GigaOm Radar Recognizes Hitachi Vantara as a Leader and Outperformer in Primary Storage for Second Consecutive Year

Press Release | December 15, 2025

Industry recognition highlights Hitachi Vantara’s ability to drive innovation in primary storage, spotlighting elite cyber resilience and data protection capabilities, as well as unified management via VSP 360, AI enablement and cloud integration

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 15, 2025 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), announced today that it has been recognized as a Leader and Outperformer in the latest GigaOm Radar report for Primary Storage for its Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) hybrid cloud data platform. This marks the second consecutive year that Hitachi Vantara has been recognized as a Leader and Outperformer for VSP One. The report evaluated 19 vendors and their capabilities to address the evolving demands of primary storage across traditional applications, hybrid cloud environments, AI/ML workloads and edge computing.

For more information about the GigaOm Radar for Primary Storage, visit: www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/gated-forms/gigaom-radar-for-primary-storage-2025.

The GigaOm Radar report for Primary Storage is a comprehensive evaluation of primary storage solutions, providing insights into the leading vendors and solutions. This year’s report takes on outsized importance as AI is not only driving rapid growth in data creation and straining storage systems but also enabling more advanced cyberattacks. Research has found that the number of reported AI-enabled cyberattacks has risen 47% globally in 2025, and 68% of cyber threat analysts reported that AI-generated phishing attempts are harder to detect in 2025 than ever before. As GigaOm notes, from a C-suite perspective, modernizing primary storage is no longer just an infrastructure refresh, it is a core business decision. The right platform mitigates significant risk by providing the last line of defense against cyberattacks with features like immutable snapshots and rapid recovery. It also acts as a catalyst for innovation, providing the scalable, low-latency performance needed for data-intensive analytics and AI model training.

Featured in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant, VSP One was singled out for its robust performance, cloud integration and data protection capabilities, notably:

Ransomware Protection: Delivering robust, data storage-level defenses, including storage immutability, as well as 100% data availability and cyber resilience guarantees, VSP One enables clean data recovery in seconds for companies victimized by a ransomware attack. This provides customers with robust protection and faster, more reliable recovery capabilities compared to traditional backup methodologies.
Advanced API and Automation Tools: Built with a comprehensive API-first approach, VSP One enables full automation of management functions through the VSP 360 unified management solution. VSP 360 features AIOps-powered analytics and observability, as well as simple installation, guided workflows and mobile access.
Kubernetes Integration: Utilizing a suite of tools, Hitachi Vantara offers seamless integration with Kubernetes, allowing DevOps teams to manage storage as a native part of their application deployment process. This enables the full automation of persistent volume provisioning and data management tasks, accelerating cloud-native deployment.

“The primary storage market has rapidly evolved as organizations work to support a wide range of traditional and modern workloads,” said Whit Walters, field CTO at GigaOm. “Hitachi Vantara’s VSP One platform exemplifies this strategy by delivering a single, resilient platform that can span edge, core and cloud deployments to support workloads from traditional mainframe and business applications to modern, AI-driven use cases. At the same time, the company is maintaining an emphasis on innovation, with an aggressive roadmap focused on expanding data services, enhancing hybrid cloud integration and preparing for the future demands of AI-driven workloads.”

Meeting Enterprise Storage Demands

This year’s GigaOm report reflects a new approach to vendor evaluation. While previous reports were separated for large enterprises and mid-size businesses, this year’s report consolidates those into a single, comprehensive evaluation, given that today’s solutions must be able to scale to meet a broad range of enterprise needs. The GigaOm report highlights how VSP One stands out for its strong data protection and its ability to support diverse workloads, including its efforts to provide its SDS offering across the AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure marketplaces.

“This recognition from GigaOm validates our efforts to build modern data infrastructure that delivers the performance, scalability and cybersecurity protection capabilities that the AI era demands,” said Octavian Tanase, chief product officer at Hitachi Vantara. “Cyberattacks are a constantly evolving threat. By providing eight nines of availability, coupled with Hitachi’s Cyber Resilience Guarantee, we can offer near-zero data loss and rapid recovery, giving customers greater resilience in their IT operations.”

