go ahead and use block and structured data — I have a set of tools to be able to go ahead and operate that. If I need to go ahead and operate VSP One Object — I can go ahead and use the same tools to operate it.”

Channel partners will thus play a key role in helping enterprises operate the solution, as well as educate them as many firms rush to adopt AI and experience data overload.

“Singapore enterprises are moving quickly with AI adoption, but infrastructure foundations need to keep pace,” said Joe Ong, vice president and general manager for ASEAN at Hitachi Vantara. “Once AI moves from pilots into production, reliability and security become business risks, not just technical concerns.”

Ong shared with CRN Asia that channel partners have always been an essential part of Hitachi Vantara’s go-to-market strategy in Singapore and ASEAN. Thus the team is experienced and ready to support partners with the necessary skills and knowledge to showcase VSP One portfolio’s capabilities.

“Partners can actually say, I know how these platforms work,” said Hardman. “So the big focus on us is to be able to deliver a consistent [set of services], commitment to availability, performance, and all those different things, and a consistency of experience across those platforms.”