Hitachi Vantara and Supermicro launch high-performance AI

Hitachi Vantara LLC, a Hitachi group company (Hitachi) providing data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management, announced that it is working toward a strategic partnership with Supermicro, a comprehensive IT solutions provider for AI, cloud, storage, and 5G/Edge. This collaboration will combine Supermicro’s GPU and AI computing capabilities with the high performance and scalability of Hitachi Vantara’s Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One), providing businesses with a powerful foundation for AI infrastructure, mission-critical applications, and data-intensive workloads.

Enterprises must keep pace with exponentially increasing data volumes and the growing need for advanced insights powered by AI. According to a recent survey*1, 85% of organizations have already adopted a data lakehouse for AI model development. Additionally, 55% of organizations currently use a data lakehouse for analytics, a figure expected to grow to 67% over the next three years. However, many enterprises face challenges such as system fragmentation and increasing data movement time and costs, making it difficult to scale AI. Hitachi Vantara and Supermicro are integrating compute and data, and providing robust enterprise-class support to help customers streamline their infrastructure and maximize the impact of their AI investments.

At the heart of the collaboration is Hitachi Vantara’s unified data platform, VSP One, which integrates block, file, object, and software-defined storage into a single architecture. Customers and partners can benefit from a variety of data storage needs. For example, VSP One Block, combined with Supermicro servers, provides a high-throughput, low-latency, and high-IOPS all-flash architecture for mission-critical applications and AI training workloads. Furthermore, VSP One SDS extends these capabilities across hybrid cloud environments through software-defined deployment. VSP One Object, an industry first, offers native support for Amazon S3 Tables and advanced data intelligence services, enabling customers to migrate unstructured data to structured tables. This allows companies to run performance analytics directly on open-format data without complex data movement, loading, or extraction, making it easier to adopt modern data lakehouse architectures and ensure scalability.

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Hitachi iQ, Hitachi’s AI infrastructure and solutions portfolio, is built on VSP One, which optimizes data workflows for advanced AI. By combining VSP One’s integrated data services with Supermicro’s high-performance computing and GPU acceleration, Hitachi iQ enables enterprises to address diverse data management requirements and improve data processing, governance, and data protection. This configuration not only ensures that compute and data are closely aligned, but also provides greater visibility across workloads and faster insights. This allows enterprises to take a more holistic approach to the infrastructure supporting their AI initiatives. As a result, Hitachi iQ offers leading infrastructure solutions for a wide range of industry-specific use cases in AI, generative AI, analytics, and data lake environments.

“The combination of Supermicro‘s leadership in AI computing with the scalability and robustness of Hitachi Vantara’s VSP One platform marks an important step in building the foundation for the future of enterprise AI,” said Sheila Rohra, Chief Executive Officer, Hitachi Vantara. “As data volumes continue to grow exponentially, closer integration of compute and data will enable workloads to be processed seamlessly and at a scalable rate. Combined with our high-quality, enterprise-class services and support, we are helping organizations better manage their data, unlock new sources of value, and lead in the AI-driven business era.”

SOURCE: PRTimes