With flexible licensing models, non-disruptive upgrades and a strong roadmap for innovation –including the recent launch of VSP One Block High End, a next-generation, all-flash NVMe block storage solution designed to address the demands of most mission-critical business and growing AI workloads – VSP One represents a forward-thinking data platform for enterprises prioritizing sustainability, cost efficiency and data security. And, as AI drives increased data growth, VSP One’s value is further enhanced by Hitachi EverFlex, a flexible consumption model that offers pay-as-you-go and subscription options for greater financial agility.

This latest placement adds to Hitachi Vantara’s growing lineup of industry-validated recognition for leadership in infrastructure, data management, security and sustainability. CRN recently named VSP One as the 2025 Storage Product of the Year in the Cloud-Storage category. The company also won the Sustainable Technology Award at the 2025 Global Tech and AI Awards for VSP One Block, based on its ability to deliver a 30% to 40% reduction in CO₂ emissions compared to traditional systems. VSP One was also recognized by ENERGY STAR^®, which ranked the data platform as the top storage solution for performance in energy efficiency in its category.

For more information about Virtual Storage Platform One and its suite of solutions, please visit https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/storage-platforms/data-platform.

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Hitachi Vantara Unveils Hitachi iQ Studio to Simplify and Accelerate Agentic AI Development

Press Release | November 25, 2025

New AI software builds on NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design to enable organizations to design, deploy and govern AI agents with no-code tools, built-in blueprints and sovereign data control to shorten time to value and drive responsible, enterprise-scale innovation

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 5, 2025 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced Hitachi iQ Studio, the latest addition to the Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI solutions. Hitachi iQ Studio is designed to help enterprises build, deploy and manage AI agents and applications at scale, acting as a turnkey integration hub with a no-code and low-code agent builder and a library of industrial AI solution templates that enable rapid prototyping and production across diverse data environments. This helps enterprises operationalize their AI solutions faster while maintaining full control over their data and models.

For more information about Hitachi iQ, please visit:

https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/solutions/ai-analytics/hitachi-iq.

Although AI adoption is growing rapidly, many organizations still face barriers in moving from experimentation to scaled deployment. A recent industry report by Boston Consulting Group found that 74% of companies struggle to operationalize AI and achieve lasting business impact. Additionally, the study found that the majority of struggles stemmed from people and process-related issues, including a lack of AI talent on staff, while a separate study found that 62% of organizations believe a lack of data governance is the primary data challenge inhibiting AI initiatives. Hitachi iQ Studio was developed to close these gaps by giving enterprises a simpler way to design and deploy AI solutions that are secure, compliant and cost-effective.

Unlike fragmented point tools or cloud-only offerings, Hitachi iQ Studio provides a fully governed, on-premises and sovereign AI environment. This means that information can be easily kept within existing infrastructure, helping businesses, particularly those in regulated industries, work toward meeting strict compliance requirements while protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access. At its core, the solution builds on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design to provide pre-integrated retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines to deliver AI-ready data to agentic AI workloads. Hitachi iQ Studio combines RAG pipelines with Model Context Protocol (MCP) to support fast data access, automation and pre-built templates, to make it easier for companies without in-house technical expertise to create and deploy AI solutions. It provides intelligent, context-aware responses and serves as the foundation for industry-specific solutions. In addition, Hitachi iQ Studio includes a built-in model management system that allows enterprises to deploy and serve large language and machine learning models locally within their own infrastructure.

“AI has evolved beyond experimentation, but many organizations still need the right foundation to scale it effectively,” said Jason Hardy, chief technology officer for AI at Hitachi Vantara. “With Hitachi iQ Studio, we are making AI more user-friendly and manageable by combining accessible tools with enterprise-grade performance and governance. The result is faster innovation, stronger oversight and a path to scalable, responsible AI.”

By combining intuitive design capabilities with proven enterprise infrastructure, Hitachi iQ Studio allows both technical and business teams to create, manage and monitor AI agents that drive measurable outcomes, with features for evaluation, fine-tuning and lifecycle governance. For GenAI and predictive AI applications, Hitachi iQ Studio supports model and prompt management, data curation with feedback loops, scalable deployment and built-in governance and safety.

Hitachi iQ Studio:

Delivers AI-ready data for agentic AI: Unlock the value of your unstructured data with secure RAG pipelines.
Accelerates time to value:Shrink the time between idea and production to days with MCP Connectors, integrated components and ready-to-use algorithms that simplify access to enterprise data across environments.
Democratizes AI:Empower nontechnical users to build and deploy AI agents through a visual interface that reduces reliance on limited data science resources.
Enables industrial AI: Access built-in blueprints for predictive maintenance, operator-skill evaluation and fleet optimization tailored for industrial and enterprise environments.

“As organizations bring AI into production, the ability to keep data secure, scalable and close to compute is essential for AI agents and other reasoning applications,” said Jacob Liberman, director of enterprise product at NVIDIA. “By combining Hitachi Vantara’s enterprise data expertise with NVIDIA accelerated computing and software, Hitachi iQ Studio gives customers the performance, scalability and efficiency they need to build and deploy advanced AI systems at enterprise scale.”

NVIDIA Storage Certification

Hitachi iQ infrastructure, which includes Hitachi Content Software for File (HCSF), is now validated through the NVIDIA Enterprise Storage Certification program. This provides independent confirmation that Hitachi Vantara’s systems meet the stringent requirements of large-scale AI and high-performance computing environments and delivers the parallel file system that powers data-intensive AI workloads. This gives customers and partners confidence that their data and workloads can run efficiently, securely and at scale while reinforcing Hitachi Vantara’s leadership in trusted, high-performance infrastructure for AI factories.

HCSF also achieved NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) certification for cloud-native, multi-tenant and service provider environments. To earn this distinction, Hitachi Vantara demonstrated end-to-end AI stack compatibility, seamless integration with NVIDIA platforms like NVIDIA AI Enterprise and the ability to deliver faster time-to-market using validated blueprints and comprehensive lifecycle support.

“The rapid growth and advancement in AI have left many enterprises struggling with scale, data governance and cost management – challenges that are compounded by a lack of in-house talent,” said Ashish Nadkarni, group vice president and general manager, worldwide infrastructure research at IDC. “Scaling AI depends as much on having the right data and infrastructure readiness as it does on models or compute. Solutions like Hitachi iQ Studio, which can provide built-in templates and enhanced data visibility, represent an important step toward creating unified AI environments that help organizations overcome data silos, strengthen governance and turn AI experimentation into measurable business outcomes.”

Hitachi Vantara will showcase Hitachi iQ Studio at Supercomputing 2025, taking place Nov. 16-21 in St. Louis, Missouri. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore Hitachi iQ Studio firsthand and learn how it simplifies and advances agentic AI development across industries.

For more information on Hitachi Vantara, please visit: www.hitachivantara.com.

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Hitachi Vantara Launches Virtual Storage Platform One Block High End Storage to Power the Next Era of AI and Mission-Critical Workloads

Press Release | November 18, 2025

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 18, 2025 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced the launch of Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) Block High End, a next-generation, all-flash NVMe block storage solution designed to address the demands of most mission-critical business and growing AI workloads. Completing its VSP One data platform strategy, VSP One Block High End delivers performance, scalability, cybersecurity and data resilience, empowering organizations to confidently drive data from insight to impact. With seamless workload consolidation across open systems and mainframe, VSP One simplifies data management operations while delivering enterprise-grade security and sustainability.

For more information about the VSP One Block High End, please visit: https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/storage-platforms/vsp-one-block/high-end

Enterprises today face mounting pressure to modernize their digital core as they navigate the complexities of AI-driven transformation, massive data growth, and real-time analytics. Legacy infrastructure is increasingly unable to keep pace with the performance, resilience, and efficiency required to support business-critical and AI workloads. According to a recent report, over 70% of respondents reported that their current IT infrastructure was inadequately prepared to handle future ML and AI workload demands. As the challenge of managing data has been exacerbated by AI growth, a separate report found more than half (57%) of IT leaders surveyed storing data across on-premises, and private, hybrid, sovereign and public clouds.

From reducing latency in high-performance databases to ensuring uninterrupted access to patient records in healthcare, organizations need data infrastructure that they can trust to run their business. With the ability to scale intelligently, recover rapidly, and deliver insights instantly, VSP One Block High End is built to address these challenges by enabling faster transaction processing, enhanced user experiences, and accelerated data science outcomes, while maintaining security, compliance and operational continuity. As industries enter the era of powering the AI factory, it provides the unified data foundation to help organizations drive enhanced productivity and innovation.

“What we’re seeing across industries is a tipping point where data infrastructure must evolve or risk holding back innovation,” said Octavian Tanase, chief product officer, Hitachi Vantara. “VSP One Block High End goes beyond performance upgrade; it’s a strategic enabler for enterprises to rethink how they capture, manage, protect, and scale data in the AI era.”

VSP One is designed to address the growing complexity of data-driven operations. Built on three foundational pillars, VSP One enables:

Secure Resilience: Built-in FIPS 140-3 Level 2 certified protection, with eight nines of availability, while Hitachi’s Cyber Resilience Guarantee helps achieve near-zero data loss and rapid recovery.
Simple Performance and Management: All-flash NVMe architecture, supporting 50 million IOPS with hardware compression acceleration and support for up to 346TB per RU. VSP 360 provides unified data management operations with centralized fleet management, guided automation workflows, and mobile-enabled observability.
Sustainable Scalability: Future-proof data infrastructure that features a 4:1 Data Reduction Guarantee and automatically switches CPUs into eco mode during low activity periods, significantly reducing energy consumption and carbon footprint.

“As our organization accelerates its AI initiatives, the pressure on our existing infrastructure has never been greater,” said Mauro Guzelotto, vice president of cloud services, North America, T-Systems. “The launch of VSP One High End is timely. It’s clear Hitachi Vantara understands that enterprises need more than incremental improvements. We need platforms that can handle exponential data growth, deliver real-time insights, and ensure resilience at scale. This is the kind of innovation that helps us stay competitive and future ready.”

Enterprise-Grade Cybersecurity and Data Resiliency

VSP One Block High End is purpose-built to help enterprises modernize their digital core with a high-performance data platform that simplifies operations and strengthens resilience. VSP One delivers immutable snapshots, automated recovery and anomaly detection powered by CyberSense. With a 100% data availability guarantee and a cyber resilience guarantee that enables clean data recovery in seconds for companies victimized by a ransomware attack, this solution supports continuous operations for mission-critical workloads. VSP One has previously achieved alignment with the U.S. government’s Secure Software Development Framework, which was validated by a third-party and confirmed by CISA, meeting stringent requirements to help protect critical data from security threats.

The solution also delivers enhanced speed and adaptive data reduction that maintains performance even with uncompressible data. The platform supports consolidation of Open Systems (Block, File, Object) and mainframe workloads, scaling up to 12 controllers and 288 x 60TB SSDs, with advanced connectivity including 100G NVMe over transmission control protocol (TCP) and 64G FC.

“As partners, we’re excited about the potential this platform brings to our customers who are preparing for the next wave of AI-driven transformation,” said Bo Reggelsen, director, Enterprise and Datacenter, Codeex A/S. “The architecture, resilience, and scalability of VSP One Block High End position us to deliver future-ready solutions that meet the evolving demands of AI data-intensive workloads.”

Enhanced Data Governance and Compliance with VSP 360

Unified data management is streamlined through VSP 360, offering integrated fleet-wide management, simple installation, guided workflows, and mobile access. AIOps-powered analytics and observability enable faster decision-making and simplified administrative operations. VSP One is also a cloud-enabled storage platform, supported by leading public clouds including Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.

“As enterprises accelerate their adoption of AI and real-time analytics, infrastructure must evolve to support these high-performance, data-intensive environments,” said Ashish Nadkarni, group vice president and general manager, Worldwide Infrastructure Research, IDC. “Hitachi Vantara’s VSP One High End is a strategic response to this shift. Its unified architecture and guaranteed performance are designed to help organizations modernize their digital core while maintaining operational continuity, a critical capability in today’s fast-moving landscape.”

VSP One Block High End will be available globally in early 2026 through Hitachi Vantara and its network of partners. For more information, visit www.hitachivantara.com.

Additional Resources

Blog: The End of Data Infrastructure as We Know It. And That’s a Good Thing
Webinar: Build Modern AI-Ready Infrastructure Without Starting Over
Product Brief: Top Ten Reasons Why VSP One Block High End
Solution Overview: Top Reasons Why VSP One for Mainframe
Spec Sheet: VSP One Block Storage Portfolio
Analyst Report: 451 Research: Modernizing Mission Critical Storage
Blog: Growing Our Platform, to Help You Grow Your Business
Website: VSP One for Mainframe

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Hitachi Vantara Federal Appoints Majed Saadi as Chief Technology Officer

Press Release | September 17, 2025

Saadi Brings 24 Years of Technology Leadership to Advance Federal Market Growth and IT Innovation

Reston, VA (September 15, 2025) – Hitachi Vantara Federal, the trusted leader in mission-centric data solutions for the federal government, today announced Majed Saadi as the company’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO). As CTO, Saadi will lead Hitachi Vantara Federal’s technology strategy, driving IT modernization, strengthening enterprise platforms, and advancing the company’s position as a federal innovation leader.

With more than 24 years of technology leadership experience, Saadi brings deep expertise in strategy, IT transformation, infrastructure, cloud, platforms, enterprise architecture, and systems management. Saadi has held senior technology leadership roles across federal integrators, resellers, and consulting firms. As VP of Growth and Technology at Synergy Inc., he led market expansion, technology adoption, and federal contract growth. Previously, as VP at General Dynamics IT, he oversaw complex IT and mission support services for federal civilian agencies.

“Hitachi Vantara Federal is thrilled to welcome Majed to our leadership team,” said Mark Serway, president and chief executive officer at Hitachi Vantara Federal. “This is a critical role for our business as we shape, drive, and execute the expansion of Hitachi’s products and solutions in the federal marketplace. Majed’s proven ability to align technology innovation with business growth will be instrumental as we expand our capabilities and deliver transformative solutions to our customers.”

Beyond his executive roles, Saadi is a recognized thought leader and frequent industry speaker, addressing public health IT and the transformative impact of AI and quantum computing. He also advises emerging technology companies in these fields, underscoring his commitment to driving innovation. Saadi holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Notre Dame and an M.S. in IT Management from the University of Virginia, along with certifications in TOGAF, ITIL, ISO 20000, and Risk Management.

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Hitachi Vantara Federal Names Joe Corcoran as Chief Operating Officer

Press Release | January 6, 2025

Corcoran to Spearhead Operational Efforts to Support Federal Data Solutions

RESTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hitachi Vantara Federal, the trusted leader in mission-centric data solutions for the Federal Government, today announced Joe Corcoran as its new Chief Operating Officer. In this role, Corcoran will oversee Hitachi’s U.S. Federal services operations, its U.S.-based customer support, and the strategic growth of Hitachi’s services offerings in the Federal marketplace. He will report to the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hitachi Vantara Federal, Mark Serway.

Corcoran brings extensive leadership experience to his new role, most recently serving as the Senior Director of Professional Services and Delivery at Hitachi Vantara Federal, where he has driven operational excellence and rapid growth across Hitachi’s services portfolio. With over two decades of experience in public sector operations and sales leadership, he has a proven track record of elevating quality standards, increasing operational efficiency, and growing Federal services organizations. Corcoran’s previous executive leadership roles were marked by a strong focus on delivering measurable value to client missions while aligning with and advancing organizational goals, ensuring success on both fronts.

“We are thrilled to have Joe step into the role of Chief Operating Officer,” said Mark Serway, President and CEO of Hitachi Vantara Federal. “His exceptional leadership and deep expertise in operational strategy position him well to enhance our organizational efficiency and accelerate growth. His dedication to delivering client-focused solutions and fostering innovation in government aligns seamlessly with our mission to improve the security and well-being of our nation. I’m confident Joe will play a pivotal role in advancing our capabilities and strengthening our position as a trusted leader in mission-centric data solutions for the Federal Government.”

Hitachi Vantara Federal also announces a strategic set of high-impact promotions within Corcoran’s team, including: